The soluble proteins of a newborn human lens exhibit almost no non-tryptophan fluorescence. On aging, an increase in the fluorescence of all native crystallins is found except for 72-crystallin. With formation of nuclear cataract, a further increase is seen for 7,-crystallin. The fluorophore, excitation 355 nm/emission 420 nm, is mainly associated with one species of the Yi-crystallin populatio...

Abstract We surveyed clinicians to evaluate the perceived usefulness of a mnemonic, STORY, improve penicillin allergy evaluation. Survey responses indicated that STORY was high, and support for nurses’ involvement in assessment high. Future research may feasibility implementation clinical care.

The binary states, i.e., success or failed state assumptions used in conventional reliability are inappropriate for reliability analysis of complex industrial systems due to lack of sufficient probabilistic information. For large complex systems, the uncertainty of each individual parameter enhances the uncertainty of the system reliability. In this paper, the concept of fuzzy reliability...

This paper deals with the Markov modeling and reliability analysis of urea synthesis system of a fertilizer plant. This system was modeled using Markov birth–death process with the assumption that the failure and repair rates of each subsystem follow exponential distribution. The first-order Chapman–Kolmogorov differential equations are developed with the use of mnemonic rule and these equation...

The experiment reported here evaluated the effectiveness of a mnemonic procedure, the keyword method, for learning a foreign language vocabulary. The method used divides the study of a vocabulary item into two stages. The first stage requires the subject to associate the spoken foreign word with an English word, the keyword, that sounds like some part of the foreign word; the second stage requi...

Anterior keratectomy (AKE) was done on rabbits, and the appearance of immunohistochemically demonstrable tenascin (TN) or cellular fibronectin (cFN) was studied at different times (5 min to 14 months) after the operation. The substance TN was first observed 12 hr after wounding in the posterior stroma; cFN appeared with the same localization 12 hr later. During postoperative week 1, both TN and...

Despite much research, the cognitive effects of scopolamine hydrobromide, a cholinergic antagonist, remain controversial. Scopolamine affects multiple systems each of which can impact behavior. One way to tease apart the effects of the drug is to determine the effects of low scopolamine doses on different abilities. The present experiments compared the effects of low doses of scopolamine on a s...

Recent research has demonstrated that "self-imagination" - a mnemonic strategy developed by Grilli and Glisky (2010) - enhances episodic memory in memory-impaired individuals with neurological damage more than traditional cognitive strategies, including semantic elaboration and visual imagery. The present study investigated the effect of self-imagination on prospective memory in individuals w...

This article examines how photographs of women taken by Marc Garanger during his army service in Algeria (1960–1962) have become sites multiple, often competing mnemonic projections. At the height Algerian War Independence, produced nearly two thousand identity those displaced French from villages to detention camps. The are some most cited images war, having been popularised through Garanger’s...