Though common sense suggests that positive thinking shelters people from depression, the four studies reported here showed that this intuition needs to be qualified: Positive thinking in the form of fantasies about the future did indeed relate to decreased symptoms of depression when measured concurrently; however, positive fantasies predicted more depressive symptoms when measured longitudinal...

Two sets of measurements evaluated performance on typographically inverted text that students had learned to read 13 to IS months earlier. In one set, speed of reading was compared for pages read for the first and second times. Reread pages were read more quickly, thereby revealing an exceptional degree of memory at the pattern-analyzing level. In the second set of measurements, the readers cla...

In this paper, we report on the status of the RoboCupJunior league, four years after it was founded. Since its inception in 2000, we have been surveying and/or interviewing students and mentors who participate in the international event. Here we present a high-level overview of this data. We discuss demographics of participants, characteristics of preparation and educational value. We highlight...

Estimates of children struggling with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) vary, but the Centers for Disease Control puts the number at a stunningly high 25 percent. Whatever the number, ADHD affects too many children at school, at home, and with their peers, and often persists into adulthood. The cause is as yet unknown, although genetic factors and their interaction with the enviro...

A large number of models that are employed in the field of concurrent systems’ design, such as Petri nets, Signal Transition Graphs, gate-level circuits, dataflow structures have an underlying static graph structure. Their semantics, however, is defined using additional entities, e.g. tokens or node/arc states, which collectively form the overall state of the system. We jointly refer to such fo...

The consequences of necroptosis depend on immunomodulatory molecules, the expression of which requires time before the burst of a cell. Gong et al. now provide evidence for ESCRT-III-mediated plasma membrane repair to extend the time to death during necroptosis. Regulated cell death is not restricted to apoptosis, but includes several forms of regulated necrosis. The best characterized signalin...

The classical picture of GUT baryogenesis has been strongly modified by theoretical progress concerning two nonperturbative features of the standard model: the phase diagram of the electroweak theory, and baryon and lepton number changing sphaleron processes in the hightemperature symmetric phase of the standard model. We briefly review three viable models, electroweak baryogenesis, the Affleck...

The Turing Test is one of the most disputed topics in arti cial intel ligence philosophy of mind and cognitive science This paper is a review of the past years of the Turing Test Philosophical debates practical developments and repercussions in related disciplines are all covered We discuss Turing s ideas in detail and present the important comments that have been made on them Within this conte...

In writings that preceded the creation of our College, Dr Victor Johnston, our first Executive Director, detailed the need to encourage GPs to be active in hospital care, to create proper postgraduate training for general practice, and to enhance research in general practice.1 Fast forward to today: family medicine is much better defined as a discipline, and we have robust standards of training...

Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is a fetal pathology which leads to increased risk for certain neonatal complications. Furthermore, clinical and experimental studies revealed that IUGR is associated with a significantly higher incidence of metabolic, renal and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) later in life. One hypothesis for the higher risk of CVD after IUGR postulates that IUGR induces me...