Injury and disease affect neural processing and increase individual variations in patients when compared with healthy controls. Understanding this increased variability is critical for identifying the anatomical location of eloquent brain areas for pre-surgical planning. Here we show that precise and reliable language maps can be inferred in patient populations from resting scans of idle brain ...

BACKGROUND Our group has previously reported that visceral adipose tissue (VAT) accumulation was associated with the extent and vulnerable characteristics of coronary plaques using coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA). An investigation of the associations between these coronary lesions with plasma adiponectin and leptin was performed. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 394 patients (220...

The neo-classical and the economic doctrines dominating the governmental policies show their impact on the recent transportation policies, basing these policies on the demand and the efficiency criteria instead of the equity concerns. The public transit system operating for the remote areas is less cost-effective, eventually leading to reach a low level of service quality. In the metropolitan a...

Vulnerability, understood as the propensity to be adversely affected, has attained importance in the context of climate change by helping to understand what makes populations and territories predisposed to its impacts. Conditions of vulnerability may vary depending on the characteristics of each territory studied-social, environmental, infrastructural, public policies, among others. Thus, the p...

Lissotes menalcas (the Mt Mangana Stag Beetle) is an obligate beetle and is presently classified as vulnerable under the Tasmanian Threatened Species Protection Act 1995. The distribution, habitat and conservation status of this species were Inv"esturated through a combination of collation of known locations and searches for the in decaying logs across likely areas of occurrence. L. menalcaswas...

BACKGROUND Emergencies such as wars and natural disasters increase the vulnerability of affected populations and expose these populations to risks such as disease, violence, and hunger. Emergency public health interventions aim to mitigate these effects by providing basic minimum requirements, reducing vulnerability, and reducing exposure to risk. Targeted services are generally aimed at childr...