In this article I propose a reading of La oscura vida radiante, the last novel by Manuel Rojas, that considers and combines historical series (Chile transitioning from its first to second modernity) with biographical (Aniceto Hevia / Rojas youth maturity). foreground, reader encounters young who, together his fellow anarchists, drifts around without losing integrity lucidity, while at same time...

Background Paradoxical lucidity is characterized by spontaneous mental clarity with verbal or non-verbal communication behavior among people AD who had previously been thought to lack the cognitive capacity do so. With a paucity of data available, family caregivers (FCGs) provide critical perspectives on characteristics these episodes (EL). Method Twenty-four FCGs witnessed at least one EL were...

We present a case of distal radius fracture. Several sequential unfortunate events resulted in a poor outcome. The patient was poorly selected because the degree of early dementia was not fully appreciated, due to intermittent periods of lucidity. Having elected to treat this distal radius fracture with Kirschner wires, a wire snapped during the procedure and was deemed safe to leave within the...

Genetic Programming (GP) is an emerging classification tool known for its flexibility, robustness and lucidity. However, GP suffers from a few limitations like long training time, bloat and lack of convergence. In this paper, we have proposed a hybrid technique that overcomes these drawbacks by improving the performance of GP evolved classifiers using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). This hyb...

Background Episodes of lucidity (EL) are generally characterized by a spontaneous and unexpected return abilities previously believed to be lost in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease related dementias (AD/ADRD). Among the myriad implications impact these episodes have on person living ADRD their family caregivers. Family caregivers provide majority support for persons AD/ADRD frequently exper...

Animal Physiology by Knut SchmidtNielsen has been a classic in its field since its first publication in 1975. During my undergraduate years, I remember using an older edition as a supplement to an introductory biology course. I look back on the Schmidt-Nielsen text as a source of clear exposition for principles that govern life. Like the past edition, the fifth edition, is also an excellent tex...

Scientific articles published 30 years earlier can be interesting to revisit for various reasons. Lewontin’s classic article on the analysis of variance in human behavioural genetics warrants continued attention for perhaps the worst of them: the article makes several correct observations that continue to remain under-appreciated in some research and much discussion about the causal role of gen...

<span>This paper presents a watermarking scheme for grayscale images, in which lifting wavelet transform and singular value decomposition are exploited based on multi-objective artificial bee colony optimization to produce robust method. Furthermore, increasing security encryption of the watermark is done prior embedding operation. In proposed scheme, actual image altered four sub-band ov...

To a generation of philosophers, modal logic was a field with ties to some of the most active areas of research and Hughes and Cresswell was the authoritative text and reference to that field. 'Hughes and Cresswell,' of course, referred to the authors' An Introduction to Modal Logic, published by Methuen in 1968 and reprinted as a University Paperback in 1972. Supposing no prior logic, An Intro...

eral kinetic systems and compares their properties (after cautioning the reader of the possible pitfalls and of the assumptions which must be made) with various biological phenomena such as regulation, regeneration, determination , gene action, pleiotropism, etc. Few biologists have been as successful as Waddington in accomplishing a synthesis between embryology and genetics. In this volume, he...