Background Social cognition may be critical to the impoverished social functioning seen in serious mental illness. However, although social-cognitive deficits are consistently demonstrated in schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD), studies in bipolar disorder (BD) have produced inconsistent results. This inconsistency may relate to symptom profiles of patients studied, particularly the presence...

FEMU is a software (QEMU-based) flash emulator for fostering future full-stack software/hardware SSD research. FEMU is cheap (opensourced), relatively accurate (0.5-38% variance as a drop-in replacement of OpenChannel SSD), scalable (can support 32 parallel channels/chips), and extensible (support internal-only and split-level SSD research).

The Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, or Diamang, mined for diamonds in colonial Angola from 1917 until independence in 1975. The enterprise's Health Services Division (SSD) was responsible for supplying mine managers with an African labour force comprised of healthy, and therefore productive, employees. In practice, though, this otherwise 'healthy' system did not always work. While SSD personn...

The formulations of the user-optimal dynamic traffic assignment (UODTA)-based network design problem (NDP), signal setting design problem (SSD), and the integrated NDP and SSD problem (NDP-SSD) for the deterministic (DET), stochastic (SP) and robust (RO) optimizations are reviewed. The modifications of the simulated annealing (SA), genetic algorithm (GA) and reactive tabu search (RTS) for the n...

abstract background: secretions contaminated with oral, nasal, and gastric bacteria accumulate in the subglottic space, above the endotracheal tube cuff. if these secretions are aspirated into lower airways, the intubated patient will be susceptible to ventilator‑associated pneumonia (vap). the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of inspiratory pause maneuver for intermittent subglo...

Sexual size dimorphism (SSD) is widespread within the animal kingdom. Rensch's rule describes a relationship between SSD and body size: SSD increases with body size when males are the larger sex, and decreases with body size when females are the larger sex. Rensch's rule is well supported for taxa that exhibit male-biased SSD but patterns of allometry among taxa with female-biased size dimorphi...

PURPOSE This study examines the optimal angle for a dual-field Stanford technique for TSET at extended SSD (SSD= 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 m) to predict a readily available optimal angle for any SSD. METHODS The optimal angle at various SSDs is found using detector array. The diode array consists of 9 diodes placed on a vertical board with a measured vertical scale with the origin placed at isocenter. Th...

PLOS Computational Biology recently published an article by Chen, Zhao, van Noort, and Bork [1] reporting that, in contrast to duplicated nondisease genes, human monogenic disease (MD) genes are (1) enriched in duplicates (in agreement with earlier reports [2–5]) and (2) more functionally similar to their closest paralogs based on sequence conservation and expression profile similarity. Chen et...

In this paper, we unify the theory of SSD spaces, part of the theory of strongly representable multifunctions, and the theory of the equivalence of various classes of maximally monotone multifunctions. 0 Introduction In this paper, we unify three different lines of investigation: the theory of SSD spaces as expounded in [11] and [13], part of the theory of strongly representable multifunctions ...

OBJECTIVES To describe the recovery trajectories of delirium and to determine factors predicting the course of recovery and adverse outcome. DESIGN A prospective observational study. SETTING Geriatric monitoring unit (GMU), a five-bed unit specializing in managing older adults with delirium. PARTICIPANTS Individuals admitted to the GMU between December 2010 and August 2012 (N = 234; mean ...