OBJECTIVE Several components of event-related potentials--P50 suppression, P300 amplitude and latency, and mismatch negativity--have been proposed as potential endophenotypes for schizophrenia on the basis of family studies. The present study used a twin design to estimate the extent of genetic overlap between these indices and the liability to schizophrenia. METHOD The authors measured misma...

prevention efforts [1]. In this sample of Greenland Inuit where both HIV and undernutrition remain uncommon, the risk of developing TB was markedly higher in persons with co-existing diabetes than in persons without. The very high risk associated with diabetes suggests potential reduction in the Greenland TB incidence rates through incorporating diabetes control and prevention in TB prevention ...

Depiction Verbs and the Definiteness E ff ect  Introduction This paper is part of a longer project on the semantics of depiction verbs and their associated relational nouns. Depiction verbs include verbs for physical acts, such as ' draw' (with relational noun ' drawing'), 'sketch', 'caricature', 'sculpt', 'write (about)', and verbs for mental ones, such as 'visualize', 'imagine', and 'fantasi...

BACKGROUND Epidemiologic estimates are now available for a variety of parameters related to major depression epidemiology (incidence, prevalence, etc.). These estimates are potentially useful for policy and planning purposes, but it is first necessary that they be synthesized into a coherent picture of the epidemiology of the condition. Several attempts to do so have been made using mathematica...

If design patterns are to fulfill their promise of dramatically improving the quality, timeliness and reusability of software it is essential that techniques be found to document them concisely and accurately. Graphical notations offer a potentially powerful approach, but unfortunately current techniques for depicting object-oriented design patterns rely on notations that were initially develop...

A novel combination of ideas from cognitive linguistics and spatial occupancy models in robotics has led to the WIP (Words Into Pictures) system. WIP automatically generates depictions of natural language descriptions of indoor scenes. A qualitative layer in the conceptual representation of objects underlies a mechanism by which alternative depictions arise for qualitatively distinct interpreta...

The investigation starts with peculiarities in Tacitus's depiction of a battle between the Iberians and Parthians. It shall be shown that this is ultimately based on contemporary Iberian heroic epic. Furthermore, it should clarified how local tradition can have found its way into senatorial historiography. A version goes back to L. Vitellius, who acted as governor for Tiberius Caligula, identif...

In the last 30 years, China has undergone one of the largest rural-to-urban migrations in human history, with many children left behind because of parental migration. We present a meta-analytic review of empirical studies on Chinese children's rural-to-urban migration and on rural children left behind because of parental migration. We examine how these events relate to children's emotional, soc...

There are still several unanswered research questions regarding tuberculosis (TB) contact investigations [1–4]. For example, up-to-date epidemiological studies regarding TB contacts in the area of intermediate incidence are not readily available [5]. The long-term risk of TB, especially beyond 5 years, remains undetermined [6]. Risk factors for TB development among contacts are also not well de...

In this paper we present some new versions of Brooks-Jewett and Dieudonné-type theorems for (l)-group-valued measures.