This paper views schizophrenia as producing a failure of attentional modulation that leads to a breakdown in the selective enhancement or inhibition of semantic/lexical representations whose biological substrata are widely distributed across left dominant temporal and frontal lobes. Supporting behavioral evidence includes word recall studies that have pointed to a...
Power disturbances are often orphans of the EMI world. The equipment designer blames the power company, the power company blames the installer, and the installer blames the equipment designer. Meanwhile, it's often the user who is fouling his or Power disturbances...
Even if your facility doesn't incur the $10 million/min cost of downtime that some facilities experience, unplanned downtime is costly. Power quality plays a central role in the downtime drama, but focusing on the availability of power can cause yo Even if your facility...
A controller for a non-deterministic hybrid plant must ensure that the closed-loop system meets some requirement, regardless of what the plant does. When the plant is viewed as an adversary, controller synthesis becomes the task of solving a two-person game to find the system configurations from which the controller wins....
INTRODUCTION Hemodynamics plays an important role in understanding the nature of blood flow through the cardiovascular system. The study of the hemodynamic parameters, such as the pulsatile blood pressure and flow and resistance to the blood flow (1), allows a better understanding of blood circulation (12). ...
INTRODUCTION For reliable service, a bulk electricity system must remain intact and be capable of withstanding a wide variety of disturbances. Therefore, it is essential that the system be designed and operated so that the more probable contingencies can be sustained with no loss of load (except that...
THEATRE NO MAN'S LAND Duke of York, London. **** Dublin's Gate Theatre is not an institution that does things by halves. It has twice honoured Harold Pinter with massive retrospective festivals, curated by its artistic chief Michael Colgan, that have played in Dublin, London and New...
The damage inflicted far too often on human bodies as a result of the combination of alcohol and a steering wheel can be horrifying to behold. Unfortunately, those who drink and drive, or erroneously believe driving under the influence is minor offense, too seldom come face to...
CRICKET Sponsorship dispute could leave players and boards red- faced and out of pocket England's $20m (11.4m) cricket match was in disarray last night after a High Court ruling that the West Indies Cricket Board was wrong to sanction it. The so-called Twenty20 for Twenty...
CRICKET Sponsorship dispute could leave players and boards red- faced and out of pocket England'S $20m (11.4m) match was in disarray last night after a High Court ruling that the West Indies Cricket Board was wrong to sanction it. The so-called Twenty20 for Twenty game...
Sponsorship dispute could leave players and boards red-faced and out of pocket England's $20m (11.4m) cricket match was in disarray last night after a High Court ruling that the West Indies Cricket Board was wrong to sanction it. The so-called Twenty20 for Twenty game -...
This morning, a group of Utah House members will start a formal ethics investigation of two of their own -- and the current ethics process will be on trial along with Reps. Greg Hughes and Phil Riesen. One of the main complaints by some House Democrats and...
Byline: By PETER YOUNG Political Editor PLANS to allow disco dancing at the official residence of Newcastle's Lord Mayor have upset neighbours. The historic Mansion House in Jesmond is popular for private parties such as wedding receptions. But there are strict licensing controls and...
Company Commences Market Launch of AVflo in Europe and $10 Million Financing Round LOD, Israel -- Nicast Ltd., developer of medical devices made from proprietary electrospinning technology, announced today the receipt of a CE Mark for its flagship product, the AVflo artificial vascular graft. The device is intended...
I wish I could have spoken to Andrew Adonis before writing this article, but he seems unable to return my calls. It's just that the removal of the Schools Minister to the intellectual backwater of the Department of Transport is - how should we put this? - a bit puzzling....
DoveR Addresses Self-Esteem Crisis with Unprecedented Effort to Reach Girls ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Self-esteem has become a national crisis in this country. The majority of girls seven in ten feel they do not measure up in some way including their looks, performance in...
A MAN was left unconscious in the street after being attacked. Police were called to Kingston Road, Deck-ham, Gateshead, just after 11pm on Saturday following reports from residents of a disturbance. When they arrived they found the man, who has not been named, unconscious in the...
On the Paris catwalks, designers turned to fantasy and even humour for an uplifting antidote to hard times. And the effect was exhilarating, writes Susannah Frankel On the notes for Vivienne Westwood's Gold Label collection, shown in Paris last week, it said: "In these hard times...