INTRODUCTION Deficits in the ability to distinguish between the left and right side of the body can severely impair daily life functioning. The current study examined the relation between left right orientation (LRO) impairments and somatosensory related deficits, ranging from primary somatosensory impairments to body representation impairments, in patients who suffered a recent stroke. We also...

BACKGROUND Approximately one quarter of patients with colorectal carcinoma (CRC) have distant metastases at initial dia-gnosis and almost 50% will develop them during the disease course. Only radical surgical resection of metastases improves clinical outcome and offers a chance of longterm survival. Initially unresectable metastases can become resectable after downsizing with systemic therapy. ...

Previous research indicates that the use of fingers as representations of ordinal and cardinal number is an important part of young children’s mathematics learning. Further to this, some studies have shown that a finger training intervention can improve young children’s quantitative skills. In this article, we argue that fingers represent a means for children to connect different external repre...

The GNOSIS project in the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems international research program is concerned with the use of advanced information technology for knowledge systematization to support the complex intellectual and managerial processes involved in the manufacturing life cycle. It has developed technologies to coordinate distributed manufacturing enterprises, and these technologies have a...

chronic interstitial renal disease was detected in 62.5% of the cases. Background. Children’s renal biopsy data were gathered for 3 consecutive years (1992–1994) by the Conclusions. This National Registry provides data on the indications for performing renal biopsy in Italian Group of Renal Immunopathology of the Italian Society of Pediatric Nephrology, which opened a paedichildren and on the f...

In the sixteenth century, Spanish missionaries judged and ranked human intelligence and civilization by whether the people were in possession of alphabetic writing. This was an initial moment in the configuration of the colonial difference and the building of the Atlantic imaginary, which will become the imaginary of the modern/colonial world. Translation was the special tool to absorb the colo...