1886 CMAJ, November 8, 2011, 183(16) © 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors Jusie (Yoo-sie) had many stories to tell and I only had an hour before I had to catch my flight back to Montréal. “I could tell you stories for two days,” he said, gesturing from the chair beside my desk. Jusie was 82 years old and had been referred to me for quite another matter. A small compact man with ...

Phase dependent modulation of percutaneously elicited multisegmental muscle 1 responses after spinal cord injury 2 3 Christine J Dy, Yury P. Gerasimenko, V. Reggie Edgerton, Poul Dyhre-Poulsen , 4 Grégoire Courtine, and Susan J. Harkema 5 6 1. Department of Physiological Science, 2. Neurobiology, and 3. the Brain Research Institute, 7 University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. 4. P...

The poison frog genus Ameerega (Dendrobatidae) currently contains 32 species. They are distributed from central Brazil into western Amazonia to the lower Andean versant. In addition, three trans-Andean species have been allocated to Ameerega (Andrade et al. 2013; Frost 2014). Ameerega berohoka (Vaz-Silva & Maciel 2011) was described based on specimens from central Brazil (type-locality: Arenópo...

Cardiohepatic Interactions – from Humoral Theory to Organ Transplantation Odilson Marcos Silvestre1, Fernando Bacal1, Rafael Oliveira Ximenes2, Flair José Carrilho2, Luiz Augusto Carneiro D’Albuquerque2, Alberto Queiroz Farias2 Instituto do Coração do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo1; Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de S...

Pengemudian motor sinkron magnet permanen (PMSM) mempunyai banyak keuntungan dibandingkan pengemudian motor lainnya, misal efisiensi tinggi dan kerapatan daya tinggi. Khususnya, PMSM adalah membuka peradaban baru dan semakin intensif dipelajari para peneliti, ilmuwan dan insinyur. Makalah ini menguraikan sebuah pengendali baru unjuk kerja tinggi berbasis algoritma genetik. Skema ini memungkinka...

This paper analyzes how US presidential candidates should allocate resources across states to maximize the probability of winning the election, by developing and estimating a probabilisticvoting model of political competition under the Electoral College system. Actual campaigns act in close agreement with the model. There is a 0.9 correlation between equilibrium and actual presidential campaign...

elso Arrais Rodriguesa,b,∗, Matheus Vescovi Gonçalvesa,c, aura Rosane Valério Ikomad, Irene Lorand-Metzee, André Domingues Pereirab, anielle Leão Cordeiro de Farias f, Maria de Lourdes Lopes Ferrari Chauffaillea,c, ony Schaffel g, Eduardo Flávio Oliveira Ribeiroh, Talita Silveira da Rochai,j, aleria Buccherik, Yuri Vasconcelos l, Vera Lúcia de Piratininga Figueiredom, arlos Sérgio Chiattone j,n...

The Retinex algorithm originally presented by Land and McCann uses random paths to explore the image. Throughout the decades, many versions of the Retinex algorithm have been proposed, mainly differing in the way they explore the image, with e.g. random paths, random samples, convolution masks, and variational formulations. In this paper, we propose a step back towards the origin, replacing ran...

Exploiting a unique data set containing information on the estimated bribe payments of Ugandan firms, we study the relationship between bribery payments, taxes and firm growth over the period 1995-97. Using industry-location averages to circumvent the potential problem of endogeneity, and to deal with issues of measurement error, we find that both the rate of taxation and bribery are negatively...

The Mystery of Pain, a little book which sets forth the Panglossian thesis that "all that which we feel as painful is really giving-something that our fellows are better for, even though we cannot trace it." It gives some idea of the tum of the son CQaries Hinton's mind to lea:rn that he wrote a piece, "The Persian King," in which he attempted to use higher dimensions and infinite series to obt...