Early-onset and late-onset Alzheimer’s disease are associated with distinct patterns of memory impairment

The goal of this study was to investigate the specific patterns of memory breakdown in patients suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease (EOAD) and late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (LOAD). Twenty EOAD patients, twenty LOAD patients, twenty matched younger controls, and twenty matched older controls participated in this study. All participants underwent a detailed neuropsychological assessment, an MRI scan, an FDG-PET scan, and AD patients had biomarkers as supporting evidence of both amyloïdopathy and neuronal injury. Results of the neuropsychological assessment showed that both EOAD and LOAD groups were impaired in the domains of memory, executive functions, language, praxis, and visuoconstructional abilities, when compared to their respective control groups. EOAD and LOAD groups, however, showed distinct patterns of memory impairment. Even though both groups were similarly affected on measures of episodic, short term and working memory, in contrast semantic memory was significantly more impaired in LOAD than in EOAD patients. The EOAD group was not more affected than the LOAD group in any memory domain. EOAD patients, however, showed significantly poorer performance in other cognitive domains including executive functions and visuoconstructional abilities. A more detailed analysis of the pattern of semantic memory performance among patient groups revealed that the LOAD was more profoundly impaired, in tasks of both spontaneous recall and semantic recognition. Voxel-Based Morphometry (VBM) analyses showed that impaired semantic performance in patients was associated with reduced gray matter volume in the anterior temporal lobe region, while PET-FDG analyses revealed that poorer semantic performance was associated with greater hypometabolism in the left temporoparietal region, both areas reflecting key regions of the semantic network. Results of this study indicate that EOAD and LOAD patients present with distinct patterns of memory impairment, and that a genuine semantic impairment may represent one of the clinical hallmarks of LOAD.

Foraminiferal and Pteropod Records in the Late Quaternary Sequence off Northern Kerala and Their Oceanographic and Climatic Significance

In the present investigation, an attempt is made to study late Quaternary foraminiferal and pteropod records of the shelf of northern Kerala and to evaluate their potentiality in paleocenographic and paleoclimatic reconstruction. The study gives details of sediment cores, general characteristics of foraminifera and pteropod species recorded from the examined samples and their systematic classification, spatial distribution of Recent foraminifera and pteropods and their response to varying bathymetry, nature of substrate, organic matter content in sediment and hydrography across the shelf. An attempt is also made to establish an integrated chronostratigraphy for the examined core sections. An effort is also made to identify microfaunal criteria useful in biostratigraphic division in shallow marine core sections. An attempt is made to infer various factors responsible for the change in microfaunal assemblage. Reconstruction of sea level changes during the last 36,000 years was attempted based on the pteropod record. The study reveals a bathymetric control on benthic/planktic (BF/PF) foraminiferal and pteropods/planktic foraminiferal (Pt/PF) abundance ratio. Bathymetric distribution pattern of BF/PF ratio is opposite to the (Pt/PF) ratio with decreasing trend of former from the shore across the shelf. Quantitative benthic foraminiferal record in the surficial sediments reveals a positive correlation between the diversity and bathymetry. R-mode cluster analysis performed on 30n significant Recent benthic foraminiferal, determines three major assemblage.

Sea Level Variations during the Late Quaternary and Coastal Evolution along the Northern Kerala, South West of India

In the present investigation, an attempt is made to document various episodes of transgression and regression during the late Quaternary period from the study of coastal and shelf sequences extending from the inland across the beach to the shelf domain. Shore parallel beach ridges with alternating swales and occurrence of strand line deposits on the shelf make the northern Kerala coast an ideal natural laboratory for documenting the morpho-dynamic response of the coast to the changing sea level. The objectives of the study are lithographic reconstruction of environments of deposition from the coastal plain and shelf sequences; documentation of episodes of transgression and regression by studying different coastal plain sequences and shelf deposits and evolve a comprehensive picture of late Quaternary coastal evolution and sea level changes along the northern Kerala coast by collating morphological, lithological and geochronological evidences from the coastal plain and shelf sequences. The present study is confined to two shore-normal east-west trending transects, Viz. Punjavi and Onakkunnu, in the northern Kerala coast.

