Lawson Wilkins is well known as the "father" of the field of pediatric endocrinology, and his scientific accomplishments and legacy are thoroughly documented in this edition and elsewhere. Less well known, though, is what the man himself was like. Here, his daughter, Elizabeth McMaster, recalls the personal side of Dr. Wilkins including his upbringing as the son of a prominent Baltimore doctor,...

Lack of awareness about performance in tasks is a common feature of Alzheimer's disease. Nevertheless, clinical anecdotes have suggested that patients may show emotional or behavioural responses to the experience of failure despite reporting limited awareness, an aspect which has been little explored experimentally. The current study investigated emotional reactions to success or failure in tas...

T he most astute clinicians would have to admit to occasionally being caught unaware by looking without seeing. We are trained to collect and analyze data, but we often make clinical decisions based on past experiences and shared anecdotes from our colleagues, as well as learned scholars and teachers. We also know that to care for a sick patient, we must conduct an observational assessment of w...

The article considers the phenomenon of collective memory as a resource social interaction, legitimization practices. In particular, attention is paid to aspects reconfiguration content Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Societies remember differently. Ukrainian society has traumatic experience gained result transformational processes collapse Union, formation an independent state, democratic poli...

Many women report a heightened sense of smell during pregnancy. Accounts of these anecdotes have existed for over 100 years, but scientific evidence has been sparse and inconclusive. In this review, I examine the literature on olfactory perception during pregnancy including measures of self-report, olfactory thresholds, odor identification, intensity and hedonic ratings, and disgust. Support fo...

BACKGROUND Ecosystem modeling applied to fisheries remains hampered by a lack of local information. Fishers' knowledge could fill this gap, improving participation in and the management of fisheries. METHODOLOGY The same fishing area was modeled using two approaches: based on fishers' knowledge and based on scientific information. For the former, the data was collected by interviews through t...