Cognitive psychologists have often equaled retrieval of personal events with voluntary recall from autobiographical memory, but more recent research shows that autobiographical memories often come to mind involuntarily-that is, with no retrieval effort. Voluntary memories have been studied in numerous laboratory experiments in response to word-prompts, whereas involuntary memories primarily hav...

Considerable research has established that rapid motor responses (traditionally called reflexes), can be modified by a subject's voluntary goals. Here, we expand on past observations using verbal instructions by defining the voluntary goal via visual target position. This approach allowed us to objectively enforce task adherence and explore a richer set of variables, such as target direction an...

BACKGROUND Measles cases continue to occur despite its elimination status in the United States. To control transmission, public health officials confirm the measles diagnosis, identify close contacts of infectious cases, deliver public health interventions (i.e., post-exposure prophylaxis) among those who are eligible, and follow-up with the close contacts to determine overall health outcomes. ...

Voluntary apnea activates the central and peripheral chemoreceptors, leading to a rise in sympathetic nerve activity and limb vasoconstriction (i.e., brachial blood flow velocity and forearm cutaneous vascular conductance decrease to a similar extent). Whether peripheral and/or central chemoreceptors contribute to the cutaneous vasoconstrictor response remains unknown. We performed three separa...

their extension and co-ordination. It is understood that some extension of the scope of the National Health insurance Act is contemplated, and that Hospital and Pecialist Services may be included in the sphere of ?peration of the Act. The Voluntary Hospitals in Glasgow and the West Scotland submitted a Memorandum and gave ^idence before the Committee. By the courtesy of rRobert F. Barclay this ...

BACKGROUND It is unclear whether contraction of the external anal sphincter (EAS) following a voluntary cough is an integral component of the cough response itself, or a reflex response to the abdominal and pelvic floor dynamics induced by the cough. Clinical experience suggests a reflex origin for this response. OBJECTIVE To compare motor latencies for intercostal, abdominal, and EAS muscle ...

Fifteen foliar disease resistant groundnut genotypes and one local variety (VRI 4) were evaluated over four seasons in a single location to identify the stable high yielding genotypes. Significant G X E interaction showed the differential performance of genotypes over different environments / seasons. Stability analysis revealed that only one genotype (ICGV 92093) had near unity regression coef...

The superluminal sourceGROJ1655-40 (NovaScorpii) has been observed in July 1996, when in active phase at X-ray energies, with the multichannel photopolarimeter (UBVRI) of the Torino Observatory, using the 2.15-m telescope of Complejo Astronomico El Leoncito (Argentina). A significant amount of intrinsic linear polarization (> ∼ 3%) has been detected in the VRI bands, with the polarization direc...