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Using fMRI and multivoxel pattern analysis reveals independent brain activation patterns in bilingual people
A team of researchers from China and the U.S. has found independent brain activation patterns in bilingual people when they switch between languages. In their paper published on the open access site Science Advances, the group explains how they used a two-pronged approach to learn more about how the brain allows people to speak in more than one language. Scientists have long been intrigued by the brain's ability to learn more than one language—perhaps equally intriguing is the ability of the brain to instantly switch between languages. Prior research has suggested that the brain allows for multiple language abilities simply by using a single processing system for both. If true, this would suggest, perhaps, that the brain simply sees two languages as one big language. But that line of reasoning might be wrong, as the researchers with this new effort have found evidence that suggests the brain uses the same parts of the brain for different languages but develops different neural circuitry for each.
A team of researchers from China and the U.S. has found independent brain activation patterns in bilingual people when they switch between languages. In their paper published on the open access site Science Advances, the group explains how they used a two-pronged approach to learn more about how the brain allows people to speak in more than one language. Scientists have long been intrigued by the brain's ability to learn more than one language—perhaps equally intriguing is the ability of the brain to instantly switch between languages. Prior research has suggested that the brain allows for multiple language abilities simply by using a single processing system for both. If true, this would suggest, perhaps, that the brain simply sees two languages as one big language. But that line of reasoning might be wrong, as the researchers with this new effort have found evidence that suggests the brain uses the same parts of the brain for different languages but develops different neural circuitry for each.
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"Quiver Trees in Namibia"
By Andrey Omelyanchuk (+Anshar Photography) www.ansharphoto.com The first day in the Quiver Forest was about getting my bearings in a strange, new place and letting my vision adjust to the strangely beautiful landscape there. And like the first day in any overseas trip, it was also spent largely in a foggy mental state, the result of travel fatigue and jet lag. Most of the photos from that first day were disappointing and didn’t see the light of day.
By the second day, Namibia started to feel as comfortable as an old friend. The Quiver Forest was still ethereal and otherworldly, like something conjured from a child’s imagination, but it was welcoming; I no longer felt like a visitor there. Among the forest’s chimerical inhabitants, I already had favorites; trees whose unique profile against the horizon captured my attention. I found myself returning to the same trees and compositions again and again, mesmerized by their lines and colors.
It wasn’t only the trees that made the place special; it was a sensory experience, and I took in all of the sounds and smells. I reminded myself often that I was walking in a field of volcanic boulders among trees that in some cases, were two or three hundred years old. The stories they could tell. The world does this here and there — spreads an ancient landscape out before us, simply to remind us of our small place in the order of things...
As I walked among the quiver trees I gradually became aware that we photographers were not alone there. I didn’t notice them on the first day, but on the second day in the forest, just at sunrise, small animals — hamster-like and no bigger than kittens — emerged from underneath the rocks and began to scurry about. I’d never seen them before and I didn’t know what they were, but somehow, they seemed the perfect inhabitants of this place, as if the same child who imagined the quiver trees into existence filled her fanciful landscape with playful creatures who come to life with the sunrise.
May 2017, panorama from 3 vertical images, additional exposures for highlights, focal length 16mm, aperture f/8, shutter speed 15 seconds, ISO 200, tripod. - Andrey Omelyanchuk
#photography #landscape #namibia #quivertrees
By Andrey Omelyanchuk (+Anshar Photography) www.ansharphoto.com The first day in the Quiver Forest was about getting my bearings in a strange, new place and letting my vision adjust to the strangely beautiful landscape there. And like the first day in any overseas trip, it was also spent largely in a foggy mental state, the result of travel fatigue and jet lag. Most of the photos from that first day were disappointing and didn’t see the light of day.
By the second day, Namibia started to feel as comfortable as an old friend. The Quiver Forest was still ethereal and otherworldly, like something conjured from a child’s imagination, but it was welcoming; I no longer felt like a visitor there. Among the forest’s chimerical inhabitants, I already had favorites; trees whose unique profile against the horizon captured my attention. I found myself returning to the same trees and compositions again and again, mesmerized by their lines and colors.
It wasn’t only the trees that made the place special; it was a sensory experience, and I took in all of the sounds and smells. I reminded myself often that I was walking in a field of volcanic boulders among trees that in some cases, were two or three hundred years old. The stories they could tell. The world does this here and there — spreads an ancient landscape out before us, simply to remind us of our small place in the order of things...
As I walked among the quiver trees I gradually became aware that we photographers were not alone there. I didn’t notice them on the first day, but on the second day in the forest, just at sunrise, small animals — hamster-like and no bigger than kittens — emerged from underneath the rocks and began to scurry about. I’d never seen them before and I didn’t know what they were, but somehow, they seemed the perfect inhabitants of this place, as if the same child who imagined the quiver trees into existence filled her fanciful landscape with playful creatures who come to life with the sunrise.
