This paper investigates the identity implications of silence about genocide in commemorations of American Thanksgiving. In Study 1 we assessed the co-occurrence of national glorification themes with different forms of silence in commemoration products by conducting a content analysis of presidential Thanksgiving proclamations. In Study 2 we examined the extent to which different commemoration p...

We analyze gazes during silence in multi-party conversation and compare them between conversations among nativelanguage speakers and those among second-language speakers. The duration of gaze during silence shows a significant difference between these two conditions: Gaze during silence is longer in a second-language conversation. Correlation analyses for gazes during silence and the values fro...

BACKGROUND The high lipid solubility that permits rapid transfer across the blood-brain barrier makes propofol attractive for intracarotid injection. The authors hypothesized that intracarotid injection produces electrocerebral silence at a fraction of the intravenous dose and with less adverse systemic and cerebrovascular side effects. METHODS The authors compared the systemic and cerebrovas...

We read with interest the article by WARTH et al. [1] on mediastinal angiomyolipoma and tuberous sclerosis. Apart from mediastinal angiomyolipoma, lymphangioleiomyomato-sis (LAM) can occur as part of the genetic condition tuberous sclerosis [2]. Since the first report by CORNOG and ETERLINE [3], LAM has been increasingly studied for the pathological processes involved in atypical smooth muscle ...

Introduction Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection. The infectious organism is a spirochete bacterium called Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum. This organism also may transmit vertically inutero from mother to fetus resulting in congenital syphilis. The following is a case report of tertiary syphilis in the form of tabes dorsalis. This case is of interest due to the rarity of late n...