The present study examined individual differences in the automaticity of visual word recognition. Specifically, we examined whether people can recognize words while central attention is devoted to another task and how this ability depends on reading skill. A lexical-decision Task 2 was combined with either an auditory or visual Task 1. Regardless of the Task 1 modality, Task 2 word recognition ...

The germ of a novel arrives, I believe, in one moment of intense experience: when you catch an exchange of glances between a coloured girl and an old fiddler sitting opposite you in the Underground, when you hear from the dining-room of a back-street boarding house the lowing of a ship's siren. With me, the moment is generally lost even before the work begins. To the question, 'What gave you th...

OBJECTIVE Although parents' knowledge about child development and child rearing is relevant to pediatric practice, very little is known about immigrant parents' knowledge. To fill this gap in research, this study investigated parenting knowledge in 2 groups of mothers who had immigrated to the United States. DESIGN Japanese and South American immigrant mothers of 2-year-olds completed a stand...

It was most gracious of you, _Mr. President, to invite me to attend this meeting; and it is a very great pleasure to me, a rare privilege, to be present with you all on this happy occasion while we are celebrating together the 30th anniversary of the founding of this Society. I have often been asked to write a brief history of the early days of the American Society of Plant Physiologists, but h...

BACKGROUND In children, reaching emerges around four months of age, which is followed by rapid changes in hand function and concomitant changes in gross motor function, including the acquisition of independent sitting. Although there is a close functional relationship between these domains, to date they have been investigated separately. OBJECTIVE To investigate the longitudinal profile of ch...

A rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) usually leads to an altered stretch reflex excitability of the thigh muscles that stabilize the knee. The purpose of this study was to quantitatively assess reflex activity in the m. semitendinosus/semimembranosus after anterior tibial translation in 21 patients with isolated ACL ruptures. The patients were divided into a group with "giving way"...

DNA gyrase is the only enzyme known to negatively supercoil DNA. The enzyme is a heterotetramer of A(2)B(2) subunit composition. Alignment of the primary sequence of gyrase B (GyrB) from various species shows that they can be grouped into two classes. The GyrB of Gram-negative eubacteria has a stretch of about 165 amino acids in the C-terminal half, which is lacking in other GyrB subunits and t...

Siij,?May I point out, to any who feel reluctant to use percaine on account of the waste of time entailed in keeping the patient in the prone position for ten minutes after injection, that the prone position is now considered unnecessary. I now give percaine, the usual hypoboric solution, with the patient sitting up. Depending upon the height of anaesthesia required, the patient is allowed to s...

The distal muscle-tendon units of cursorial species are commonly composed of short muscle fibres and long, compliant tendons. It is assumed that the ability of these tendons to store and return mechanical energy over the course of a stride, thus avoiding the cyclic absorption and regeneration of mechanical energy by active muscle, offers some metabolic energy savings during running. However, th...