Creativity of an individual can be affected by emotions, memories, and associations with past experiences. This study examines the effects nostalgia on divergent thinking component creativity induced olfactory cues memory recall, more specifically what is impact creativity. The participants were randomly assigned to olfactory, & memory, or control groups, completed a test. found that combinatio...

Recently a new concept of umbrella–ladder combination system to exploit the high altitude wind energy has been proposed. In this system the polyethylene polymer transmission tether plays an important role as the connection between the high altitude wind power absorber and the ground station. To make the concept practical, whether the tether would lead lightning to the ground station is one of t...

We focus on JET plasmas in which ELMs are triggered by pellets in the presence of ELMs which occur naturally. We perform direct time domain analysis of signals from fast radial field coils and toroidal full flux azimuthal loops. These toroidally integrating signals provide simultaneous high time resolution measurements of global plasma dynamics and its coupling to the control system. We examine...

The rat monoclonal antibodies (Mab) 1A10.4 and IG4 were raised to a solubilized NADPH-oxidase preparation from guinea-pig polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN). They bind to a surface antigen restricted to guinea-pig myelomonocytic cells and on binding to the PMN surface can stimulate the respiratory burst (RB) and degranulation. This response was specific to these Mab and was not found with seve...

Different viruses trigger pattern recognition receptor systems, such as Toll-like receptors or cytosolic RIG-I like helicases (RLH), and thus induce early type I interferon (IFN-I) responses. Such responses may confer protection until adaptive immunity is activated to an extent that the pathogen can be eradicated. Interestingly, the same innate immune mechanisms that are relevant for early path...

[1] In this study we aim to understand the effect of static and dynamic stress changes in promoting earthquake failures on secondary faults. Toward this goal we solve the equation of motion of a spring-slider dynamic system including inertia and using rateand state-dependent constitutive laws. We separately investigate the dynamic response of this fault analog system to a sudden stress change r...

BACKGROUND Mechanical ventilation via automated in-hospital ventilators is quite common during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. It is not known whether different inspiratory triggering sensitivity settings of ordinary ventilators have different effects on actual ventilation, gas exchange and hemodynamics during resuscitation. METHODS 18 pigs enrolled in this study were anaesthetized and intubat...

In this issue of Chemistry & Biology, Trausch and Batey report a discrepancy between ligand binding affinity and the effect of transcription termination in a THF riboswitch, raising some important questions about our current understanding of ligand-dependent RNA switches.