The aim of the present study was to evaluate the safety and efficiency of an intravenously delivered nano-hydroxyapatite (Nano-HA) solution into a rabbit model (Oryctolagus cuniculus) to determine the potential enhancement of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for the ablation of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in liver tissue. The present study clearly indicated that the intravenous deliv...

Abstract Tender Shoots is a randomized controlled trial (RCT) for parents aimed at improving preschool children’s oral language skills relevant later reading. Parents of 72 children ( M = 50 months) were randomly assigned to either Rich Reading and Reminiscing (RRR) condition, Strengthening Sound Sensitivity (SSS) or an Activity-Based Control (ABC) condition. RRR SSS conditions involved dyads c...

The present study was conducted to investigate relationships between semantic and perceptual levels of representation. A picture-word repetition paradigm was used in which we manipulated the semantic relationship between pictures and words. Experiment 1 involved two types of trials, one with words that had the same meaning as pictures and one with words that were unrelated to pictures. In Exper...

For a long time heavy nuclei were considered for the study of symmetry violations mostly due to enhancement factors related to the complex nuclear structure. Classical examples are experiments that measure parity violating correlations in nuclear decays and in nuclear reactions. It is well known that due to nuclear enhancements the parity violating effects in nuclei could be as large as ∼ 10 in...

Introduction Hyperpolarized gas MRI has been shown capable of generating high-resolution images of air spaces. Although useful, these images carry only indirect information about the lung parenchyma itself. Spin polarization-induced nulcear Uverhauser effect (SPINOE) has been successfully used to create proton enhancements in few molecules that interact with xenon (1). Intriguing is therefore t...

According to the constructive episodic simulation hypothesis, remembering past experiences and imagining future experiences both rely heavily on episodic memory. However, recent research indicates that nonepisodic processes such as descriptive ability also influence memory and imagination. We recently found that an episodic specificity induction--brief training in recollecting details of past e...

Abstract We investigated indexical variation as a variable that promotes second language (L2) vocabulary learning across modalities. In three experiments, we presented Catalan Sign Language signs (Experiments 1a and 1b), pseudowords (Experiment 2), English words 3) to participants in conditions varied the number of people who introduced these stimuli (one, three, or six people). evaluated outco...