May 2017, panorama from 3 vertical images, additional exposures for highlights, focal length 16mm, aperture f/8, shutter speed 15 seconds, ISO 200, tripod. - Andrey Omelyanchuk
#photography #landscape #namibia #quivertrees
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LG typically unveils two flagship smartphones every year— the "G" series early on in the year and the "V" series towards the end if the year. Well, it seems like LG is sticking to their release schedule. LG has sent out invites for a "Save the Date" event where the company will seemingly unveil the LG V30.
The invite showcases the silhouette of a smartphone with rounded corners and on the device is a wallpaper with the letter "V." The event will take place on August 31st at 9:00 am in Berlin, Germany— the day before IFA offically starts. As for the specifications of the V30, it is rumored to have a 5.7-inch AMOLED display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor, a dual camera setup, a fingerprint scanner on the back, IP68 rating, and a 3,200mAh battery.
#Android #LG
The invite showcases the silhouette of a smartphone with rounded corners and on the device is a wallpaper with the letter "V." The event will take place on August 31st at 9:00 am in Berlin, Germany— the day before IFA offically starts. As for the specifications of the V30, it is rumored to have a 5.7-inch AMOLED display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor, a dual camera setup, a fingerprint scanner on the back, IP68 rating, and a 3,200mAh battery.
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Maintaining healthy blood sugar is key, but there is so much more you can do with food to help manage diabetes. To get started, stock your kitchen with these diabetes-friendly foods.
http://www.thehealthypage.com/5-best-diabetes-friendly-foods/
http://www.thehealthypage.com/5-best-diabetes-friendly-foods/
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Winter Wattle
While many tend of think of wattles a spring flowering plants, in fact many varieties flower at various times throughout the year. However, I can never help thinking they're a harbinger of spring.
While many tend of think of wattles a spring flowering plants, in fact many varieties flower at various times throughout the year. However, I can never help thinking they're a harbinger of spring.
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Details of the highly anticipated Senate health care bill revision released Thursday shows the bill keeps in place deep cuts to Medicaid and the elimination of the current mandate requiring people to purchase insurance.
But changes designed to address concerns of both moderate and conservative Republicans who had different objections to the original bill are also in the new version, including a last-minute addition from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas to allow individuals to purchase cheaper, skimpier health plans. It also keeps some of the Obamacare taxes on the wealthy as an enticement for moderate votes.
But changes designed to address concerns of both moderate and conservative Republicans who had different objections to the original bill are also in the new version, including a last-minute addition from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas to allow individuals to purchase cheaper, skimpier health plans. It also keeps some of the Obamacare taxes on the wealthy as an enticement for moderate votes.
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Last year, astronomers announced the existence of an unknown planet in our solar system. However, this hypothesis was subsequently called into question as biases in the observational data were detected. Now, Spanish astronomers have used a novel technique to analyse the orbits of the so-called extreme trans-Neptunian objects and, once again, they report that there is something perturbing them—a planet located at a distance between 300 to 400 times the Earth-sun distance.
At the beginning of 2016, researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech, USA) announced that they had evidence of the existence of this object, located at an average distance of 700 AU and with a mass 10 times that of the Earth. Their calculations were motivated by the peculiar distribution of the orbits found for the trans-Neptunian objects (TNO) in the Kuiper belt, which suggested the presence of a Planet Nine within the solar system.
However, scientists from the Canadian-French-Hawaiian project OSSOS detected biases in their own observations of the orbits of the TNOs, which had been systematically directed towards the same regions of the sky, and considered that other groups, including the Caltech group, may be experiencing the same issues. According to these scientists, it is not necessary to propose the existence of a massive perturber to explain these observations, as they are compatible with a random distribution of orbits.
Now, however, two astronomers from the Complutense University of Madrid have applied a new technique less exposed to observational bias to study the so-called "extreme trans-Neptunian objects" (ETNOs)—located at average distances greater than 150 AU, and which never cross Neptune's orbit. For the first time, the distances from their nodes to the sun have been analysed, and the results, published in the journal MNRAS, once again indicate a planet beyond Pluto.
The nodes are the two points at which the orbit of an ETNO, or any other celestial body, crosses the plane of the solar system. These are the precise points where the probability of interacting with other objects is the highest, and therefore, at these points, the ETNOs may experience a drastic change in their orbits or even a collision.
At the beginning of 2016, researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech, USA) announced that they had evidence of the existence of this object, located at an average distance of 700 AU and with a mass 10 times that of the Earth. Their calculations were motivated by the peculiar distribution of the orbits found for the trans-Neptunian objects (TNO) in the Kuiper belt, which suggested the presence of a Planet Nine within the solar system.
However, scientists from the Canadian-French-Hawaiian project OSSOS detected biases in their own observations of the orbits of the TNOs, which had been systematically directed towards the same regions of the sky, and considered that other groups, including the Caltech group, may be experiencing the same issues. According to these scientists, it is not necessary to propose the existence of a massive perturber to explain these observations, as they are compatible with a random distribution of orbits.
Now, however, two astronomers from the Complutense University of Madrid have applied a new technique less exposed to observational bias to study the so-called "extreme trans-Neptunian objects" (ETNOs)—located at average distances greater than 150 AU, and which never cross Neptune's orbit. For the first time, the distances from their nodes to the sun have been analysed, and the results, published in the journal MNRAS, once again indicate a planet beyond Pluto.
