neurology—or—what neurology can tell us about human nature

... Gilbert (with an introduction by John Brockman) ADVENTURES IN BEHAVIORAL NEUROLOGY OR—WHAT NEUROLOGY CAN TELL US ABOUT HUMAN NATURE Vilayanur Ramachandran THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL NARRATIVE—OR—WHAT ... my big wombassa is just around the corner 5 Adventures in Behavioral Neurology Or—What Neurology Can Tell Us About Human Nature Vilayanur Ramachandran Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition ... thing you can do, though, and it’s more the wave of the future And that is, you can go beyond human versus machine or human versus algorithm comparison or Kasparov versus Deep Blue (the famous chess...

Ngày tải lên: 11/07/2014, 22:34

... UNDER A GREEN SKY GLOBAL WARMING, THE MASS EXTINCTIONS OF THE PAST, AND WHAT THEY CAN TELL US ABOUT OUR FUTURE Peter D Ward The climate is like a wild beast, and we’re poking it with sticks ... global warming brought about by not a little methane and a whole lot of carbon dioxide poured into this world from volcanic smokestacks and deep sea bubbles of poisonous greenhouse gas burped out ... extinctions, greenhouse extinctions, the rule not the exception, and a road we humans might again travel on now, seemingly oblivious to the road washout ahead, an accident about to happen one...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 01:22

... over years, a significant reduction in MMP3 and VEGF was observed that correlated with a change in C reactive protein in adalimumab treated patients Conversely, a significant increase in BALP ... disease modification in AS using anti-TNF therapy New trials of anti-TNF therapies in patients presenting early in their disease course prior to the appearance of significant repair in the spine ... Competing interests WPM has received honoraria and/or research grants from Amgen/Wyeth, Schering Canada, Abbott Labs Page of (page number not for citation purposes) References Appel H, Janssen...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

... Clostridium scindens ATCC 35704, Staphylococcus aureus subsp aureus NCTC 8325, and Streptococcus strains An intriguing exception involves the soil Firmicute B cereus ATCC 10987, which not only connects ... item signifies a cross-habitat connection between Bacillus cereus (soil) and E coli (host), and Bacillus thuringiensis (host, soil) with B cereus (soil) We find 97 instances where transposases are ... distantly related neighbors in numerous ways, including possible lateral gene transfer (LGT) [7] Since we cannot directly observe these interactions, we must use sequence data as proxy For this...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 21:20

... Corsican populations by using the three microsatellites or each microsatellite separately (figures 3A to 3D) The Devinas population was tested and was found to be of Corsican origin by using ... value, while significantly different from Differentiation was highly significant for all pairs of groups (all cases P < 0.0000) 3.5 Use of nuclear microsatellites to distinguish Corsican from Aquitaine ... the three microsatellites pooled or by using either the FRPP91 or the ITPH4516 A more economic efficient method could be achieved by using only one microsatellite The FRPP91 locus gave the highest...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:20

... Antarctica) – note that isostatic adjustments to Plio-Pleistocene ice sheet growth and recent deglaciation causes significant deviations from the “real” (eustatic) sea level difference 27 Problem: ... warming Nature Geoscience, 2(8), 576–580 Nature Publishing Group doi:10.1038/ngeo578 35 MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu 12.340 Global Warming Science Spring 2012 For information about citing ... Image courtesy of NASA Oxygen isotope fractionation Because ice sheets are made with 18O-depleted precipitation, ice sheet growth causes global oceans to be enriched in 18O As a result, global...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 00:37

... were compared using a one-way ANOVA, and least significant difference/Bonferroni confirms that significant differences exist between all group means except for GB-registered versus adjudication ... beginning of August, thus enabling longitudinal analysis of developments on the Register The research team has obtained copies of these extracts since 2002 The anonymized August 2007 Register ... Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Human Resources for Health 2009, 7:51 http://www .human- resources-health.com/content/7/1/51 they can register with the RPSGB Due to the requirement...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... And because you don’t care about CTR, You could also lay off the optimization and focus on making your site more attractive to users But you can t tell when your site is going to be used for ... (which is free; you can download it at www.nvu.com) let you create sites without you needing to know your tags from your tables If you can use Word, you can create a website You can either have fun ... and you can even set up a page that contains recommended links so that you’ll have somewhere to put them There’s a range of other strategies and services that you can use You can find out about...

