Investigation of sedimentation process of soluble spherical particles in a non-Newtonian medium.

In this work, transient movement of a vertically falling soluble spherical particle in a non-Newtonian medium is perused. It is supposed that the particle mass diminishes owing to its solubility in the fluid, and thus particle size will be diminished by a linear function. The governing nonlinear differential equation is solved analytically using Collocation Method (CM). The impacts of the effective parameters of this study are examined on the velocity and acceleration. Further, the positions of the particle are portrayed graphically at every 1 s time trend. Also, the limiting cases are gained and are found to be in good compromise with the numerical and literature results. The outcomes portray that the particle with a larger rate of diameter diminution moving with larger velocity rather than smaller diameter particle.

Repetition blindness in schizophrenic patients.

Repetition blindness is the failure to report the detection of repeated items in rapid visually presented lists. It can be explained in terms of either a processing limitation or an active inhibitory process. In two studies conducted in either English or German language we set out to induce repetition blindness under various conditions in a total of 47 control subjects and 30 schizophrenic patients. The patients displayed the phenomenon to at least the same degree as normal control subjects. These results render unlikely accounts of repetition blindness which involve processes known to be dysfunctional in schizophrenic patients. Moreover, the study provides an example of how the performance of schizophrenic patients can constrain theories of normal cognition.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging of category-specific cortical activation: evidence for semantic maps.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to examine the pattern of cortical activity during a picture naming task. Subjects (n=12) had to covertly name either animals or furniture items. Functional scanning was performed using a conventional 1.5-Tesla whole-body MRI system. Images obtained during naming the two categories were compared using a non-parametric test. The study revealed evidence for domain-specific lexical regions in left middle, right middle and inferior frontal areas, as well as in superior and middle temporal areas. The results corroborate neuropsychological data and demonstrate directly and non-invasively in human volunteers that semantic representations in frontal and temporal areas are, to some degree, localized and possibly implemented as multiple maps. A completely distributed storage of semantic information is rendered unlikely.