In this paper, a nodal method applicable to fast reactor diffusion theory analysis has been developed. This method has been shown to be accurate and efficient in comparison to highly optimized finite difference techniques. The use of an analytic solution to the diffusion equation as a means of determining accurate coupling ...

The authors recorded preprofessional ballet and modern dancers' perceptions of the personality traits of each type of dancer and self-reports of their own standing, to test the accuracy of the group stereotypes. Participants accurately stereotyped ballet dancers as scoring higher than modern dancers on Fear of Negative Evaluation and Personal Need for ...

Jun 16, 2011 ... Note SO-334. New Orleans, LA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, ... were done on twenty l-m2 plots for a variety of forest types in Alabama. ... to accurately estimate foliar cover of different vegetation groups. ...

... accurate difference method is presented for systems of first order hyperbolic differential equations. ... the special case of the system of equations ...

We examined processing of verbal irony in three groups of children: (1) 18 children with high-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder (HFASD), (2) 18 typically- developing children, matched to the first group for verbal ability, and (3) 18 typically-developing children matched to the first group for chronological age. We utilized an irony ...

We examined processing of verbal irony in three groups of children: (1) 18 children with high-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder (HFASD), (2) 18 typically-developing children, matched to the first group for verbal ability, and (3) 18 typically-developing children matched to the first group for chronological age. We utilized an irony ...

An attempt was made to use the sensitivity approach to develop an automated scheme for selecting multigroup energy boundaries so as to minimize the energy groups required to solve a specific problem. As a demonstration of the usefulness of the method, a series of problems involving transport in iron were studied. The general conclusion drawn from the results is that ...

. Their dynamic behavior is controlled by a base skeleton. The base skeletons are subdivided and grouped to form on a family of ``swept sphere vol� umes'' for fast and accurate intersection computations. We also use representation has a base skeleton used to simulate the hair dynamics, which aids in switching between different

Discriminant analysis is a multivariate method of analysis with two purposes: (1) to describe differences among groups; or (2) to classify participants into groups. Either linear or quadratic rules can be used in both descriptive discriminant analysis (DDA) and predictive discriminant analysis (PDA). In both DDA and PDA the researcher ...

A randomized control trial was conducted to evaluate the impact of the Rural Early Adolescent Learning Program (Project REAL) on teachers' awareness of peer groups at the beginning of the 1st year of middle school. Two schools were randomly assigned to the intervention condition and 2 to the control condition. Thirty-nine teachers and 466 students (252 girls, 214 boys) ...

... order accurate finite difference technique has ... concepts of contour differences and MacCormack ... beams, with nonstructured masses and stiffened ...

This paper assesses different methods of evaluating pain management. We used the established methods of pain prevalence measurement and the Pain Management Index (PMI) to compare pain management between two groups who might be expected to have different outcomes. We also developed and used a method to assess how quickly pain was ...

Analysis of the differences in facial morphology and skin structure and tone among ethnic groups within the realm of plastic surgery is relevant due to the increasing number of ethnic individuals seeking cosmetic surgery. Previous classifications of ideal facial morphologic characteristics have been revised and challenged over the years to ...

This research introduces, illustrates, and tests a variation of IRT-LR-DIF, called EH-DIF-2, in which the latent density for each group is estimated simultaneously with the item parameters as an empirical histogram (EH). IRT-LR-DIF is used to evaluate the degree to which items have different measurement properties for one group of ...

The present investigation is concerned with a fourth order accurate finite difference method and its

... Author : NAVAL RESEARCH LAB WASHINGTON DC ... examined three different methods of endotoxin ... Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) assay to accurately ...

... Accession Number : ADA035698. Title : A Balanced Expansion Technique for Constructing Accurate Finite Difference Advection Schemes. ...

Since the plus fraction of reservoir fluids has some uncertainty in its molecular weight and critical properties, equation-of-state, EOS, are generally not predictive without tuning its parameters to match experimental data. Tuning of the EOS is found to be the best method for improving the predictions of compositional reservoir simulators.

The ability to detect lying was evaluated in 509 people including law-enforcement personnel, such as members of the U.S. Secret Service, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Security Agency, Drug Enforcement Agency, California police and judges, as well as psychiatrists, college students, and working adults. A videotape showed 10 people who were either lying or ...

Racemization method is currently considered to be one of the most accurate methods for age estimation. There are many factors that affect racemization reaction velocities. We investigated ethnic differences in the racemization reaction velocities between Japanese and Scandinavian teeth. After a heating experiment, the Arrhenius equation was used to obtain ...

The Harris-Nesbet variational method was considered for the calculation of phase shifts of electron collisions with hydrogen-like ions (Li2+, Be3+, and B4+). Calculations were carried out for both singlet and triplet scattering. Very accurate results of phase shift of electron collisions with these ionic targets were obtained for the first time for partial waves of L up to ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate, for both genders and two elderly age groups, differences in lightness, chroma, and hue of pairs of natural anterior teeth, so that more accurate information on color would be available for the production of dentures with a natural appearance. The subjects in the younger ...

