BACKGROUND The etiology of many cases of childhood-onset chorea remains undetermined, although advances in genomics are revealing both new disease-associated genes and variant phenotypes associated with known genes. METHODS We report a Saudi family with a neurodegenerative course dominated by progressive chorea and dementia in whom we performed homozygosity mapping and whole exome sequencing....

351 A seven‐year‐old male patient with sudden onset loss of vision in the left eye immediately after blunt trauma to the left eye following a fall from stairs presented to us three days after the trauma. History of epistaxis was present, although there was no history of loss of consciousness, vomiting, or convulsions. On examination, the left eye had a subconjunctival hemorrhage. Orbital emphys...

Throughout the history of psychology, the study of perception has been marked by a conflict between analytic and holistic views. According to the analytic view, object recognition involves analysis of the visual input of stimulus features. A stimulus is recognized to the extent that it contains the appropriate features and these features are registered by the visual system. Early examples of th...

The aim of the work was to evaluate effect hot air and infrared drying on content total polyphenols anthocyanin dyes in selected types small fruits. In we used chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa Michx.) variety Nero, elderberry (Sambucus nigra L.) Haschberg, sour cherry (Prunus cerasus Fanal, red currant (Ribes rubrum Lake, black nigrum Triton, elaeagnus (Elaeagnus multiflora Thunb), raspberry (Rub...

Five hundred and forty crossbred (Korean native black pig×Landrace) F2 were selected at a commercial pig farm and then divided into six different coat color groups: (A: Black, B: White, C: Red, D: White spot in black, E: Black spot in white, F: Black spot in red). Birth weight, 21st d weight, 140th d weight and carcass weight varied among the different coat color groups. D group (white spot in ...

sour cherry is one of the most important horticultural products in iran that consumes as fresh and dried fruit. in this research the effect of osmotic pretreatment on physicochemical, antioxiative and microbial characteristics of 4 cultivars of sour cherry: early jibilium, butermo, sigany and local were investigated. the samples were placed in different osmotic solution, dried and vacuum packed...

Chilopsis linearis 'Burgundy', "DESERT WILLOW" Calif. native, fast-growing small tree or large shrub w/ airy appearance; willow-like leaves & trumpet-shaped, burgundy-colored flowers over long spring/summer season; hummingbird favorite.. [30] (H*W*C*) Cupressus forbesii, "TECATE CYPRESS" Calif. native, drought tolerant, multi-trunked, evergreen tree to 25 ft. w/ cherry red bark & green-gray fol...

Chilopsis linearis 'Burgundy', "DESERT WILLOW" Calif. native, fast-growing small tree or large shrub w/ airy appearance; willow-like leaves & trumpet-shaped, burgundy-colored flowers over long spring/summer season; hummingbird favorite.. [30] (H*W*C*) Cupressus forbesii, "TECATE CYPRESS" Calif. native, drought tolerant, multi-trunked, evergreen tree to 25 ft. w/ cherry red bark & green-gray fol...

When a display of red spots or hearts on a blue surround is moved around under dim light, the spots appear to wobble or flutter relative to the surround (the "fluttering hearts" effect). We explain this as follows: Rods and cones both respond to the hearts. Rods are more sluggish than cones, with a latency of ∼50 ms, and they are also much more sensitive to blue than to red (the Purkinje shift;...