Category deficits and paradoxical dissociations in Alzheimer's disease and Herpes Simplex Hencephalitis

Most studies examining category specificity are single-case studies of patients with living or non living deficits. Nevertheless, no explicit or agreed criteria exist for establishing category-specific deficits in single-cases regarding the type of analyses, whether to compare with healthy controls, the number of tasks, or the type of tasks. We examined to groups of patients with neurological pathology frequently accompained with impaired semantic memory (19 patients with Alzheimer disease and 15 with Herpes Simplex Encephalitis). Category knowledge was examined using three tasks (picture naming, naming-to-description and features verification). Both patients groups were compared with aged- and education- matched healthy controls. The profile of each patients was examined for consistency across tasks and across different analyses; however both prove to be inconsistent. One striking findings was the presence of a paradoxical dissociation ( i.e., patients who were impaired on living things on one task and non living things on another task). The findings have significant implication for how we determine category effects and, more generall for the methods use to document double dissociation across individual cases in this literature

Gestapo Document Regarding Seizing Jewish Assets

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Typewritten document from Berlin Gestapo office to Jewish lawyer ( Konsulent under Nuremberg laws)Dr. Hans Israel Gumpert, in 1942, citing the 1939 Berlin decision to seize Jewish assets, signed by a representative of the office. According to this document, the assets of Jew Wilhelm Israel Gryzb were confiscated.https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1030/thumbnail.jp

Saviors of Backcountry History: Brooks Gilmore

In late March, 2012, I traveled from Greensboro, North Carolina, down U.S.Highway 421 to the Tick Creek area of Chatham County, near the small town of Bonlee.Here I spent a few days with my in-laws, Dr. Brooks Gilmore and his wife Dawn, at their ancestral home, a reconstruction of the 1755 John Brooks house, which was ChathamCounty’s first framed house with glass windows. The Gilmores’ reconstruction rests on the foundation of the original house and is located just south of Tick Creek on land granted in the mid-18th century by England’s King George II. I have visited here many times with my wife Dora, the Gilmores’ eldest daughter. However, my purpose on this occasion was to spend a few focused days talking with Dr. Gilmore about history, exploring cemeteries with him, and filling in as best I could some of the gaps in the historical notes I have been making since my first visit to Chatham County more than twenty years ago. Much of the following account is drawn from our conversations recorded on March 23-24, 2012. In the essay that follows, I have retained Dr. Gilmore’s own words wherever possible, as they reveal so clearly his lifelong engagement with this place and its people

Semiclassical Dynamics of Electrons in Magnetic Bloch Bands: a Hamiltonian Approach

y formally diagonalizing with accuracy $\hbar$ the Hamiltonian of electrons in a crystal subject to electromagnetic perturbations, we resolve the debate on the Hamiltonian nature of semiclassical equations of motion with Berry-phase corrections, and therefore confirm the validity of the Liouville theorem. We show that both the position and momentum operators acquire a Berry-phase dependence, leading to a non-canonical Hamiltonian dynamics. The equations of motion turn out to be identical to the ones previously derived in the context of electron wave-packets dynamics.Comment: 4 page

Obstacles and Solutions to Internet Jurisdiction: A Comparative Analysis of the EU and US Laws

In an era of information technology, businesses through the use of the boundless Internet can enter into international electronic contracts from anywhere in the world. The potential for cross-border disputes in electronic contracts is obviously much greater than in a paper-based environment, where a high degree of commercial contracts are domestic in nature. Can the traditional rules on jurisdiction, which are geographically orientated and generally rely on the place of performance, apply to the modern electronic contract disputes? This paper will analyse the EU and US approaches for determining jurisdiction in e-contracting cases and discuss the possibility of proposing specific jurisdiction rules for online contracts

On a class of free Levy laws related to a regression problem

The free Meixner laws arise as the distributions of orthogonal polynomials with constant-coefficient recursions. We show that these are the laws of the free pairs of random variables which have linear regressions and quadratic conditional variances when conditioned with respect to their sum. We apply this result to describe free Levy processes with quadratic conditional variances, and to prove a converse implication related to asymptotic freeness of random Wishart matrices.Comment: LaTeX, v2: strengthened main theore

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