Most people are unable to detect accurately when others are lying. Many explanations for this inability have been suggested but the cognitive heuristics involved in lie detection have received little attention. The present study offers evidence from two experiments, based on two different groups of observers, judging two ...

Existing second order accurate finite difference methods have been evaluated for application to finite deformation transient dynamic response problems in solids. A new second order accurate finite difference technique has been developed. This is a two-ste...

Decisions reached through consensus are often more accurate, because they efficiently utilize the diverse information possessed by group members [1-3]. A trust in consensus decision making underlies many of our democratic political and judicial institutions [4], as well as the design of web tools such as Google, Wikipedia, and prediction markets [5, 6]. In ...

Research on context sensitivity suggests that many students are left in a mixed state of knowledge after an introductory science class. Some students will answer contextually related questions in the same way and some will answer differently based on the context. This paper investigates clustering techniques that can be used to determine if groupings of ...

Power analysis, in its most basic form, is a calculation of the different design characteristics of a study to determine if certain aspects of the study are robust enough to detect a significant difference between groups if a significant difference exists. These characteristics include effect size, the ...

Two experiments investigated preschool children's use of the words "big" and "little" in three different ways (normative, perceptual, and functional) and in different contexts. The first experiment tested the sensitivity of 2-, 3-, and 4-year-olds to relational standards by asking them to judge an object's size in relation to ...

The individual stylistic variations of creative potential and conceptual tempo were investigated in 61 preschool children. The Kansas Reflection Impulsivity Scale for Preschoolers (KRISP) was used to measure the reflective/impulsive (that is, creative tempo) dimension, and the Multidimensional Stimulus Fluency Measure (MSFM) was administered to determine ideational fluency (creative potential). ...

... Scheme for the Dynamic Response of Non-Linear Crush Zone Type ... accurate solutions for different boundary conditions. ... in the numerical solution. ...

Differential item functioning (DIF) occurs when items on a test or questionnaire have different measurement properties for one group of people versus another, irrespective of group-mean differences on the construct. Methods for testing DIF require matching members of different ...

Flashbulb memories for the fall of the Berlin Wall were examined among 103 East and West Germans who considered the event as either highly positive or highly negative. The participants in the positive group rated their memories higher on measures of reliving and sensory imagery, whereas their memory for facts was less accurate than that of the participants ...

Percentage of body fat is strongly associated with the risk of several chronic diseases but its accurate measurement is difficult. Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is a relatively simple, quick and non-invasive technique, to measure body composition. It measures body fat accurately in controlled clinical conditions but its performance in the field is ...

Percentage of body fat is strongly associated with the risk of several chronic diseases but its accurate measurement is difficult. Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is a relatively simple, quick and non-invasive technique, to measure body composition. It measures body fat accurately in controlled clinical conditions but its performance in the field is ...

of repeating groups of spectral lines was recorded in a wide frequency range for a Raman shift w1-wz=600 of 600-3800 cm- ' for the Raman shift w1- w2was covered using different dyes. Accurate calibration spectrum: crossed polarizations of beams with frequencies wI and oz. Lower spectrum: parallel polarizations

Triangulation involves the careful reviewing of data collected through different methods in order to achieve a more accurate and valid estimate of qualitative results for a particular construct. This paper describes how we used three qualitative methods of data collection to study attitudes of students toward graphing, hands-on activities, and cooperative ...

The sickle cell syndromes comprise a highly diverse group of disorders which have in common the presence of sickle hemoglobin in the blood erythrocytes. The establishment of a precise diagnoffort involving both the patient and his family, but because of the important differences in prognosis and management of these various syndromes, an ...

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) remains the only accurate and credible indicator of educational performance capable of informing about both national trends and state differences in student achievement. NAEP, which is also known as T...

This activity is designed to replicate Eratosthenes' experiment in which he measured the circumference of the Earth. Students at two different schools will work in small groups to take accurate measurements at a specific time and use their knowledge of geometry and trigonometry to determine the measure of an angle. They will also use ...

Unclear and inconsistent infant-feeding definitions have plagued much of breastfeeding research. To determine accurate health outcomes associated with infant feeding, it is imperative that different types of feedings be explicitly described. Definitions must be based on content, not mode of milk delivery. Five new definitions for infant feeding are ...

The cognitive interview (CI) is one of the most widely accepted forms of interviewing techniques for eliciting the most detailed, yet accurate reports from witnesses. No research, however, has examined its effectiveness with witnesses with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Twenty-six adults with ASD and 26 matched typical adults viewed a video of an enacted crime, and were then ...

The objective of this research was to develop an accurate technique for extrapolating low-cycle corrosion-fatigue behavior to high cycle corrosion-fatigue behavior for alloys used in the process industries. A method is developed which accurately predicts long life corrosion-fatigue behavior based on an extrapolation of low-cycle corrosion-fatigue test ...

Purpose: Directed scanning and group-item scanning both represent options for increased scanning efficiency. This investigation compared accuracy and speed of selection with preschoolers using each scanning method. The study's purpose was to describe performance characteristics of typically developing children and to provide a reliable assessment protocol to evaluate scanning ...

