and subcortical structures that participate both in drug Baltimore, Maryland 21224 reward and in more natural motivational phenomena. For example, Hans Breiter (Massachusetts General Hospital) showed functional magnetic resonance imaging At the end of the decade of the brain, the study of (fMRI) data implicating a generalized limbic and cortical neural mechanisms has come to dominate the study ...

Using data obtained from the western Pacific region during “Tropical Cyclone Structure 2008” (TCS08), ONR’s field program, this study proposes to investigate large-scale environmental conditions, mesoscale phenomena, and small-scale convective bursts, as well as their interactions that are responsible for TC formation and intensity changes. Specific objectives include 1) characterizing the inte...

1. The electrophoretic velocities of gelatin-, egg-albumin-, and gliadin-covered quartz particles in various alcohol-water solutions are, within the limits employed in usual experimental procedures, proportional to the field strength. 2. The electrophoretic mobilities of small, irregularly shaped quartz particles covered with an adsorbed film of protein in alcohol-water solutions are equal to t...

The literature on the nature of understanding can be divided into two broad camps. Explanationists believe that it is knowledge of explanations that is key to understanding. In contrast, their manipulationist rivals maintain that understanding essentially involves an ability to manipulate certain representations. The aim of this paper is to provide a novel knowledge based account of understandi...

Iron is an important element in the environment, due to its presence in soils and natural waters in the form of molecular complexes or colloids. Dissolution of ferric oxides in natural conditions (including acid-base and redox phenomena, microbial mediation and photo-chemistry) is of major importance in the cycling of iron. Iron oxides are also present in living organisms (eg. plants, bacteria,...

This paper deals with a multiuser cancellation detection scheme combined with antenna arrays, for Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) communication systems where different traffic load and different data rate are considered. The proposed receiver, defined as Space Time-Selective Parallel Interference Cancellation detector, is supposed to be used at the base station of a WCDMA communi...

A three year old girl, with a right coronary artery fistula and signs of a hyperdynamic circulation, underwent uncomplicated closure of the fistula using an occluding device introduced via the femoral arterial route and covered with appropriate antibiotics. Two months later she presented with a persistent fever, signs of infective endocarditis (IE) and embolic phenomena in the left lower limb. ...

We show in the framework of the Higgs triplet model that the lower bound of the neutrino mass is obtained if we can measure Γ(∆ −− →ee) Γ(∆→μμ) at the LHC. E-mail:[email protected] E-mail:[email protected] Neutrino phenomena have been the guiding force for physics beyond the standard model (SM) for the last two decades. Presently, observations of the Majorana nature of neutrinos an...

M e t h o d s Design: Randomized, controlled, noninferiority trial. Allocation: {Concealed}†.* Blinding: Blinded.* Setting: 47 institutions in 6 countries in Europe and North America. Follow-up period: 6 weeks after completion of therapy. Patients: 261 patients ≥ 16 years of age who had candidemia (≥ 1 positive blood culture) or other forms of invasive candidiasis (a positive culture obtained f...

The ionosphere contributes the largest and most unpredictable error to single frequency GPS users’ range measurements. The goal of a Space-Based Augmentation System (SBAS) in mitigating these ionospheric errors is two-fold. First, the SBAS broadcasts error corrections to its users for improved positioning accuracy. Moreover, the SBAS provides a service that GPS alone cannot: ensuring position e...