List-learning experiments can have several levels of structure: individual words, the gist (if any) of each list, and the task in which those lists are embedded. The usual presentation of the DRM associative paradigm (Deese, 1959; Roediger & McDermott, 1995) strongly encourages a focus on gist and produces a high rate of false recall of key words (FRK). The experiments reported here were design...

Sequence variant analysis (SVA) is critical in therapeutic protein development because it ensures the absence of genetic mutations of a production clone or high-level misincorporations during cell culture. While software for searching sequence variants from mass spectrometry data are available, effectively distinguishing true positives from a large number of false positives in the reported hits...

background: long-term tunneled catheters are used for the hemodialysis or chemotherapy in many patients. proper placement of the catheter tip could reduce early and late catheter related complications. aim of the present study was to evaluate a new formula for proper placement of tunneled hemodialysis or infusion port device by using an external anatomic landmark. materials and methods: a total...

background: obesity has been associated with several co ‑ morbidities such as diabetes and increased mortality. in general, the use of medication promotes only a modest weight loss in the range of 2 to 10 kg, usually most effective during the first 6 months of therapy; however, studies have shown positive effects on other risk factors such as blood pressure and serum glucose levels, but there...

Detecting local differences between groups of connectomes is a great challenge in neuroimaging, because the large number of tests that have to be performed and the impact on multiplicity correction. Any available information should be exploited to increase the power of detecting true between-group effects. We present an adaptive strategy that exploits the data structure and the prior informatio...

Abstract: A defender allocates its resource between defending an object passively by deploying false targets, and striking preventively against an attacker seeking to destroy the object. With no preventive strike the defender allocates its entire resource to deploying false targets, which the attacker cannot distinguish from the genuine object. If the defender strikes preventively, the attacker...