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1 Taylor, A. H., Cheke, L. G., Waismeyer, A., Meltzoff, A. N., Miller, R., Gopnik, A. et al. (2014). Of babies and birds: complex tool behaviours are not sufficient for the evolution of the ability to create a novel causal intervention. Proc.Biol.Sci., 281. Notes: Humans are capable of simply observing a correlation between cause and effect, and then producing a novel behavioural pattern in ord...

Pharmaceutical availability of diazepam, oxazepam and nitrazepam from solid dispersions of PEG 6000 have been studied in comparison with corresponding physical mixtures and pure benzodiazepines. Selected derivatives of 1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one are poorly water soluble drugs. The aim of this work was to report the properties of diazepamand nitrazepam-PEG 6000 solid dispersions. Differential scann...

In order to survive in the world, organisms have to solve a wide variety of problems, and in many cases these are physics problems: capturing energy in one form and converting it to another, sensing and processing small signals in the environment, building reliable machines on a microscopic scale in the face of thermal fluctuations, ... . More subtly, the successful organism must act in ways th...

A new means of acquiring overtone mobility spectrometry (OMS) data sets that allows distributions of ions for a prescribed overtone number is described. In this approach, the drift fields applied to specific OMS drift regions are varied to make it possible to select different ions from a specific overtone that is resonant over a range of applied frequencies. This is accomplished by applying dif...

David B. Ettensohn, M. D., F.C.C. ;j Kenneth H. Mayer, M. D.;t Noubar Kessimian, M. D.;t and Peter S. Smith, M. D. § Patients with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) frequently develop interstitial lung disease. This is due most commonly to opportunistic infections, but malignancy and lymphocytic interstitial pneumonitis have also been associated with the syndrome. In contrast, ther...