The electrocortical correlates of the processing of feared/fear-relevant and neutral stimuli were investigated in a pictorial emotional Stroop paradigm with spider phobic, social phobic, and nonphobic subjects. Subjects identified either the color of red or blue pictures of spiders, birds, or flowers (emotional Stroop task) or the object itself (identification task) by pressing different button...

SPIDER is a network adapter that provides scalable communication support for point-to-point distributed systems. The device exports an eecient interface to the host processor, provides transparent support for dependable , time-constrained communication, and handles packet routing and switching. The communication support provided by SPIDER exploits concurrency between the independent data channe...

In situ characterization and control of the phase of broadband femtosecond pulses in microscopy can be achieved with a novel simplified scheme based on spectral shear interferometry for direct electric field reconstruction (SPIDER): the use of a femtosecond pulse shaper eliminates the need for an interferometer setup, allows dispersion-free SPIDER operation and at the same time compression even...

The aim of this study was to analyze: i) the spider community in vegetative and reproductive branches of Psychotria carthagenensis concerning relative abundance, guild composition and body size distribution; ii) ant abundance in different types of branches and iii) the spider behavior when experimentally put in contact with inflorescences covered with ants. There was no difference between veget...

Spider diagrams provide a visual logic to express relations between sets and their elements, extending the expressiveness of Venn diagrams. Sound and complete inference systems for spider diagrams have been developed and it is known that they are equivalent in expressive power to monadic first-order logic with equality, MFOL[1⁄4]. languages that are finite unions of languages of the form K G , ...

Three studies examined associations between spider phobic distress and two individual difference characteristics, disgust propensity (sensitivity to disgust elicitation) and fear propensity (sensitivity to fear elicitation). Although the relative contributions of trait anxiety and disgust propensity have been examined, researchers have yet to compare the parallel constructs of disgust and fear ...

Resting by primates is considered an understudied activity, relative to feeding or moving, despite its importance in physiological and time investment terms. Here we describe spider monkeys' (Ateles geoffroyi) travel from feeding to resting trees in a seasonal tropical forest of the Yucatan Peninsula. We followed adult and subadult individuals for as long as possible, recording their activities...

Let f : V → {1, . . . , k} be a labeling of the vertices of a graph G = (V,E) and denote with f(N(v)) the sum of the labels of all vertices adjacent to v. The least value k for which a graph G admits a labeling satisfying f(N(u)) 6= f(N(v)) for all (u, v) ∈ E is called additive chromatic number of G and denoted η(G). It was first presented by Czerwiński, Grytczuk and Zelazny who also proposed a...

Objective: Due to the alarming increase the incidence and prevalence of infectious diseases and increasing bacterial resistance to antibiotics need to discover new strong antimicrobial compounds is feeling.Methods: In this study, the antimicrobial properties of spider silk Pholcus phalangioides produced in sterile conditions against two bacteria, Listeria monocytogenes and <em...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to evaluate the immediate effect exercise therapy using SPIDER on balance ability patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). [Participants and Methods] Ten PD underwent without SPIDER, effects were compared. Effectiveness measured by Timed up Go Test (TUG), Functional Reach (FRT), 10-meter walk test. task consisted 10 squats back-and-forth steps each. [Resul...