... Accurate Computation of Non-Negative Anisotropic Group Scattering Cross Sections for Discrete Ordinates and Monte Carlo Radiation Transport. ...

Research into the kinematics of movement associated with the accuracy of the drop punt kick in Australian Football has been limited. The aim of this study was to examine pelvic and lower limb kinematics during the performance of a drop punt kick, in order to identify factors associated with accurate kicking performance. Ten professional Australian Football League (AFL) players ...

Tritium breeding calculations for a Li/sub 17/Pb/sub 83/ benchmark problem that employs steel as structure are presented. Large deviations between the results of continuous energy Monte Carlo and multigroup discrete ordinates are observed when different multigroup libraries are used. Effects of group structure and weighting spectra are explored by ...

We discuss the problem of a spin 1/2 impurity immersed in a spin S magnetically ordered background. We show that the problem maps onto a generalization of the dissipative two level system with two independent heat baths, associated with the Goldstone modes of the magnet, that couple to different components of the impurity spin operator. Using analytical perturbative ...

We use the numerical renormalization group method (NRG) to investigate a single-impurity Anderson model with a coupling of the impurity to a superconducting host. Analysis of the energy flow shows that, contrary to previous belief, NRG iterations can be performed up to a large number of sites, corresponding to energy differences far below the ...

This study investigated the effects of a Men as Allies--based intervention on high school students' rape-supportive attitudes and behaviors. As hypothesized at posttest, the male and female experimental groups demonstrated a significant decrease in rape-supportive attitudes, which was maintained at follow-up. Male participants viewed peers' attitudes toward sexual violence as ...

ABSTRACT. Objective: Perceived descriptive drinking norms often differ from actual norms and are positively related to personal consumption. However, it is not clear how normative perceptions vary with specificity of the reference group. Are drinking norms more accurate and more closely related to drinking behavior as reference ...

In this work, the partitioning of higher multipole polarizabilities, such as dipole-quadrupole, quadrupole-dipole, and quadrupole-quadrupole polarizabilities, into atomic contributions is studied. Partitioning of higher multipole polarizabilities is necessary in the study of accurate interaction energies where dispersion interactions are of importance. The fractional ...

A digital peak respiratory pressure (DPRP) monitor for determining maximum inspiratory pressure (MIP) and maximum expiratory pressure (MEP) was developed using a pressure transducer and an analog to digital converter. It was calibrated using a mercury manometer. Human studies were conducted in healthy young adults in order to determine within-subject and inter-individual variability, as well as ...

Typical packages used for coregistration in functional image analyses include automated image registration (AIR) and statistical parametric mapping (SPM). However, both methods have limited-dimension deformation models. A fully deformable model, which combines the piecewise linear registration for coarse alignment with demons algorithm for voxel-level refinement, allows a higher degree of spatial ...

Quantitatively accurate laws of metabolism and mortality, which are the same for species with different evolutionary history (e.g., humans and flies), are derived and extensively verified. Such conservation (with respect to evolution, i.e., in non-stationary and heterogeneous conditions) laws are unique for self-organized live systems. They impose ...

A study of the volumes of the right and left breasts of 598 subjects was undertaken using biostereometric analysis. This measurement uses close-range stereophotogrammetry to characterize the shape of the breast, and is noncontact, noninvasive, accurate, and rapid with respect to the subject involvement time. Using chi-square tests, volumes and volumetric ...

Item response theory-likelihood ratio-differential item functioning (IRT-LR-DIF) is used to evaluate the degree to which items on a test or questionnaire have different measurement properties for one group of people versus another, irrespective of group-mean differences on the construct. Usually, the latent ...

In most assessment instruments, distinct items are designed to measure a trait, and the sum score of these items serves as an approximation of an individual's trait score. In interpreting group differences with respect to sum scores, the instrument should measure the same underlying trait across groups (e.g., male/female, young/old). ...

Surface-based representation and classification techniques are studied for hippocampal shape analysis. The goal is twofold: (1) develop a new framework of salient feature extraction and accurate classification for 3D shape data; (2) detect hippocampal abnormalities in schizophrenia using this technique. A fine-scale spherical harmonic expansion is employed to describe a closed ...

Children with residual speech sound errors are often underserved clinically, yet there has been a lack of recent research elucidating the specific deficits in this population. Adolescents aged 10-14 with residual speech sound errors (RE) that included rhotics were compared to normally speaking peers on tasks assessing speed and accuracy of speech production. The two groups ...

Purpose: Attaining speech accuracy requires that children perceive and attach meanings to vocal output on the basis of production system capacities. Because auditory perception underlies speech accuracy, profiles for children with hearing loss (HL) differ from those of children with normal hearing (NH). Method: To understand the impact of auditory history on emergence of ...

We investigated the recognition of pairs of faces (same or different facial identities and expressions) in two groups of 14 children aged 6-10 years, with either an expressive language disorder (ELD), or a mixed language disorder (MLD), and two groups of 14 matched healthy controls. When looking at their global performances, children ...

