Some meditation techniques teach the practitioner to achieve the state of mental silence. The aim of this study was to investigate brain regions that are associated with their volume and functional connectivity (FC) with the depth of mental silence in long-term practitioners of Sahaja Yoga Meditation. Twenty-three long-term practitioners of this meditation were scanned using Magnetic Resonance ...

RAP1 and core histones can spread from the telomere at a terminal truncation into adjacent regions (reviewed Department of Biology St. Louis, Missouri 63130 by Grunstein, 1998). One can infer that discrete boundaries are needed to maintain the mosaic pattern of silent and active domains found under normal conditions; indeed , such " barriers " to the spread of heterochromatin The eukaryotic gen...

F or many decades, cancer research focused on genetic changes that led to tumorigenesis. However, it is now established that epigenetics also plays an important role in cancer initiation and development (1, 2). The cancer epigenome is marked by a global decrease in methylation, leading to genomic instability and increased methylation at promoters, which in turn leads to gene silencing (3). The ...

Acoustic analysis of 18 words spoken in citation form by 10 male native speakers of Persian suggests that each of the following parameters can cue the post-alveolar fricative-affricate contrast in isolated word forms in Persian: silence duration, frication duration, rise time and amplitude rise slope. The acoustic values of each cue differ with the position of the test item in the word. Silence...

The speech of 14 stutterers was analyzed prior to and at the termination of a 5-week stuttering therapy program to examine the relationship between nine selected acoustic variables and stuttering frequency. Group analyses indicated that pre- to post-therapy changes in stuttering frequency were accompanied by mean changes in five of the nine acoustic variables, a finding which is consistent with...

Mainly for economic and maintainability reasons, more and more dependable real-time systems are built from Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components. To build these systems, a commonly-used assumption is that computers are fail-silent. The goal of our work is to determine the coverage of the fail-silence assumption for computers executing a real-time run-time support built exclusively from COT...

This study examines e-mail response latency as an expectancy violation and explores its impact. Managers evaluate job candidates who varied in their response latency to an e-mail (1 day, 2 weeks, and silence for more than a month) and in their reward valence. As predicted by expectancy violations theory, candidate reward valence moderates the effect of response latency on variables such as appl...

Speech can be modeled as short bursts of vocal energy separated by silence gaps. During typical conversation, talkspurts comprise only 40% of each party’s speech and remaining 60% is silence. Communication systems can achieve spectral gain by disconnecting the users from the spectral resource during silence periods. This letter develops a simple and efficient Voice Activity Detection (VAD) algo...

While previous researches have explained the silence of majority from the perspective of erroneous perception of being majority, this study regarded it as the result of strategic interactions between agents concerning willingness to express opinion. The social dilemma was used to describe it in that there is conflict between individual interest of not expressing and collective interest of being...

This study examines e-mail response latency as an expectancy violation, and explores its impact. Managers evaluated job candidates who varied in their response latency to an e-mail (one day, two weeks, and silence for over a month), and in their reward valence. As predicted by expectancy violations theory (Burgoon & Hale, 1988), candidate reward valence moderated the effect of response latency ...