PREVIOUS STUDIES HAVE EXAMINED THE INFLUENCE OF MEDITATION ON THREE FUNCTIONALLY DIFFERENT COMPONENTS OF ATTENTION: executive control, alerting, and orienting. These studies have consistently found that meditation training improves both executive attention and alerting, but there has not been a consistent and clear effect of meditation training on orienting. In addition, while previous studies ...

Citation: Dalmaijer ES, Nijenhuis BG and Van der Stigchel S (2016) Commentary: Life is unfair, and so are racing sports: some athletes can randomly benefit from alerting effects due to inconsistent starting procedures. Front. Psychol. 7:119. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00119 Commentary: Life is unfair, and so are racing sports: some athletes can randomly benefit from alerting effects due to inconsi...

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This is the initial edition of Paper Alert in Bladder Cancer. Because of two recent shortages of BCG for treating non-muscle invasive (NMI) bladder cancer, (two to three years ago of the Connaught strain, and within the past year of the Tice strain), and with strains used in other countries not available in the United States, urologists have been faced with several problems in managing patients...

s. One author identified eligible articles, and performed quality appraisal and data extraction. RESULTS: Of 12 180 records identified, 43 articles were included. Among 5 walk tests described, the 6-minute walk test (6MWT) was most frequently evaluated (n = 36). Only 5 articles included participants in the acute phase (<1 month) poststroke. Within tests, protocols varied. Walkway length and wal...

BACKGROUND: Capacity building strategies are widely used to increase the use of research in policy development. However, a lack of wellvalidated measures for policy contexts has hampered efforts to identify priorities for capacity building and to evaluate the impact of strategies. We aimed to address this gap by developing SEER (Seeking, Engaging with and Evaluating Research), a self-report mea...

Meningococcal disease is an acute bacterial disease caused by meningococcus (Neisseria meningitidis), a gram negative capsulated coffee bean shaped bacteria seen usually in pairs. The disease was first described in 1805, when an outbreak occurred in Geneva, Switzerland and the causative organism was identified in 1887. The disease is manifested by sudden onset of fever, severe headache, nausea ...

Within the past decade an unusual decline of black walnut (Juglans nigra) has been observed in several western states. Initial symptoms involve a yellowing and thinning of the upper crown, which progresses to include death of progressively larger branches (Figure 1). During the final stages large areas of foliage may rapidly wilt. Trees often are killed within three years after initial symptoms...

OBJECTIVES Unnecessary duplicate laboratory testing is common and costly. Systems-based means to avert unnecessary testing should be investigated and employed. METHODS We compared the effectiveness and cost savings associated with two clinical decision support tools to stop duplicate testing. The Hard Stop required telephone contact with the laboratory and justification to have the duplicate ...

We present Nodeinfo, an unsupervised algorithm for anomaly detection in system logs. We demonstrate Nodeinfo’s effectiveness on data from four of the world’s most powerful supercomputers: using logs representing over 746 million processor-hours, in which anomalous events called alerts were manually tagged for scoring, we aim to automatically identify the regions of the log containing those aler...