Two hundred and twenty adult participants completed postal questionnaires to assess the frequency and location of their use of 16 different Internet services. They also completed a battery of scales covering various trait and cognitive aspects of personality. Internet use was wide spread and diverse. The relative popularities and frequencies of use of the different services were established, an...

Type 1 diabetes is caused by the immune-mediated destruction of the insulin-secreting pancreatic -cells, which is under polygenic control. Several putative diabetes loci have been sorted by whole genome–linkage analyses (1–2) or by directly testing an a priori hypothesis on selected genes or genomic regions (3–4). Linkage with chromosome 5q33–34 was recently detected in 249 sib-pairs from 187 B...

Previous algorithms for the recovery of Bayesian belief network structures from data have been either highly dependent on conditional independence (CI) tests, or have required on ordering on the nodes to be supplied by the user. We present an algorithm that integrates these two approaches: CI tests are used to generate an ordering on the nodes from the database, which is then used to recover th...

Introduction Today there is an intensive research effort in high-field MRI, mainly motivated by the higher SNR, and consequently higher spatial and temporal resolution attainable by higher magnetic fields. Counteracting these advantages are dielectric resonance effects when increasing sample size -as in the case of human imaging-, intravoxel dephasing due to increased susceptibility and increas...

The Lancet Commission on Palliative Care and Pain Relief report1Knaul FM Farmer PE Krakauer EL et al.Alleviating the access abyss in palliative care pain relief–an imperative of universal health coverage: report.Lancet. 2018; 391: 1391-1454Summary Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (442) Google Scholar identified an extensive, global gap between need that has been ignored overlooked quest for coverage...

Three studies examine the hypothesis that people spontaneously (i.e., unintentionally and without awareness of doing so) infer causes (the Spontaneous Causal Inference, or SCI, hypothesis). Using a cued-recall paradigm, Study 1 examines whether SCIs occur and Study 2 allows for a comparison between implicitly inferred and explicitly mentioned causes. Study 3 examines whether SCIs can be fully e...

Resident Perspective: Subclinical ocular inflammation in patients with recurrent aphthous stomatitisRecurrent stomatitis is the most common oral mucosal ulcerative disease, primarily affecting buccal mucosa and tongue.1Akintoye SO Greenberg MS. Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis.Dent Clin North Am. 2014; 58: 281-297Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (121) Google Scholar This condition has been lin...

This manuscript reviews sperm morphology and its disorders in the context of infertility. A new look into an old challenge is delivered, based on contemporary scientific clinical evidence. We highlight functional repercussions aberrations dissect cause effect a variety insults pathogenic mechanisms focusing relationships among shape, function, compartmental analysis cellular subcellular structu...