Fluorescent nanoparticles containing a gadolinium oxide core are very attractive because they are able to combine both imaging (fluorescence imaging, magnetic resonance imaging) and therapy (X-ray therapy and neutron-capture therapy) techniques. The exploitation of these multifunctional particles for in vivo applications requires accurate control of their biodistribution. The ...

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... ment and to accurately assess the efficiency of comminution in plane shock ... examination of comminution efficiency at different shock pressures. ...

Fibrosing disorders comprise a wide spectrum of heterogeneous diseases characterized by sclerosis of the dermis, subcutis, and sometimes the underlying soft tissues and bone. The hallmark of this group of diseases is skin thickening as in systemic sclerosis with a different distribution pattern and for this reason they have also been referred to as ...

Gas chromatographic retention indexes of saturated alcohols on stationary phases of different polarity are related to some of their topological and physicochemical properties by means of multilinear regression analysis. The solutes are linear, branched, and cyclic alcohols with their functional group on a primary, secondary, or tertiary carbon atom. Very ...

A previous dichroic plate analysis has assumed that an ideal uniform plane wave illuminates the dichroic plate at a single angle of incidence. In fact, a horn radiates energy at the dichroic plate and illuminates it at many different angles. To model the horn and dichroic plate system, the horn pattern is represented as a group of plane waves traveling in ...

This study examined the knowledge a small group of community nurses have of the Vietnamese culture. In our multi-cultural society nurses are being challenged to offer culturally appropriate care. Provision of care depends on an accurate assessment of health care needs which may differ from those of the dominant culture. The results ...

In this Letter, the generalized projective synchronization of different chaotic systems with unknown parameters is investigated. By Lyapunov stability theory, the adaptive control method is proposed to achieve above synchronization phenomenon. Meanwhile, according to the invariance principle of differential equations, unknown parameter can be estimated ...

A study was conducted to systematically evaluate the general public's beliefs and opinions about hypnosis as well as to ascertain the sources of their beliefs. The evaluation was based on four samples representing different ages, socio-economic backgrounds, interests, and geographical locations. A 27 item, two-page questionnaire was developed to evaluate the opinions on a wide ...

Although the Kaiser Physical Activity Survey (KPAS) was a potential instrument for cross cultural research of midlife women, little information is available on its reliability and validity among multi-ethnic groups of midlife women. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the reliability and validity of the KPAS in estimating physical activity among 341 diverse ethnic women. ...

The effect of early otitis media on phonology and articulation in the presence of expressive language delay was investigated in 16 2-year-olds followed prospectively from birth. Eight of the children were designated otitis-positive and 8 were considered otitis-negative as determined by bilateral pneumatic otoscopy outcomes during year 1 of life. The groups ...

A finite difference for elastic waves is introduced. The model is based on the first order system of

The aims of this study were to evaluate sensitivity, specificity and accuracy with an epoch-by-epoch comparison of polysomnography (PSG) and actigraphy with activity counts scored at low, medium and high thresholds, and to compare PSG-derived total sleep time (TST), sleep efficiency (SE) and wake after sleep onset (WASO) to the same variables derived from actigraphy at low, medium and high ...

Surface plasmon resonance based sensor for detection of different human blood groups in near infrared region is proposed. The plasmonic structure is based on fused silica or chalcogenide sulfide glass Ge20Ga5Sb10S65, commonly known as 2S2G. Experimental results describing the wavelength-dependent refractive index variation in multiple samples of ...

We explored the relations between task difficulty and speech time in picture description tasks. Six native speakers of Mandarin Chinese (CH group) and six native speakers or Indo-European languages (IE group) produced quick and accurate verbal descriptions of pictures in a self-paced manner. The pictures always involved two objects, a ...

The purpose of this study was to explore the production of infinitival complements by children with specific language impairment (SLI) as compared with mean length of utterance (MLU)-matched children in an effort to clarify inconsistencies in the literature. Spontaneous language samples were analysed for infinitival complements (reduced infinitives and true infinitives). Participants included ...

Differential item functioning (DIF) occurs when an item on a test or questionnaire has different measurement properties for 1 group of people versus another, irrespective of mean differences on the construct. This study focuses on the use of multiple-indicator multiple-cause (MIMIC) structural equation models for DIF testing, ...

The present study examined lexical representation in early Spanish-English bilinguals using an unmasked semantic and translation priming paradigm. In Experiment 1, participants were divided into two groups based on performance (more-balanced bilinguals, MB and less-balanced bilinguals, LB) on the experimental task. In Experiment 2, four patients with bilingual aphasia (BA) ...

We performed intravenous sedation with dexmedetomidine hydrochloride during minor oral surgery and compared this agent with propofol. Patients were randomly divided into 2 groups: dexmedetomidine hydrochloride (D) and propofol (P) groups. In Group D, systolic blood pressure (SBP) increased immediately after the start of initial ...

