The meaning of a word usually depends on the context in which it occurs. This study investigated the neural mechanisms involved in computing word meanings that change as a function of syntactic context. Current semantic processing theories suggest that word meanings are retrieved from diverse cortical regions storing sensory-motor and other types of semantic information and are further integrat...

BACKGROUND The main source of carbohydrate in the Korean diet is rice, which is usually served in a rice bowl. This study investigated the impact of a meal plan using smaller rice bowls on dietary energy intake and macronutrient composition in overweight or obese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. METHODS A total of 67 women with type 2 diabetes were enrolled in our study. We divided the...

Previous studies have examined the benefits of highly rated recruiting classes in college football and have found that higher rated recruiting classes are related to greater success on –thefield. Teams with strong traditions usually recruit better players and this implies that the relationship between recruit quality and on the field success may be over-stated. We analyze the effect of recruit ...

The aromaticity of all possible cyclopenta-fused pyrene congeners has been investigated at various levels of theory. On the basis of the calculated resonance energies and magnetic properties (delta(1)H data, magnetic susceptibility anisotropies, and NICS values), the overall aromaticity of these compounds is found to decrease gradually with increasing number of externally fused five-membered ri...

Corticosterone is thought to play an important role in food caching and foraging behaviour. However, the direct influence of increased plasma corticosterone on feeding behaviour is still unclear. In this study the effect of increased corticosterone on feeding behaviour in migratory active red-eyed vireos Vireo olivaceus was investigated. We hypothesized that if increased corticosterone levels f...

Transition metal–boron complexes BnM have been predicted at density functional theory level to be molecular bowls (n 1⁄4 8–14) hosting a transition metal atom (M) inside or molecular tires (n 1⁄4 14) centered with a transition metal atom. Small Bn clusters prove to be effective inorganic ligands to all the VB–VIIIB transition metal elements in the periodic table. Density functional evidences ob...

Griliches and the anonymous referee for very helpful comments. Partial financial support from the World Bank through RPO 676-24 is gratefully acknowledged. How can parents secure old-age support in the form of care, attention or financial transfers from their children? We explore the enforcement of implicit intergenerational agreements from a fresh angle by studying the possibility that the chi...

Complexes formed by anions and substituted molecular bowls were studied by means of computational methods. The bowls consisted of corannulene molecules substituted with five or ten F, Cl, or CN groups, whereas Cl(-), Br(-) and BF(4)(-) were the anions considered. Substitution with F, Cl and CN hardly affects the geometry of the bowl, but produces an inversion of the molecular electrostatic pote...