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The aim of this study was to identify brain areas related to apathy or depression in patients with Alzheimer disease (AD). Eighty-one AD patients were enrolled in this prospective study. 99mTc-HMPAO single photon emission computed tomography was performed to evaluate regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF). According to the Neuropsychiatric Inventory subscores of apathy and depression, 9 patients were classified as clinically significant (cs) depressed and non-cs-apathetic (D+) groups and 9 were cla

The human brain naturally integrates audiovisual information to improve speech perception. However, in noisy environments, understanding speech is difficult and may require much effort. Although the brain network is supposed to be engaged in speech perception, it is unclear how speech-related brain regions are connected during natural bimodal audiovisual or unimodal speech perception with counterpart irrelevant noise. To investigate the topological changes of speech-related brain networks at all

Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

This research attempts to examine how organizational characteristics and environmental characteristics of public organization influence adoption and application of the performance evaluation system and pay-for-performance system. In doing so, internal documents and interviews with personnel managers in KAMCO were analyzed and the adoption of system can be divided into three phases. In the process of examining each phase, it was revealed that the factors contributing to the success of establishin

To explain gating of memory encoding, magnetoencephalography (MEG) was analyzed over multi-regional network of negative correlations between alpha band power during cue (cue-alpha) and gamma band power during item presentation (item-gamma) in Remember (R) and No-remember (NR) condition. Persistent homology with graph filtration on alpha-gamma correlation disclosed topological invariants to explain memory gating. Instruction compliance (R-hits minus NR-hits) was significantly related to negative

This study showed that the proposed likelihood ratio-based false discovery rate method efficiently identifies extensive hypometabolic regions owing to its increased detection capability and ability to control the false discovery rate.

The present results suggest that late-onset deaf adults showed decreased FA and increased RD, and early-onset deaf adults showed no difference compared with the hearing group. In the late-onset deaf adults, onset-age showed a significantly positive correlation with RD and negative correlation with FA. Duration of deafness was not significantly correlated with the changes. Increased RD indicating demyelination occurred in the brain, and the changes were not limited to the auditory cortex but expa

Nine pig farms were evaluated for the welfare quality in Korea using animal- and environment-based parameters (particularly air quality parameters) during the winter of 2013. The Welfare Quality^® (WQ^®) protocol consists of 12 criteria within four principles. The WQ^® protocol classifies farms into four categories ranging from 'excellent' to 'not classified'. Each of these criteria has specific measures for calculating scores. Calculations for the welfare scores we

ABSTRACT The self‐potential (SP) method is widely used in seepage evaluation hydrological studies to monitor the integrity of infrastructure such as dams, sea dikes, and other types of flood control devices because the electric signals that are measured are directly related to seepage rate. At leaking areas along sea dikes, large SP anomalies can be generated by the rising and falling of tides. Unfortunately, SP data are often contaminated with several types of noise, such as that from drifting

Our results suggest that oversynchronisation of left A1 connectivity before rTMS of the left A1 and DLPFC is associated with treatment effectiveness.

This study analyzes the factors influencing the organizational performance of schools in Korea, using the 'governance model'. In recent years, the importance of managerial factors in the public sector has been emphasized. To examine whether this emphasis is justified, this study analyzes data collected from the Korean Educational Panel Study wave II and III. The results of the analysis demonstrate that school leaders' managerial actions are important influential factors, as are parental factors