The major pollutants from diesel engines are NOx and soot. NOx and soot emissions are of concerns to the international community. They have been judged to pose a lung cancer hazard for humans as well as elevating the risk of non-cancer respiratory ailments. These emissions react in the atmosphere in the presence of sunlight to form ground-level ozone. Ground-level ozone is a major component of ...

We studied the safety of a trivalent inactivated surface antigen (split virion, inactivated) influenza vaccine, Begrivac® (Novartis Company), widely used in health care workers in Kurdistan. A longitudinal follow-up study was performed in Sanandaj city, west of Iran, recruiting 936 people. A questionnaire was completed for each participant, and all symptoms or abnormal physical findings were re...

Luca Cernuzzi, Lidia López, Jose Ignacio Panach and Martín Solari Universidad Católica “Nuestra Señora de la Asunción”, Paraguay, [email protected] Universidad Politècnica de Catalunya, España, [email protected] Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria, Departament d’Informàtica, Universitat de València, Avenida de la Universidad, s/n, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain, [email protected] Universida...

We examine corresponding Cauchy-Riemann equations by using the non-commutativity for the product on split-biquaternions. Additionally, we describe the regularity of functions and properties of their differential equations on split-biquaternions. We investigate representations and calculations of the derivatives of functions of split-biquaternionic variables. c ©2016 all rights reserved.

Split-brain cats using a single hemisphere show impaired performance on a variety of behavioral tasks. This has been attributed to a loss of cortical mass action. To test this proposal in primates, performance on a nested match-to-sample task was compared in split-brain, hemispherectomized, and normal monkeys. As expected, split-brain monkeys using a single hemisphere performed worse than norma...

An understanding of relations between causes and effects is essential for making sense of the dynamic physical world. It has been argued that this understanding of causality depends on both perceptual and inferential components. To investigate whether causal perception and causal inference rely on common or on distinct processes, the authors tested 2 callosotomy (split-brain) patients and a gro...

Laterality experiments using reaction time were conducted to assess the performance of the right hemisphere of normal people on verbal tasks. The results show that if the task calls for pictorial encoding of visually presented verbal material, then the right hemisphere’s performance is superior to that of the left. When the task calls for linguistic analysis, the minor hemisphere displays no ap...

Sensory and cognitive functions were assessed in a right-handed male before and after partial and complete callosal commissurotomy. After the initial posterior section was made, there was no evidence of interhemispheric sensory transfer, although the left hemisphere did have access to stimulus-related semantic and episodic information from the right hemisphere. After the callosum was completely...