OBJECTIVE To examine the patterns of cognitive functioning and academic achievement in children and adolescents with chronic pain attending a tertiary-care interdisciplinary pain service. METHODS The standardized psychoeducational testing results of 57 children and adolescents with chronic pain aged 8-18 were retrospectively reviewed. RESULTS On average, participants scored higher in genera...

This study explores the possible-self construction and achievement process in students of color from low-income communities by investigating these processes in 28 college students. Findings suggest that while parental encouragement of college aspirations may affect age at which the college student possible self is constructed and expectancy level, development of schematic possible selves is mor...

Montmorillonite impregnated with bismuth nitrate has been found to be an excellent reagent for the synthesis of several nitro compounds of biological significance in high yield.

We propose that turning on the light can turn on the hot emotional system. Across six studies we show that ambient brightness makes people feel warmer, which increases the intensity of their affective response, including sensation seeking from spicy-hot foods, perception of aggression and sexiness (“hotness”) in others, and generating more extreme affective reactions toward positive and negativ...

Hurricane intensification has been studied by scientists for decades and one phenomenon that appears to always accompany the intensification is the presence of hot towers of cumulous clouds that stretches to 15 km high, touching the top of the troposphere (Figure 1a &b). The hypothesis of Hot towers was first proposed in 1958 by Riehl and Malkus (Anthes, 1999), who wrote in conclusion from thei...

In the era of Chandra and XMM-Newton, the detection (or nondetection) of diffuse and/or point-like X-ray sources within planetary nebulae (PNe) yields important, unique insight into PN shaping processes. Diffuse X-ray sources, whether due to “hot bubbles” or to collimated outflows or jets, allow us to probe the energetic shocks within PN wind interaction regions. Meanwhile, X-ray point sources ...

Ligand-free Pd(OAc)2 was found to catalyze very efficiently the direct C2-arylation of benzothiophene derivatives under low catalyst concentration. The reaction can be performed employing as little as 0.5-0.1 mol-% catalyst with electron-deficient and some electron-rich aryl bromides. The presence of a methyl or a formyl substituent at C3 of benzothiophene has a minor influence on the reactivit...

Aires, Ciencia y Tecnología, and by Grant 02782 from Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina, to A.E.M. The authors wish to express their thanks to Carlos Baratti and Cristina Acevedo for facilitating the use of the hot plate. María de los Angeles D ́Ambros and Pablo Gomez contributed to the training of rats for this experiment. Correspondence concerning this articl...

International evidence suggests that educational reform’s progress depends on teachers’ individual and collective capacity and its link with schoolwide capacity for promoting pupils’ learning. Building capacity is therefore critical. Capacity is a complex blend of motivation, skill, positive learning, organisational conditions and culture, and infrastructure of support. Put together, it gives i...

We propose an object recognition scheme based on a method for feature extraction from gray level images that corresponds to recent statistical theory, called pmjection pursuit, and is derived from a biologically motivated feature extracting neuron. To evaluate the performance of this method we use a set of very detailed psychophysical three-dimensional object recognition experiments (Biilthoff ...