The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict began in 1988 after the regional Supreme ‎Council declared transfer of region from Azerbaijani SSR to the‎ Armenian SSR. full-scale war started 1992 dissolution USSR and ended with May 1994 armistice. In following quarter century,‎ a peaceful resolution was mediated by OSCE’s Minsk Group ‎a form facilitative mediation. warring sides have never reached final ‎soluti...

The potential for competitive inhibition to limit the growth of microbial pathogens in food raises questions about the external validity of typical predictive microbiology studies and suggests the need to consider microbial community dynamics in food safety risk assessment. Ecological theory indicates, however, that community dynamics are highly complex and may be very sensitive to initial cond...

For a network of generic oscillators with nonlocal topology and symmetry-breaking coupling we establish novel partially coherent inhomogeneous spatial patterns, which combine the features of chimera states (coexisting incongruous coherent and incoherent domains) and oscillation death (oscillation suppression), which we call "chimera death". We show that due to the interplay of nonlocality and b...

It is difficult for practitioners in clinical practice to read and assemble published information into a logical treatment philosophy, consequently a number of restorative concepts have been promulgated through a process of intuitive empiricism. For all intents and purposes operative dentistry is a skills based activity and it is understandable that practical sense-data has been accepted as val...

Research studies of laughter in children are reviewed, and a model describing eliciting conditions for laughter and related behavior is described. Following Spencer (1860), Berlyne (I960), and others, it is proposed that laughter occurs after conditions of heightened tension or arousal when at the same time there is a judgment that the situation is safe or inconsequential. The special case of l...

This review provides an overview of the knowledge on P-glycoprotein (P-gp) and its role as a membrane transporter in drug resistance in epilepsy and drug interactions. Overexpression of P-gp, encoded by the ABCB1 gene, is involved in resistance to antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), limits gastrointestinal absorption and brain access of AEDs. Although several association studies on ABCB1 gene with drug...

Delgado-Baquerizo et al. (Science Advances, 12 April 2017, e1602008) use statistical correlations to infer that paleoclimate (6000 to 22,000 years ago) is a more important driver of current soil organic carbon stocks than the current-day climate. On the other hand, a wealth of radiocarbon measurements indicates that the organic carbon in most topsoils is only a few decades to perhaps a few cent...

This article challenges the assumptions of viability international climate litigation. While litigation has recently gained momentum, this calls for a tempering expectations on two bases. First, problem is highly polycentric—more so than other environmental problems encountered by courts. Second, courts have structural limitations that make it difficult them to address such polycentric problems...

BACKGROUND It has been reported that patients with amnesia have a reduced effect of word repetition upon the late positive component of the event related potential (ERP), which peaks at around 600 ms after word onset. OBJECTIVE To study a word repetition ERP paradigm in subjects with mild cognitive impairment. SUBJECTS 14 patients with mild cognitive impairment (mean mini-mental state exami...

In two experiments, we investigated the effect of the numerical distance of incongruous results from correct results and stimulus probability on the N270/N400 event-related brain potential components. In Experiment 1, 12 subjects saw two one-digit addends and a possible solution and signaled if the proposed result (falling in the range of 3-17) was true or false. Incorrect results could deviate...