The nodes are the two points at which the orbit of an ETNO, or any other celestial body, crosses the plane of the solar system. These are the precise points where the probability of interacting with other objects is the highest, and therefore, at these points, the ETNOs may experience a drastic change in their orbits or even a collision.
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8 ways your body is trying to warn you about a hormone imbalance
These days, many patients complain of symptoms like constipation, sexual dysfunction, menstrual dysfunction, weight gain, sleep problems, fatigue, brittle nails, and thinning hair. Although different, all of them point out to one particular problem: a #hormonalimbalance.
#hormone #hormoneImbalance #symptoms #signs #warningsigns #Healthcare #inflammation #Wellness #explore #Herbs #Medicine #Healing #Cure #Natural #Treatment #HomeRemedies #Healer #HerbalRemedies #Disease #Remedies #HomeRemedy #Holistic #healthbenefits #naturalremedies
These days, many patients complain of symptoms like constipation, sexual dysfunction, menstrual dysfunction, weight gain, sleep problems, fatigue, brittle nails, and thinning hair. Although different, all of them point out to one particular problem: a #hormonalimbalance.
#hormone #hormoneImbalance #symptoms #signs #warningsigns #Healthcare #inflammation #Wellness #explore #Herbs #Medicine #Healing #Cure #Natural #Treatment #HomeRemedies #Healer #HerbalRemedies #Disease #Remedies #HomeRemedy #Holistic #healthbenefits #naturalremedies
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Juno Spacecraft and the Show of Jupiter's Great Red Spot
Juno spacecraft flew over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot on July 10 at 10:06 p.m. EDT. This has been humanity’s first up-close and personal view of the gas giant’s iconic 10,000-mile-wide storm, which has been monitored since 1830 and possibly existing for more than 350 years.
The data collection of the Great Red Spot is part of Juno’s sixth science flyby over Jupiter’s mysterious cloud tops. Perijove (the point at which an orbit comes closest to Jupiter’s center) has been July 10 at 9:55 p.m. EDT.
During the flyby, all eight of the spacecraft’s instruments have be turned on, as well as its imager, JunoCam. The images of the Great Red Spot were downlinked from the spacecraft's memory on Tuesday and placed on the mission's JunoCam website Wednesday morning.
As planned by the Juno team, citizen scientists took the raw images of the flyby from the JunoCam site and processed them, providing a higher level of detail than available in their raw form.
The citizen-scientist images, as well as the raw images they used for image processing, can be found at:
► https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing
Measuring in at 10,159 miles (16,350 kilometers) in width (as of April 3, 2017) Jupiter's Great Red Spot is 1.3 times as wide as Earth. The storm has been monitored since 1830 and has possibly existed for more than 350 years. In modern times, the Great Red Spot has appeared to be shrinking.
► Image credit: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Seán Doran © PUBLIC DOMAIN
Image source>> https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/Vault/VaultOutput?VaultID=10434&t=1499959647
Further reading and references
► NASA's Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter's Great Red Spot>>
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6896
► NASA's Juno Spacecraft Completes Flyby over Jupiter's Great Red Spot>>
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6892
#SolarSystem, #SpaceExploration, #JunoMission, #Jupiter, #GreatRedSpot
Juno spacecraft flew over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot on July 10 at 10:06 p.m. EDT. This has been humanity’s first up-close and personal view of the gas giant’s iconic 10,000-mile-wide storm, which has been monitored since 1830 and possibly existing for more than 350 years.
The data collection of the Great Red Spot is part of Juno’s sixth science flyby over Jupiter’s mysterious cloud tops. Perijove (the point at which an orbit comes closest to Jupiter’s center) has been July 10 at 9:55 p.m. EDT.
During the flyby, all eight of the spacecraft’s instruments have be turned on, as well as its imager, JunoCam. The images of the Great Red Spot were downlinked from the spacecraft's memory on Tuesday and placed on the mission's JunoCam website Wednesday morning.
As planned by the Juno team, citizen scientists took the raw images of the flyby from the JunoCam site and processed them, providing a higher level of detail than available in their raw form.
The citizen-scientist images, as well as the raw images they used for image processing, can be found at:
► https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing
Measuring in at 10,159 miles (16,350 kilometers) in width (as of April 3, 2017) Jupiter's Great Red Spot is 1.3 times as wide as Earth. The storm has been monitored since 1830 and has possibly existed for more than 350 years. In modern times, the Great Red Spot has appeared to be shrinking.
► Image credit: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Seán Doran © PUBLIC DOMAIN
Image source>> https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/Vault/VaultOutput?VaultID=10434&t=1499959647
Further reading and references
► NASA's Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter's Great Red Spot>>
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6896
► NASA's Juno Spacecraft Completes Flyby over Jupiter's Great Red Spot>>
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6892
#SolarSystem, #SpaceExploration, #JunoMission, #Jupiter, #GreatRedSpot
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