! 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 1363-1950 Introduction The amino acid arginine (ARG) (L-amino-5-guanidinovaleric acid) has traditionally been classified as nonessential for adults and children [1] because the human body can synthesize it. ARG, however, is essential for growth and development in many mammals and can be considered non-essential only in fully grown adult animals [2]. More rec...

There are no laws preventing a host government from seizing the capital of a foreign direct investment in its borders and then denying any compensation for the foreign investor. Why then do we not see many more expropriations of investor capital by host governments? Compiling a database of expropriations within the minerals sectors of developing countries, we show that there is punishment for e...

The key-generation algorithm for the RSA cryptosystem is specified in several standards, such as PKCS#1, IEEE 1363-2000, FIPS 186-3, ANSI X9.44, or ISO/IEC 18033-2. All of them substantially differ in their requirements. This indicates that for computing a “secure” RSA modulus it does not matter how exactly one generates RSA integers. In this work we show that this is indeed the case to a large...

337 Received: January 4, 2009. Revised: 1st, January 14, 2009; 2nd, January 29, 2009. Accepted: May 22, 2009. Corresponding author: Jong-Yeon Park, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, ASAN Medical Center, University of Ulsan, College of Medicine, 388-1, Pungnap-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul 138-736, Korea. Tel: 82-2-3010-3867, Fax: 82-2-470-1363, E-mail: [email protected] Co...

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INTRODUCTION We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of the Alzheimer's disease (AD) literature to examine consistency of functional connectivity alterations in AD dementia and mild cognitive impairment, using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging. METHODS Studies were screened using a standardized procedure. Multiresolution statistics were performed to assess the spa...

The three key ad elements (brand, pictorial, and text) each have unique superiority effects on attention to advertisements, which are on par with many commonly held ideas in marketing practice. This is the main conclusion of an analysis of 1363 print advertisements tested with infrared eye-tracking methodology on more than 3600 consumers. The pictorial is superior in capturing attention, indepe...

This paper describes three species of the genus Tripyla from New Zealand and provides a key to species based on the morphology of females. Tripyla daviesae sp. nov. is characterized by its short body length (L = 1143-1363 μm), relatively anterior vulva (V = 50-51%), and the length of the gubernaculum (13-17 μm). Tripyla tirau sp. nov. is characterized by its relatively posterior vulva (V = 55.5...

Some meditation techniques reduce pain, but there have been no studies on howmeditation a¡ects the brain’s response to pain. Functional magnetic resonance imaging of the response to thermally induced pain applied outside the meditation period found that long-term practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation technique showed 40^50% fewer voxels responding to pain in the thalamus and total brai...