Until relatively recently, the lateral parietal lobe (PL) was not considered an important region for long-term memory, typically associated instead with functions such as visuospatial attention and visually-guided reaching. Scientific interest in a possible link with episodic memory was fuelled by the realisation of an intriguing discrepancy between functional imaging studies of episodic memory...

Szczepaniak, Lidia S., Pamela Nurenberg, David Leonard, Jeffrey D. Browning, Jason S. Reingold, Scott Grundy, Helen H. Hobbs, and Robert L. Dobbins. Magnetic resonance spectroscopy to measure hepatic triglyceride content: prevalence of hepatic steatosis in the general population. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 288: E462–E468, 2005. First published August 31, 2004; doi:10.1152/ ajpendo.00064.2004...

The concept of Expeditionary Economics (ExpECON) was introduced in 2010 in a path-breaking article in the May/June 2010 issue of Foreign Affairs, “Expeditionary Economics: Spurring Growth After Conflicts and Disasters”, by then Kauffman Institute President and CEO Carl Schramm. In that article, Schramm put forth the proposition that economic growth is vital for stabilizing post-conflict/disaste...

BACKGROUND It is estimated that 19 to 83% of people with dementia suffer from pain that is inadequately treated in the last months of life. A large number of healthcare workers who care for these people in nursing homes lack appropriate expertise and may therefore not always recognise, assess and treat pain in those with dementia who have complex problems on time, properly and efficiently. The ...

1 Fukuda K, Straus SE, Hickie I, Sharpe MC, Dobbins JG, Komaroff A, et al. The chronic fatigue syndrome: a comprehensive approach to its definition and study. Ann Intern Med 1994;121:953-9. 2 Reeves WC, Lloyd A, Vernon SD,Klimas N, Jason LA, Bleijenberg G, et al. Identification of ambiguities in the 1994 chronic fatigue syndrome research case definition and recommendations for resolution. BMC H...

Lung cancer is currently the primary cause of cancer death, and its incidence continues to increase worldwide. Because of its high sensitivity, normal-dose helical computed tomography (CT) is currently considered the gold standard for lung cancer detection. Previous studies have shown that low-dose helical CT can detect early-stage lung cancer, thereby decreasing morbidity (Yankelevitz et al., ...

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic non-specific inflammatory disease affecting the mucosa and the submucosa of the colon, and is characterized by alterations of gut functions which influence the clinical symptoms (Fiocchi, 1998; Reddy et al., 1991; Spriggs et al., 1951). Although reports showed morpho-functional abnormalities of the enteric nervous system in UC patients, the available literat...

In 1907, George H. Whipple reported the clinical manifestations and autopsy findings for a patient with the disease that now bears his name [1]. Nearly all of the cardinal clinical manifestations of this disorder—including arthralgias, abdominal pain, fever, diarrhea, malabsorption, weight loss, and cough—were evident in this first patient reported. On the basis of observations of fat and fatty...

In mammals, respiration-modulated networks are distributed rostrocaudaly in the ventrolateral quadrant of the medulla. Recent studies have established that in neonate rodents, two spatially separate networks along this column, the parafacial respiratory group (pFRG) and the pre-Bötzinger complex (preBötC), are hypothesized to be sufficient for respiratory rhythm generation, but little is known ...

The purpose of this paper is to present how the fuzzy goal programming (FGP) in the area of mathematical programming (MP) can be efficiently used for modeling and solving agricultural planning problems to achieve the target levels of production of various crops cultivated in different seasons in a year and make the profit by allocating the cultivable land properly and utilising the available pr...