The goal of this paper is to offer a critical analysis of the contribution of Dual Process Theories (DPT) to psychological theory. A key advantage of DPT is that they offer an integrated framework for generalising across specific tasks and situations; this represents a clear advantage over the traditional approaches that have focussed on task-and process-specific explanations. At the same time,...

Recent evidence suggests that neural stem/precursor cells (NPCs) promote recovery in animal models with delayed neuronal death via a number of indirect bystander effects. A comprehensive knowledge of how transplanted NPCs exert their therapeutic effects is still lacking. Here, we investigated the effects of a delayed transplantation of adult syngenic NPCs--injected intravenously 72 h after tran...

Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and 7-valent pneumococcal (PCV7) vaccines both became recommended in Japan in 2010. In this study, cytokine production was investigated in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) cultures stimulated with diphtheria and tetanus toxoids combined with acellular pertussis vaccine (DPT), Hib, and PCV7 separately or concurrent different combinations, all as fina...

OBJECTIVE To compare analgesic effect of direct breast feeding, 25% dextrose solution and placebo as we give 1st intramuscular whole cell DPT injection to 6week - 3month old infants. DESIGN Randomized, placebo controlled trial. SETTINGS Immunization clinic of Department of Pediatrics, LLRM Medical College. PARTICIPANTS Infants coming for their 1st DPT vaccination were randomized in to thr...

Cochlear implants are prosthetic devices that seek to restore hearing in profoundly deaf patients by electrically stimulating the auditory-nerve (AN). With current implants, the representation of the sound waveform in temporal discharge patterns of the auditory nerve is severely distorted. The distortion is particularly significant at higher (>600 Hz) frequencies, for which the period of the el...

Objectives: To estimate coverage rate and factors associated with the failure of DPT vaccination in urban and rural areas of Peshawar. Material and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 509 children in selected areas of Peshawar University, Peshawar Saddar, Naway Kalay and Pawaka Village. Parents were asked about demographics, the DPT (Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus) vaccination ...

In this work we present an algorithm for solving the Prize-collecting Rural Postman Problem. This problem was recently defined and is a generalization of other arc routing problems like, for instance, the Rural Postman Problem. The main difference is that there are no required edges. Instead, there is a profit function on the edges that must be taken into account only the first time that an edg...

Dispersive approach to quantum chromodynamics is applied to the assessment of hadronic contributions to electroweak observables. The employed approach merges the corresponding perturbative input with intrinsically nonperturbative constraints, which originate in the respective kinematic restrictions. The evaluated hadronic contributions to the muon anomalous magnetic moment and to the shift of t...

[Purpose] The goal of this study was to examine potential differences in physical therapists' perceptions of content areas for the new entry-level Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) curricula and specialties for post-graduate residency and fellowship programs among five geographical regions in Saudi Arabia. [Subjects and Methods] All physical therapists in Saudi Arabia were invited to participate...

To prove the existence of possible allergic reaction to local anaesthetic by the recommendations and experience of the current literature, an assortment or mosaic of complementary diagnostic tests is made by: anamnesis and a clinical picture and in vivo skin allergy tests - tests of the humeral and cellular immune response. Anamnesis and the clinical picture are mostly in metaphorical character...