We describe a simple, inexpensive, and very effective method of achieving circumferential flow reduction during direct percutaneous cyanoacrylate embolization of a high-flow vascular malformation of the scalp. By using a plastic "cookie cutter" placed over the lesion and applying various degrees of pressure, both venous outflow from and arterial inflow into the lesion were limited. This flow re...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in women and men. Psyllium, a soluble fiber has been known to reduce serum lipids. In this pilot study, we evaluated whether menopausal status would affect the serum lipid responses to psyllium fiber in women. METHODS Eleven post-menopausal and eight pre-menopausal women with serum total cholesterol >200 mg/dL were included in th...

Beany and grassy flavors in raw edible bean flours reduce consumer acceptability of bean-based baked products. In order to improve consumer acceptability, beans may be further processed by cooking and germination. However, these operations drive up the cost of end-products. Therefore, it is necessary to develop formulations, using raw edible bean flours that have acceptable sensory attributes. ...

We study the excited random walk, in which a walk that is at a site that contains cookies eats one cookie and then hops to the right with probability p and to the left with probability q = 1−p. If the walk hops onto an empty site, there is no bias. For the 1-excited walk on the half-line (one cookie initially at each site), the probability of first returning to the starting point at time t scal...

In the field of virtual reality (VR) research, media technologies to create a realistic feeling of being present in a real/virtual world by duplicating multi-sensory information have been studied over a long period. Recently, technologies for multi-sensory feedbacks achieved a major breakthrough by utilizing cross-modal interactions. By changing sensory stimuli through only one modality using t...

Imagine yourself at age 3 years—let us say, 3 and a half. It is Saturday morning in late autumn, and instead of being at home in your pajamas watching Scooby-Doo , you fi nd yourself in a university laboratory sitting across from a grown-up, a graduate student named Kay, who would also perhaps prefer to be somewhere else. You think of the Happy Meal you were promised if you got in the car in th...