Adapted from the work of Kahana and colleagues (e.g., Kahana, 1996), we present two measures of order of recall in neuropsychological free recall tests. These are the position on the study list of the first recalled item, and the degree of variability in the order in which items are reported at test (i.e., the temporal distance across the first four recalled items). We tested two hypotheses in ...

and Objective While the Global South still struggles to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) the health systems of the Global North are under pressure due to an aging population and life style related diseases. Three years before the deadline at the end of 2015 the world has met some important targets while others remain to be seen. In this mini-symposium two different but related meth...

The few studies that have examined the association between usual sleep duration and cognitive function have shown conflicting results. This cross-sectional study examined the association between sleep duration and cognitive function among 3212 people, representative of the non-institutionalized population aged 60 years and over in Spain. Sleep duration was self-reported, and cognitive function ...

We consider the problem of drawing a set of simple paths along the edges of an embedded underlying graph G = (V,E) so that the total number of crossings among pairs of paths is minimized. This problem arises when drawing metro maps, where the embedding of G depicts the structure of the underlying network, the nodes of G correspond to train stations, an edge connecting two nodes implies that the...

1 The 5 VAST Challenge consisted of three mini-challenges that involved both intelligence analysis and bioinformatics. Teams could solve one, two or all three mini-challenges and assess the overall situation to enter the Grand Challenge. Mini-challenge one involved text reports about people and events giving information about arms dealers, situations in various countries and linkages between di...

Generative moment matching network (GMMN), which is based on the maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) measure, is a generative model for unsupervised learning, where the mini-batch stochastic gradient descent is applied for the update of parameters. In this work, instead of obtaining a mini-batch randomly, each mini-batch in the iterations is selected in a submodular way such that the most informativ...

In this paper, we develop a new accelerated stochastic gradient method for efficiently solving the convex regularized empirical risk minimization problem in mini-batch settings. The use of mini-batches is becoming a golden standard in the machine learning community, because mini-batch settings stabilize the gradient estimate and can easily make good use of parallel computing. The core of our pr...

Painful conditions of tendons, cartilage, and nerves can be debilitating. Until recently, repeated corticosteroid injections or surgery were the only treatment options that were considered. Degeneration of the underlying tissue is the hallmark lesion in most of these cases. Image guided percutaneous treatment with autologous orthobiologicals derived from blood and mesenchymal stem cells towards...

innia are, according to a gardening website, " uncommonly beautiful " and " available in a riot of colors to satisfy any garden plan. " These plants from the daisy family are also a great model system for studying the formation of xylem—the woody channels in plants that conduct fluid and nutrients. Now, Hiroyasu Motose, Munetaka Sugiyama, and Hiroo Fukuda (University of Tokyo, Japan) have ident...

Abstract This study evaluates the performance and safety effectiveness of mini-roundabouts. Crash, operational, geometric data for 14 mini-roundabouts located in state Michigan were collected both before after installation time periods between 2007 2016. Three years complete crash analyzed utilizing Before-and-After with Comparison Group methodology. A total 28 untreated sites similar character...