We assessed the contribution of the hippocampal formation to performance in tasks that require rats to respond to a relationship between discriminative stimuli. The first experiment employed a nonmatching-to-sample procedure in a Y-maze. Three pairs of boxes were used which differed in brightness of the walls and in the odors that they contained. The rats were trained prior to ...

The Embedded Figures Test (EFT) requires detecting a shape within a complex background and individuals with autism or high Autism-spectrum Quotient (AQ) scores are faster and more accurate on this task than controls. This research aimed to uncover the visual processes producing this difference. Previously we developed a search task using radial frequency ...

This research examined the performance of 80 children aged 9-12 years with either a mild and moderate intellectual disability when recalling an innocuous event that was staged in their school. The children actively participated in a 30-min magic show, which included 21 specific target items. The first interview (held 3 days after the magic show) provided false and true biasing information about ...

Interferometers are key elements in radial velocity (RV) experiments in astronomy observations, and accurate calibration of the group delay of an interferometer is required for high precision measurements. A novel field-compensated white light scanning Michelson interferometer is introduced as an interferometer calibration tool. The optical path ...

Precise measurement and maintenance of the Terrestrial Reference Frame (TRF) is essential to long-term monitoring of global change. The TRF is realized through the integration of high precision GNSS, SLR, VLBI and DORIS networks. Each of these techniques has unique strengths and weaknesses. Station positions and velocities from the different techniques are combined to obtain ...

Preoperative diagnosis of neoplasms in the parotid gland is essential for successful surgical treatment. The purpose of this study is to apply Raman spectroscopy in order to distinguish the spectral differences between pleomorphic adenoma and Warthin tumor from that of normal parotid gland tissues. Furthermore we establish the diagnostic model of the Raman spectra of neoplasms ...

Comparisons made by the Large Core Code Evaluation Working Group (LCCEWG) show that excellent agreement is obtained by different diffusion theory codes run on different computers at different installations in computing representative models of large fast reactors. It is noted that finite ...

A method (computer codes) for quickly and accurately calculating Rayleigh- and Love-mode group-velocity partial derivatives with respect to model parameters (m) is developed. The method is fast because the partial derivatives for all the model parameters ...

Purpose: Research on the diagnostic accuracy of different language measures has focused primarily on English. This study examined the sensitivity and specificity of a range of measures of language knowledge and language processing for the identification of primary language impairment (PLI) in French-speaking children. Because of the lack of well-documented language measures in ...

The objective of this study was to more clearly define the relationship between body condition, plasma leptin and insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) in stallions and geldings in moderate (5.0-5.5) versus fleshy (7.0-7.5) body condition. Data analyses of physical measurements showed that there was a difference for BCS (P<0.001) even though the fat ...

Discussion and study of the social-emotional development of deaf and hard of hearing children, though extensive, has yet to provide an accurate understanding of the differences between deaf and hearing children. Consequently, the goal of the researchers was to conduct a profile analysis to determine similarities and differences between ...

To successfully infer a speaker's emotional state, diverse sources of emotional information need to be decoded. The present study explored to what extent emotional speech recognition of "basic" emotions (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, pleasant surprise, sadness) differs between different sex (male/female) and age (young/middle-aged) ...

... Descriptors : *GROUP DYNAMICS, *ETHNIC GROUPS, *SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY ... RACE RELATIONS, BLACKS(RACIAL GROUP). ...

The amount and quality of practice predicts expertise, yet optimal conditions of practice have primarily been explored with novice learners. Ten expert musicians and ten novices practiced disc-throwing skills under self-regulated conditions. A third novice group practiced with the same schedule as the music experts (yoked). The groups did not ...

Clark's nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana) were trained to search in a location defined by its geometric relationship to 2 landmarks. Two groups were trained to search at different points along the line connecting the landmarks, and 2 groups were trained to find the 3rd point of a triangle, on the basis of either direction or distance ...

During the kidding season between January and April 2003, 10 farms were selected and divided into two groups of five. The farms in group A had had serious diarrhoeal illness and losses in neonatal kids the previous year, and there were Cryptosporidium parvum infections in kids associated with diarrhoea during the survey. On the farms in ...

BackgroundThere is common belief among some medical researchers that if a potential surrogate endpoint is highly correlated with a true endpoint, then a positive (or negative) difference in potential surrogate endpoints between randomization groups would imply a positive (or negative) difference in unobserved true endpoints between ...

This study examines the perception of short and long vowels in Arabic and Japanese by three groups of listeners differing in their first languages (L1): Arabic, Japanese, and Persian. While Persian uses the same alphabet as Arabic and Iranian students learn Arabic in school, the two languages are typologically unrelated. Further, unlike Arabic or Japanese, ...

The ability to select a previously viewed color specimen from an array of specimens that differ in hue, value, or chroma varies among individuals, and may be related to one's basic color discrimination ability or to prior experience with color. This study investigated short-term color memory of 40 college students, 20 of whom were interior design majors and 20 who had no ...

