In this study, we tested the online comprehension of antonyms in 39 Italian patients with paranoid schizophrenia and in an equal number of pairwise-matched healthy controls. Patients were rather accurate in identifying antonyms, but compared to controls, they showed longer response times and higher priming scores, suggesting an exaggerated contextual facilitation. Presumably, this reflects a de...

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the thyroid function status in patients with lichen lanopilaris.Methods: In this case control study, 26 (8 male and 18 female) consecutive lichen planopilaris patients, and 36 age and sex matched controls were evaluated for thyroid function status.Results: The median antithyroglobulin serum level was higher in patients than controls (47.1 IU/...

We analyze the trade-off between monopoly and competition in matching markets. Intermediaries use prices to sort agents on one side of the market, while, on the other side, they rely solely on an imperfect screening technology. The socially efficient outcome is characterized by an optimal quality provision and an efficient market coverage: matched agents are matched assortatively and all agents...

Consumers respond positively to products tied to charity, particularly from sellers that are relatively new and hence have limited alternative means for assuring quality. We establish this result using data from a diverse group of eBay sellers who “experiment” with charity by varying the presence of a donation in a set of otherwise matched product listings. Most of charity’s benefits accrue to ...

We present the results of carrying out multi-object spectroscopy in 10 EIS cluster fields. Based on the list of 345 galaxy redshifts we identify significant 3D-density enhancements. For 9 of the EIS clusters we identify significant 3D-concentrations corresponding to the originally detected cluster candidate. We find redshifts in the range 0.097 ≤ z ≤ 0.257 which is in good agreement with the ma...

This paper propose a novel framework for a data driven grasp planner that indexes partial sensor data into a database of 3D models with known grasps and transfers grasps from those models to novel objects. We show how to construct such a database and also demonstrate multiple methods for matching into it, aligning the matched models with the known sensor data of the object to be grasped, and se...