Celiac disease (CD) is a multifactorial enteropathy induced by the ingestion of gluten in susceptible individuals. It’s widely accepted that CD is an immune-mediated enteropathy and clinical manifestations range from typical signs or symptoms of intestinal malabsorption to atypical cases with scarce gastro-intestinal symptoms and extra-intestinal manifestations. Several neurological syndromes h...

It is commonly hypothesized that external representations serve as memory aids and improve task performance by means of expanding the limited capacity of working memory. However, very few studies have directly examined this memory aid hypothesis. By systematically manipulating how information is available externally versus internally in a sequential number comparison task, three experiments wer...

The US National institutes of Health-Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance is a research consortium that funds numerous labs worldwide to conduct influenza A surveillance in diverse animal species. There is no harmonization of testing procedures among these labs; therefore an external quality assurance (EQA) program was implemented to evaluate testing accuracy among labs...

A circadian oscillator driven by external noise and internal noise has been studied by use of the chemical Langevin equation method. When the system is near a Hopf bifurcation and driven by internal noise only, it is found that the coherence resonance phenomenon can be induced by the internal noise. When the system is simultaneously driven by internal and external noise, it is found that extern...