•Great apes exchange signals and gaze before entering exiting joint actions•Joint action structure of both ape species resembles that humans•Coordinated phases indicate an underlying commitment•Social bonds affect more in bonobos than chimpanzees Many social animals interact jointly, but only humans experience a specific sense obligation toward their co-participants, commitment. However, commit...

Fetal growth restriction (FGR) is defined as the failure of fetus to meet its potential due a pathological factor, most commonly placental dysfunction. Worldwide, FGR leading cause stillbirth, neonatal mortality, and short- long-term morbidity. Ongoing advances in clinical care, especially definitions, diagnosis, management FGR, require efforts effectively translate these changes wide range obs...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The scope of this article is to provide an updated review examining the role of early feeding in the postoperative period. RECENT FINDINGS: Guidelines for postoperative care after abdominal surgery have historically outlined the dogma of 'nil by mouth' until bowel movement returns, but they are currently questioned. This change in mindset, especially after colorectal surgery,...

We review recent research in robotics, neuroscience, evolutionary neurobiology, and ethology with the aim of highlighting some points of agreement and convergence. Specifically, we compare Brooks’ (1986) subsumption architecture for robot control with research in neuroscience demonstrating layered control systems in vertebrate brains, and with research in ethology that emphasizes the decomposit...

Using activity theory as a framework, this article discusses a naturalistic study of two college classrooms in which the instructors often relied on transmission models of communication—models assuming that stable, fixed meanings can be neatly transmitted from person to person. Particularly noteworthy was that these instructors seemed to rely on transmission models despite training in recent th...

You have accessJournal of UrologyReview Article1 Apr 2021Qualitative Review Clinical Guidelines for Medical and Surgical Management Urolithiasis: Consensus Controversy 2020 Pengbo Jiang, Lillian Xie, Raphael Arada, Roshan M. Patel, Jaime Landman, Ralph V. Clayman JiangPengbo Jiang Correspondence: Department Urology, University California, Irvine, 333 City Boulevard West, Suite 2100, Orange, Cal...

You have accessJournal of UrologyReview Article1 Apr 2021Renal Transplantation Improves Erectile Function in Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Nikolaos Pyrgidis, Ioannis Mykoniatis, Sokolakis, Ioanna Minopoulou, Meletios P. Nigdelis, Petros Sountoulides, Paolo Verze, Georgios Hatzichristodoulou, Dimitrios Hatzichristou PyrgidisNikolaos Pyrgidis *Corres...

We are concerned with the proper form for the structures which serve as the output of strategic generation and the input to tactical generation. How should the elements of this structure be discovered and how they should be arranged? In both respects, our proposals will contrast with those of Rhetorical Structure Theory [Mann and Thompson]. Major components of the structure are discourse relati...

In [Smith 1993], an approach was described for implementing efficient real-time bowed string synthesis. Recent work has focused on differentiating the members of the violin family, as well as on the flexibility necessary to create expressive performance. This paper presents a technique for creating smooth transitions between notes, enabling a variety of bowing styles to be synthesized, such as ...

Language and interaction have been crucial for the development of human intelligence. Also in the development of technology for complex interactive systems, understanding of human communication is necessary for furnishing the systems with intelligent interaction and learning capabilities: intelligent communication requires an ability to learn from interactions and to build internal knowledge ab...