In a task designed to elicit the production of verbs, the patients known as AN-1033 and Boswell consistently produced the correct target words, performing no differently from normal controls. However, in a similar task designed to elicit the production of nouns, both patients performed quite defectively, and their scores were many SDs below those of controls. Language processing was otherwise n...

OBJECTIVE To advance methods for the estimation of hospital performance based upon mortality ratios. DESIGN Observational study estimating trust performance in a year derived according to comparative standards from a 3-year period, accounting for patient-level case-mix and overdispersion (unexplained variability). PARTICIPANTS 23 363 630 admissions to the English National Health Service (NH...

BACKGROUND Fetal movement counting may improve timely identification of decreased fetal activity and thereby contribute to prevent adverse pregnancy outcomes, but it may also contribute to maternal concern. This study aimed to test whether fetal movement counting increased maternal concern. METHODS In a multicenter, controlled trial 1,013 women with a singleton pregnancy were randomly assigne...

OBJECTIVE In this study, we examined the characteristics of depression determination using four representative self-rating depression scales (Geriatric Depression Scale, GDS; Self-rating Depression Scale, SDS; Center for Epidermiologic Studies Depression Scale, CES-D; and Carroll Rating Scale, CRS) applied to Japanese community-dwelling elderly. METHODS Subjects were 563 community-dwelling in...

Under normal conditions, sodium forms a 1:1 stoichiometric compound with indium, and also with thallium, both in the double-diamond structure. But sodium does not combine with aluminum at all. Could NaAl exist? If so, under what conditions and in which structural types? Instead of beginning with a purely computational and first-principles structure search, we are led to apply the early Brilloui...