In this review, we elucidate the mechanisms of Aβ oligomer toxicity which may contribute to
Alzheimer’s disease (AD). In particular, we discuss on the interaction of Aβ oligomers with …

Myelin abnormalities that reflect damage to developing and mature brains are often found in
neurological diseases with evidence of inflammatory infiltration and microglial activation. …

Schizophrenia is a chronic and debilitating mental illness characterized by a broad range of
abnormal behaviors, including delusions and hallucinations, impaired cognitive function, as …

Background and Objectives: No practical method for identifying patients with low heath literacy
exists. We sought to develop screening questions for identifying patients with inadequate …

Given a set of n vertices in the plane together with a set of noncrossing edges, the
constrained Delaunay triangulation (CDT) is the triangulation of the vertices with the following …

Objectives Previous studies have shown that a single question may identify individuals with
inadequate health literacy. We evaluated and compared the performance of 3 health literacy …

Abstract Model-based recognition is concerned with comparing a shape A, which is stored
as a model for some particular object, with a shape B, which is found to exist in an image. If A …

… We tested the performance of the SILS in a population more diverse than the Veterans
Administration population used by Chew and colleagues. The aim of this study was to assess the …

For several commonly-used solution techniques for partial differential equations, the first step
is to divide the problem region into simply-shaped elements, creating a mesh. We present …

Irregular applications, which manipulate large, pointer-based data structures like graphs,
are difficult to parallelize manually. Automatic tools and techniques such as restructuring …