It is widely accepted that gesture can serve a communicative function. The purpose of this study was to explore gesture use in congenitally blind individuals who have never seen gesture and have no experience with its communicative function. Four children blind from birth were tested in 3 discourse situations (narrative, reasoning, and spatial directions) and compared with groups of sighted and...

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Using isotopic substitution and X-ray scattering, different weighted structure factors were measured and combined in order to calculate partial structure factors. Although we got an overdetermined system of equations, the solution of this problem was difficult due to the small value of the determinant. From the partial pair correlation functions and the radial concentration correlation function...

This study clearly replicated the previous findings which demonstrated the predictive validity of PREPARE. Like the previous study, this longitudinal study was a 3-year follow-up of 179 couples who took PREPARE during their engagement. As in the initial longitudinal study, PREPARE predicted, with about 80% accuracy, couples who got divorced from those that were happily married. Also, the same l...

In this issue of Neuron, Daie et al. (2015) show that the eye velocity-to-position neural integrator not only encodes the position, but also how it was reached. Representing content and context in the same neuronal population may form a general coding principle.

BACKGROUND The effects of continuous blood flow and reduced pulsatility on major organ function have not been studied in detail. METHODS AND RESULTS We evaluated renal (creatinine and blood urea nitrogen) and hepatic (aspartate transaminase, alanine transaminase, and total bilirubin) function in 309 (235 male, 74 female) advanced heart failure patients who had been supported with the HeartMat...

Controlled photooxidation inactivates supernatant glutamate aspartate transaminase through the destruction of histidyl residues only. Since previous studies have failed to show alterations in the over-all enzyme structure, the mechanism of transamination has been examined before and after photooxidation, taking advantage of the spectral changes associated with the enzyme prosthetic group, pyrid...

Using data from the first round of the national Gender and Generations Surveys of Russia, Romania, and Bulgaria, and from a similar survey of Hungary, which were all collected in recent years, we study rates of entry into marital and non-marital unions. We have used elements from the narrative of the Second Demographic Transition (SDT) as a vehicle to give our analysis of the data from the four...