We would like to congratulate Fruchter et al 1 for their ingenious, effective, and minimally invasive way of treating the very challenging condition of bronchopleural fi stulas as reported in a recent issue of CHEST (March 2011). However, because we were cited in their work, we must make a correction. The misunderstanding is that our fi rst publication was a case report of our fi rst patient (5...

relaxation is one of the important mental skills in physical education and sportsactivities. relationship between relaxation and rhythmic exercises with anemphasis on flexibility-functional mechanisms of nervous system has receivedattention in recent studies. the aim of the present study was to investigate the effectof rhythmic exercises on deepening the relaxation of national judo athletes. fo...

Background. The analysis of “successful” aging indicates the possibility for restructuring and coordinating adaptive capabilities that could maintain a relatively high level quality life older people. Self-regulation as meta-resource mobilizes cognitive personal resources can make contribution to such possibility. Objective. study focuses on relationship between features self-regulation in grou...

Categorization is treating two or more discriminable entities as equivalent. Cognitive psychologists typically study categorization by looking at sorting, labelling, identification, and membership judgments. However, categorization includes any behavior that is generalized across several different entities or items. Flexibility of categorization is categorizing entity [a] with set [X] on one oc...

Over the last three decades significant efforts have been made in many European countries to move away from a mental health system dominated by institutional care towards one whereby the main emphasis is on providing care and support within the community. Although the time of starting the reforms, their pace, the political context, and the exact objectives varies substantially across Europe, pr...

Mental Health and Working Conditions in European Countries Increased pressure for labour market flexibility and increasing demand over workers’ performance have fostered the idea that working conditions, in most European countries, have progressively deteriorated with adverse effects on psychological well being and mental health. This paper investigates the links between contractual arrangement...

This is the first attempt of empirical investigation of language mediated concept activation (LMCA) in bilingual memory as a cognitive mechanism facilitating divergent thinking. Russian-English bilingual and Russian monolingual college students were tested on a battery of tests including among others Abbreviated Torrance Tests for Adults assessing divergent thinking traits and translingual prim...

Cognitive flexibility is a central component of executive functions that allow us to behave meaningful in an ever changing environment. Here, we support a distinction between two different types of cognitive flexibility, shifting flexibility and spreading flexibility, based on independent underlying mechanisms commonly subsumed under the ability to shift cognitive sets. We use a homonym related...

Silvina P. Limandri,1,2 Alejo C. Carreras,1,3,* Rita D. Bonetto,1,4 and Jorge C. Trincavelli1,2 1Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientı́ficas y Técnicas, C1033AAJ Buenos Aires, Argentina 2Facultad de Matemática, Astronomı́a y Fı́sica, UNC, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina 3Instituto de Investigaciones en Tecnologı́a Quı́mica, UNSL, CC290–5700 San Luis, Argentina 4Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en C...