Activity patterns of recent Homo sapiens are characterized by a sedentary life style and consequently by exercise deficiency. This lack of physical activity increases the risk of various chronic non-communicable diseases and reduces health related quality of life. From the perspective of evolutionary medicine, the high rates of non-communicable disease among contemporary industrialized populati...

In mathematical chemistry, the median eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix of a molecular graph are strictly related to orbital energies and molecular orbitals. In this regard, the difference between the occupied orbital of highest energy (HOMO) and the unoccupied orbital of lowest energy (LUMO) has been investigated (see Fowler and Pisansky in Acta Chim. Slov. 57:513-517, 2010). Motivated by th...

Recent measurements on high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from N2 aligned perpendicular to the driving laser polarization [B. K. McFarland el al, Science 322, 1232 (2008)] have shown a maximum at the rotational half-revival. This has been interpreted as the signature of the HHG contribution from the molecular orbital just below the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO). By using the recen...

The synthesis and characterization of 1, 3-bis [(furan-2-yl) methylene] urea (BFMU) and 1, 3-bis [furan-2-yl) methylene] thiourea (BFMT) have been reported by our research team. The effects of solvents polarity on their electronic transition energies (HOMO-LUMO) and associated qualitative structure activity relationship parameters (i.e. log P, ionization energies and global hardness) were inves...

Atenolol was examined as a copper corrosion inhibitor in 1M nitric acid solution using the mass loss technique and quantum chemical studies, based on density functional theory (DFT) at B3LYP level with base 6-311G (d,p). The inhibitory efficiency of molecule increases increasing concentration temperature. adsorption surface follows modified Langmuir model. thermodynamic quantities activation we...

A variant of microcephalin, MCPH1 gene, was introgressed about 37,000 years ago into Homo sapiens genetic pool from an archaic (Homo erectus) lineage and rose to exceptionally high frequency of around 70 percent worldwide today. It is involved in regulating neuroblast proliferation and its changes alter the rate of division and/or differentiation of neuroblasts during the neurogenic phase of em...

Singly occupied molecular orbital?highest orbital (SOMO?HOMO) conversion (inversion), SHC, is a phenomenon in which the SOMO lower energy than doubly orbitals (DOMO, HOMO). A non-Aufbau electronic structure leads to unique properties such as switch bond dissociation and generation of high-spin species on one-electron oxidation. In addition, pronounced photostability these has been reported rece...

For a long while, the controversy surrounding several bone tools coming from pre-Upper Palaeolithic contexts favoured the view of Homo sapiens as the only species of the genus Homo capable of modifying animal bones into specialised tools. However, evidence such as South African Early Stone Age modified bones, European Lower Palaeolithic flaked bone tools, along with Middle and Late Pleistocene ...

After a brief review of the most recent findings in the study of human evolution, an extensive comparison of the complete genomes of our nearest relative, the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), of extant Homo sapiens, archaic Homo neanderthalensis and the Denisova specimen were made. The focus was on non-synonymous mutations, which consequently had an impact on protein levels and these changes were ...

N-doped ZnO thin films were deposited on n-type Si(100) and homo-buffer layer, and undoped ZnO thin film was also deposited on homo-buffer layer by RF magnetron sputtering method. After deposition, all films were in-situ annealed at 800 C for 5 minutes in ambient of O2 with pressure of 10 Torr. X-ray diffraction shows that the homobuffer layer is beneficial to the crystalline of N-doped ZnO thi...