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Congenital amusia manifests as a lifelong difficulty in making sense of musical sound. The extent to which this disorder is accompanied by deficits in visuo-spatial processing is an important question, bearing on the issue of whether pitch processing draws on supramodal spatial representations. The present study assessed different aspects of visuo-spatial processing with a ...

Congenital amusia manifests as a lifelong difficulty in making sense of musical sound. The extent to which this disorder is accompanied by deficits in visuo-spatial processing is an important question, bearing on the issue of whether pitch processing draws on supramodal spatial representations. The present study assessed different aspects of visuo-spatial processing with a ...

Sacked, Borne man, and Connelly recently discussed several criticisms that are often raised against the use of cognitive tests in selection. One criticism concerns the issue of measurement bias in cognitive ability tests with respect to specific groups in society. Sacked et AL. (2008) stated that "absent additional information, one cannot determine whether mean ...

The clinical features at presentation of 53 patients admitted with primary acute pancreatitis due to gall stones were compared with those of 31 patients in whom the disease was due to other causes. Between these two groups 10 significant differences existed. By listing the frequency of symptoms and signs for each group a computer data ...

We investigate the Josephson current ?J(?)? through a quantum dot embedded between two superconductors showing a phase difference ? . The system is modeled as a single Anderson impurity coupled to BCS leads, and the functional and the numerical renormalization group frameworks are employed to treat the local Coulomb interaction U . We reestablish the ...

The group velocity dispersion (GVD) coefficient of four different dyes in solution is measured as a function of wavelength and concentration using a white-light Michelson interferometer. We find that the wavelength dependence of the GVD can be considerably different at wavelengths above and below the absorption resonance in a dye. ...

To establish precise diagnostic algorithms and standardised treatment of sarcomas in specialized centers, the interdisciplinary research group KoSar (sarcoma competence network) has been funded by German Cancer Aid. A sarcoma tissue repository and a diagnostic reference center have been set up, presently containing about 1000 accurately diagnosed sarcomas ...

The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate an educational intervention designed to modify the stigma held by first-year medical students towards obese patients. The intervention, composed of video, audio and written components, was based on Petty and Cacioppo's elaboration likelihood model. Prior to the course, the medical students held largely accurate beliefs ...

Accurate, rapid, and noninvasive health assessments are required to establish more appropriate endpoints in mouse cancer models where tumor size is not easily measured. We evaluated potential endpoints in mice with experimentally induced peritoneal lymphoma, an abdominal tumor model, by comparing body weight, body condition, and behavior with those of a control ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the ability of the load-velocity relationship to accurately predict a bench press 1 repetition maximum (1RM). Data from 3 different bench press studies (n = 112) that incorporated both 1RM assessment and submaximal load-velocity profiling were analyzed. Individual regression analysis was performed to determine ...

Standard test species may differ in their response to toxicants. Accurate identification of test organisms is therefore of critical importance in correctly interpreting data generated from laboratory assays. This is not always possible when species are morphologically similar or where the taxonomy of the group has recently been ...

There is a pressing need for the early and accurate identification of young children at risk for language and other developmental disabilities and the provision of timely, age-appropriate intervention, as mandated by Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Research has shown that early intervention is effective for many language impaired children in ...

An analytical formula is used to predict the accurate P-branch spectral lines of rovibrational transitions for diatomic systems. The formula is derived from elementary expression of molecular total energy by taking multiple spectral differences. It is not only reproduces the known experimental transition lines by using a group of ...

Lack of insight is a core diagnostic criterion for behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), and is believed to be intact in the early stages of primary progressive aphasia (PPA). In other neurological conditions, symptom-specific insight has been noted, with behavioral symptoms appearing especially vulnerable to reduced insight. Different components of insight, ...

Haptic guidance by a robot is a recent technology to support motor learning. Its mechanisms and effects are not yet well understood. One of the hypotheses is that learning of temporal characteristics is particularly susceptible to the beneficial effects of robotic guidance. In this study we investigate the influence of robotic guidance on the production of spatio-temporal patterns. Participants ...

The authors investigated differences in the soccer kick between 8 experienced and 10 less experienced participants in 2 different task conditions (kicking a stationary ball or a moving ball at a target). The experienced participants were more accurate than their less experienced counterparts, whereas there were no ...

Background: Impaired cognitive control has been implicated as an important developmental pathway to attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Cognitive control is crucial to suppress interference resulting from conflicting information and can be measured by Stroop-like tasks. This study was conducted to gain insight into conflict processing in children with ADHD. Methods: Event-related ...

Background:Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is the most common inherited lethal disease of children. Various genetic deletions involving the bi-allelic loss of SMN1 exon 7 are reported to account for 94% of affected individuals. Published literature places the carrier frequency for SMN1 mutations between 1 in 25 and 1 in 50 in the general population. Although SMA is considered to be a pan-ethnic ...

Lesion studies demonstrate that the right temporal-parietal region (RTP) is important for mediating spatial attention. The RTP is also involved in emotional experiences that can be evoked by art. Normal people vary in their ability to allocate spatial attention, thus, people who can better allocate attention might also be more influenced by the emotional messages of the paintings (evocative ...

