CONTEXT Genetic vulnerability to psychopathic traits is likely to also manifest at the neural level. We have recently reported increased gray matter concentration in several brain areas in boys with psychopathic traits. OBJECTIVE To explore whether these gray matter concentration differences can be regarded as endophenotypes for psychopathic traits by (1) assessing their heritability and (2) ...

The clinical evidences of variable epileptic propagation in occipital lobe epilepsy (OLE) have been demonstrated by several studies. However the exact localization of the epileptic focus sometimes represents a problem because of the rapid propagation to frontal, parietal, or temporal regions. Each white matter pathway close to the supposed initial focus can lead the propagation towards a specif...

This paper selects from a longer chapter which recapitulates and extends discussions on anti administration (anti-admin) from the perspective of discourse theory. First, it discusses discourse theory, explaining that the discourses of anti-admin aim toward the inclusion of marginalized or excluded perspectives. Second, it outlines some anti-admin theory. Parallel to the action of anti matter an...

As we follow our Universe to early times, we find that matter was crushed to high densities, somewhat similar to the behavior at a black hole singularity. String theory has made progress in explaining the internal structure of black holes, so we would like to extrapolate the ideas learnt from black holes to the early Universe. If we assume that we want the most probable state of the Universe at...

The interaction of radiation with matter is a very broad and complex topic. In this chapter we try to analyse the problem with the aim of explaining, at least qualitatively, the more important aspects which are essential for a physical comprehension of the degradation observed in MOS devices and circuits when they are irradiated. In section 1.1 we introduce the effects of the interaction of var...

The distant type Ia supernovae data compiled by Perlmutter et al. (1999) are used to analyze the Cardassian expansion scenario, which was recently proposed by Freese and Lewis (2002) as an alternative to a cosmological constant (or more generally a dark energy component) in explaining the currently accelerating universe. We show that the allowed intervals for n and zeq, the two parameters of th...

In the second revised edition of this widely used textbook, practical aspects are given particular emphasis. Two new chapters have been added-one on geology in engineering, another summarizing the subject matter of physical geology and explaining its relation to earth history. The chapter on geology in engineering, and those on minerals and mineral deposits, offer especially good material for a...

We establish a nonlinear version of the SU(N) symmetric theory, which describes self-consistently interaction between gravitational, gauge, vector and pseudoscalar (axion) fields. In context this theory multiplet fields is associated with color aether, decay in early Universe produced canonic dynamic aether axionic dark matter. The Yang-Mills field, forms source, transfers energy decaying to ax...

☆ The authors are grateful to Li Qingyang, James Z with data collection, and to Jun Yu and an anonymou the Centre for International Governance Innovation lisches Wilhelms Universität Münster, the June 2011 and Financial Econometrics, the 2011 Western Econo nance Association Conference in Macau — where thi ⁎ Corresponding author at: Wilfrid Laurier Univers E-mail address: [email protected] (P.L. Si...