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2014 A new series of polar mesogens exhibits both a smectic B phase and a ribbon phase Sc. In this series, an incommensurate hexatic B phase has also been found. In this phase, a long wavelength modulation of the dipolar orientation is superimposed over the in-layer 2D hexagonal array. The structural features of this new phase are compared to those of the normal hexatic B and Sc phases. J. Phys...

Gori and Hamburger (2006, Perception 35 853-857) devised a new visual illusion of relative motion elicited by the observer's motion. We propose that the systematic error of direction discrimination found by Lorenceau et al (1993, Vision Research 33 1207 - 1217) can explain this illusion. The neural correlate of such a systematic error with respect to the two types of neurons in the primary visu...

Stress affects already young healthy people and many elderly or patients with psychiatric disorders receive benzodiazepines. A recent study has shown that the phyto-anxiolytic herbal extract combination Ze 185 (Relaxane®) significantly reduced the subjective stress reaction in healthy men in an acute stress setting. Further, in a retrospective data analysis from stationary patients in a psychia...

The sulphated glycoprotein SSG 185 is the monomeric precursor of a highly aggregated structural element in the extracellular matrix of the multicellular green alga Volvox carteri. A phosphodiester of arabinose was isolated from a saccharide fragment of SSG 185. The structure of this phosphodiester was investigated by methylation analysis, 13C-NMR, photometric methods and enzymatic assays and id...

A porcine rotavirus (prv) monoreassortant, S-F4, which carries RNA segment 4 of the pig-pathogenic variant prv 4F in the genetic background of the pig-apathogenic variant prv 4S (G. I. Tauscher and U. Desselberger, J. Virol. 71:853-857, 1997), was found to be pathogenic in gnotobiotic piglets. This indicates that RNA segment 4 of the pig-pathogenic variant prv 4F is a major determinant of patho...