The role of structural and dynamical disorder in semiconductors is a topic fundamental relevance because its contribution to the spectral line shape photoluminescence, it plays major ruling carrier transport properties at band edge. In this regard, class semiconductors, i.e., halide perovskites, deeply investigated last decade, shows peculiar degree disorder, which has only been recently under ...

OWING to the association between alcohol and chronic pancreatitis in man' there has,been considerable interest in the effect of alcohol upon gastro-entero pancreatic (GEP) hormones. Previous estimations of GEP hormones following oral alcohol ingestion have shown raised serum gastrin concentrations in response to 18 per cent and 15 per cent ethanol in man (Becker, Reeder and Thompson2), and Stra...

Probability theory is important not least because of its relevance for decision making, which also means: its relevance for the single case. The frequency theory of probability on its own is irrelevant in the single case. However, Howson and Urbach argue that Bayesianism can solve the frequentist’s problem: frequentist-probability information is relevant to Bayesians (although to nobody else). ...

Nieuwland et al. (2017, http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/02/25/111807) recently made available their (thus far to our knowledge) unpublished manuscript, describing a nine-lab replication attempt of DeLong, Urbach and Kutas (2005), hereafter DUK05. They concluded that over their nine labs, the a/an Article prediction effect reported in DUK05 did not replicate. Here, we highlight some featur...

Two sets of hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon thin-film samples were prepared by Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) technique at different deposition conditions of excited power and pressure. The correlation between the crystalline volume fraction for the samples determined from Raman spectra and the excited power, pressure, absorption coefficient, refractive index and optica...

Patients with Urbach-Wiethe disease constitute a unique nature experiment as more than half have bilaterally symmetrical damage in the amygdaloid region. Ten such patients were studied neuropsychologically and, nine of them, neuroradiologically with static (CT) and functional imaging techniques [single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and PET]. Their principal bilateral amygdala dama...

Two patients with lipoid proteinosis are reported in whom paranoid symptoms were the presenting feature. Both had a long standing impairment of memory and bilateral medial temporal lobe calcification demonstrated by CT scan. Possible associations between the anatomical site of these lesions and the neuropsychiatric manifestations are discussed.