Voting by persons with dementia raises questions about their decision-making capacity. Methods specifically addressing voting capacity of demented people have been proposed in the US, but never tested elsewhere. We translated and adapted the US Competence Assessment Tool for Voting (CAT-V) to the Italian context, using it before 2006 elections for Prime Minister. Consisting of a brief questionn...

drought stress is one of the most important factors limiting the survival and growth of plants in the different habitats of iran. detailed knowledge about the ecophysiological responses of native plants to drought stress could contribute to the success of breeding and re-vegetation programs. six wild populations of anthemis tinctoria, were assigned to four drought treatments, i.e. well-watered ...

borage herbs, wild herbs and is one year with significant economic value are highly regarded local market due to the high economic value of borage any study to improve the quality of harvest and increase product seems necessary, two rahim abad (gilan) district in the province eshkourat the highest level of production as the location of choice, and studies of the factors in determining the best ...

Biophysical modeling studies have suggested that neurons with active dendrites can be viewed as linear units augmented by product terms that arise from interactions between synaptic inputs within the same dendritic subregions. However, the degree to which local nonlinear synaptic interactions could augment the memory capacity of a neuron is not known in a quantitative sense. To approach this qu...

We show how to compute or at least to estimate various capacity-related quantities for bosonic Gaussian channels. Among these are the coherent information, the entanglement-assisted classical capacity, the one-shot classical capacity, and a quantity involving the transpose operation, shown to be a general upper bound on the quantum capacity, even allowing for finite errors. All bounds are expli...

One of the most surprising recent results in quantum Shannon theory is the superactivation of the quantum capacity of a quantum channel. This phenomenon has its roots in the extreme violation of additivity of the channel capacity and enables to reliably transmit quantum information over zerocapacity quantum channels. In this work we demonstrate a similar effect for the classical capacity of a q...

BACKGROUND Imaging studies show that placebo enhance release of dopamine in the mesolimbic and mesocortical tracts. Dopamine in these areas are involved in attention and working memory function. PURPOSE We wanted to investigating the effect of placebo on psychomotor function and working memory capacity. METHOD 31 medical students participated in this single blind, crossover trial. Choice re...

This paper addresses the difficulties in evaluating the impact of choice-based reforms in education by developing an agent-based model that captures the dynamic processes related to moving from a neighborhood-based to choice-based system. Using data from Chicago Public Schools to estimate and set initial conditions of the model, we illustrate how differences in participation rates and capacity ...

Grazing businesses with a proportion of native grassland may face the choice of reassigning the rights to use an area of native grassland to the public. In analysing this choice it is important to establish the future situation of the farm business with and without the area of land in question, including the possibility of further development of production capacity on other areas of the farm. T...

The neuronal code arising from the coordinated activity of grid cells in the rodent entorhinal cortex can uniquely represent space across a large range of distances, but the precise conditions for optimal coding capacity are known only for environments with finite size. Here we consider a coding scheme that is suitable for unbounded environments, and present a novel, number theoretic approach t...