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Alexithymia and apathy in Parkinson's disease: neurocognitive correlates
Non-motor symptoms such as neuropsychiatric and cognitive dysfunction have been found to be common in Parkinson’s disease (PD) but the relation between such symptoms is poorly understood. We focused on alexithymia, an impairment of affective and cognitive emotional processing, as there is evidence for its interaction with cognition in other disorders. Twenty-two non-demented PD patients and 22 matched normal control adults (NC) were administered rating scales assessing neuropsychiatric status, including alexithymia, apathy, and depression, and a series of neuropsychological tests. As expected, PD patients showed more alexithymia than NC, and there was a significant association between alexithymia and disease stage. Alexithymia was associated with performance on non-verbally mediated measures of executive and visuospatial function, but not on verbally mediated tasks. By contrast, there was no correlation between cognition and ratings of either depression or apathy. Our findings demonstrate a distinct association of alexithymia with non-verbal cognition in PD, implicating right hemisphere processes, and differentiate between alexithymia and other neuropsychiatric symptoms in regard to PD cognition.Published versio
Multilevel Clustering Fault Model for IC Manufacture
A hierarchical approach to the construction of compound distributions for
process-induced faults in IC manufacture is proposed. Within this framework,
the negative binomial distribution is treated as level-1 models. The
hierarchical approach to fault distribution offers an integrated picture of how
fault density varies from region to region within a wafer, from wafer to wafer
within a batch, and so on. A theory of compound-distribution hierarchies is
developed by means of generating functions. A study of correlations, which
naturally appears in microelectronics due to the batch character of IC
manufacture, is proposed. Taking these correlations into account is of
significant importance for developing procedures for statistical quality
control in IC manufacture. With respect to applications, hierarchies of yield
means and yield probability-density functions are considered.Comment: 10 pages, the International Conference "Micro- and Nanoelectronics-
2003" (ICMNE-2003),Zvenigorod, Moscow district, Russia, October 6-10, 200
On certain aspects of the biology of Dactylogyrus skrjabini Achmerov, 1954, parasite of Amur Hypophthalmychthys
Translated from: Akademiya Nauk. SSSR, 1957, Doklady, v. 113, no. 6, p. 1391-1393. Pierre C. Oustinoff, translator; William J. Hargis, Jr., editor
Электронный учебник для студентов: ожидания и действительность
The situation with the use of e-textbooks in higher education abroad is analysed.Анализируется ситуация с использованием электронных учебников в высших учебных заведениях за рубежом
About croudsourcing
The history and origins as well as various examples of using crowdsourcing technology are consideredРассматривается история возникновения и примеры различные использования технологии краудсорсинг
Massive open online courses: idea and reality
Рассматриваются первые результаты исследований, посвященных массовым открытым онлайновым курсам.The first results of studies on the Massive Open Online Courses are considered
SOCIAL NETWORKS AND OURSELVES
Рассматриваются примеры использования социальных сетей с целью воздействия на эмоции пользователя, а также сервисов, позволяющих изменить косвенные показатели отношения пользователей социальных сетейThe article examines examples of the use of social networks for marketing purposes, to influence the user’s emotions, as well as services that allow changing indirect indicators of the ratio of users of social network
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