introduction. several studies have shown that the effective educational attendance of faculty members have been substantially decreased. this is due to many different factors. lack of a comprehensive analysis of this issue has led the university managers to implement ineffective, arbitrary strategies to force the faculty members to increase their attendance in the educational activities. in ord...

As I begin my fourth year as editor-in-chief of Stroke, I look back over what has been accomplished during the past 3 years and forward to what can be done to improve the quality and impact of the journal for all the constituents of the cerebrovascular community. Stroke has led the way among journals in the vascular/neuroscience disciplines in striving to improve the quality and reproducibility...

Reviewed by: Adoption Experiences and the Tracing Narration of Family Genealogies ed. by Derek Kirton Elizabeth Chapman Hoult (bio) Rev. Kirton, ed., Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2020 160 pp. $58.70 (Paperback) ISBN: 9783039287185 The reunion lost child birth parent has a long deep history in Western literary culture. motif is used Shakespeare to bring about narrative ...

How did human consciousness arise, in comparison with that of apes? This question has motivated many hypotheses, from psychoanalysis (Freud, 1939) and literature (Bloom, 1999) to evolutionary psychology (Dennett, 1997; Tomasello, 2014). One of the most provocative is that of Julian Jaynes (1976), who understood the question as pertaining to the cultural evolution of introspection during the fir...

In this issue of the Journal, Shapiro and colleagues present data from a casecontrolled study of the effectiveness of 2 doses of varicella vaccine during the first several years after implementation of a routine 2-dose recommended schedule. At 98.3%, the effectiveness of the 2-dose schedule is welcome news indeed. These data validate the calculations of experts from the Centers for Disease Cont...