d-tartaric acid is successfully used as a green and efficient catalyst for the synthesis of 3,4-dihydropyrimidin-2(1h)-ones under solvent-free conditions. the developed method has many advantages, including devoid of harmful catalyst and solvents, high yield and easily work-up.

Contrast resolution and detail resolution are two important parameters in ultrasound imaging. This paper presents a new method to enhance these parameters, simultaneously. A parallel auxiliary beamformer has been employed whose weightings are such that an estimation of the leaked signal through the main beamformer is obtained. Then the output of main beamformer is modified according to the ...

Task performance suffers when an aspect of a stimulus is associated with an incorrect response, thereby evoking cognitive conflict. Such impairment is reduced after recent or frequent conflict occurrence, suggesting attentional adjustment. We examined adjustment to conflict evoked by a temporarily irrelevant S-R rule when participants frequently switched between two semantic classification task...

Prion diseases such as scrapie in small ruminants, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in man, are fatal neurodegenerative disorders. These diseases result from the accumulation of misfolded conformers of the host-encoded prion protein (PrP) in the central nervous system. To date naturally-occurring PrP free animals have not been reported. Here w...

Aim In Japan, goreisan (GRS) is used to alleviate cerebral edema and relieve headaches. Although improvement of water maldistribution in the brain may be one mechanisms action GRS for headache, scientific evidence limited. Here, we aimed investigate mechanism against headaches, focusing on dynamics brain. Methods We a well-established mouse model evaluate effects related symptoms content. The w...