Manipulation of host phenotype by parasites can require a collective effort from many individuals. The cost of manipulation may only be paid by the individuals actually inducing the manipulation, while its benefits are reaped by all. Here, we determine if there is genetic variation in manipulative effort among different clonal lineages of the trematode Curtuteria australis, and whether the deci...

We have used positron emission tomography (PET) to identify the neural substrate of two major cognitive components of working memory (WM), maintenance and manipulation of a single elementary visual attribute, i.e., the orientation of a grating presented in central vision. This approach allowed us to equate difficulty across tasks and prevented subjects from using verbal strategies or vestibular...

Some osteopathic physicians are not properly reimbursed by insurance companies after providing osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) to their patients. Common problems associated with lack of reimbursements include insurers bundling OMT with the standard evaluation and management service and confusing OMT with chiropractic manipulative treatment or physical therapy services. The authors sugg...

Many electoral control and manipulation problems—which we will refer to in general as “manipulative actions” problems—are NP-hard in the general case. Many of these problems fall into polynomial time if the electorate is singlepeaked, i.e., is polarized along some axis/issue. However, real-world electorates are not truly single-peaked—for example, there may be some maverick voters—and to take t...

BACKGROUND Low back pain is a costly illness for which spinal manipulative therapy is commonly recommended. Previous systematic reviews and practice guidelines have reached discordant results on the effectiveness of this therapy for low back pain. PURPOSE To resolve the discrepancies related to use of spinal manipulative therapy and to update previous estimates of effectiveness by comparing s...

Plagiarism may take place in any scientific journals despite currently employed anti-plagiarism tools. The absence of widely acceptable definitions of research misconduct and reliance solely on similarity checks do not allow journal editors to prevent most complex cases of recycling of scientific information and wasteful, or 'predatory,' publishing. This article analyses Scopus-based publicatio...

In order to achieve natural, proactive, and non-intrusive interaction between humans and robots, the understanding of human actions is a highly relevant task. In this paper, a vision-based method for manipulative gesture recognition is proposed. Different from the traditional trajectory-based approaches, the manipulative actions are modeled not only based on the hand trajectories but also on th...