Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is increasingly used to modify brain activity noninvasively and to study brain-behavior relations. However, results can be variable and the conditions that affect the functional efficacy of TMS remain unclear. Here we show that on-line TMS can either facilitate or suppress perceptual functions depending on the baseline level of activity of the targeted br...

OBJECTIVE To verify if post-ureteroscopy (URS) stenting is still necessary as a routine strategy, or if some cases can be treated without. METHODS Between August 2004 and April 2005, 85 patients were admitted to the Urology Department at the Nephrology and Urology Center, Al-Thawra Hospital, Yemen with ureteric stones of different size and site. All were scheduled and treated by the ureterosc...

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2010: 36(3) Introduction Without assurances about confidentiality, clients (confiders) may be reluctant to give health professionals (confidants) the information they need in order to provide good care. In a European Court of Human Rights case, a woman’s doctor had been compelled to reveal her HIV positivity in court in connection with the investigation of s...

The paper examines the logic and semantics of knowledge attributions of the form “s knows whether A or B”. We analyze these constructions in an epistemic logic with alternative questions, and propose an account of the context-sensitivity of the corresponding sentences and of their presuppositions.

A terrorist defends an asset which grows from the first to the second period and is attacked. With large asset growth, the terrorist’s first period outcome is low caused by a large attack. With no expenditure constraint, the terrorist’s total outcome is positive. With equal attack and defense inefficiencies, when the terrorist as defender requires his first period outcome to be positive, the at...

dar al-islam's population consists of muslims (majority), the people of the dhimma (non-muslim citizens of an islamic state known as the minority) and al-musta'min (an islamic classification for a non-muslim foreigner that enters muslim lands for less than a year and is legally protected by the muslim authority). the fact that public courts of islamic states have the jurisdiction to d...

conclusions our results validate that telephonic confirmation of clinic appointment plays a significant role in reducing the nar in paediatric out-patient clinic setting. patients and methods nar was reviewed for 6 months (february-july 2013) and compared with the nar for similar duration in 2014 (before and after implementation of telephone reminders). within 2014 data, comparison was also mad...

the study of rights of obligee in any commercial contract, particularly contract of sale, is very important for the theoretical and practical reasons, in case that the other party performs part of contract only and is not able or ready to perform the other part; because, on the one hand, the obligor wants to know whether he entitles to expect from the obligee to accept the executed part of cont...

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