The color organ is a musical instrument which produces visual stimuli such that it corresponds to the sound in a certain manner. Numerous attempts are known to have listeners experience synaesthetic effects. In these effects stimuli in one organ of sense are experienced in another. Several great names in history, such as Plato, Pythagoras and Aristotle have already been working on music-color c...

BACKGROUND There has been an increase in natural disasters in recent years, which leads to a great number of injuries and deaths. It still remains an unsolved problem to treat patients with vascular injury of solid organs effectively following natural disasters, but on-spot emergency interventional transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE) has been highly recommended to cure serious vascular in...

The brain, a mixture of neural and glia cells, vasculature, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), is one of the most complex organs in the human body. To understand brain responses to traumatic injuries and diseases of the central nervous system it is necessary to develop accurate mathematical models and corresponding computer simulations which can predict brain biomechanics and help design better dia...

BACKGROUND Mechanical circulatory support (MCS) is life sustaining for patients with end-stage heart failure. Most devices require abdominal wall transgression, creating a potential for abdominal complications. The incidence and impact of these relatively underreported complications are unknown. METHODS A retrospective review was performed on 179 patients who received MCS therapy from 1999 to...

Ten species of Gynnidomorpha Turner, 1916 occur in China. Gynnidomorpha curviphalla, sp. nov., is described, and G datetis (Diakonoff, 1984) is recorded from China for the first time. Images of adults and genitalia are provided, along with a key to all known Chinese species based on the male genitalia. A map showing the geographic distribution of the species is also provided.

Two new species of Gelechiidae, Teleiopsis motleella, sp. nov., and Sitotroga pseudopsacasta, sp. nov., are described from Korea. Illustrations of adults and male genitalia are provided. Scrobipalpa spumata (Povolný, 2001), comb. n., is newly recorded from Korea. It was described from the female, and the male genitalia are described and illustrated for the first time.

Two new species, Hilara deryae sp. nov. (Hilara clavipes-group) and Hilara hasankoci sp. nov. (Hilara interstinctagroup) are described from northwestern Turkey. The male and female stages are described, compared with related species and male genitalia and forelegs illustrated. Keys to the western Palaearctic species of Hilara clavipes-group and the Mediterranean species of Hilara interstincta-g...

Tanyproctus (Tanyproctus) arher Bezděk, Sehnal & Král, new species, is described from Socotra Island (Yemen), based on external morphology including male genitalia.

A new species of the genus Perigrapha, P. yasawii sp. n. is described from Syrdarya river valley, South Kazakhstan. The adults and male genitalia of the new and related species are illustrated.

1. A method of experimentation is described which enables one to record objectively and quantitatively the discrimination by Mya between two intensities of illumination to which it is successively exposed. The indicator for this discrimination is a response at a given reaction time. 2. From the data so obtained it is found that the difference, DeltaI, between the two intensities bears no consta...