Life less normal

Is normal pressure hydrocephalus becoming less idiopathic?

Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) has posed a challenge to neurologists for 5 decades. Difficulties in understanding its pathophysiology have hindered efforts to diagnose it and to develop a better approach to selecting patients for shunt surgery. We know that many patients with NPH have CSF absorption difficulty as measured by resistance to CSF outflow (Rout). The problem is that many with n...

More gratitude, less materialism: The mediating role of life satisfaction

An empirical relationship has been documented between gratitude and materialism, such that stronger feelings of gratitude are associated with lower materialism. Building on Fredrickson’s (1998, 2001) theory that positive emotions ‘broaden’ and ‘build’ we sought to expand upon this finding by (1) examining satisfaction with life as a potential mechanism for this relationship, and (2) exploring t...

PicOS & VNETI - Enabling Real Life Layer-less WSN Applications

In the simple devices used for wireless sensor networks, the costs associated with a layered approach can be significant. Small-footprint operating systems have been developed by adopting non-traditional approaches to network abstractions while still aiming to simplify software development. In these approaches, some elements of modularity are valuable to retain, e.g., packet buffer management, ...

Correlates of life expectancy in less developed countries.

Analyses were performed to investigate several hypotheses concerning the multiple determinants of levels of life expectancy in developing countries in recent decades and some possible explanation for the observed variations in amount of gain in life expectancy from the 1950's to the 1970's. The findings were significant. For level of life expectancy the results of this present work conform by a...

Life and death in the gut: more killing, less Crohn's.