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Bar-Ilan University
Education•Ramat Gan, Israel•
About: Bar-Ilan University is a education organization based out in Ramat Gan, Israel. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 12835 authors who have published 34964 publications receiving 995648 citations. The organization is also known as: Bar Ilan University & BIU.
Topics: Population, Poison control, Judaism, Anxiety, Electrolyte
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TL;DR: The findings show that tDCS-combined cognitive training is an effective tool for improving the ability to inhibit responses, and could constitute a step toward the use of tDCS and cognitive training as a therapeutic tool for cognitive control impairments in conditions such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or schizophrenia.
Abstract: Cognitive training is an effective tool to improve a variety of cognitive functions, and a small number of studies have now shown that brain stimulation accompanying these training protocols can enhance their effects. In the domain of behavioral inhibition, little is known about how training can affect this skill. As for transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), it was previously found that stimulation over the right inferior frontal gyrus (rIFG) facilitates behavioral inhibition performance and modulates its electrophysiological correlates. This study aimed to investigate this behavioral facilitation in the context of a learning paradigm by giving tDCS over rIFG repetitively over four consecutive days of training on a behavioral inhibition task (stop signal task (SST)). Twenty-two participants took part; ten participants were assigned to receive anodal tDCS (1.5 mA, 15 min), 12 were assigned to receive training but not active stimulation. There was a significant effect of training on learning and performance in the SST, and the integration of the training and rIFG–tDCS produced a more linear learning slope. Better performance was also found in the active stimulation group. Our findings show that tDCS-combined cognitive training is an effective tool for improving the ability to inhibit responses. The current study could constitute a step toward the use of tDCS and cognitive training as a therapeutic tool for cognitive control impairments in conditions such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or schizophrenia.
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TL;DR: This work describes a new technique for designing more accurate admissible heuristic evaluation functions, based on pattern databases, that can be improved on the Fifteen Puzzle by a factor of over 2000, and to find optimal solutions to 50 random instances of the Twenty-Four Puzzle.
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TL;DR: It was confirmed that microinjection by 'second best ' spermatozoa result in significantly lower pregnancy and delivery rates and significantly higher abortion rates than microin injection with 'best' spermatozosa.
Abstract: In previous studies, a new IVF method of intracytoplasmic morphologically selected sperm injection (IMSI) was introduced, based on motile sperm organellar morphology examination (MSOME). It was concluded that microinjection of morphologically selected sperm cells with strictly normal nucleus, defined by MSOME, improves IVF–ICSI outcome. The aim of the present study was to confirm this conclusion in new, enlarged study groups. Comparison between 80 couples, who underwent an IVF–IMSI trial, with matched couples, who underwent a standard IVF–ICSI procedure, confirmed that pregnancy rate following IVF–IMSI was significantly higher, and abortion rate significantly lower than in the routine IVF–ICSI (60.0 versus 25.0%, and 14 versus 40% respectively, P ≤ 0.05). Another comparison was performed between matched IMSI groups, where embryos were obtained from microinjection by spermatozoa with a morphologically normal nucleus (‘best' group, n = 70) and a ‘second best' group was selected, where embryos were obtained from microinjection of spermatozoa with minimal morphological impairment, since no other sperm cells were available. It was confirmed that microinjection by ‘second best ‘ spermatozoa result in significantly lower pregnancy and delivery rates and significantly higher abortion rates than microinjection with ‘best' spermatozoa (25.7 versus 58.2%, P ≤ 0.01; 17.1 versus 52.8%, P ≤ 0.01, and 33.3 versus 9.7%, P ≤ 0.02 respectively). The present study has strengthened previous conclusions.
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TL;DR: The percolation properties of directed scale-free networks with correlated in and out degree distributions are studied, derived from a phase diagram that indicates the existence of three regimes, determined by the values of the degree exponents.
Abstract: Many complex networks in nature have directed links, a property that affects the network’s navigability and large-scale topology. Here we study the percolation properties of such directed scale-free networks with correlated in and out degree distributions. We derive a phase diagram that indicates the existence of three regimes, determined by the values of the degree exponents. In the first regime we regain the known directed percolation mean field exponents. In contrast, the second and third regimes are characterized by anomalous exponents, which we calculate analytically. In the third regime the network is resilient to random dilution, i.e., the percolation threshold is pc!1.
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TL;DR: The present study demonstrates for the first time the presence of both flavonoids and p-coumaric acid derivatives as antioxidant components of the aqueous extract of spinach leaves.
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H. Eugene Stanley | 154 | 1190 | 122321 |
Albert-László Barabási | 152 | 438 | 200119 |
Shlomo Havlin | 131 | 1013 | 83347 |
Stuart A. Aaronson | 129 | 657 | 69633 |
Britton Chance | 128 | 1112 | 76591 |
Mark A. Ratner | 127 | 968 | 68132 |
Doron Aurbach | 126 | 797 | 69313 |
Jun Yu | 121 | 1174 | 81186 |
Richard J. Wurtman | 114 | 933 | 53290 |
Amir Lerman | 111 | 877 | 51969 |
Zhu Han | 109 | 1407 | 48725 |
Moussa B.H. Youdim | 107 | 574 | 42538 |
Juan Bisquert | 107 | 450 | 46267 |
Rachel Yehuda | 106 | 461 | 36726 |
Michael F. Green | 106 | 485 | 45707 |