Tactile Recognition of Laterally Inverted Mirror Images by Children: Intermanual Transfer and Rotation of the Palm

Perception ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gisela Römer ◽  
Heike Gresch ◽  
George Ettlinger ◽  
Josephine V Brown
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Index Finger ◽  
Intermanual Transfer

Intermanual tactile recognition of laterally inverted mirror shapes was studied, with special reference to the role of the thumb. Children were allowed to feel the shapes either with the whole hand, with only four fingers (excluding the thumb), or with only the index finger. Intramanual recognition was also studied after rotation of the hand from the palm down/up to the palm up/down orientation. The thumb was found not to be important for intermanual mirror reversals, and only of limited importance for intramanual reversals. There was no evidence that coding with reference to the hand is of importance for either inter- or intramanual reversals. The explanations for the two kinds of reversals are quite different.

Anorexia Nervosa in a Black Zimbabwean

1984 ◽  
Vol 145 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Buchan ◽  
L. D. Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Traditional Healer ◽  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
The Social ◽  
Speculative Hypothesis ◽  
African Patients

SummaryIn spite of the comparative rarity of anorexia nervosa in African patients, the case of a young black Zimbabwean woman which fulfils Feighner's diagnostic criteria is presented. Special reference is made to several unusual features which include the social and psychological conflicts engendered by changes of culture, the clinical symptoms, and the role of a traditional healer in her recovery. A speculative hypothesis concerning aetiology is suggested.

Characterization of soluble, FSF-stabilized fibrin complexes with special reference to the role of fibrinogen

1974 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernt Ly ◽  
Peter Kierulf ◽  
Erling Jakobsen ◽  
Karl Gravem
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Stabilized Fibrin

scholarly journals Role of Staphylococcal Phage and SaPI Integrase in Intra- and Interspecies SaPI Transfer

2007 ◽  
Vol 189 (15) ◽  
pp. 5608-5616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Maiques ◽  
Carles Úbeda ◽  
María Ángeles Tormo ◽  
María Desamparados Ferrer ◽  
Íñigo Lasa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Staphylococcus Aureus ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Attachment Site ◽  
Pathogenicity Islands ◽  
Specific Attachment ◽  
Generalized Transduction

ABSTRACT SaPIbov2 is a member of the SaPI family of staphylococcal pathogenicity islands and is very closely related to SaPIbov1. Typically, certain temperate phages can induce excision and replication of one or more of these islands and can package them into special small phage-like particles commensurate with their genome sizes (referred to as the excision-replication-packaging [ERP] cycle). We have studied the phage-SaPI interaction in some depth using SaPIbov2, with special reference to the role of its integrase. We demonstrate here that SaPIbov2 can be induced to replicate by different staphylococcal phages. After replication, SaPIbov2 is efficiently encapsidated and transferred to recipient organisms, including different non-Staphylococcus aureus staphylococci, where it integrates at a SaPI-specific attachment site, attC , by means of a self-coded integrase (Int). Phages that cannot induce the SaPIbov2 ERP cycle can transfer the island by recA-dependent classical generalized transduction and can also transfer it by a novel mechanism that requires the expression of SaPIbov2 int in the recipient but not in the donor. It is suggested that this mechanism involves the encapsidation of standard transducing fragments containing the intact island followed by int-mediated excision, circularization, and integration in the recipient.

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