BACKGROUND The status of nerve growth factor (NGF) levels during the prodromal phase of Alzheimer disease (AD), characterized by mild cognitive impairment (MCI), remains unknown. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether cortical and/or hippocampal NGF levels are altered in subjects with MCI or different levels of AD severity. DESIGN AND MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES An NGF enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay...

Cognition is under strong genetic control, yet the specific genes are unknown. To investigate genetic influences on specific cognitive domains, 153 cognitive healthy subjects of European ancestry from the Reference Abilities Study (RANN) were genotyped for 1,160 variants within 446 neuropsychiatric genes. Adjusted linear regression models evaluated the association between the genetic variants a...

By considering the notion of MV-algebras, we recall some results on enumeration of MV-algebras and wecarry out a study on characterization of MV-algebras of orders $2$, $3$, $4$, $5$, $6$ and $7$. We obtain that there is one non-isomorphic MV-algebra of orders $2$, $3$, $5$ and $7$ and two non-isomorphic MV-algebras of orders $4$ and $6$.

In this paper we introduce a new class of partially ordered sets, called tree-visibility orders, extending the class of interval orders in a fashion similar to the extension of interval graphs to chordal graphs. This class contains interval orders, duals of generalized interval orders and height one orders. We give a characterization of tree-visibility orders by an innnite family of minimal for...