Dear Editor, A 56-year-old Indian woman with obesity underwent bariatric surgery (laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy). She had gained 10 kg over the 3 years preceding the surgery after changing to a sedentary job. For 2 years, she had been having localised itch over the paraspinal region of her left upper back. Examination revealed a localised hyperpigmented patch over her left upper back (Fig. 1)...

We have found experimentally that the shot noise of the tunneling current I through an undoped semiconductor superlattice is reduced with respect to the Poissonian noise value 2eI, and that the noise approaches 1/3 of that value in superlattices whose quantum wells are strongly coupled. On the other hand, when the coupling is weak or when a strong electric field is applied to the superlattice, ...

Pectin, an integral component of the plant cell wall, is a recalcitrant substrate against enzymatic challenges by most animals. In characterizing the source of a leaf beetle's (Cassida rubiginosa) pectin-degrading phenotype, we demonstrate its dependency on an extracellular bacterium housed in specialized organs connected to the foregut. Despite possessing the smallest genome (0.27 Mb) of any o...

هدف: هدف پژوهش حاضر تعیین نقش واسطه‌­ای اجتناب تجربی و دشواری‌­های تنظیم هیجان در رابطه بین سازوکارهای دفاعی با افکار خودکشی نوجوانان بود. روش: از نوع توصیفی- همبستگی جامعه آماری این شامل تمام شهر کرج پاییز سال 1398 بود که میان آن­ها به روش نمونه گیری دسترس مناطق آموزشی 3 7، 270 نوجوان 15 تا 18 (125 پسر 143 دختر) انتخاب شدند. ابزار پرسشنامه دفاعی-40 آندروز همکاران (۱۹93) (DSQ-40)؛ دشواری گراتز ...

Modern systems must be adaptable | to changing requirements, bugxes, new technologies and recon guration. For critical applications this must be possible at run-time; for complex applications it should be limitable to major sub-divisions of the system. The DRASTIC architecture addresses these goals by exploiting object persistence and distributed systems implementation techniques. It enables ru...

Rule finding is an important aspect of human reasoning and flexibility. Previous studies associated rule finding failure with past experience with the test stimuli and stable personality traits. We additionally show that rule finding performance is severely impaired by a mindset associated with applying an instructed rule. The mindset was established in Phase 1 (manipulation) of the experiment,...