objectives: platelets are anucleated fragments derived from megakaryocytes. it has been demonstrated that platelets play a role in hemostasis and innate immunity. in addition, platelets have a cd40 ligand which is an important molecular marker in motivating immune cells. thus, platelets also have a role in adaptive immunity as seen by their ability to activate b cells. since human platelet micr...

Recent evidence suggests that areas in and around the intraparietal sulcus (IPS) represent magnitude in a stimulus-independent format. However, it has not been established whether the same is true for mental arithmetic or whether activation for higher level numerical processing diverges as a function of stimulus format. We addressed this question in a functional imaging study by presenting part...

Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), temperature programmed desorption mass spectrometry (TPD-MS) and small angle neutron scattering (SANS) were used to investigate CO2 uptake by the Wyodak coal. Adsorption of carbon dioxide on Wyodak coal was studied by DSC. The exotherms evident at low temperatures are associated with the uptake of CO2 suggesting that carbon diox...

The cognitive modeling community is presently divided between two different approaches to the spread of activation through networks. One school holds that symbolic information must be progagated, the other that numeric weights are used and activation spreads in a more analog manner. In this paper we describe a mechanism which allows the two processes to be merged via the introduction into the s...

An emergent line of research on consumers and their evaluations of co-branding shows that a brand ally might strengthen the market position for the co-brand as well as its constituent brands. This article provides a critical review of and a discussion about the limitations of existing research. It is argued that the symbolic dimension of consumption is an unexplored aspect in research on co-bra...

An important achievement in modeling online language comprehension is the discovery of the relationship between processing difficulty and surprisal (Hale, 2001; Levy, 2008). However, it is not clear how structural uncertainty can be represented and updated in a continuoustime continuous-state dynamical system model, a reasonable abstraction of neural computation. In this study, we investigate t...

Physical diseases that appear to be symbolic somatic representations of patients' personal meanings or individual 'stories' continue to be reported in the medical literature. The identification of a symbolic disease requires a clinical focus upon a patient's highly individual and nuanced meanings largely rendered invisible by the usual methodologies of clinical and research medicine, which has ...