Resource accounts of behavioral aging postulate that age-associated impairments within and across intellectual and sensory domains reflect, in part, a common set of senescent alterations in the neurochemistry and neuroanatomy of the aging brain. Hence, these accounts predict sizeable correlations of between-person differences in rates of decline, both within and across intellectual and sensory ...

This study develops an R&D-based growth model with vertical and horizontal innovation to shed some light on the current debate on whether patent protection stimulates or sti‡es innovation. We analyze the e¤ects of patent protection in the form of blocking patents. We show that patent protection changes the direction of innovation by having asymmetric e¤ects on vertical innovation (i.e., quality...

An editorial by Churchill-Davidson in 1965 expressed the clinical problem succinctly: ‘To reverse, or not to reverse’: that is the question! Since the introduction of d-tubocurarine into clinical anaesthesia this question has received opposing answers’. Now, more than six decades later this issue has yet to be resolved. The introduction of neuromuscular blocking drugs (NMBD) into anaesthetic pr...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is increasingly used to modify brain activity noninvasively and to study brain-behavior relations. However, results can be variable and the conditions that affect the functional efficacy of TMS remain unclear. Here we show that on-line TMS can either facilitate or suppress perceptual functions depending on the baseline level of activity of the targeted br...

OBJECTIVE To verify if post-ureteroscopy (URS) stenting is still necessary as a routine strategy, or if some cases can be treated without. METHODS Between August 2004 and April 2005, 85 patients were admitted to the Urology Department at the Nephrology and Urology Center, Al-Thawra Hospital, Yemen with ureteric stones of different size and site. All were scheduled and treated by the ureterosc...

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2010: 36(3) Introduction Without assurances about confidentiality, clients (confiders) may be reluctant to give health professionals (confidants) the information they need in order to provide good care. In a European Court of Human Rights case, a woman’s doctor had been compelled to reveal her HIV positivity in court in connection with the investigation of s...

The paper examines the logic and semantics of knowledge attributions of the form “s knows whether A or B”. We analyze these constructions in an epistemic logic with alternative questions, and propose an account of the context-sensitivity of the corresponding sentences and of their presuppositions.

A terrorist defends an asset which grows from the first to the second period and is attacked. With large asset growth, the terrorist’s first period outcome is low caused by a large attack. With no expenditure constraint, the terrorist’s total outcome is positive. With equal attack and defense inefficiencies, when the terrorist as defender requires his first period outcome to be positive, the at...

OBJECTIVE We sought to study whether the association between being born small for gestational age and risk for low intellectual performance was modified by gestational age. METHODS A population-based cohort study was conducted of 352,125 boys who were born between 28 and 43 completed weeks of gestation from 1973 to 1981 in Sweden. Risk for low intellectual performance at military conscription...

This article is a description of the process protecting designer’s intellectual property through registration with European Union Intellectual Property Office or EUIPO relying on status an Unregistered Community Design. The discusses as well invalidation and considers issues relating to enforcement rights. Finally, focuses whether complaint about possible copyright infringement may be lodged ag...