The use of a reduced verbal system as ELF English as a lingua franca in the sciences does not appear to be a perfectly adequate way of expressing cultural identities. A modern society should instead enforce, through instruction, the understanding of several national cultural scripts, one’s own and others, and the understanding of the way communication and languages works. Multilingualism and in...

Page 415 The pig olfactory system is understudied despite the fact that these animals represent a good model of human physiology and possess an exquisitely sensitive sense of smell. Brunjes et al now provide an overview of the pig olfactory system including Nissl, myelin and Golgi stains. Moreover, they used confocal microscopy to examine projection neurons and GABAergic local circuit neurons t...

1. Sutton, L., Karan, A., Mahal, A., (2014) “Evidence for cost-effectiveness of lifestyle primary preventions for cardiovascular disease in the Asia-Pacific Region: A systematic review”. Globalization and Health, 10:79. 2. Karan, A.,Selvaraj, S., Mahal, A., (2014) “Moving to universal coverage? Trends in the burden of out-of-pocket payments for health care across social groups in India, 1999-20...

The initial observations of Mitsuda (1) on the use of his "leprous tubercle emulsion" were of purely immunological character, and they revealed the difference in behavior between cases of the lepromatous ("tuberous") and the benign "maculoneural" types. The evolution of such cases observed by Hayashi (2) after testing demonstrated the prognostic value of the reaction, since only those which wer...

Page 567 Altered stimulus perception caused by a previous stimulus presentation is referred to as priming. Whereas crossmodal priming is comparatively well studied, intramodal priming received less attention. HoffmannHensel and Freiherr now recorded skin conductance as well as breathing data and measured reaction times for olfactory tasks. These recordings revealed that negative odors were more...

|Full Text: PDF (444 KB) 2. A tutorial on particle filters for online nonlinear/non-GaussianBayesian tracking Arulampalam, M.S.; Maskell, S.; Gordon, N.; Clapp, T. Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Volume 50, Issue 2, Date: Feb 2002, Pages: 174-188 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/78.978374 Abstract |Full Text: PDF (355 KB) 3. A tutorial on hidden Markov models and selected applications ...

Background: Controversy persists as to whether all calf vein thrombi should be treated with anticoagulation or observed with duplex surveillance. We performed a systematic review of the literature to assess whether data could support either approach, followed by examination of its natural history by stratifying results according to early clot propagation, pulmonary emboli (PE), recurrence, and ...

This paper presents the design and performance of a compact dilution sampler (CDS) for characterizing fine particle emissions from stationary sources. The sampler is described, along with the methodology adopted for its use. Dilution sampling has a number of advantages, including source emissions that are measured under conditions simulating stack gas entry and mixing in the ambient atmosphere....

The ability to obtain reliable results from clinical trials of therapies for ocular allergic disease and dry eye disease is often limited because of inadequate control of variables, such as environment, patient life style, compliance, and individual fluctuations that occur from one assessment visit to another. The controlled allergen challenge (CAC) model of allergic conjunctivitis allows signs...

A BSTRACT Background Domestic violence is the most common cause of nonfatal injury to women in the United States. To identify risk factors for such injuries, we examined the socioeconomic and behavioral characteristics of women who were victims of domestic violence and the men who injured them. Methods We conducted a case–control study at eight large, university-affiliated emergency departments...