Disruption to control network function correlates with altered dynamic connectivity in the wider autism spectrum.

Autism is a common developmental condition with a wide, variable range of co-occurring neuropsychiatric symptoms. Contrasting with most extant studies, we explored whole-brain functional organization at multiple levels simultaneously in a large subject group reflecting autism's clinical diversity, and present the first network-based analysis of transient brain states, or dynamic connectivity, in autism. Disruption to inter-network and inter-system connectivity, rather than within individual networks, predominated. We identified coupling disruption in the anterior-posterior default mode axis, and among specific control networks specialized for task start cues and the maintenance of domain-independent task positive status, specifically between the right fronto-parietal and cingulo-opercular networks and default mode network subsystems. These appear to propagate downstream in autism, with significantly dampened subject oscillations between brain states, and dynamic connectivity configuration differences. Our account proposes specific motifs that may provide candidates for neuroimaging biomarkers within heterogeneous clinical populations in this diverse condition

Evaluasi Dampak Good Corporate Governance Badan USAha Milik Negara Real Estate Bagi Masyarakat Kelurahan Benoa Kecamatan Kuta Selatan Kabupaten Badung (Studi Kasus PT Bali Tourism Development Corporation Nusa Dua Bali)

Good Corporate Governance is generally known as a good system and structure to manage a company in order to increase the value of shareholders and to accomodate the stakeholders such as creditor, supplier, bussines association, consumer, worker, goverment, and wider community. The aim of this research are to know the evaluation impact and obstacles of Good Corporate Governance PT. Bali Tourism Development Corporation (BTDC) for society in Benoa Village, Sub-district of South Kuta, Badung Regency. The result of this research indicated PT.BTDC already applied the concept of Good Corporate Governance in every done activity in order to be a Bali tourism company. The sample of the activity is doing the PKBL (Program Kemitraan dan Bina Lingkungan). PT. BTDC applied 5 principals of GCG; transparency, accountability, responsibility, independency, and fairness on a good scale and appropriate with BUMN regulation which is occurred and can be said has a good social responsibility

Singular ways to search for the Higgs boson

The discovery or exclusion of the fundamental standard scalar is a hot topic, given the data of LEP, the Tevatron and the LHC, as well as the advanced status of the pertinent theoretical calculations. With the current statistics at the hadron colliders, the workhorse decay channel, at all relevant H masses, is H to WW, followed by W to light leptons. Using phase-space singularity techniques, we construct and study a plethora of "singularity variables" meant to facilitate the difficult tasks of separating signal and backgrounds and of measuring the mass of a putative signal. The simplest singularity variables are not invariant under boosts along the collider's axes and the simulation of their distributions requires a good understanding of parton distribution functions, perhaps not a serious shortcoming during the boson hunting season. The derivation of longitudinally boost-invariant variables, which are functions of the four charged-lepton observables that share this invariance, is quite elaborate. But their use is simple and they are, in a kinematical sense, optimal.Comment: 19 pages, including 21 figure

A Number-Theoretic Error-Correcting Code

In this paper we describe a new error-correcting code (ECC) inspired by the Naccache-Stern cryptosystem. While by far less efficient than Turbo codes, the proposed ECC happens to be more efficient than some established ECCs for certain sets of parameters. The new ECC adds an appendix to the message. The appendix is the modular product of small primes representing the message bits. The receiver recomputes the product and detects transmission errors using modular division and lattice reduction

Collective CO2 laser scattering on moving discharge structures in the submillimeter range in a magnetohydrodynamic generator

Collective scattering of CO/sub 2/ laser light on electrons is used to determine the radial scale length of the discharge structures occurring in a closed cycle magnetohydrodynamic generator. Heterodyne detection of scattered radiation is used to obtain a spatial resolution in the submillimeter range and to increase the signal to noise ratio. A discharge model is formulated to interpret the measured signals. The scale length of the electron density fluctuations is found to be (2.5+or-0.5)*10/sup -4/

Ceramides: a new player in the inflammation-insulin resistance paradigm?

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