Absence epilepsy is a generalized form of epilepsy where spike-wave discharges (SWDs) involve both hemispheres of the brain and thereby alter consciousness. Recent evidence by Meeren et al (2002) in the WAG/Rij rat model of absence epilepsy points to a cortical focus of SWDs before rapid generalization of the SWDs. This focus belongs in the peri-oral area of the somatosensory cortex, and it was...

Web-at-a-Glance (WAG) is a system to assist the user in information retrieval and discovery by gleaning the most relevant information from a web site or several web sites. This paper presents this new approach for intelligent information retrieval from web sites, and describes the prototyping of the light-weight WAG system as an active index system. q 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reser...

The aim of this study was to examine the development of cortical epileptic afterdischarges (ADs) in genetic absence epilepsy WAG/Rij rats, and to compare them with two strains with minimal incidence of spike-and-wave (SW) episodes (ACI and Wistar). Epileptic ADs were elicited by stimulation of sensorimotor cortex in 12-, 18-, and 25-day-old rats of the three strains. The threshold current inten...

OBJECTIVE Absence epilepsy is a common seizure disorder in children which can produce chronic psychosocial sequelae. Human patients and rat absence models show bilateral spike-wave discharges (SWD) in cortical regions. We employed diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in rat absence models to detect abnormalities in white matter pathways connecting regions of seizure activity. METHODS We studied Wis...

This essay illustrates, by means of an analysis of the film, Wag the Dog the relationship betweenmedial hybridization and cognitive “strange loops”. As defined by Douglas Hofstadter, the‘strange loop’ is a concept rooted in the subjectivity of individual perception that integratesdifferent levels of abstraction. Applied to “intermedial” practice it provides a heuristic platformf...

C-cell tumors (medullary thyroid carcinoma) occur in humans and several other mammalian species. This tumor develops spontaneously with a high incidence (50%) in old Wag/Rij (Wistar-derived strain) rats. We have recently shown that calcitonin binding sites, which are present in the Wistar rats, are lost from renal medulla of the Wag/Rij rats before they reach the age of 1 month. In the present ...

The Internet revolution has made an enormous quantity of information available to a disparate variety of people. The amount of information, the typical access modality (i.e. browsing), and the open growth of the Net, force the user, while searching for the information of interest, to dip into multiple sources, in a labyrinth of billion of links. Web-at-a-Glance (WAG) is a system allowing the us...

in this research the experimental and theoretical studies on different enhanced oil recovery (eor) techniques, i.e. water flooding (wf), gas injection (gi) and water alternating gas process (wag) were performed on specimens taken from an iranian carbonate offshore reservoir at the reservoir condition. the experimental results for each specified techniques were compared with the corresponding re...

Abstract An analysis is presented of the submesoscale tidally-induced anticyclonic eddies formed at eastern mouth Strait Gibraltar and their role in explaining mesoscale features Atlantic Jet – Western Alboran Gyre (AJ-WAG) system. These have been identified for first time using an observational approach based on High Frequency Radar (HFR) derived surface currents which has complemented with Se...

We showed previously that the number and time of spike-wave discharges (SWDs) were increased after intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), an effect, which was completely abolished by cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitor indomethacin (IND) pretreatment in Wistar Albino Glaxo/Rijswijk (WAG/Rij) rats. These and other results suggest that injection of LPS to genetically absence...