The rubber hand illusion (RHI) paradigm--in which illusory bodily ownership is induced by synchronous tactile stimulation of a participant's (hidden) hand and a (visible) surrogate--allows one to investigate how the brain resolves conflicting multisensory evidence during perceptual inference. To identify the functional anatomy of the RHI, we used multichannel EEG, acquired under three condition...

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CONTEXT Oral activated charcoal (AC) for toxin absorption should be applied as soon as possible. Extra-hospital AC-application on site by medical laypersons with pre-emptive obtained AC may save time, but may be inferior to AC-application by medical professionals. OBJECTIVE 1) Availability and incidence of pre-emptive stockpiling of AC on site in the German region Bavaria 2) time saved by AC-...

Fingers lay fibers n page 553, Canty et al. show how cells use finger-like projections to lay down parallel arrays of collagen fibers that are many times the lengths of the cells. Parallel arrays of long collagen fibers give tendons their resistance and tensile properties. Thousands of collagen molecules self-assemble into fibers, but the fibers need instruction from their environment for align...

The paper by Muirhead and colleagues is one of three lay support intervention studies in Britain to report no significant effect on breastfeeding duration. However, it would be premature to conclude that lay support interventions are ineffective. The studies suggest several reasons for lack of effectiveness: low uptake for a variety of reasons; strong cultural barriers to breastfeeding that cou...

In this article, I compare William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and Sadeq Chubak’s The Patient ‎Stone ‎with respect to the theme of death and from the perspective of Existentialism. I argue that ‎despite ‎Faulkner’s influence on Chubak and similarities in their writings, the Iranian modernist novel ‎presents ‎intellectual and aesthetic nuances catering to the domestic material circumstances of ‎it...

Debates about the concept of disease have traditionally been framed as a competition between two conflicting approaches: naturalism, on one hand, and normativism or social constructivism, other. In this article, we lay groundwork for naturalistic form constructivism by (1) dissociating presumed link value-free conceptions broadly approach; (2) offering argument constructivism; (3) suggesting av...

Stoats are implicated in the severe decline of certain iconic endemic species New Zealand. notoriously difficult to control, as they highly cryptic and often neophobic around control techniques such traps poison baits tunnels. killed through secondary poisoning both aerial hand-lay operations targeting other mammalian pests. We prototype trialled a novel approach stoats: wild-caught ship rats t...