A one pot green three‐component coupling reaction of aldehyde, phenylacetylene, and amine derivatives in the presence of copper (II)–thioamide combination as a novel and efficient heterogeneous catalyst under solvent–free conditions is reported. The catalyst displayed high activity and afforded the corresponding propargylamines in good to high yields. The key to this procedure was the generatio...

Two constructs of emotional intelligence (EI) should be distinguished based on the measurement method used in the operationalization process (self-report, as in personality questionnaires, or maximum-performance, as in IQ tests; see Petrides & Furnham, 2000, 2001, 2003). Trait EI (or “trait emotional self-effi cacy”) concerns emotionrelated dispositions and self-perceptions measured via self-re...

%'ei Bao, C. Broholm, S. A. Carter, T. F. Rosenbaum, G. Aeppli, S. F. Trevino, 2 P. Metcalf, J. M. Honig, and 3. Spalek6 The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MaryLand 81218 National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 90899 The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60687 ATST Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 0797$ ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, Nehru Jersey...

with Ei the energy of the microstate labeled by i, β = 1/kBT the inverse temperature (T ), kB Boltzmann’s constant, and ZBG the partition function. The exponential term FBG = exp (−βE) is, of course, called the BG factor. Recently Beck and Cohen [3, 4] have advanced a generalization (called “superstatistics”) of this BG factor, assuming that the inverse temperature β is a stochastic variable. T...

Background. Energy-dense foods are inconsistently implicated in elevated energy intake (EI). This may stem from other food properties and/or differences in dietary incorporation, that is, as snacks or with meals. Objective. Assess intake pattern and food properties on acute appetitive ratings (AR) and EI. Design. 201 normal and overweight adults consuming a standard lunch. Test loads of 1255.2 ...

Creating new bacterial strains in which carbon and nitrogen metabolism are uncoupled is potentially very useful for optimizing yields of microbial produced chemicals from renewable carbon sources. However, the mechanisms that balance carbon and nitrogen consumption in bacteria are poorly understood. Recently, α-ketoglutarate (αKG), the carbon substrate for ammonia assimilation, has been observe...

Finding the global optimum(s) of a non-convex function is of great importance in numerous applications in science and engineering where the function takes the form of an expensive computer code and its inputs are the independent variables. For this type of problem, Jones et al. [12] proposed the idea of expected improvement (EI) and embedded it in an algorithm called efficient global optimizati...

Real-time reconstruction of a divacancy in graphene under electron irradiation (EI) is investigated by nonequilibrium molecular dynamic simulation (NEMD). The formation of the amorphous structure is found to be driven by the generalized Stone-Wales transformations (GSWTs), i.e. C-C bond rotations, around the defective area. The simulation reveals that each step of the reconstruction can be view...

Consider the following stochastic graph process. We begin with G0, the empty graph on n vertices, and form Gi by adding a randomly chosen edge ei to Gi−1 where ei is chosen uniformly at random from the collection of pairs of vertices that neither appear as edges in Gi−1 nor form triangles when added as edges to Gi−1. Let the random variable M be the number of edges in the maximal triangle free ...