Actas Dermosifiliogr. 2009;100:817-32 824 6. Pippione M, Aloi F, Depaoli MA. Hair-follicle nevus. Am J Dermatopathol. 1984;6:245-7. 7. Hyman AB, Clayman SJ. Hair-follicle nevus; report of a case and a review of the literature concerning this lesion and some related conditions. AMA Arch Derm. 1957;75: 678-84. 8. Ackerman AB, De Viragh PA, Chongchitnant N. Hamartomas. In: Febiger LA, ed. Neoplasm...

DOCUMENT RESUME EC 041 478 Ackerman, Marc J. Group Therapy Readiness Using Operant Techniaues with Mental Retardates. Georgia Univ., Athens. 72 11p.; Paper presented at the AERA Convention (Chicago, Illinois, April 7, 1972) MF-$0.65 HC-$3.29 *Behavior Change; *Exceptional Child Research; Group Therapy; *Mentally Handicapped; *Operant Conditioning; Social Adjustment; *Trainable Mentally Handicap...

David Hsieh for his encouragement with the project, Carl Ackerman, Jennifer Carpenter, Ian Domowitz and Steven Heston for their helpful comments, and both Markus Karr and Jeremy Staum for able assistance programming and in preparation of the data. In addition, we acknowledge the contributions of participants at presentations at a December 1997 CBOT conference, the 1999 American Finance Associat...

The incremental validity of the Typical Intellectual Engagement (TIE) scale (Goff & Ackerman, 1992) as a predictor of academic performance (AP) was tested over and above other established determinants of AP, namely, psychometric g (as extracted from 5 cognitive ability tests) and the Big Five personality traits, assessed by the Neuroticism-Extraversion-Openness Five Factor Inventory (Costa & Mc...

Sebaceomas are uncommon benign dermal lesions [1]. Troy and Ackerman coined the term sebaceoma to describe what was earlier known as sebaceous epithelioma, two decades ago [1,2]. Sebaceoma is a benign sebaceous tumour with >50% basaloid cell content. Sebaceoma is usually not suspected clinically due to its rarity [1]. Clinically, it presents as solitary papule or nodule on the face and scalp af...

Editorial | Dermatol Pract Concept 2013;3(4):1 1 Dear Readers, Mark A. Hurt, the Editor of the Book Review Section of Dermatology Practical & Conceptual has decided, after a decade of contributions, that the time has come to him to transition out of his role. Mark was recruited by Bernie Ackerman and started working as Book Review Editor in 2003. During these 10 years, Mark contributed with his...

As we devise more complicated prior distributions, will inference algorithms keep up? We highlight a negative result in computable probability theory by Ackerman, Freer, and Roy (2010) that shows that there exist computable priors with noncomputable posteriors. In addition to providing a brief survey of computable probability theory geared towards the A.I. and statistics community, we give a ne...

The internet is increasingly being used to distribute knowledge in medicine in novel and unconventional ways. In this article, we give a brief introduction into the website www.derm101.com, which was founded by A. B. Ackerman for the purpose of teaching dermatology and dermatopathology. A clinical atlas, online books such as the 3rd edition of his volume "Histologic diagnosis of inflammatory sk...

Weight is conceptualized as an embodiment of importance, according to recent research on embodied cognition (Ackerman, Nocera, & Bargh, 2010; Jostmann, Lakens, & Schubert, 2009). Is importance as embodied by weight used as a cue that items are memorable? Four experiments varied participants' perceptual experiences of weight as they studied words and predicted later memory performance via judgme...