Tomasello et al.'s two prerequisites, we argue, are not sufficient to explain the emergence of Joint Collaboration. An adequate account must include the human-specific capacity to communicate relevant information (that may have initially evolved to ensure efficient cultural learning). This, together with understanding intentional actions, does provide sufficient preconditions for Joint Collabor...

In this paper block Kalman …lters for Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium models are presented and evaluated. Our approach is based on the simple idea of writing down the Kalman …lter recursions on block form and appropriately sequencing the operations of the prediction step of the algorithm. It is argued that block …ltering is the only viable serial algorithmic approach to signi…cantly redu...

Lamin A and C proteins, encoded by the lamin A/C gene (LMNA), are inner nuclear membrane proteins predominantly expressed in terminally differentiated cells. Mutations in LMNA can cause various forms of cardiomyopathy with arrhythmia in an autosomal dominant manner. We collected and evaluated the clinical characteristics of unclassified familial cardiomyopathy with advanced AV block and sporadi...

Haplotypes, the global patterns of DNA sequence variation, have important implications for identifying complex traits. Recently, blocks of limited haplotype diversity have been discovered in human chromosomes, intensifying the research on modelling the block structure as well as the transitions or co-occurrence of the alleles in these blocks as a way to compress the variability and infer the as...

For molecular diagnostics of lung cancer samples, often only a small amount material is available. The ever-increasing number biomarker testing in contrast to the obtained. In that case, cytological specimens, such as serous effusion are one possible option. Effusion samples were prepared sediment smears or cytospins cell block if needed. Suitable tumor cells areas marked by cytopathologist and...

in persian, the only syllable type with consonant clusters is cvcc, where its coda can be filled with two consonants. the present article attempts to find whether these two consonant conform the sonority sequencing principle or not. for this reason, the persian words with cvcc syllable type are gathered from persian dictionaries and are classified based on the vowel filling the nucleus of the s...

background and purpose: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) has been recognized as a risk factor for invasive aspergillosis. airway colonization by aspergillus species is a common feature of chronic pulmonary diseases. nowadays, the incidence of copd has increased in critically ill patients. the aim of the present study was to isolate and identify aspergillus colonies in the respirator...

30 milled rice samples were collected from retailers in four states of malaysia. these samples were evaluated for eurotium spp. contaminations by direct plating on malt extract salt agar (mesa). all eurotium were isolated and identified based on morphology and nucleotide sequences of internal transcribed spacer 1 (its1) and its2 of the rdna. four eurotium species (e. rubrum, e. amstelodami, e. ...

background: coccidiosis is a serious protozoal disease of poultry. the iden-tification of eimeria species has important implications for diagnosis and con-trol as well as for epidemiology. the molecular characterization of eimeria spe-cies infecting egyptian baladi chickens was investigated. methods: eimeria species oocysts were harvested from intestines of naturally infected egyptian baldi chi...