Previous studies of motor learning have described the importance of cognitive processes during the early stages of learning; however, the precise nature of these processes and their neural correlates remains unclear. The present study investigated whether spatial working memory (SWM) contributes to visuomotor adaptation depending on the stage of learning. We tested the hypothesis that SWM would...

Spatial working memory (SWM) is fundamental to cognition by caching behaviorally relevant cues on a timescale of seconds and by tapping into several executive processes including encoding, maintenance and retrieval of information for adaptive behavioral response. The striatum plays a critical role in gating WM representations, but the specific contribution of the striatal indirect pathway to WM...

In many countries, open dumping is considered the simplest, cheapest, and most cost-effective way of managing solid wastes. Thus, in underdeveloped economies, Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW) are openly dumped. Improper waste disposal causes air, water, soil pollution, impairing permeability blockage drainage system. Waste Management (SWM) can be enhanced by operating a well-engineered site with ca...

Like most developing countries, Zambia has been going through very difficult times economically. This has seriously affected the capacity of various government agencies to provide public services. As a result the government and its agencies have over the past decade been forced to reassess the way in which publicly provided urban services are delivered. The key policy response has been a moveme...

This paper focused on current practice, awareness, and impact of solid waste management environment, in Shahidnagar Municipality Dhanusha district. Due to lack proper baseline information, understanding public willingness fitting doable planning, collection, disposal recycling have been problematic study area. Solid has emerged as a major challenge they don’t any landfill site collection facili...

Background and purpose: An appropriate solid waste (SW) disposal has been a major problem in municipal environment. The use of landfills is the most economical and environmentally acceptable method for the disposal of SWs all over the world. However, landfill leachate can cause environmental issues such as soil and ground water pollution. So, finding suitable land fill site is one of the mo...

Serotonin (5-HT) receptors of types 1A and 2A are strongly expressed in prefrontal cortex (PFC) neurons, an area associated with cognitive function. Hence, 5-HT could be effective in modulating prefrontal-dependent cognitive functions, such as spatial working memory (SWM). However, a direct association between 5-HT and SWM has proved elusive in psycho-pharmacological studies. Recently, a comput...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of Star Wars music (SWM) compared with endoscopist-selected popular music (PM) on quality outcomes in colonoscopy. DESIGN AND SETTING A single-centre, prospective, randomised controlled trial conducted in an endoscopy suite within a quaternary-centre gastroenterology unit, Melbourne, Australia. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The primary outcome measures were procedur...

background: dental waste can be hazardous to humans and the environment. objective: to determine the current status of dental waste management in private and public dental clinics and private dental offices in shiraz, southern iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted at the shiraz university of medical sciences from february through june 2013. a stratified random sampling method ...

background: laboratory wastes are one of the environmental issues of developing countries and cause diseases and epidemics. laboratory waste management is planned with the aim of preventing unfavorable effects on human health and the environment. the aim of the present study was to determine the status of medical waste management in clinical laboratories affiliated with rafsanjan university of ...