View A COMPARISON BETWEEN SURFACE AND VOLUME-BASED AVERAGING TECHNIQUES FOR CROSS-SUBJECT FMRI ANALYSIS B.D. Argall1; Z.S. Saad2; A. Martin1*; M.S. Beauchamp1 1. LBC, NIMH/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA 2. SSCC, NIMH/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA Average fMRI activation maps are usually constructed by converting each subject s data to standard Talairach space, and then averaging across subjects at each voxel ...

Document Summary) Fathering may be best understood as a process through which men demonstrate care and support for their children on a day-to-day basis over time. This contention represents a shift from viewing fathers as primarily breadwinners and disciplinarians (Bernard, 1981; Furstenberg, 1988) to recognizing fathers as active and nurturing participants in routines and activities that const...

If the eyes are the windows of the soul, an organisation's website is its coloured contact lens. Designed to project the best possible image, in unfeasible colours and brightness, it is part image-enhancement, part essential accessory for focusing on the important things in life.

This study examined the relation between coping and depression in a sample of 50 (38 women, 12 men) individuals recently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS). A semi-structured interview was used to assess how individuals coped with the onset of disabling illness, and to assess depressive symptomatology. According to DSM-III-R criteria, 18 participants were diagnosed with major depression, 11...

Arlene Chua, Nathan Ford, David Wilson, Paul Cawthorne Two recent articles in PLoS Medicine [1,2] criticise the role played by activists in raising concerns about the tenofovir trial for HIV prophylaxis. We fully support the fact that activism should be based on informed opinion, rather than speculation, unwarranted criticism, overreaction, or sensationalising facts [1], and believe that in Tha...

Summary) Over the past decade, many companies acquired their way to growth by developing and managing a portfolio of businesses, treating each as an autonomous unit. For many companies, that strategy no longer works. Such companies must now stimulate organic growth by finding synergies between formerly disparate pieces of their enterprise. That means transforming a loosely-knit collection of bu...