BRAIN BASIS OF COGNITIVE RESILIENCE: PREFRONTAL CORTEX PREDICTS BETTER READING COMPREHENSION IN RELATION TO DECODING.

Brain basis of cognitive resilience: Prefrontal cortex predicts better reading comprehension in relation to decoding.

ObjectiveThe ultimate goal of reading is to understand written text.To accomplish this, children must first master decoding, the ability to translate printed words into sounds.Although decoding and reading comprehension are highly interdependent, some children struggle to decode but comprehend well, whereas others with good decoding skills fail to

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A SBM-DEA based performance evaluation and optimization for social organizations participating in community and home-based elderly care services.

The community and home-based elderly care service system has been proved an effective pattern to mitigate the elderly care dilemma under the background of accelerating aging Beds - Bed Side Rails in China.In particular, the participation of social organizations in community and home-based elderly care service has powerfully fueled the multi-supply

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Peach: costs analysis and crop profitability in Uruguay

Peach crop area in Uruguay has seen a reduction over the last years.A possible reason for this is a decrease in return.Consequently, this paper aims at studying whether or not peach growing is a profitable activity for growers.Data supporting this study came from Mercado Modelo of Montevideo and the Ministry of TV Antenna Booster Livestock, Agricul

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Complementary Approaches for Enhancing Polystyrene Hydrophobicity: Additives Development and Replication of Micro/Nanotextures

This work aims at developing polymer surfaces with enhanced hydrophobicity by controlling both the surface chemistry and the surface structure.As a first step, a chemical surface modification is achieved by the incorporation of a synthetized tailored fluorinated copolymer, named POISE-a (Polymer prOcessing Interface StabilizEr), in a commercial pol

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Atypical exophytic liver mass: Giant pedunculated hepatic haemangioma masquerading as a gastrointestinal stromal tumour of the gastric wall

Haemangioma is the most common benign tumour of the liver.However, an exophytic hepatic haemangioma, especially the pedunculated form, is very rare.Giant pedunculated haemangiomas are prone to complications because of the narrow size of the pedicle.A large number of lesions can potentially present as exophytic liver masses, and accurate diagnosis c

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