The Third Meeting of the Federation of European Societies of Neuropsychology (ESN) took place at the Congress Centre in Basel, Switzerland, from 7–9 September 2011. The theme of this meeting, which assembled more than 400 clinicians and researchers from many European countries as well as from North America, Asia and Australia, was ‘Neuropsychology across the Lifespan’. This theme gave the oppor...

introduction: in recent years, due to the reduction in surface water, utilization of groundwater has been increased to meet the growing demand of irrigation water. the quality of these water resources is continually changing, due to the geological formations, the amount of utilization, and climatic parameters. in many developing countries, the irrigation water is obtained from poor quality grou...

Introduction Rivers are one of the most important water resources and it is very important to study their water quality. Therefore, in this study, sampling was done from 15 permanent waterway stations of Pirbadush and Gashun of Qolyan River in Lorestan province, which are located in the path of oil shales.   Materials and Methods  Hydro-geochemical parameters were calculated by analyzing t...

In a recent article in The Journal of General Psychology, J. B. Hittner, K. May, and N. C. Silver (2003) described their investigation of several methods for comparing dependent correlations and found that all can be unsatisfactory, in terms of Type I errors, even with a sample size of 300. More precisely, when researchers test at the .05 level, the actual Type I error probability can exceed .1...

Žydelis et al. (2009 [this issue]) is a direct critique of 2 recent papers we published on the use of biodiversity offsets in managing fisheries bycatch (Wilcox & Donlan 2007; Donlan & Wilcox 2008). The authors misrepresent the use of biodiversity offsets as we presented them, misunderstand the policy objectives of fisheries (and bycatch) management, present a flawed analysis of the appropriate...