The two-alternative forced-choice technique, which has been used to examine hysterical blindness, was used to assess purported loss of hearing in a 2 7-yearold male. The patient was asked to guess which of two temporal intervals contained a sound. Significant findings were obtained to suggest that the patient heard sounds he claimed he was unable to hear. The results are discussed in terms of u...

PROFESSOR Yitang Zhang, a number theorist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, has posted paper on arXiv [1] that hints possibility he may have solved Landau-Siegel zeros conjecture. He claimed disproved weaker version zeroes conjecture, an important problem related to hypothesis. The conjecture is there are solutions zeta function do not assume form prescribed by Riemann Inspir...

This summer I had my first experience with something every homeowner dreads (and knows is coming eventually): a sudden puddle of water underneath the hot water heater. A local plumbing company quickly sent a technician out, who spared no time in pronouncing our current hot water heater dead. Then he explained that this company used flat-rate pricing: all jobs of a certain type cost the same fix...

The plaintiff was a waterside worker, 46 years of age. On 5th May, 1943, he claimed that he sustained an accident in the course of his employment when was helping to drag a tray along so as to place lt in the chest. The pain became worse as he kept ?n working, but when he spelled between the loadings ?f the cargo the pain eased up a little. He continued working during the morning until the lunc...

Otto Binswanger lectured for the first time regarding the disease, eventually named after him, at the annual meeting of the German Lunatic‐Physicians in Dresden, Germany in 1894.[12] He claimed that he had followed eight cases for 11 years, and that there was “a strong atheromatosis of brain arteries,” which he explained lead to white matter atrophy as a result of chronic diffuse nutritional di...

the effects of hydroalcoholic extract (he) of curculigo orchioides gaertn. rhizome (hypoxidaceae) and its alkaloidal and non-alkaloidal fractions (af) and (naf) were evaluated in carrageenan-induced paw edema experimental models of inflammation. the oral administration of he, their af and naf fractions were used at doses of 100, 300 and 500 mg/kg. the effect produced by the he, af and naf fract...

A middle-aged man presented with Ganser symptoms. He had been involved in a car crash and was seeking disability insurance benefits. Extensive testing with malinger instruments revealed that he performed below chance on simple memory tests and endorsed a variety of nonexistent symptoms. With this in mind, the authors collected collateral information which showed that the patient was involved in...