A fast-growing theoretical literature on the political economy of reform has provided a sizable collection of models that have deepened our understanding concerning how distributional conflict manifests itself in the political process and can prevent efficiency-enhancing economic reform from taking place (see e.g., Allan Drazen [2000 Ch. 10, 13] for an insightful review). Unfortunately, systema...

9 Country Comparisons of Human Stroke Research Since 2001 A Bibliometric Study Kjell Asplund, MD; Marie Eriksson, PhD; Olle Persson, PhD (Stroke. 2012;43:830-837.)

Comparative Performance of Multi-view Stereoscopic and Mammographic Display Modalities for Breast Lesion Detection by Lincoln Jon Webb Medical Physics Graduate Program Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Ehsan Samei, Supervisor ___________________________ Joseph Lo ___________________________ Sua Yoo An abstract of a thesis submitted in partial ful...

substituted BiFeO3 epitaxial thin films at morphotropic phase boundaries Daisuke Kan, Ching-Jung Cheng, Valanoor Nagarajan, and Ichiro Takeuchi Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Gokasyo Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of N...

The success of assisted reproduction, although gradually increasing over the years, is still less than satisfactory. Many couples have benefited from this treatment; many have also been left frustrated following multiple failed attempts (Bulent Urman et al. 2005). Repeated implantation failure (RIF), defined as three or more failed IVF attempts or failure of IVF after cumula- Abstracts of the 5...

Investigation of the neurophysiologic control of swallowing presents the researcher with a fascinating and challenging journey through the varied terrains of neuromotor control. A unique task by virtue of its complexity, the swallowing process is engaged both volitionally and reflexively, presumably driven by both cortical and subcortical neural structures, and is complicated by the nature of s...

In AD, a significant synaptic loss ranging from 20% to 50% is reported. Biochemistry, elec‐ tron microscopy and immunocytochemistry have shown a decrease in synaptic density, presynaptic terminals, synaptic vesicle and synaptic protein markers in AD brains com‐ pared with the normal aged controls (Terry et al., 1991; Geula, 1998; Larson et al., 1999; Yao et al., 1999; Ashe, 2000; Baloyannis et ...

PURPOSE This study evaluates the extent to which bilingual children produce the same or overlapping responses on tasks assessing semantic skills in each of their languages and whether classification analysis based on monolingual or conceptual scoring can accurately classify the semantic development of typically developing (TD) bilingual children. METHOD In Study 1, 55 TD children (ages 4;0 [y...

There is general agreement that bacteremia occurs as one sequel to midlethal doses of whole body x-irradiation (Warren and Whipple, 1923; Mottram and Kingsbury, 1924; Chrom, 1935; Lawrence and Tennant, 1937; Bennett et al., 1949; Miller et al., 1951 Gonshery et al., 1953). This infection could occur as a terminal event in animals dying of radiation injury; however, the findings of Miller et al....