EXTREME PREMATURITY AND ATTENTION IMPAIRMENT Preterm infants are at increased risk for a wide range of developmental disorders, including sensory, motor, cognitive, and other brain disorders (Lorenz et al., 1998; Bhutta et al., 2002; Aarnoudse-Moens et al., 2009), and the risk is highest for those infants born before 28 weeks gestation, i.e., extremely preterm or extremely low gestational age i...

and expresses complexity at different levels of molecular organization (CaetanoAnollés et al., 2009). At high levels, evolutionary change occurs at extraordinary slow pace. A new protein fold can take millions of years to materialize in sequence space while new sequences develop in less than microseconds. Structural cores are generally orders of magnitude more conserved than sequences. Conseque...

Lectins are biomolecules with high affinity and narrow range of specificity for defined sugar residues so that they can be used as selective probes for the detection of glycoconjugate glycosylation. A large number of lectins with differing specificities have been identified and found in a variety of plants, invertebrates and vertebrates. Due to their high specificity and multiple functions, lec...

Cotton is exceptionally sensitive to high temperature during reproductive development, with a negative correlation existing between high temperatures during flowering and yield (Oosterhuis, 2002). Furthermore, reproductive thermosensitivity in cotton is closely associated with the photosynthetic thermosensitivity of the subtending leaf (Snider et al., 2009). For example, high temperature is kno...

Hearing reduction and hearing loss are common among the industrial workers exposed to continuous and intensive occupational noise, although they are completely preventable. Hearing protection devices are more and more widely used in modern industry, however, they are not efficient enough. That is why preventive otorhinolaryngologic examinations should regularly been performed to enable the earl...

The effects of pressure gradient on an initially zeropressure-gradient turbulent boundary layer are investigated. We consider both adverse and favourable pressure gradients at matched Reynolds number as compared with the zero pressure gradient case. The data are also acquired using matched sensor parameters so that an unambiguous comparison can be made. The results show that energy increases th...

In the design of modern and classical control systems, the first step is establish a suitable mathematical model to describe the behavior of the controlled plant (Takagi & Sugeno, 1985; Ying et al., 1990). However, in practical situations, such a requirement is not feasible because in practical control systems the plants are always nonlinear systems, which makes this task analytically unfeasibl...

Sir, We thank Demirtas-Tatlidede and Schmahmann (2013) for their interest in our paper and for their comments that witness the growing attention to the neurology of moral behaviour. Although, as they suggest, we could have discussed the potential cerebellar role in morality, our review aimed to outline only the major research findings and we deliberately included proved experimental and clinica...