CULTURE AND SOCIETY St ig H ja rv ar d “Stig Hjarvard has through the last decade been a leading scholar in the emerging research on mediatization of culture and society. In this book he synthesizes his theory and makes his extensive work accessible in one English volume. He refines his institutional approach to changes in the media and in social and cultural areas that more and more take on me...

Stepping over obstacles requires vision to guide the leading leg, but direct visual information is not available to guide the trailing leg. The neural mechanisms for establishing a stored obstacle representation and thus facilitating the trail leg trajectory in humans are unknown. Twenty-four subjects participated in one of three experiments, which were designed to investigate the contribution ...

purpose: according to frequent needs to gastric decompression by nasogastric tube insertion during laparoscopic cholecystectomy, the current comparative study was accomplished through single blind clinical trial considering both the presence and the absence of guide wire insertion. materials and methods: twenty patients were selected for elective surgery of laparoscopic cholecystectomywith gene...

introduction: nutrition plays an important role in the protection and promotion of health. to plan and implement programs aiming at improving community nutritional status, a knowledge of the existing situation is essential. the aim of this cross-sectional study was to determine food and nutrient intakes of the inhabitants in tehran university of medical sciences population laboratory. methods: ...

In this work a response surface approach was used for predicting the hill chart of a small horizontal shaft Kaplan turbine. To this aim, artificial neural networks (ANN) were chosen as a fast, reliable, and computationally inexpensive tool. The training of the ANN was based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The optimization of the runner-guide vane stagger correlation is a time consuming a...

Attentional orienting and memory are intrinsically bound, but their interaction has rarely been investigated. Here we introduce an experimental paradigm using naturalistic scenes to investigate how long-term memory can guide spatial attention and thereby enhance identification of events in the perceptual domain. In the task, stable memories of objects embedded within complex scenes guide spatia...

This paper is focused on an interdisciplinary meeting between psychology and philosophy (personality and Weltanschauung), resulted in a synthetic investigative instrument – a questionnaire, also fast and key-oriented towards personality’s resorts, values and motivation, showed in attitudes and behaviors. I consider it as a welcome systemic rough guide concerning the subject’s frame of reference...

Decision-making requires stimulus categorization and localization to guide accurate responses that can be produced through multiple effectors. The success of actions is monitored so that performance can be adjusted to achieve goals. This review will survey recent empirical and theoretical developments very selectively with an emphasis on neurophysiological data from nonhuman primates that provi...