Humans, like numerous other species, strongly rely on the observation of gestures of other individuals in their everyday life. It is hypothesized that the visual processing of human gestures is sustained by a specific functional architecture, even at an early prelexical cognitive stage, different from that required for the processing of other visual entities. In the present PET study, the neura...

statement of the problem early detection of periodontal disease and distruction is important for prevention of further destruction of the tissues. we carried out this study to determine the normal cement enamel junction (cej) to alveolar bone crest (abc) distance in the interproximal area of primary molars on bitewing (b. w) radiographs in healthy 7-9 year old girls living in hamadan, iran. mat...

varicose veins are an extremely common medical condition (present in 5-30% of adults). surgery remains the gold standard of care in patients with varicose veins, however several newer interventions have been recently introduced which need to be evaluated. during the standard surgery it is imperative to demonstrate and ligate the tributaries of the saphenofemoral junction in combination with str...

it was thought previously that cardiac muscle gap junctions provide low-resistance connections between cells and permit the local-circuit current to flow. some evidences show that myocardial cells may not require low-resistance connections for successful propagation of the action potential (ap). it seems that some other types of mechanisms must be involved in ap propagation. in this article, we...

Recombination of genes is essential to the evolution of genetic diversity, the segregation of chromosomes during cell division, and certain DNA repair processes. The Holliday junction, a four-arm, four-strand branched DNA crossover structure, is formed as a transient intermediate during genetic recombination and repair processes in the cell. The recognition and subsequent resolution of Holliday...

The presence of capping materials during annealing (activation for example) can substantially impact the silicon junction profiles of Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors (CMOSFET), depending on the nature of these layers. In this paper we specifically investigated the boron out-diffusion from a silicon junction into the silicon oxide in presence of a silicon oxide/s...

We have undertaken molecular dynamics simulations on the d(CGCAAAAAAGCG).d(CGCTTTTTTGCG) dodecamer in solution. In this study, we focus on aspects of conformation and dynamics, including the possibility of cross-strand hydrogen bonds. We compare our results with those from crystallography as well as infrared, Raman and NMR spectroscopy and cyclization kinetics. Our method of analysis allows us ...

Nearly 50 years have lapsed since the tight junction between epithelial cells was first identified by electron microscopy. The tight junction was once viewed as a static structure providing a barrier to paracellular movement and restricting proteins to the apical or basolateral membrane. Recent insights into the molecular composition of tight junctions reveal surprising complexity and dynamic r...

We report the numerical calculations of the static vortex structure and critical curves in exponentially shaped long Josephson junctions for in-line and overlap geometries. Each solution of the corresponding boundary value problem is associated with the Sturm-Liouville problem whose minimal eigenvalue allows to make a conclusion about the stability of the vortex. The change in width of the junc...

A simple and low cost quasi-static capacitance-voltage (C-V) meter was designed and developed to obtain C-V characteristics of semiconductor devices based on a C8051F006 SoC (system on-a-chip). The developed C-V meter consists of a capacitance meter based on feedback charge amplifier, a programmable voltage source, a C8051F006 SoC-based slave controller, and a personal computer (PC) as a master...