background : ige is an antibody class that regarded as an important factor in the pathogenesis of allergic diseases, asthma, im­mune responses to parasitic infection and it could be responsible for the late- phase allergic response. the objective of this study was to evaluate total ige in healthy iranian adults, establishment of reference range of total ige and assess helpful­ness of this value...

In many cases, as exemplified by (2), third-person pronouns co-refer with the subject of the previous sentence. Arnold (1998) found that third-person subject pronouns co-referred with the pervious sentence’s subject in 64% of cases drawn from a corpus of children’s books. Numerous studies have shown that in many cases adults expect pronouns to co-refer with previous subjects, even in the absenc...

This chapter gives an overview of the projects facing a science of consciousness. Such a science must integrate third-person data about behavior and brain processes with first-person data about conscious experience. Empirical projects for integrating these data include those of contrasting conscious and unconscious processes, investigating the contents of consciousness, finding neural correlate...

Many European languages have two second person pronouns, one for informal and one for formal address, such as French tu and vous, respectively.1 Such pronouns pose an interesting problem for number agreement. A second person formal subject pronoun triggers plural agreement on the finite verb regardless of whether the referent is one addressee or multiple addressees. Number agreement on non-fini...

Two claims have been prominent in recent discussions of self-consciousness. One is that first-person reference or first-person thinking is irreducible (the Irreducibility Thesis), and the other is that an awareness of self accompanies all conscious states, at least those through which one refers to something. The latter--here termed the Ubiquity Thesis--has long been associated with philosopher...

Mirrors allow us to view our own body from a third-person (observer) perspective. However, how viewing ourselves through a mirror affects central body representations compared with true third-person perspective is not fully understood. Across a series of experiments, multisensory full-body illusions were used to modulate feelings of ownership over a mannequin body that was viewed from a third-p...

AIM To systematically review the literature evaluating hypnotherapy in the management of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). METHODS Electronic databases were searched (Cochrane Library, Medline, CINAHL, AMED, Embase, PsycINFO, CISCOM, TRIP and the Social Science Citation index), bibliographic references scanned and main authors contacted. No restrictions were placed on language or publication ye...

The increased demand for evidence-based practice in health policy in recent years has provoked a parallel increase in diverse evidence-based outputs designed to translate knowledge from researchers to policy makers and practitioners. Such knowledge translation ideally creates user-friendly outputs, tailored to meet information needs in a particular context for a particular audience. Yet matchin...