We tested the hypothesis that distributing attention over an array of similar items makes its statistical properties automatically available. We found that extracting the mean size of sets of circles was easier to combine with tasks requiring distributed or global attention than with tasks requiring focused attention. One explanation may be that extracting the statistical descriptors requires p...

More than three years have passed since the publication of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery and its recommendations on scaling up surgery in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). An important gap, the voice of the districts as well as lack of contextualized research, has been noted in its support of national surgical plans that run the risk of being at best, aspirational. Moreover, a ‘one-size-fits-...

Visual attention mechanism is one of the important techniques in computer vision field, and it can increase the effectiveness of computer image information processing. Biogeography-Based Optimization (BBO) is a bioinspired algorithm for global optimization, searching for the global optimum mainly through two steps: migration and mutation. In this paper, a novel Predator-Prey Biogeography-Based ...

One aspect of the social communication impairments that characterize autism spectrum disorder (ASD) include reduced use of often subtle non-verbal social cues. People with ASD, and those with self-reported sub-threshold autistic traits, also show impairments in rapid visual processing of stimuli unrelated to social or emotional properties. Hence, this study sought to investigate whether percept...

We report a study on a patient (DW) with integrative visual agnosia and a category-specific recognition impairment for living things. We assessed DW's local and global processing and tested if his integrative agnosia could have led directly to his category-specific impairment. The main findings were: (i) DW was faster at identifying local compared to global letters. (ii) DW showed no local-to-g...

Visual objects can often be analyzed as hierarchical in structure, composed of local elements that are spatially arranged to form a global shape. The brain mechanisms involved in the analysis of hierarchical figures have been under considerable scrutiny in recent years, and one of the many interesting features that have emerged is that there is an asymmetry across the two hemispheres for global...

This article explores the intricate interrelationships between discourses on identity and themultiple processes associated with increasing globalization in the modern age. Globalization is notonly often exclusively associated with worldwide economic integration and the emergence of aborderless global market but also involves sweeping changes on the social, cultural and politicaldomains. Further...

Background: The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a global crisis, as the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic. Complete heart block, resulting from an abnormal heart rhythm, is a rare presentation of this infection, which can be life-threatening due to possible progression into ventricular tachycardia. Case Presentation: We report a c...

the authors of “management matters: a leverage point for health systems strengthening in global health,” raise a crucial issue. because more effective management can contribute to better performing health systems, attempts to strengthen health systems require attention to management. as a guide toward management capacity building, the authors outline a comprehensive set of core management compe...