According to Fuzzy-Trace Theory (FTT), qualitative, bottom-line, “gist” reasoning leads less risk taking and more mature decision-making, easily swayed by emotions than quantitative, detail-oriented, “verbatim” reasoning. In Bipolar disorder deleterious risky behaviors are common. Prior research confirmed the relationships posited between FTT taking. We aim understand whether acts upon in manne...

A structure M is pregeometric if the algebraic closure is a pregeometry in all M ′ elementarily equivalent to M . We define a generalisation: structures with an existential matroid. The main examples are superstable groups of U-rank a power of ω and d-minimal expansion of fields. Ultraproducts of pregeometric structures expanding a field, while not pregeometric in general, do have an unique exi...

IMPORTANCE The angular artery, its perforating branches, and their zones of tissue perfusion have been described extensively for facial reconstruction. Various cutaneous and mucosal flaps with either anterograde or retrograde perfusion play an important role in facial and oral reconstruction. However, these flaps share the limitations of pedicled nature and donor-site intolerance. Free-tissue t...

The formation and propagation of cracks occur through irreversible dislocation movements at notches, material defects, grain boundaries. Since this process is partly thermally controlled, the resistance to low temperatures increases. This slows both fatigue initiation crack propagation. From recent experimental data, it can be seen that growth accelerated below transition temperature (FTT) corr...

We advocate teaching introductory discrete mathematics by first teaching equational propositional and predicate logic and then using it as tool (and not simply viewing it as an object of study) throughout the study of later topics —e.g. set theory, induction, relations, theory of integers, combinatorics, solving recurrence relations, and modern algebra. The in-depth (6–7 weeks) treatment of log...