Throughout his long and fruitful career John Tyler Bonner [4] has made great strides in understanding basic issues of embryology [5] and developmental-evolutionary biology. Indeed, Bonner?s work on morphogenesis highlighted synergies between development and evolution [6] long before ? evo-devo? became a part of the scientific lingua franca. Princeton University [7] Press published his first boo...

It is now ten years since a 'ventral language pathway' was demonstrated in vivo in the human brain. In the intervening decade, this result has been replicated and expanded to include multiple possible pathways and functions. Despite this considerable level of research interest, age-old debates regarding the origin, course, termination and, indeed, the very existence of the tracts identified sti...

Madam, we read with great interest the Editorial "Medical Ethics: A slow but sustained revolution in Pakistan's healthcare" by Shamim and Shamim.1 In this timely and well-crafted editorial the authors pertinently highlighted the dissemination of bioethics concept not only in medical doctors but also in other health care professionals such as physiotherapists, nurses, technologists and even in s...

This study investigated the effects of visual deprivation on the relationship between speech perception and production by examining compensatory responses to real-time perturbations in auditory feedback. Specifically, acoustic and articulatory data were recorded while sighted and congenitally blind French speakers produced several repetitions of the vowel /ø/. At the acoustic level, blind speak...

A standard nomenclature for the axes and planes of vertebrate eyes There is a general problem in naming the axes and planes of vertebrate eyes. The problem arises from the fact that both the position of the head relative to the body and the position of eyes relative to the head show great variability in vertebrates. Thus the standard vertebrate axes (dorso-ventral, antero-posterior, and left–ri...

The labour market integration of refugees represents a key challenge for policy makers and has emerged as one of the most divisive topics in public debate. European countries have been pressured to establish fair and transparent methods of placing asylum seekers among the European states and into different regions within their national borders. In this paper, I highlight the unsurprising yet un...

The growing synergy between Web Services and Grid-based technologies [10] will potentially enable profound, dynamic interactions between scienti c applications dispersed in geographic, institutional, and conceptual space. Such deep interoperability requires the simplicity, robustness, and extensibility for which SOAP [7, 6] was conceived, thus making it a natural lingua franca. Concomitant with...

The objective of this study was to measure the pressure created by different intubation devices on the tongue during endotracheal intubation attempts in the mannequin model. Fourteen specialists and 20 anaesthesiologists in training took part in the study. I connected the manometer with the line used for inflating the mannequin tongue to create simulated conditions of tongue oedema. For the stu...

The authors induced tip-of-the-tongue states (TOTs) for English words in monolinguals and bilinguals using picture stimuli with cognate (e.g., vampire, which is vampiro in Spanish) and noncognate (e.g., funnel, which is embudo in Spanish) names. Bilinguals had more TOTs than did monolinguals unless the target pictures had translatable cognate names, and bilinguals had fewer TOTs for noncognates...

Scrotal ultrasound is widely used in modern hospitals as the first-line evaluation of almost all scrotal abnormalities. It provides useful and timely information for physicians to make management decisions without delay. This chapter is written in accordance with the clinical perspectives of urologists, as opposed to the technical interpretation of radiologists, in order to provide practical as...