This study investigated the influence of direction of attention on the early detection of visual novelty, as indexed by the anterior N2. The anterior N2 was measured in young subjects (n=32) under an attend and an ignore condition. Subjects were presented standard, target/rare, and perceptually novel visual stimuli under both conditions, but under the ignore condition, attention was directed to...

The ®rst-order perturbation approximation is applied to calculate the rate coecients of vibrational energy transfer in collisions involving vibrationally excited molecules in the absence of non-adiabatic transitions. The factors of molecular attraction, oscillator frequency change, anharmonicity, 3-dimensionality and quasiclassical motion have been taken into account in the approximation. The ...

When a diver breaths air from scuba equipment at depth, N2 is breathed at an increased partial pressure. Because gas diffuses from areas of high concentration (high partial pressure) to areas of lower concentration, N2 is taken up from the lungs by the blood and transported around the body and into the tissues. The greater the depth, the greater the partial pressure of N2, and therefore the amo...

We show that a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a Kp ,2q factorization of the symmetric complete tripartite digraph K~1,n2,n3 is (i) ni = n2 = n3 == 0 (mod p) for p = q, (ii) ni = n2 = n3 == 0 (mod dp'q'(p' + 2q')) for p =Iq and p' odd, (iii) ni = n2 = n3 == 0 (mod dp'q'(p' + 2q')/2) for p =Iq and p' even, where d = (p, q), p' = p/d, q' = q/d.

This paper presents explicit formulae for multivariate Maclaurin-Lagrange M : Kn1×n2×...×nd → Kn1×n2×...×nd and Maclaurin-Newton P : Kn1×n2×...×nd → Kn1×n2×...×nd transformations with respect to points whose coordinates form geometric sequences. Moreover, efficient algorithms for these transformations are given. Both of them perform computations with a running time of O (∏d j=1 nj · log ∏d j=1 ...

Scleractinian corals are essential constituents of tropical reef ecological diversity. They live in close association with diazotrophs [dinitrogen (N2)-fixing microbes], which can fix high rates of N2. Whether corals benefit from this extrinsic nitrogen source is still under debate. Until now, N2 fixation rates have been indirectly estimated using the acetylene reduction assay, which does not p...

We present the 2335-2325 cm-1 infrared spectra and band positions, profiles and strengths (A values) of solid nitrogen and binary mixtures of N2 with other molecules at 12 K. The data demonstrate that the strength of the infrared forbidden N2 fundamental near 2328 cm-1 is moderately enhanced in the presence of NH3, strongly enhanced in the presence of H2O and very strongly enhanced (by over a f...

Two experiments were conducted to examine whether the N2 component of the event-related potential (ERP), typically elicited in a S1-S2 matching task and considered to reflect mismatch process, can still be elicited when the S1 was imagined instead of perceived and to investigate how N2 amplitude varied with the degree of S1-S2 discrepancy. Three levels of discrepancy were defined by the degree ...