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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Because of its association with atrial fibrillation and heart failure, we hypothesized that amino terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) would identify a subgroup of patients from the Warfarin-Aspirin Recurrent Stroke Study, diagnosed with inferred noncardioembolic ischemic strokes, where anticoagulation would be more effective than antiplatelet agents in red...

Under natural behavioral conditions, visually guided eye movements are linked to direction-specific modulations of cortico-spinal system (CSS) excitability in upper-limb muscles, even in absence of a manual response. These excitability changes have been shown to be compatible with a covert motor program encoding a manual movement toward the same target of the eyes. The aim of this study is to i...

wetlands as a situ for the growth of native plants, as a habitat for certain species of fish and aquatic birds, and because of their potential economic, cultural and recreational services, are valuable heritage so their protection and conservation is very essential. mostly due to the absence of wetlands services’ valuation, lack of special regulations, and lack of guarantee for these properties...

Abortion represents a particularly interesting subject for a social movements analysis of healthcare issues because of the involvement of both feminist pro-choice activists and a segment of the medical profession. Although both groups have long shared the same general goal of legal abortion, the alliance has over time been an uneasy one, and in many ways a contradictory one. This paper traces p...

There is an unfortunate paradox that arises when proand anti-choice advocates talk about disabilities such as Down syndrome or spina bifida. The paradox works this way: On one hand, reproductive rights proponents can portray disability as a tragic state that justifies abortion—even for wanted pregnancies. At the same time, anti-choice advocates proclaim their value for all life, including indiv...

Perceptual maps of how consumers view a set of products are often constructed by pro®ling methods. One of the most common pro®ling techniques used is attribute rating analysis (ARA) in which consumers evaluate products on a prespeci®ed set of attributes. Free-choice pro®ling (FCP) allows consumers to describe and evaluate products in their own terminology. The objective of this study was to com...

We propose a neurocomputational model of altruistic choice and test it using behavioral and fMRI data from a task in which subjects make choices between real monetary prizes for themselves and another. We show that a multi-attribute drift-diffusion model, in which choice results from accumulation of a relative value signal that linearly weights payoffs for self and other, captures key patterns ...

In the spring of 2004, tens of thousands of people came to Washington, D.C., for a so-called “March for Women’s Lives.” Organizers explained that their purpose was to protest the new threats to “choice,” chief among them, the ban on partial-birth abortion. Hollywood celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg were on the roster, as were a long list of “Honorary Congressional Co-Sponsors” such as Barney Fr...