Catching global interactions in vivo

Catching Fire? Social Interactions, Beliefs, and Wildfire Risk Mitigation Behaviors

Social interactions are widely recognized as a potential influence on risk-related behaviors.We present a mediation model in which social interactions (classified as formal= informal and generic=fire-specific) are associated with beliefs about wildfire risk and mitigation options, which in turn shape wildfire mitigation behaviors. We test this model using survey data from fire-prone areas of Co...

Catching Audiovisual Interactions With a First-Person Fisherman Video Game.

The human brain is excellent at integrating information from different sources across multiple sensory modalities. To examine one particularly important form of multisensory interaction, we manipulated the temporal correlation between visual and auditory stimuli in a first-person fisherman video game. Subjects saw rapidly swimming fish whose size oscillated, either at 6 or 8 Hz. Subjects catego...

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ارزیابی دقت زنجیره پرتودرمانی به روش دزیمتری in vivo

از بین بردن سلول های بدخیم با استفاده از تأثیر پرتو های یونساز بر بافت زنده یکی از موثرترین روش ها در درمان تومورهای سرطانی محسوب می شود. مبانی حفاظت پرتوی ایجاب می کند که هر نوع پرتو گیری توجیه پذیر و بهینه باشد. به علاوه برای کسب نتیجه درمانی مطلوب، باید موازنه دقیقی بین دُز رسیده به بافت هدف از یک سو و دُز رسیده به بافت سالم از سوی دیگر برقرار شود. کنترل واقعی درمان و آگاهی از آنچه در عمل رخ م...

Catching evolution in action

A hundred years ago Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection was taught as the foundation of biology in public schools throughout the United States. Then something happened. In the 1920s, conservative religious groups began to argue against the teaching of evolution in our nation's schools. Darwinism, they said, contradicted the revealed word of God in the Bible and thus was a ...