OBJECTIVE Potential associations between consistency with the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet and preclinical stages of heart failure (HF) in a large multiethnic cohort have not been evaluated. This study sought to determine the cross-sectional relationship between the DASH eating pattern and left ventricular (LV) function in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)....

A remarkable act of memory entails binding different forms of information. We focus on the timeless question of how the bound engram is accessed such that its component features-item and context-are extracted. To shed light on this question, we investigate the dynamics between brain structures that together mediate the binding and extraction of item and context. Converging evidence has implicat...

Abstract. For each k ≥ 1 and corresponding hexagonal number h(k) = 3k(k + 1)+ 1, we introduce m(k) = max{(k − 1)!/2, 1} packings of h(k) equal disks inside a circle which we call the curved hexagonal packings. The curved hexagonal packing of 7 disks (k = 1, m(1) = 1) is well known and one of the 19 disks (k = 2, m(2) = 1) has been previously conjectured to be optimal. New curved hexagonal packi...

OF THESIS Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science Computer Science The University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico

There exist three possible patterns for the reaction of cyclic 2-oxazolidinethione and 2-benzoxazolidinethione with arynes, namely (a) S-arylation, (b) N-arylation, and (c) aryne insertion into the thiocarbonyl group (C[double bond, length as m-dash]S). Our studies demonstrate that S-arylation wins out affording S-aryl dihydrooxazoles. In contrast, for related reactions of cyclic 2-benzoxazolin...

The first examples of an amido-distibene, L(†)Sb[double bond, length as m-dash]SbL(†) (L(†) = -N(Ar(†))(SiPr(i)3), Ar(†) = C6H2{C(H)Ph2}2Pr(i)-2,6,4), and a boryl dibismuthene, {(DAB)B}Bi[double bond, length as m-dash]Bi{B(DAB)} (DAB = {(C6H3Pr(i)2-2,6)NCH}2, have been prepared by reaction of a lithium boryl complex, (THF)2LiB(DAB), with extremely bulky amido-group 15 dihalide precursor compoun...

The complex [PtMe2({κ(2)-N,N-RN[double bond, length as m-dash]CH-2-C5H4N})] reacts with oxygen in acetone solution to give the platinum(iv) complex [Pt(OH)Me2{κ(3)-N,N,O-RNH-CH(2-C5H4N)(CH[double bond, length as m-dash]CMeO)}], when R = 2-C6H4OH, but not when R = Ph. It has been suggested that the phenol substituent plays two key biomimetic roles; firstly, in proton coupled electron transfer re...