OBJECTIVE To investigate the characteristics of attention in school-age children with mild autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and to provide a basis for clinical treatment. METHODS A total of 20 school-age children with mild ASD were enrolled, and the intermediate visual and auditory continuous performance test (IVA-CPT) was used to assess their attention. A total of 20 children with attention d...

ïndividuals with factitious disorder fake illnesses to assume a sick role. they simulate, induce, or aggravate illness, often inflicting painful, deforming, or even life-threatening injury on themselves or those under their care. factitious disorders are diagnosed in about one percent of patients who are seen in psychiatric consultation in general hospitals. ône of the features, that are overre...

In this paper, we introduce new voicing parameters to describe the speech signal and we study their effects on the classification of disordered voices. These parameters concern the fundamental frequency and the open quotient. The open quotient is defined as the ratio of the open phase by the pitch period. These parameters are calculated using the multiscale product method (MPM). The classificat...

Let X be a smooth projective curve over C which admits a finite group G of automorphisms. Then G×G acts on the product surface Y = X ×X, and so for each subgroup H ≤ G×G, the quotient Z = H\Y is a normal algebraic surface. Here we shall restrict attention to the case that the subgroup H is the graph of a group automorphism α ∈ Aut(G) of G, i.e. H = ∆α = {(g, α(g)) : g ∈ G}; we propose to call t...

We partially obstructed the left bronchi of rats and imaged an inert insoluble gas, SF(6), in the lungs with NMR using a technique that clearly differentiates obstructed and normal ventilation. When the inhaled fraction of O(2) is high, SF(6) concentrates dramatically in regions of the lung with low ventilation-to-perfusion ratios (VA/Q); therefore, these regions are brighter in an image than w...

This short, expository note proves existence of the maximal quotient of a variety by free rational curves. 1. Definition of a maximal free rational quotient Definition 1.1. Let V be a Deligne-Mumford stack over a field k, and denote the smooth locus by V sm ⊂ V . A 1-morphism f : Pk → V sm is a free rational curve to V if fTV is generated by global sections and has positive degree. Let S be an ...

Let (B,MB) denote a regular local ring of dimension two. Let H be a finite cyclic group acting on B, and let Z := Spec(B). Assume that the action of H on Spec(B) is free off the closed point, and thatMB is the only singular point of Z. Let f : X → Z be a resolution of the singularity, minimal with the property that the irreducible components of f(MB ) are smooth with normal crossings. Such a re...