Affective Disorders are on a clinical continuum in which temperaments and ALOE other coexisting or emerging mental conditions may cover the role of risk factors or determinants of specific dimensional aspects of Bipolar Disorder.Overall, it is important to better characterize the psychopathological conditions associated to the clinical picture of a
There is an ever-growing need for optimizing efficient nano and quantum communication systems and this demand calls for more advanced optimization techniques than those that have been around for quite some time.The conventional genetic algorithms (GAs) proved to be quite helpful in general but proved to be poor when it comes to fast convergence and
Abstract Currently, the clinical treatment of critical bone defects attributed to various causes remains a great challenge, and repairing these defects with synthetic bone substitutes is the most common strategy.In general, tissue engineering materials that mimic the structural, mechanical and biological properties of natural bone have been extensi
Abstract The perceived and real threat of shark bites have significant direct health and indirect economic impacts.Here we assess the changing odds of surviving an unprovoked shark bite using 200 years of Australian records.Bite survivability rates for bull (Carcharhinus leucas), tiger (Galeocerdo cuvier) and white (Carcharodon carcharias) sharks w
Myoclonus is a hyperkinetic movement disorder characterized by a sudden, brief, involuntary jerk.Positive myoclonus is caused by abrupt muscle contractions, while negative myoclonus by sudden cessation of ongoing muscular contractions.Myoclonus can be classified in various ways according to body distribution, Christmas Card relation to activity, ne