The presentation of visual stimuli of moving mouth is known to affect the phoneme perception of the auditory stimuli during natural speech, and provides important insights into the scientific and technological study of speech. In order to investigate the laterality of the audiovisual integration we studied the relationship between the McGurk effect (McGurk and McDonaold 1976) and Right Ear Adva...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether reactive arthritis (ReA) known to occur after a urogenital infection with Chlamydia trachomatis can also follow an infection with Chlamydia pneumoniae, a recently described species of Chlamydiae that is a common cause of respiratory tract infections. METHODS Specific antibodies (microimmunofluorescence test) and lymphocyte proliferation to C trachomatis and C pneu...

Reactive arthritis (ReA) is sterile arthritis occurring after extra articular bacterial infection. The aim of this study was to analyze, over 30 years, clinical, biological and imaging characteristics as well as therapeutic management of new cases of ReA, comparing two periods. METHODS retrospective monocentric study, data of all the patients followed in our unit between January 1st 1984 and ...

Decision-making in a democracy must respect democratic values, while advancing citizens’ interests. Decisions made in an epistemic democracy must also take into account relevant knowledge about the world. Neither aggregation of independent guesses nor deliberation, the standard approaches to epistemic democracy, offers a satisfactory theory of decision-making that is at once time-sensitive and ...

Abstract. In the present study a relaxed eddy accumulation (REA) system for quantification of vertical fluxes nitrous acid (HONO) was developed and tested. The is based on three-channel long-path absorption photometer (LOPAP) instrument, which two channels are used updrafts downdrafts, respectively, third one correction chemical interferences. instrument coupled to REA gas inlet, an ultrasonic ...

Cut-out data from 2,550 steer carcasses representing British, Continental and Zebu breeding were analyzed to evaluate yield grade classes based on three equations: 1) Ya = 2.5 + .984 AFT + .0084 HCW - .05 REA + .2 KPF; 2) Yb = same as Ya with intercept changed to 3.2 and KPF deleted; 3) Yc = 3.0 + .984 AFT + .0041 HCW - .03 REA, as proposed by USDA in 1984; where AFT = adjusted fat thickness (c...

Dichotic Listening (DL) is a valuable tool to study emotional brain lateralization. Regarding the perception of sadness and anger through affective prosody, the main finding has been a left ear advantage (LEA) for the sad but contradictory data for the anger prosody. Regarding an induced mood in the laboratory, its consequences upon DL were a diminished right ear advantage (REA) for the inducti...

Autoiogous bone marrow transplantation (BMT) ~ is being evaluated at several medical centers as an alternative approach to aliogeneic BMT for the t rea tment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients who do not have matched sibling donors (1, 2). A major limitation o f autologous B M T is the likely presence o f residual leukemia in the remission marrow (2). This difficulty makes ex vivo p...

The cellular immune response seems to be important for the pathogenesis of reactive arthritis (ReA) and a bacteria-specific lymphocyte proliferation (LP) is often found in synovial fluid (SF) of ReA patients. However, the role of the bacteria-specific LP in peripheral blood (PB) is less well defined. In this study, we investigated 215 paired samples of SF and PB from patients with ReA (n = 65),...

The intrinsic viscosities for prolate and oblate spheroidal suspensions in a dilute Newtonian fluid are studied using a three-dimensional lattice Boltzmann method. Through directly calculated viscous dissipation, the minimum and maximum intrinsic viscosities and the period of the tumbling state all agree well with the analytical solution for particles with different aspect ratios. This numerica...