Contemporary psychology of music approaches musical imagination in terms of either cognitive system’s specific (voluntary, involuntary or anticipatory) behavior or capacity. Musical imagination-as-behaviour allows us, for example, to consciously experience the phenomenon of “musical earworms” (e.g., Beaman & Williams, 2010). However, we do not have to be conscious of the workings of musical ima...

AIM We investigated the performance of FDG PET using an automated procedure for discrimination between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and controls, and studied the influence of demographic and technical factors. METHODS FDG PET data were obtained from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) [102 controls (76.0 +/- 4.9 years) and 89 AD patients (75.7 +/- 7.6 years, MMSE 23.5 +/- 2.1) ...

GOAL The goal was to determine the optimal strategy for screening coverage, test selection, and treatment for infection in asymptomatic women for a given family-planning-program budget. STUDY DESIGN We developed a resource allocation model to determine the optimal strategy using data from 5078 visits by women universally screened for infection in a publicly funded family planning clinic syste...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We describe the trends in stroke mortality in Brazil during 3 decades and investigate their differences according to regional disparities, sex, and age distributions. METHODS Official data on mortality and population estimates were retrieved to calculate standardized mortality rates (with the 1980 Brazilian population as a reference) in 6 age strata and in the 5 politic...

Demographic estimation in countries with well-developed data reporting systems is based on data collected by censuses and vital registration systems. In countries with inadequate or inaccurate data reporting systems, demographic estimation often must rely on methods that are “indirect”. Such methods have been applied with considerable success in studies of mortality and fertility, but they have...

A model for the size class distribution of plant disease on plant tissues is developed, inspired by late blight lesions on potato and tomato caused by Phytophthora infestans. In the absence of spatial dispersal the model becomes an infinite-dimensional Leslie matrix, and when spatial dispersal is considered several elements of the Leslie matrix are convolution operators accounting for the sprea...

Two hundred and six patients attending an urban general practice were surveyed using a self-rating questionnaire, the 30-item version of the General Health Questionnaire. At a cut-off score of 6/7, 34.5% of the respondents were found to be high-scorers which gives a corrected estimate of psychiatric morbidity of 29.9% in this clinic. Among those who presented with general complaints, such as ac...

If a substantial proportion of these deaths are deliberate (1) their seasonal variation and their age distribution would be similar to those of suicides; (2) they would occur independently of road conditionis, while other single-car fatalities would be more likely to occur when road conditions are adverse. Information about single-car accidents for the two years 1969 and 1970 was obtained from ...

Most sequenced eukaryotic genomes show a large excess of recent duplicates. As duplicates age, both the population genetic process of failed fixation and the mutation-driven process of nonfunctionalization act to reduce the observed number of duplicates. Understanding the processes generating the age distributions of recent duplicates is important to also understand the role of duplicate genes ...

Estimate prevalence of obesity and acanthosis nigricans (AN) among children in United States Affiliated Pacific (USAP) jurisdictions.Cross-sectional measurement of weight, height, and AN in 5775, 2 to 8 years old in 51 communities-Hawai'i, Alaska, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), 4 Federated States of Micronesia (...