Ngày tải lên: 29/04/2014, 14:48

... component C4 in human systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE): low copy number is a risk factor for and high copy number is a protective factor against SLE susceptibility in European Americans Am J Hum ... status in females [7] Further susceptibility loci are likely to be discovered using this approach Similarly, alleles from 14 genes from over 2,300 cases and 1,700 controls from the North American ... natural menopause whereas there was little association with current use or duration of use of hormonal replacement therapy or oral contraceptive pill and no association with the use of fertility...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

... medicine And most people can use existing medicine without experiencing bad effects Doctors sometimes use caffeine to treat migraine headaches Interestingly, caffeine can also cause some migraines ... employer first (MUSIC) STEVE EMBER: Ask anyone with a cluster headache, and they will tell you that the pain is terrible The Cleveland Clinic in Ohio says the cluster headache can be many times ... exercise can help migraine sufferers Aerobic exercise increases a person's heart rate It can include walking, swimming or riding a bicycle But a sudden start to hard exercise can cause headaches...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 14:44

... customer sites Thus Content is geographically distributed not only among the four colocation centers, but also at about a dozen customer sites The front-end software at all three sites is customwritten, ... tools operators use to administer services are not just primitive and difficult to use, they are also brittle Although we did not collect detailed statistics about failures in systems used for service ... caused about 10% of failures, software about 20%, and system management a bit over 50% [15] Our study is similar in spirit to two studies of network failure causes: Mahajan examined the causes...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

... mushrooms that grow in Russian forests After that, showing excerpts of previously recorded interviews with mycologists and botanists about mushrooms, Kuryokhin explained that many Russian mushrooms, ... agaric mushroom affect consciousness as strongly as the famous Mexican hallucinogenic cactus, Lophophora Williamsii He added his own “research finding”: if an individual regularly consumes these mushrooms ... cameras about some previously unknown secrets of Lenin’s nature and their role in the Bolshevik revolution Kuryokhin turned to his favorite style: he spoke in an earnest and serious tone, using...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20

... discourse This is discussed in more detail later 2.1 Lexicons for Discourse modeling Pustejovsky’s Generative Lexicon (GL) model (Pustejovksy, 1995) outlines an ambitious attempt to formulate ... (4) results from the polyse- mous use of the word bar The first sentence leads us to believe that bar is a place where one drinks, but the second sentence forces us to revise our interpretation ... familiar proverb ‘You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink’, and the deviation from the recognizable structure causes the violation of our expectations Thus, access is not restricted...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:20

... friend, I can what I because nature is witless, in the sense of being impartial Feminist points of view can help us look at science from a different angle, but they will never be able to change nature, ... what we can learn about ourselves from these findings and what is likely to lead us into blind alleys The final chapter describes some of the ways animal behavior can be misused in discussions ... is about seeing what animals It is about the connections, legitimate and illegitimate, between learning about them and learning about ourselves It is for those wanting to see how our ideas about...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 10:54

... ignorant as the rest of us ~Chip & Dan Heath, Made To Stick THINGS YOU CAN TAKE HOME WITH YOU TONIGHT IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT REQUIREMENTS MAKE IT REAL PROTOTYPE IT TELL (SHORT) STORIES A user should be able ... INTERFACE REDUCES USER SUPPORT REQUESTS Source: WHY HAVE ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE VENDORS #FAILED WITH USER EXPERIENCE? THE BUYER & THE USER ARE NOT THE SAME PERSON ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE USERS ARE A CAPTIVE ... APPLICATION’S USER INTERFACE A PRIMARY REASON FOR BUSINESS PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENTS Source: OF RESPONDENTS STATE THAT A WELL-DESIGNED USER INTERFACE DECREASES ERROR RATES Source: ASSERT THAT A GOOD USER...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 18:29

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 15:30

... influenza virus and a human virus become reassorted into the same virion, usually through infection of swine by both viruses, and this can result in a virus that is still adapted to infect humans but ... date been transmitted between humans What determines whether new animal virus variants that can pass from animals to humans can also be transmitted from human to human? The primary factor is the ... principally because the proteins not fold appropriately The more commonly used killed vaccines are made from viruses inactivated in formalin or β-propiolactone and used either as a whole virus or as...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 19:20

... the other hand can be more easily recorded Thus the IR technique is especially suitable e.g for relatively short-term testing of methods, while limited number of thermocouples can be applied ... included by an isotherm remains constant Intuitively one can imagine that the heat cannot progress so far away perpendicular to the sap flow axis, because it is transported along with the sap Figure (A) ... period to travel from focus to focus of the ellipse via points on the ellipse itself (Fig 2B) If now the sap flow changes, the heat will be displaced and the second focus shifts accordingly This...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

... formation and cartilage pannus junction key to understanding RA Erosion and pannus are inevitable and predictable consequences of chronic synovitis, RA being the most common cause ability to visualise ... methodology because there were very few relevant data accrued using this modality However, since there is now such a wealth of imaging data available from MRI, the present article will focus on it Magnetic ... resonance imaging bone oedema represents a diffuse osteitis – at least some of erosive process occurs within the bone Synovitis locations Considered as diffuse Regional variations within and between...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22