The psychological and socio-economic implications of digital technologies call for scholarship that engages questions about the nature of human consciousness, the construction of the self and the ethics of technical development.In this article, I outline a framework for an approach called contemplative media studies.This approach incorporates sever
The allocation of attention is affected by internal emotional states, such as anxiety and depression.The attention captured by real images of negative faces can be quantified by emotional probe tasks.The Ball - Glove Batting - Junior present study investigated whether attentional bias toward drawings of negative faces (line drawings and cartoon fac
Passive immunotherapy using whole blood or plasma from recovered patients is a potential therapeutic strategy for infections with no known drug therapy or prophylactic vaccines.Much before, the concept of transfusing neutralizing antibodies through convalescent blood or plasma was established; this modality demonstrated its effectiveness in contain
To obtain a better Right Side Console Cover understanding of metabolically active microbial communities, we tested a molecular ecological approach using poly(A) tailing of environmental 16S rRNA, followed by full-length complementary DNA (cDNA) synthesis and sequencing to eliminate potential biases caused by mismatching of PCR primer sequences.The
ABSTRACT Objective : to evaluate the epidemiology and outcomes of surgical treatment of patients with Mirizzi Syndrome (MS) grades III and IV, the most advanced according to Csendes classification.Methods : we conducted a retrospective, cross-sectional study by reviewing records of thirteen patients with grades III and IV MS operated from December