It is our pleasure to organise this thematic issue: strategies of current drugs and alternative treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, and to share the varied theory and/or experience about therapy of drugs from bench to bed. Neurodegenerative diseases, all are a group of intractable disorders in CNS: the prevalence from rare to common, and the onset from younger to older, with a little dif...

conclusions the dimensions and variables affecting the surveyors’ management were identified and classified on the basis of existing scientific methods in the form of a conceptual framework. using the results of this study, it would certainly be possible to take a great step toward enhancing the reliability of surveys and the quality and safety of services, while effectively managing accreditat...

Abstract Background Teleological reasoning is a cognitive bias purported to disrupt student ability understand natural selection. Few studies have described pedagogical efforts decrease endorsement of teleological and measure the effects this attenuation on understanding acceptance evolution. This exploratory study examined influence explicit instructional activities directly challenging explan...

The development of increasingly complex multimedia applications calls for new methodologies for the organization and retrieval of still images and video sequences. Query and retrieval methods based on image content promise good results, are currently widely investigated and, to some extent, already commercially available. Yet a large number of issues remain unsolved. In this paper we describe s...

This review paper discusses how to develop, produce, sustain, and serve satellite climate data records (CDRs) in the context of transitioning research to operation (R2O). Requirements and critical procedures of producing various CDRs, including Fundamental CDRs (FCDRs), Thematic CDRs (TCDRs), Interim CDRs (ICDRs), and climate information records (CIRs) are discussed in detail, including radianc...

BACKGROUND This study aims to audit analytic turnaround time (TAT) in a histopathology laboratory with a view to assessing the timeliness of its reports, identify causes of delay in its TAT, and compare this with client perception of its performance. MATERIALS AND METHODS Records of 1440 batches of specimens processed over a 5-year period in the histopathology laboratory of a teaching hospita...

Lilienfeld, Wood, and Garb (2000) published a largely negative critique of the validity and reliability of projective methods, concentrating on the Comprehensive System for the Rorschach (Exner, 1993), 3 systems for coding the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT; Murray, 1943) cards, and human figure drawings. This article is an effort to document and correct what I perceive as errors of omission a...

Remote sensing using Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) satellite imagery is increasingly used for mapping wildland fire burned area and burn severity, owing to its frequency of collection, relatively high resolution, and availability free of charge. However, rapid response of vegetation following fire and frequent cloud cover pose challenges to this approach in the southeastern US. We assessed these...

Research conducted on the theory of selective attention suggests that varying the graphic combinations used when designing bivariate symbols affects the functionality of the symbol. Some graphic combinations appear to facilitate the ability to visualize correlation between the data sets represented by the symbol; others appear to be more effective at representing the data sets individually, som...