In recent years, concerns have been raised about the adequacy of ophthalmology education in Canadian medical schools. A 2009 survey school graduates reported that majority believed they did not obtain sufficient knowledge or skills during school.1Noble J Somal K Gill HS Lam W-C. An analysis undergraduate training Canada.Can Ophthalmol. 2009; 44: 513-518Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (24) ...

Extensive research has been conducted demonstrating the predictive validity and reliability of the IAT for a broad array of behaviors and contexts. However, less work has been done examining its underlying construct validity. This contribution focuses on examining whether a core theoretical foundation of the IAT paradigm is valid, specifically, whether the IAT effect draws on the Social Knowled...

Freudian (1905 Wien; Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewu�ten. Deuticke) and Salience (Goldstein, Suls and Anthony, 1972; The Psychology of Humor. Academic Press, New York) theory make opposite predictions about the effects of attitudes to sex and sexual behaviour on appreciation of sex humour. Male and female students (N=115) answered a questionnaire of attitudes toward sex, a sexual behavi...

Generally, it is claimed that hexapod walking robots are superior to others. However, in some conditions hexapod suffers from stability problems. To solve the problem of stability, this paper proposes a new gait model of hexapod robot named offset model and also investigates the effects of morphological factor of hexapod robots on their locomotion. A comparison between the offset model and gene...

A cell-free system was established to study the role of steroid hormones in transc:riptional control. The system consists of hormone-receptorchromatin complex formation ustng partially purified receptor and chromatin. Micrococcal nuclease digestion of the complex released a 7S form of receptor. The absorbance at 260 nm also showed a peak in the 7S region of the sucrose gradient. DNAase I digest...

Within the space of two decades, virtually every intellectual question in social psychology, and many outside of it, has been shaped by the theories and methods of implicit social cognition. Many of those questions are pondered in this volume, involving the role of automatic/implicit/unconscious processes in attitudes (Petty & Briñol, Chapter 18), social judgment and decision-making (Bodenhause...

The chromosomal DNA in the bacterium Escherichia coli is thought to be organized and compacted at least in part as a consequence of the interaction with so-called histone-like or nucleoid-associated proteins. The groups of Stavans and Oppenheim have recently embarked on an ambitious project which aims to quantify the compactive effects of the various members of this group of proteins using magn...

A technique for culturing two species of trypanosomatid flagellates on blood-agar plates is described. Herpetomonas megaseliae and Crithidia harmosa were grown as discrete clone colonies on plates prepared in sterile petri dishes with a medium derived from that of Tobie et al. (1950, J Parasitol 36: 48-54). Plates were inoculated with 0.01 ml flagellate suspension and the inoculum was spread ev...

Mental process and mental experience are not the same thing. The former is the operation of the mind; the latter is the subjective life that emerges from that operation. In social evaluation, implicit and explicit attitudes express this distinction. Although it is clear that they are not the same, how they differ is not. Across content domains, implicit and explicit attitude measures show subst...

Three experiments tested whether the Implicit Association Test (IAT) is sensitive to the perceived accuracy of newly learned associations. In experiment 1, participants learned to associate positive or negative attributes with two novel groups. Participants in one condition were told that the attributes accurately described the groups; in a second condition, prior to learning, they were made aw...