Lesion studies demonstrate that the right temporal-parietal region (RTP) is important for mediating spatial attention. The RTP is also involved in emotional experiences that can be evoked by art. Normal people vary in their ability to allocate spatial attention, thus, people who can better allocate attention might also be more influenced by the emotional messages of the paintings (evocative ...

India has been underrepresented in genome-wide surveys of human variation. We analyze 25 diverse groups to provide strong evidence for two ancient populations, genetically divergent, that are ancestral to most Indians today. One, the �Ancestral North Indians� (ANI), is genetically close to Middle Easterners, Central Asians, and Europeans, while the other, the �Ancestral ...

Formal evaluation of surgical simulators is essential before their introduction into training programs. We report our assessment of the Mentice Corp Procedicus shoulder arthroscopy simulator. This study tests the hypothesis of construct validity that experienced surgeons will score better on the simulator than individuals with minimal to no experience with the technique. Thirty-five subjects were ...

It has been suggested that increasing proprioceptive feedback and ensuring its consistency from trial to trial favours timing accuracy. The progressive acquisition of a timing performance with isometric and anisometric responses was investigated in conditions of 'inconsistent feedback', with two different methods: counting seconds or not. Subjects gripped the handle of a ...

Aesthetic judgments were investigated using a combined nomothetic and idiographic approach. Participants judged novel graphic patterns with respect to their own personal definitions of "beauty." Judgment analysis was employed to derive individual case models of judgment strategies as well as a group model. As predicted, symmetry had the highest correlations with aesthetic ...

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Participate in group discussions on scientific topics by restating or summarizing accurately what others have said, asking for clarification or elaboration, and expressing alternative positions.

necessary to know accurate value of oxidation state of other Martian meteorite groups. Nakhlites, cumulate clinopyroxenites, are another major group of ...

... The accurate repair of DNA double-strand breaks is mediated by a group of genes called the RAD52 epistasis group and proceeds via a ...

... The accurate repair of Dna double-strand breaks is mediated by a group of genes called the RAD52 epistasis group and proceeds via a ...

... The accurate repair of DNA double-strand breaks is mediated by a group of genes called the RAD52 epistasis group and proceeds by means of a ...

BackgroundRecent studies have shown that when individuals are grouped on the basis of genetic similarity, group membership corresponds closely to continental origin. There has been considerable debate about the implications of these findings in the context of larger debates about race and the extent of genetic variation between groups. ...

For the past three years we have presented results of several large-scale earthquake simulations run by different research groups, but these have been limited to qualitative comparisons. This work presents a preliminary verification of three simulation sets for the ShakeOut earthquake scenario, version 1.1, an Mw 7.8 earthquake on a portion of the San ...

Regardless of the extremely subtle acoustic changes that are perceptible within almost all perception research studies, it is the total overall effect that generally occupies each individual listener. A long line of research indicates that many subtle "music changes" are often not perceived accurately and are actually mistakenly identified. Another line of research indicates ...

Birds rely, at least in part, on spatial memory for recovering previously hidden caches but accurate cache recovery may be more critical for birds that forage in harsh conditions where the food supply is limited and unpredictable. Failure to find caches in these conditions may potentially result in death from starvation. In order to test this hypothesis we compared the cache ...

Birds rely, at least in part, on spatial memory for recovering previously hidden caches but accurate cache recovery may be more critical for birds that forage in harsh conditions where the food supply is limited and unpredictable. Failure to find caches in these conditions may potentially result in death from starvation. In order to test this hypothesis we compared the cache ...

In colonial species, recognition of offspring should be under strong selection. For accurate identification to occur offspring must emit individually distinctive signals and parents must be able to discriminate between signals. Female greater spear-nosed bats (Phyllostomus hastatus) roost in stable social groups and use infant vocalizations, termed ...

The value of any given technology may be different for different groups of people and at different points in time.

An accurate representation of task-set information is needed for successful goal directed behavior. Recent studies point to disturbances in the early processing stages as plausible causes for task-switching deficits in schizophrenia. A task-cueing protocol was administered to a group of schizophrenic patients and compared with a sample of age-matched ...

Museums have the capacity to enhance social cohesion, which is the product of a trusting, connected community. History museums and historic sites, in particular, can serve communities by stimulating dialogue on difficult issues, accurately representing all the people of a nation, and creating forums for discussion among groups with disparate opinions. ...

To examine whether psychopaths exhibit specific deficits in nonverbal emotional processing, 20 criminal psychopaths, 23 criminal nonpsychopaths, both groups identified with Hare's (2003) Psychopathy Checklist-Revised, and 25 noncriminals completed the facial affect recognition test developed by Philippot et al. (1999). All participants were males. The criminal psychopaths and ...

The proper application of biotic ligand models to predict metal toxicity depends on accurate prediction of metal binding to sites on natural organic matter (NOM) which compete with the 'biotic' ligand for available metal. A hard and soft metal classification along with associated ligand groups (carboxyl, phenolic, amino, sulfidic) are used as a basis to ...