Geology and Geochronology of Silica Sands of Coastal Plain of Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala,India,With Special reference to Late Quaternary Environment

Department of Marine Geology & Geophysics, Cochin University of Science & Technology

Què ens oculta el vel estadístic? Reflexió feminista entorn del disseny i l'explotació de les fonts de dades socials (part 1 de 5)

Ponent: Marta Luxan / Presenta: Ruth Vilà

Què ens oculta el vel estadístic? Reflexió feminista entorn del disseny i l'explotació de les fonts de dades socials (part 2 de 5)

Ponent: Marta Luxan / Presenta: Ruth Vilà

Què ens oculta el vel estadístic? Reflexió feminista entorn del disseny i l'explotació de les fonts de dades socials (part 3 de 5)

Ponent: Marta Luxan / Presenta: Ruth Vilà

Què ens oculta el vel estadístic? Reflexió feminista entorn del disseny i l'explotació de les fonts de dades socials (part 4 de 5)

Ponent: Marta Luxan / Presenta: Ruth Vilà

Què ens oculta el vel estadístic? Reflexió feminista entorn del disseny i l'explotació de les fonts de dades socials (part 5 de 5)

Ponent: Marta Luxan / Presenta: Ruth Vilà

Environment and Climate Changes During the Late Quaternary: Inferences from Sedimentary Records of Southeastern Arabian Sea

Department of Marine Geology & Geophysics, Cochin University of Science and Technology

Studies on Quasinormal Modes and Late-time Tails in Black Hole Spacetimes

This thesis Entitled Studies on Quasinormal modes and Late-time tails black hole spacetimes. In this thesis, the signature of these new theories are probed on the evolution of field perturbations on the black hole spacetimes in the theory. Chapter 1 gives a general introduction to black holes and its perturbation formalism. Various concepts in the area covered by the thesis are also elucidated in this chapter. Chapter 2 describes the evolution of massive, charged scalar field perturbations around a Reissner-Nordstrom black hole surrounded by a static and spherically symmetric quintessence. Chapter 3 comprises the evolution of massless scalar, electromagnetic and gravitational fields around spherically symmetric black hole whose asymptotes are defined by the quintessence, with special interest on the late-time behavior. Chapter 4 examines the evolution of Dirac field around a Schwarzschild black hole surrounded by quintessence. Detailed numerical simulations are done to analyze the nature of field on different surfaces of constant radius . Chapter 5is dedicated to the study of the evolution of massless fields around the black hole geometry in the HL gravity.

Polítics a la universitat. El treball dels gèneres periodístics amb fonts de primera mà

Aquesta comunicació té l’objectiu de presentar la metodologia que s’aplica a l’assignatura de Periodisme Especialitzat I (Polític), que imparteixen els professors Ramon Miravitllas (COM Radio) i Xavier Ginesta (El 9 Nou) a la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Amb l’aplicació de l’Espai Europeu d’Educació Superior (EEES) i el plantejament socio-constructivista de l’aprenentatge universitari amb l’anomenat Pla Bolonya, alguns docents que imparteixen periodisme polític a la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona van fer una aposta clara per poder explicar la realitat política i les seves institucions a partir de l’accés dels estudiants a les fonts de primera mà des de la mateixa universitat o amb sortides fora de l’aula. Per això, les pràctiques d’aquesta assignatura es fan amb les intervencions de diputats i diputades catalans a l’aula, la participació dels estudiants a les tertúlies reals del programa La Nit, de COM Radio i, finalment, la seva participació a la simulació parlamentària (SPC) que els serveis educatius del Parlament de Catalunya organitzen, des de fa cinc anys, amb la Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). Aquesta experiència no hagués estat possible sense la col·laboració activa entre el món professional, representant per COM Radio i l’Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

L'educació i les fonts orals. 'La educación y las fuentes orales'.

Resumen tomado del propio recurso

Les fonts orals i la hist??ria de l'educaci?? : projecte d'investigaci??. 'Las fuentes orales y la historia de la educaci??n : proyecto de investigaci??n'

Resumen tomado del propio recurso