“This is the dream stage of anesthesia. It represents the period of earliest loss of consciousness. The highest cerebral centers are abolished, leaving the secondary centers free to run riot. ... Nervous response to stimulation or to concurrent dreams is exaggerated, and may be expressed in more or less violent physical activity.” Arthur Guedel’s description of the ‘second stage of anesthesia’ ...

India was largely insulated from the world trading system for more than four decades after independence in 1947. Pursuit of an inward-oriented development strategy, rationalized both by a wary, almost hostile, attitude towards foreign trade, technology and investment, and by pessimism about export markets, inevitably led to India becoming marginalized in world trade. During the period of rapid ...

A new technique was recently developed to study seasonal cycles of climatic trends of expected values, variance, skewness, and other statistical moments of climatic variables. Here we apply that technique to analyze the diurnal and seasonal cycles of trends of surface air temperature and its variability using hourly observations from nine geographically distributed meteorological stations in th...

Implementation period CDRI was established in 1951 and has pursued various broad-based and long-term drug development projects over the ensuing five decades.This approach has led to the development of a pipeline of products from natural resources, including the commercialization of at least five lead compounds or products: gugulipid (hypolipidaemic), Bacopa monniera standardized fraction (memor...

Much research has suggested that facial identification has some characteristics of automaticity, in that it is rapid, nonconscious, and mandatory. However, little research has tested whether it can occur even if attention is already devoted to the demanding central processes of another task. In the present study, we addressed this type of automaticity using the psychological refractory period p...

For d ≥ 2, we construct a doubling measure ν on Rd and a rectifiable curve Γ such that ν(Γ) > 0.

Two psychological refractory period (PRP) experiments were conducted to examine overlapping processing in younger and older adults. A shape discrimination task (triangle or rectangle) for Task 1 (T1) and a lexical-decision task (word or nonword) for Task 2 (T2) were used. PRP effects, response time for T2 increasing as stimulus onset synchrony (SOA) decreased, were obtained for both age groups....

During the rice growing season, farmers’ decisions about cropping systems and seed varieties directly affect utilization of heat resource, eventually potential yield. In this study, we used hourly accumulated temperature model to calculate available resource as well effective in southern China. We conducted a spatiotemporal analysis effectiveness during season an impact assessment on yield cere...

Even though the (untwisted) Whitehead doubling operation kills all known abelian invariants of knots (and makes them topologically slice), we show that it does not kill the rational function that equals to the 2-loop part of the Kontsevich integral.

The present study examined adult age differences in processing emotional faces using a psychological refractory period paradigm. We used both behavioral and event-related potential (P1 component) measures. Task 1 was tone discrimination (fuzzy vs. pure tones) and Task 2 was emotional facial discrimination ("happy" vs. "angry" faces). The stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) between the two tasks was...