Observers can voluntarily select which items are encoded into working memory, and the efficiency of this process strongly predicts memory capacity. Nevertheless, the present work suggests that voluntary intentions do not exclusively determine what is encoded into this online workspace. Observers indicated whether any items from a briefly stored sample display had changed. Unbeknown to observers...

PURPOSE To analyze the retinal symmetry of multifocal visual evoked potential (mfVEP) in both eyes of normal subjects. METHODS The monocular mfVEP in both eyes of 36 normal subjects (72 eyes) were tested with VERIS Science 4.0. The stimulus was the pattern reversal dart array consisted of 60 sectors, each included 16 black-white reverse patterns. The visual stimulation was controlled by a bin...

the aim of this research was to compare brain quadrant dominance between athletic and non-athletic students. for this purpose, 199 university students participating in sport olympiad summer 1391 were selected as the athletic sample and 162 students as the non-athletic samples using simple random sampling method. the hermann brain dominance instrument (hbdi) was used for data collection. the res...

PURPOSE The inspection of foveal and parafoveal thickness in healthy pregnant women in the last trimester. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study included 40 healthy pregnant women in their last trimester (study group: 40 women, 80 eyes) and 37 nonpregnant women (control group: 37 women, 74 eyes). Visual acuity, intraocular pressure, slit lamp examination of anterior and posterior segments, and vis...

This paper establishes some asymptotic formulas for the infinite-time ruin probabilities of two kinds of dependent risk models. One risk model considers the claim sizes as a modulated process, and the other deals with negatively upper orthant dependent claim sizes. In the two models, the inter-arrival times are both assumed to be negatively lower orthant dependent.

This study analyzes the effect of socio-economic variables on HDI in East Java. Secondary data sources come from Statistics Central Bureau Java Province. The research method used is cluster analysis and panel regression. sample quantity 228 data. results showed that a large Gini ratio, population density, crime, gender empowerment had significant HDI, while unemployment economic growth no HDI. ...

An unusual case involving an infected hepatic cyst in which the correct diagnosis was made without operation is reported. A 93-year-old woman presented with acute onset of right upper quadrant abdominal pain, mild left lower quadrant abdominal pain, diarrhea, and fever. On admission, computed tomography revealed a 15 cm solitary hepatic cyst in the anterior-superior segment of the liver with a ...

OBJECTIVE To report the quantitative assessment of visual fields (VF) in patients with pituitary macroadenomas, and the time course and predictive factors for recovery of vision. METHODS Retrospective study of 41 patients with pituitary adenomas and visual disturbance. Patients underwent pre- and postoperative VF assessment at one week, three to six months, one year, two years, and five years...

One of the known complications of gallstones consists in gallbladder perforation with cholecystocutaneous abscesses or external fistulas formation. Nowadays these types of complications are uncommon, having been more frequent. The authors report the case of an 86 year-old woman, bedridden and dependent, referred to our institution by presenting a tumefaction with inflammatory signs in the right...