BACKGROUND Several forms of indirect cerebral revascularization have been proposed to promote neovascularity to the ischemic brain. OBJECTIVE To present clinical and angiographic outcomes of indirect revascularization by encephaloduroarteriosynangiosis and burr holes for the treatment of Moyamoya disease in adults and children. METHODS Data from 63 hemispheres treated in 42 patients (averag...

AIM To describe ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features of adiposis dolorosa, Dercum's disease, and to evaluate the MRI features prospectively against a large number of MRI examinations. MATERIALS AND METHODS Institutional review board approval for this study was obtained. The imaging features at MRI and ultrasound of 13 cases of adiposis dolorosa (nine female, four male; age...

This study examined whether blushing after a sociomoral transgression remediates trustworthiness in an interdependent context. Participants (N = 196) played a computerized prisoner's dilemma game with a virtual opponent who defected in the second round of the game. After the defection, a photograph of the opponent was shown, displaying a blushing or a nonblushing face. In a subsequent Trust Tas...

The technology of producing fruits containing an increased amount elements essential for the health human body, including silicon, has become very important in recent years. Due to popularity apple tree cultivation Europe, appropriate research been undertaken. aim experiment was determine advisability foliar silicon nutrition cultivation. Apple cultivars ‘Gala Schniga’, ‘Ligol’ and ‘Topaz’ were...

This paper offers a systematic treatment of the social and cultural context blush. The looks into how different emotion theories approach blushing does so by differentiating between basic theories, which consider contextual factors but do not make them central to understanding emotional expressions, expressions. argues that might be best explained expression.

t t i t a i f f c Sdringola et al. (1) in this issue of iJACC address an issue of considerable importance, both for clinical and for research applications concerning positron emission tomography (PET) measurements of absolute myocardial blood flow (MBF). In brief, they attempted what at first blush seems a simple and obvious task; namely to define “normal” values of MBF (82Rb method) at rest an...