As doctors, we ask questions about weight many times a day. We may because we’re worried fluid retention in heart failure, or be thinking causes of increased breathlessness blood pressure. concerned the possible onset diabetes, thyroid disease, severe depression, undiagnosed malignancy. I often find myself explaining to patients that, this specific circumstance—where want rule out serious disea...

We present a correlative study between all unidentified EGRET sources at low Galactic latitudes and the newly discovered pulsars in the released portion of the Parkes multibeam radio survey. We note 14 positional coincidences: eight of these are “Vela-like” pulsars, with relatively small periods, small characteristic ages, and high spin-down luminosities. Three of these coincidences have been i...

Much work has been done to investigate participants' ability to detect repeated targets, but the presentstudy examined the influence of recently attended stimuli on target masking. Participants performed a target identification task in which the item that masked the target was either a recently attended item or a novel item. When it was identical to a previously attended stimulus, the mask was ...

Inference of ancestry from genetic data is a fundamental problem in computational genetics, with wide applications in human genetics and population genetics. The treatment of ancestry as a continuum instead of a categorical trait has been recently advocated in the literature. Particularly, it was shown that a European individual’s geographic coordinates of origin can be determined up to a few h...

We reviewed original articles in the field of pulmonary medicine that had been recently published in 12 Brazilian journals--general or specialty journals--excluding the Brazilian Journal of Pulmonology. All were journals indexed for the Institute for Scientific Information Web of Knowledge. The selection of articles was based on the "continuously variable rating" concept. We have organized the ...