This work has been completed as part of the OECD project on Ageing Related Diseases, for its launch project held in May 1999. This project has received the support of the US National Institute on Aging (IAG Y1-AG-8363-01). The authors thanks all the experts in countries who have provided information on their national information systems. Remaining errors are their sole responsibility. SUMMARY 1...

50 Accumulating evidence points to a map of visual regions encoding specific categories of 51 objects. For example, a region in the human extrastriate visual cortex, the extrastriate body 52 area (EBA), has been implicated in the visual processing of bodies and body parts. While in 53 the monkey, neurons selective for hands have been reported, in humans it is unclear whether 54 areas selective ...

the present article investigates, with regard to ’āyāt al-ahkām, the qur’anic exegetes’ attitudes toward seven typical sides of abdullah ibn mas‘ūd’s reading of the qur’an. it shows that the qur’anic exegetes do not share the same view on the permissibility of favoring those sides which contradict the ‘uthmani orthography’. to adopt a scholarly and methodical position toward this issue, one nee...

BACKGROUND Repeated studies have shown that high impulsivity, when defined as the tendency to choose small immediate rewards over larger delayed rewards, is more prevalent in drug addicts and alcoholics when compared with nonaddicts. Assessing whether impulsivity precedes and potentially causes addiction disorders is difficult in humans because they all share a history of drug use. In this stud...

The results of the present experiment demonstrate that ethanol-preferring line of rats (WHP), and ethanol-nonpreferring line of rats (WLP) are able to acquire and maintain lever pressing reinforced by EtOH (oral operant EtOH self-administration) under FR-1 and FR-2 schedule of reinforcement. On the other hand, WHP rats but not WLP rats, displayed the high ability to acquire and maintain robust ...

Abstract Different translations of Plutarch's De Pythiae oraculis 404B reflect an interpretative difficulty not yet adequately thematized by exegetes. dialogues on the Delphic oracle describe two perspectives mantic inspiration: possession prophecy, where god takes over prophetess as a passive apparatus, and stimulation incites but delivers through her own faculties. Plutarch understands Pythia...

OBJECTIVE Computed tomography colonography (CTC) is an alternative diagnostic test to colonoscopy for colorectal cancer and polyps. The aim of this study was to determine test characteristics important to patients and to examine trade-offs in attributes that patients are willing to accept in the context of the diagnosis of colorectal cancer. METHODS A discrete choice study was used to assess ...