In the peripheral visual field, nearby objects can make one another difficult to recognize (crowding) in a manner that critically depends on their separation. We manipulated the apparent separation of objects using the illusory shifts in perceived location that arise from local motion to determine if crowding depends on physical or perceived location. Flickering Gabor targets displayed between ...

Visual cognition of observers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) seems to show an unbalance between the complementary functions of integration and segregation. This study uses visual search and crowding paradigms to probe the relative ability of children with autism, compared to normal developments children, to extract individual targets from cluttered backgrounds both within and outside the c...

Mn modified rhombohedral Pb(In0.5Nb0.5)O3-Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 (PIN-PMN-PT:Mn) single crystals poled along [011]C crystallographic direction exhibit a "2R" engineered domain configuration, with macroscopic mm2 symmetry. The complete sets of material constants were determined using combined resonance and ultrasonic methods, and compared to [001]C poled PIN-PMN-PT:Mn crystals. The thickness sh...

AIMS To evaluate the role of third molars in the development of crowding or relapse after orthodontic treatment in the anterior segment of the dental arch. METHODS PubMed search of the literature was performed selecting all the articles relevant to the topic and limiting the studies to controlled trials on humans and written in English language. Systematic review was conducted according to th...

primary endpoint, but also the secondary endpoints that should corroborate the primary endpoint, will stand. This approach is based on the Prentice principle, which states that a result has a higher probability of being truly positive if other related endpoints are also positive 1. An advantage in progression-free survival (pfs) has more chance of being true if a statistically significant advan...

Neutrophils make up a significant portion of the infiltrated immune cells found in the tumor microenvironment. Here we found more infiltrated neutrophils in human renal cell carcinoma (RCC) lesions than adjacent benign areas. In vitro RCC studies showed that neutrophils (HL-60N cells) infiltrated toward RCC cells and subsequently enhanced RCC cell migration and invasion. Co-culture of RCC cells...

OBJECTIVE Histone deacetylase (HDAC) is a tumor suppressor gene in various carcinomas; however, the effect of HDAC10 on human renal cell carcinoma (RCC) remains unknown. In the current study we analyzed the expression and function of HDAC10 in human clear cell RCC. METHODS RCC tissues from 145 patients who underwent radical nephrectomies were evaluated. HDAC10 protein and mRNA expression was ...

In this paper we introduce a new logical calculus of the Region Connection Calculus (RCC) family, RCC*-9. Based on nine topological relations, RCC*-9 is an extension of RCC-8 and models topological relations between multi-type geometric features: therefore, it is a calculus that goes beyond the modeling of regions as in RCC-8, being able to deal with lower dimensional features embedded in a giv...

This study investigated cross-cultural differences in the privacy regulation and perception of crowding amongtwo Iranian sub-cultures (Kurdish and Northern women).The primary purpose of this study was to examine whether Northern and Kurdish women differed in their desired and achieved levels of privacy in parks. The second purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between the d...

Tubulocystic renal cell carcinoma (TC-RCC) is a rare renal tumor composed of well-differentiated tubules and cysts lined by neoplastic cells with eosinophilic cytoplasm and prominent nucleoli. The origin of the tumor cells is still controversial. TC-RCC typically arises unilaterally. Involvement of both kidneys by multifocal TC-RCC has not been reported. In this study we report the first case o...