21 at dierent places along the dendrites). [Hasselmo et al.] show that acetylcholine aects the synaptic connection strength of lateral but not feedforward connections in rat piriform cortex. Neuromodulators such as this could provide a means for neurons to give more or less weighting to the \teach" inputs. The neuromodulators or the teach inputs themselves could serve as a gate for learning ens...

Hon. Mrs. Iris Cawley, herself the mother of a five year old mongol boy, found herself leader of a group of housewives which began a special playgroup in Slough. Every feature of the group was carefully mapped out to help the children's mental development and to accustom them to mixing, rather than being kept apart from society. Every toy was bought, every game was planned, to help to teach co-...

THE LANGUAGE COMMONLY used in procedural/surgical consent forms often exceeds the average reading level of US patients, and many do not read the document before signing it. INCORPORATING READER-FRIENDLY language and formatting makes it more likely that patients will read the document, understand it, and therefore give informed consent. Adding "teach back" into the document provides a means of e...

I started to teach formal methods (FM) in an undergraduate, mandatory course of a Computer Science degree at Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina) in 1998. After all these years I still have more questions than answers. In particular, I still can’t find satisfactory answers to questions I asked to myself back in 1998. However, at the same time, I still believe that I am doing the right th...

mahmoud sami baroudi, a celebrated egyptian poet was a pioneer of innovation . he could bring back the beauty and freshness to the arabic poetry. since he was brought up in a religious family and since he considered moral refinement as an output of literature, he tried to teach principles of islam in his poetry and to propagate social, religious, and moral values among people such as : romise f...

A multiple baseline design across 3 children with autism was used to assess the effects of prompting and social reinforcement to teach participants to respond to an adult's bid for joint attention and to initiate bids for joint attention. Participants were taught to respond to an adult's bid for joint attention by looking in the direction of an object at which the adult pointed, by making a com...

Arguments about how to teach initial reading are once more in the news. Proponents of “synthetic phonics” argue that there is only one effective way to teach a child to read. In this anniversary issue, it is worth taking a step back from the polarisation of the “synthetic” versus “analytic” phonics debate, to consider the evidence base for reading acquisition across languages. Most children wil...

Low back pain, a human frailty that dates back to antiquity, has generated prodigious revenues and is about to teach a lesson about the changing medical market. I was invited to make a presentation at the ASNR Meeting entitled "Overview of Imaging of Low Back Pain." My initial plans were to extol the virtues of magnetic resonance (MR) and to review the optimal pulse sequences for scanning the l...