A characteristic feature of animals and particularly of humans is the ability to alter their behaviour on the basis of experience or learning. Learning is an acquisition and storage of information as a consequence of experience. Memory is a relatively permanent storage form of the learned information [1]. The hippocampus and amygdala are two important regions involved in learning and memory. In...

Accumulation of chromium (Cr) was determined in water, sediment, aquatic plants, invertebrates and fish in aquatic ecosystems receiving effluents from handloom textile industries in Ranaghat-Fulia region of West Bengal in India. Cr was determined in the samples by atomic absorption spectrophotometer and data were analyzed functionally by Genetic Algorithm to determine trend of depositions of Cr...

In Vieth et al. (2014a), we conducted three experiments to examine semantic relatedness effects in the picture-word interference (PWI) paradigm. According to the lexical selection by competition account of spoken word production, feature overlap between the target picture and related distractor word induces semantic interference. However, this account has been challenged by studies demonstratin...

The scientific study of gender differences has yielded a wealth of robust generalizations about the way males and females differ across domains, cultures, and developmental stages. This article provides a descriptive overview of gender differences in personality, social cooperation and competition (including aggression and play), and verbal and nonverbal communication. Qualitative statements ab...

The current paper describes and illustrates three things: (a) sampling variance and confidence intervals for Cronbach’s Alpha, (b) the relative precision of reliability estimates from local studies and meta-analyses, and (c) how to blend the local and metaanalytic information to create an optimal local reliability estimate according to Bayesian principles. The paper is not about artifact correc...

Potato tubers (Solanum tuberosum cv. Sebago) were stored at 20 °C in air containing ethylene at <0.005, 0.01, 0.1, 1.0, or 10 μL·L–1 and the level of sprouting was measured over 35 days. The time for tubers to develop an average of one sprout per tuber was found to linearly increase as the log10 ethylene concentration decreased with the effect present over the whole range of concentration. Afte...