An Examination of Personality Traits Associated with Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR).

Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a perceptual condition in which the presentation of particular audio-visual stimuli triggers intense, pleasurable tingling sensations in the head and neck regions, which may spread to the periphery of the body. These triggering stimuli are often socially intimate in nature, and usually involve repetition of movements and/or sounds (e.g.

DW4TR: A Data Warehouse for Translational Research.

The linkage between the clinical and laboratory research domains is a key issue in translational research. Integration of clinicopathologic data alone is a major task given the number of data elements involved. For a translational research environment, it is critical to make these data usable at the point-of-need.

Appropriately upset? Emotion norms and perceptions of crime victims.

Victims who express less emotion in response to a crime are perceived as less deserving, less sympathetic, and they have less punishment assigned to the offender who committed the crime. This study considers the extent to which emotion norms underlie perceptions of victims who testify. Two studies investigate the circumstances in which emotional reactions to a crime are seen as "unusual" and whether a more general emotion norm underlies responses to victim testimony.

Culture and reproductive systems of 11 species of Mycetozoans.

The culture and reproductive systems of 10 species (16 isolates) of myxomycetes and one species (one isolate) of protostelid were investigated. A single isolate of Ceratiomyxa fructiculosa was grown on agar and found to be nonheterothallic. This is the first report of spore-to-spore cultivation of this species and the first report of a reproductive system in the protostelids.

Biosystematics of the myxomycete Badhamia gracilis.

Sixty-four isolates that conformed to the general morphological description of Badhamia gracilis were isolated from several arid regions in the southwestern USA, northern Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the Canary Islands. These isolates were then subjected to a biosystematic study in which reproductive systems, culture characteristics, and morphology were examined. Five of the isolates were heterothallic and were divided into two separate biological species with multiple allelic mating systems: A1 consisting of three isolates (Arz 4, Arz 5, Arz 6) displaying four alleles, and A2 consisting of two isolates (NM 3, NM 4) also displaying four alleles.

Plasmodial incompatibility in the myxomycete Didymium squamulosum.

A genetic analysis of plasmodial fusion in the CR 10 isolate of Didymium squamulosum indicated that this isolate was heterozygous for two fusion loci. These loci display dominant and recessive alleles, and any two plasmodia must be phenotypically identical for these loci before they will fuse.

The effects of dictyostelids on the formation and maturation of myxomycete plasmodia.

Dictyostelids (cellular slime molds) and myxomycetes (plasmodial slime molds) are two groups of mycetozoans usually present and often abundant in the soil and litter microhabitats of terrestrial ecosystems. Because they utilize the same food resource and occur together in a spatially limited and clearly defined microhabitat, the potential for ecological interactions would seem to exist. However, relatively few previous studies have considered this aspect of mycetozoan ecology.

Solute transport into healthy and powdery mildew-infected leaves of pea and uptake by powdery mildew mycelium.

The transport of sugars and amino acids into the mycelium of Erysiphe pisi DC. was investigated using two different systems, intact leaf discs and mycelial suspensions. Of the sugars tested, glucose was preferentially taken up by both uninfected and mildew-infected leaf discs, whereas glutamine was taken up by both tissues at a higher rate than lysine or aspartic acid.