Dear Editor, Recently, Palliative & Supportive Care published a study by Meggiolaro et al. (2015) that had the dual purpose of examining the rate of and difference between “emotional distress” (measured by the Distress Thermometer) and “maladaptive coping” (gauged with the Mini-MAC) and examining the association between those variables and cancer patients’ subjective perceptions of their intera...

Self-motion information influences spatially-specific firing patterns exhibited by hippocampal neurons. Moreover, these firing patterns can repeat across similar subsegments of an environment, provided that there is similarity of path shape and head orientations across subsegments. The influence of self-motion variables on repeating fields remains to be determined. To investigate the role of pa...

The huge investment in 3G mobile licences is an incentive to develop extra services above and beyond basic telephony and data services. Service control provides an infrastructure to deliver services, particularly those of a real-time nature. This paper focuses on the progress in developing service control in the context of the 3GPP Release 4/5 network. To achieve the objectives for service evol...

The goal of this study is twofold: first, to examine in greater depth the claimed contribution of differences in syllable structure to measures of speech rhythm for three languages that are reported to belong to different rhythmic classes, namely, English, Spanish, and Catalan; and second, to investigate differences in the durational marking of prosodic heads and final edges of prosodic constit...

We obtain explicit formulas for the enumeration of labelled parallelogram polyominoes. These are the polyominoes that are bounded, above and below, by northeast lattice paths going from the origin to a point (k, n). The numbers from 1 to n (the labels) are bijectively attached to the n north steps of the above-bounding path, with the condition that they appear in increasing values along consecu...