Idioms are a big part of languages but can cause trouble for communication, especially for non-native speakers of a language. Interpreting idioms correctly means that one must derive a figurative meaning from words that individually mean something else. Recent research primarily focuses on the impact of context for successful idiom comprehension and seems to prioritize native speakers’ understa...

Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois), Lygus hesperus (Knight) and Lygus rugulipennis (Poppius) can cause multiple-leaders to form on conifer seedlings. Injury due to Lygus bugs has increased during the last two decades to the point where these bugs are now considered the worst insect pest at many conifer nurseries. At several nurseries, Lygus bugs have injured 30% or more of the seedlings. Su...

As Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) power consumption continues to increase, lower power FPGA circuitry, architectures, and Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools need to be developed. Before designing low-power FPGA circuitry, architectures, or CAD tools, we must first determine where the biggest savings (in terms of energy dissipation) are to be made and whether these savings are cumulative. I...

Since the early modern period, vast majority of philosophers who have written on contempt understood it as a denial respect. But there has been considerable disagreement about precisely what kind respect we deny people when contemn them. Contemporary defend morally appropriate attitude tend to understand Stephen Darwall calls appraisal respect, while writers, all believe that contemning others ...

Background Population over 65 years old represents the fastest growing group of overall population. Considering that almost 70% of pancreatic cancer patients are over 65 years old, therefore an increasing number of elderly patients should be considered for pancreatic resective surgery. The aim of our study is to compare the outcome after pancreatic resective surgery for cancer between young (un...

The self allows us to reflect on our own behavior and to imagine what others think of us. Clinical experience suggests that these abilities may be impaired in people with personality disorders. They do not recognize the impact that their behavior has on others, and they have difficulty understanding how they are seen by others. We collected information regarding pathological personality traits-...