We sought to identify biomarker responses to tuberculosis specific antigens which could 1) improve the diagnosis of tuberculosis infection and 2) allow the differentiation of active and latent infections. Seventy subjects with active tuberculosis (N = 12), latent tuberculosis (N = 32), or no evidence of tuberculosis infection (N = 26) were evaluated. We used the Luminex Multiplexed Bead Array ...

Lyons, Allister J., Jr. (Northern Regional Research Laboratory, Peoria, Ill.) and Thomas G. Pridham. Colorimetric determination of color of aerial mycelium of streptomycetes. J. Bacteriol. 89:159�169. 1965.�For some time, streptomycete taxonomists have been seeking to describe more accurately the colors of aerial mycelium. Some of the descriptive systems involve many ...

BackgroundpK_a values are a measure of the protonation of ionizable groups in proteins. Ionizable groups are involved in intra-protein, protein-solvent and protein-ligand interactions as well as solubility, protein folding and catalytic activity. The pK_a shift of a group from its intrinsic ...

A recent study has shown that the sensorimotor memory for the fingertip forces used to grasp and lift an object can be shared across two prehension tasks. However, the persistence (or decay) of these memory resources is not known. Reports of within-task sensorimotor memory indicate persistence of lifting forces, with evidence for reduced persistence of grip forces. Here we investigated the ...

This investigation assessed awareness of the oral cavity of nonnative speakers acquiring English. University students (60 men, 60 women) were placed into three equal-size groups. The Less Experienced group lived in the USA less than 6 mo. (M = 3.3 mo., SD = 2.4). The More Experienced group lived in the United States 3 or more years (M ...

Linear groups�polypeptide conformations based on a single repeating ?,?-pair�are a foundational concept in protein structure, yet how they are presented in textbooks is based largely on theoretical studies from the early days of protein structure analysis. Now, ultra-high resolution protein structures provide a resource for an accurate empirical and ...

The authors present their experience in the medical treatment of 1, 296 caustic esophageal injuries in children over the last 20 years in two study groups, one comprising the period up to 1989 and the other 1990 to 1996, comparing the different treatments used in each group. The treatment was based fundamentally on dilatations with ...

Although it has been suggested that large animal groups should make better decisions than smaller groups, there are few empirical demonstrations of this phenomenon and still fewer explanations of the how these improvements may be made. Here we show that both speed and accuracy of decision making increase with group size in fish shoals ...

Comments on a paper by H. S. Kim, D. K. Sherman, and S. E. Taylor in regards to the consideration of culture, ethnicity, and national origin in the study of individual and group differences and social interactions. Erard claims that their attempt to infer from small, mostly college-student samples examined on a handful of variables in a few dozen studies ...

The technetium phosphate bone scans of 106 children with suspected septic arthritis were reviewed to determine whether the bone scan can accurately differentiate septic from nonseptic arthropathy. Only 13% of children with proved septic arthritis had correct blind scan interpretation. The clinically adjusted interpretation did not identify septic arthritis in 30%. Septic ...

An estimation method was developed to predict ideal gas heat capacities over the temperature range from 300 to 1500 K. The only information required are the types and numbers of different elements comprising a molecule. This method gives numeric results only slightly inferior to more rigorous methods and has the advantage of being general in the sense that calculations can be ...

Proposals of alternative electric-utility rate structures require analysis of the impacts they are likely to have on various customer groups. This, in turn, requires knowledge of the end-use and demographic factors that determine consumption. Empirical work by the authors, described in this article, leads to a conclusion that the influencing factors vary from service area to ...

In this lesson, students take samples from an unseen model of the ocean floor and try to accurately describe its composition. It will introduce the students to the limitations of sampling and the problem of obtaining representative samples of sea floor sediments. The lesson can also be an introduction to a study of geological oceanography or local geology. Younger children can ...

The Perseus-Andromeda group of constellations is the largest in the sky, yet many other Greek myths have no dedicated star at all. The author interprets the importance given to this myth in terms of its role of providing ethnic identify for the Greeks who created it. An accurate analysis of the myth, also including the etymology of the characters' names, ...

Linear response theory coupled to molecular dynamics simulations with an explicit solvent representation is used to derive fractional contributions of amino acid residues to the solvation of proteins. The new fractional methods developed here are compared with standard approaches based on empirical 1D and 3D statistical potentials, as well as with estimates obtained from the analysis of classical ...

We control the generation of solitons and solitonlike pulses in a passively mode-locked dye laser by adjustment of group-velocity dispersion, self-phase modulation, and spectral filtering. Without spectral filtering, periodic pulse shaping reminiscent of higher-order solitons is observed. The pulses differ from the classic solitons because of additional ...

The characteristics of the disturbances in the atmosphere and oceans and in other stably stratified and rotating fluids are analyzed according to their phase and group velocities. It is shown that both stable stratification and rotation augment the velocity of the sound waves, and that the internal gravity waves and inertial waves are mutually exclusive when the ...