Ruz and Lupiáñez have provided a comprehensive review of the attentional capture research and we agree with their conclusion that attentional capture is automatic by default, but can be modulated by endogenous factors. One such endogenous factor is an attentional control setting, whereby topdown processes largely determine what type of visual events will capture attention. As noted by Ruz and L...

The changing pattern of Indian proverbs is very much reflected in various literary creations, especially in modern Indian poetry. Proverbs are used in poetry as a mode of creative process which entails change. Indeed, it is mostly expressed in a poetic style of narration which may be termed as the style of ‘lokaabharan’. Various types of folk elements are used in the creative process and amongs...

any, uric acid. The biological literature contains abundant evidence that most excretory nitrogen of birds is in the form of uric acid or its salts (2). Most of Folk's data on the white part (the urine) of bird droppings are not inconsistent with this generalization. (i) Folk finds that bird droppings exhibit only part of the x-ray analysis pattern typical of uric acid or two of its salts. We w...