"Hanseniasis" is the medical term introduced in the State of S. Paulo, Brazil (1967) to initiate the liberation of a common physical disease caused by Myco. hansenii 1 from the dinosauruslike size and weight of the terror, ignorance, superstition, stigma and sensationalism perpetually yoked to the pernicious, degrading and loathsome pejorative "leprosy". The new medical name rapidly spread to o...

The extent to which letter-by-letter reading results from a specific orthographic deficit, as compared with a nonspecific disturbance in basic visuoperceptual mechanisms, is unclear. The current study directly compared processing of letters and digits in a letter-by-letter reader, G.M., using a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) task and a speeded matching task. Comparisons were made to a ...

The past several decades have witnessed an extraordinary, worldwide explosion of interest in exhibiting, making, collecting and studying quilts. Supporting this and in turn supported by it, there has developed an international boom in the gathering, production and dissemination of information on quilts and quilting. Books, periodicals, articles and literature drawing thematic material from the ...

A classic question in cognitive psychology concerns the nature of memory search in short-term recognition. Despite its long history of investigation, however, there is still no consensus on whether memory search takes place serially or in parallel or is based on global access. In the present investigation, we formalize a variety of models designed to account for detailed response time distribut...

People often fail to recall the second of two visual targets presented within 500 ms in rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP). This effect is called the attentional blink. One explanation of the attentional blink is that processes involved in encoding the first target into memory are slow and capacity limited. Here, however, we show that the attentional blink should be ascribed to attentional...

In this paper, a new waist-trunk system has been proposed for a humanoid robot by using parallel architectures. The structure of human torso and its function have been used as inspirations for design purposes. The proposed waist-trunk system consists of a 3 legged UPS orientation parallel platform and a 6 legged UPS parallel platform which are connected together in a serial architecture. A 3D m...

When 2 targets are presented among distractors in rapid serial visual presentation, correct identification of the 1st target results in a deficit for a 2nd target appearing within 200-500 ms. This attentional blink (AB; J.E. Raymond, K.L. Shapiro, & K.M. Arnell, 1992) was examined for categorically defined targets (letters among nonletters) in 7 experiments. AB was obtained for the 2nd letter t...

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Training and credentialing for robotic surgery in otolaryngology - head and neck surgery is currently not standardized, but rather relies heavily on industry guidance. This manuscript represents a comprehensive review of this increasingly important topic and outlines clear recommendations to better standardize the practice. The recommendations provided can be used as a reference by individuals ...

patients and methods in this cross-sectional study, data of 584 female patients (mean age of 45.9 years) referred to breast cancer research center (tehran, iran) were analyzed anonymously. spss and norm softwares (2.03) were used for data transformation, running and interpretation of cca and replacing missing values, respectively. data were obtained from breast cancer research center, tehran, i...