BIG BANG HUMAN BRAIN The universe started with the Big Bang some 13,500 million (billion) years ago. Then very recently, about 200,000 years ago, another " Big Bang " happened – Homo sapiens appeared on earth. It has many genetic similarities with other species such as the chimpanzee and, even more so, with other hominids such as the Neanderthals who lived with us until 30,000 or so years ago. ...

This issue of Asia Pacific Allergy (Asia Pac Allergy) will be released at the beginning of its third year of circulation. Asia Pac Allergy is just two years old yet very active and on the way to developing into a leading publication in allergic disease research. We thank all the authors and readers for their efforts and contributions. Our current issue features two valuable reviews on the topic...

This thesis is proposing a research direction of using computation to help people fully take advantage of spatial cognition in thinking process. As our most important form of information processing spatial cognition provides thinking what logical and verbal means are inferior at. But without external aid, its application is tremendously constrained. Computation could play a role in circumventin...

In a large cyber-physical system, even if individual system elements interact with one another only locally, effects of local decisions quickly spread across the system and combine to yield global consequences. In order to reason about such a system without impractical amounts of communication and computation, we must summarize the system’s global state, and base individual decisions at least p...

Primary orthostatic tremor (POT) may be a cause of postural instability in older people. Though unusual, this condition is relatively easily diagnosed, based in part on typical clinical features, impacts on quality of life, and is amenable to symptomatic treatment (Heilman KM. Orthostatic tremor. Arch Neurol 1984; 41: 880-1). We present three cases seen in a general neurology clinic over a 15-m...

Why do we represent the world around us using causal generalizations, rather than, say, purely statistical generalizations? Do causal representations contain useful additional information, or are they merely more efficient for inferential purposes? This chapter considers the second kind of answer: it investigates some ways in which causal cognition might aid us not because of its expressive pow...

For those who have never taken the trouble to consider ways and methods of thinking and who wish to know of a readable and interesting introduction to the subject this small book of Canon Dewar's can be confidently recommended. Its three sections cover a great deal of ground. The first is concerned with different types of thinking and with the rules of the syllogism. The second calls attention ...

True. In low-income countries, openness to international trade is indispensable for rapid economic growth. Indeed, few developing nations have grown rapidly over time without simultaneous increases in both exports and imports, and virtually all developing countries that have grown rapidly have done so under open trade policies or declining trade protection. India and China are the best recent e...

Any patient with bilateral lymphadenopathy especially in Indian subcontinent is regarded as suffering from tuberculosis unless proved otherwise. This sometimes leads to unwarranted delay in correct diagnosis and management if there is ignorance regarding other rarer etiologies. Rosai-Dorfman Disease (RDD) may present in the same manner and should always be kept on the back of the mind to help a...