The purpose of the study was to test the hypothesis that sound context modulates the magnitude of auditory distraction, indexed by behavioral and electrophysiological measures. Participants were asked to identify tone duration, while irrelevant changes occurred in tone frequency, tone intensity, and harmonic structure. Frequency deviants were randomly intermixed with standards (Uni-Condition), ...

The crystal structures of two N-(aryl-sulfon-yl)aryl-amides, namely N-(3-fluoro-benzo-yl)benzene-sulfonamide, C13H10FNO3S, (I), and N-(3-fluoro-benzo-yl)-4-methyl-benzene-sulfonamide, C14H12FNO3S, (II), are described and compared with related structures. The dihedral angle between the benzene rings is 82.73 (10)° in (I) compared to 72.60 (12)° in (II). In the crystal of (I), the mol-ecules are ...

Structure-activity relationships of cycloalkylamide compounds as inhibitors of human sEH were investigated. When the left side of amide function was modified by a variety of cycloalkanes, at least a C6 like cyclohexane was necessary to yield reasonable inhibition potency on the target enzyme. In compounds with a smaller cycloalkane or with a polar group on the left side of amide function, no in...

In this issue of Structure, Beale et al. (2015) define structurally and functionally a large extracellular domain unique to mammalian peptide transporters and its implications for the transport of basic di- and tri-peptides (Beale et al., 2015).

The conformation of d(TA)3 (CG)3 has been studied in aqueous solution in the presence of high salt concentration. The oligonucleotide forms in solution concatamers. In the presence of 5 M NaC1 the concatamer is built up of d(CG)3 blocks in Z-conformation and of d(TA)3 blocks in B-conformation. In the presence of 4 M LiCl both blocks in the concatamer display a B-type structure.

[Purpose] The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness on the educational procedure development for physical therapist assistant in Quang Tri province of Vietnam. [Subjects and Methods] The subjects consisted of 10 lecturers for the education of physical therapist assistant in Quang Tri medical college. To compare with satisfaction and educational effectiveness accordin...

In this paper we describe an automatic sentence boundary detector, which inserts a period (sentence boundary marker) to a word sequence output by a speech recognizer. The state-ofthe-art automatic sentence boundary detectors insert a period at a position selected by a word tri-gram model from among candidates (long pauses) offered by an accoustic model. In contrast, the automatic sentence bound...

Combining graph regularization with nonnegative matrix (tri-)factorization (NMF) has shown great performance improvement compared with traditional nonnegativematrix (tri-)factorizationmodels due to its ability to utilize the geometric structure of the documents and words. In this paper, we show that these models are not well-defined and suffering from trivial solution and scale transfer problem...

Synthesis and structure elucidation of optically active tri-, tetra-, and penta-azamacrocycles having 4-methoxyphenyl pendants are described. Regioselective ring opening of a nosylaziridine with secondary benzyl amines was repeatedly performed to afford the cyclization precursors. Intramolecular N-alkylation of N-(omega-haloalkyl) nosylamide provided tri-, tetra-, and penta-azamacrocycles. On t...

The Nano-CrY zeolite synthesized and characterized by Fourier transfer infrared (FT-IR), X-ray diffraction (XRD),and Scanning electron microscopy (SEM).The result show that nano catalyst prepared with mainly particles size about 30-80 nm .The XRD show the structure of the zeolite does not collapse. This Nano-CrY zeolite has been used as new, and nontoxic catalyst for catalyzes of synthesis of 2...