The role of the postrhinal cortex (POR) and the perirhinal cortex (PER) in processing relational or contextual information was examined with Pavlovian fear conditioning. Rats with electrolytic or neurotoxic lesions of the POR or PER were tested in 2 contextual fear conditioning paradigms. In Experiment 1, electrolytic lesions of the POR or PER produced impairments in contextual fear conditionin...

In the delayed match-to-sample task, responses of inferior temporal neurons to adjacent stimuli in the sequence are correlated to each other when the monkey was trained repeatedly with the sequence of visual stimuli, although the monkey was not required to associate the stimuli with each other. This correlation, however, is not observed for a monkey with lesions of the rhinal cortex, which is n...

Background: There is need to evaluate influence of weather changes on blood pressure in human population that has often been ignored in clinical practice guidelines. Objectives: Present study was planned to find the seasonal variation of blood pressure. Methods: Seasonal variation in blood pressure was examined in 1081 participants of age 18 years and over from both genders, 540 from rural and ...

Encyclopedia of Structural Health Monitoring. Edited by Christian Boller, Fu-Kuo Chang and Yozo Fujino  2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. ISBN: 978-0-470-05822-0. of possible failure modes, the effects of which on observable (sensor) data are often poorly defined. To compound this, examples of abnormal behavior in high-integrity systems are few and far between; usually, there are insufficient examp...

BACKGROUND Many different guidelines have been presented for the construction of multiple choice items. Those guidelines have been based on the observation of errors when constructing items but not on any clear scientific criterion. Our main objective was to draw up guidelines for the development of multiple choice items based on validity criteria. METHOD We used the properties of adjustment,...