This review focuses on the nature of language recovery in bilingual individuals post-stroke and on the effectiveness of treatment. We consider neuropsychological and neuroimaging papers on bilingual aphasic individuals in the period 2003-2007. We examine the extent to which current evidence supports the notion that different languages are represented in distinct processing areas or are distribu...

The United States generates the most plastic waste of any country and is a top contributor to global pollution. Multiple end-of-life strategies must be implemented minimize environmental impacts retain valuable material, but it challenging compare options that generate products with different lifetimes utilities. Herein, they present material flow model equipped consequential life cycle assessm...

Indirect transmission of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) ensues when susceptible animals contact PEDV-contaminated fomite materials. Although the survival of PEDV under various pHs and temperatures has been studied, virus stability on different fomite surfaces under varying temperature conditions has not been explored. Hence, we evaluated the survival of PEDV on inanimate objects routine...

After stroke the central nervous system reveals a spectrum of intrinsic capacities to react as a highly dynamic system which can change the properties of its circuits, form new contacts, erase others, and remap related cortical and spinal cord regions. This plasticity can lead to a surprising degree of spontaneous recovery. It includes the activation of neuronal molecular mechanisms of growth a...

Plasticity in amorphous silica is unusual: The yield stress decreases with hydrostatic pressure, in contrast to the Mohr-Coulomb response commonly found in more compact materials such as bulk metallic glasses. To better understand this response, we have carried out molecular dynamics simulations of plastic response in a model glass with open structure. The simulations reproduce the anomalous de...

BACKGROUND While skin resurfacing using pulsed carbon dioxide lasers appears to have a skin-tightening effect clinically, the debate continues over its actual effects on dermal collagen. OBJECTIVES To provide quantitative measures of skin elasticity changes associated with pulsed carbon dioxide laser skin resurfacing and to introduce to the facial plastic surgery community the Cutometer SEM 5...

An injection-molding machine (IMM) is equipment that produces all kinds of plastic products. At present, the global production of IMMs amounts to more than 30 million units each year, and its total production accounts for 50% of all plastic molding equipment. Now, the main energy consumption equipment of plastic processing plants consists in IMMs. Therefore, energy conservation research on IMMs...

High-speed melt spinning of a cyclo-olefin polymer (COP) and a copolyamide (CoPA) have been performed. Differential scanning calorimetry curves of the resulting monofilaments show that they remain in an amorphous state even after hot drawing. Wide angle x-ray diffraction patterns of undrawn and drawn COP filaments show that although the material remains in an amorphous state, a degree of orient...

Illumination defocus and global illumination effects are major challenges for active illumination scene recovery algorithms. Illumination defocus limits the working volume of projector-camera systems and global illumination can induce large errors in shape estimates. In this paper, we develop an algorithm for scene recovery in the presence of both defocus and global light transport effects such...