1Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy 2Laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal Processing Riken, Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan 3Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford Surrey GU2 7XH, UK 4Department of Computer and System Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy 5Neur...

M. Di Paola, D. Menghini, R. Murri, S. Vicari, L. Petrosini, and C. Caltagirone Neuroimaging Laboratory, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy, Department of Internal Medicine and Public Health, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy, Italy, Department of Neuroscience, I.R.C.C.S. Children’s Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy, Neuroimaging Laboratory, IRCCS S. Lucia Foundation, CSCS Centro ...

1 Interdepartmental Research Centre for Models and Information Analysis in Biomedical Systems, University “Sapienza”, P. le A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy 2 IRCCS "Fondazione Santa Lucia", Via Ardeatina 306, 00179, Rome, Italy 3 Department of Human Physiology and Pharmacology, University “Sapienza”, P. le A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy 4 Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, University “Sapi...

Large-scale competitive P2P systems are threatened by the noncooperation problem, where peers do not forward queries to potential competitors. While non-cooperation is not a problem in current P2P free file-sharing systems, it is likely to be a problem in such P2P systems as pay-per-transaction file-sharing systems, P2P auctions, and P2P service discovery systems, where peers are in competition...

M.J. Abenza Abildúa (Madrid) A. Alberti (Perugia) V. Artto (Helsinki) A. Ashkenazi (Doylestown) S.M. Baskin (Stamford) R. Benoliel (Jerusalem) M.S. Berilgen (Elazig) A. Bozzao (Rome) F. Brighina (Palermo) E. Brodtkorb (Trondheim) S. Broner (New York) O. Bruni (Rome) J.M. Burgunder (Bern) M.G. Buzzi (Rome) R.K. Cady (Springfield) R.H. Caraballo (Buenos Aires) A. Carolei (L’Aquila) M. Carotenuto ...

OBJECTIVES We conducted a large-scale Internet survey of 10,000 subjects across Japan to determine irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) prevalence. (J-ROAD: Japanese research of abdominal symptoms for IBS) METHODS: An equal number of male and female subjects, aged at least 20 years, were surveyed by questionnaire. The prevalence of IBS and its subtypes were determined using Rome III criteria, and the...

controllers were not alone in seeking to end such traditional ideas and practices. Women were informed by magistrates and medical men that life did exist before quickening and that any interference-not that just carried out by a third party with a sharp instrument-could be described as an attempt at abortion. But by the 1920s lawyers and doctors were expressing their own unhappiness with the 18...

Kinematic strategies in newly walking toddlers stepping over different support 1 surfaces 2 3 4 Nadia Dominici, Yuri P. Ivanenko, Germana Cappellini, Maria Luisa Zampagni, 5 Francesco Lacquaniti 6 7 8 Laboratory of Neuromotor Physiology, Santa Lucia Foundation, via Ardeatina 306, 00179 9 Rome, Italy, Centre of Space Bio-medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, via 10 Montpellier 1, 00133 Rome,...

INTRODUCTION Data regarding prevalence and natural history of infant dyschezia, defined by the Rome III criteria as straining and crying for at least 10 min before successful passage of soft stools, are lacking. OBJECTIVE We aimed to investigate prevalence and natural history of infant dyschezia. STUDY DESIGN In 2003, 124 youth healthcare doctors participated in a national study on defecati...