This article presents the results of an AXB discrimination task testing the ability of Japanese beginner learners to distinguish three French nasal vowels /ɑ ̃ɔ ̃ɛ/̃ and compares them with the results of a corpus-based analysis of their production of the same vowels in two tasks (wordlist repetition and wordlist reading). This perception-production study is embedded in an ongoing 2-year longitudin...

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurological disorder resulting from the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra. ɑ-Synuclein, a PD-associated protein, clumps and forms aggregates, or Lewy bodies, in PD patients. Recently, a novel familial mutation of ɑ-synuclein, A53E, was discovered. Our study aimed to create two truncated versions of the familial mutant A53E by removing amino acid...

The purpose of this study was to identify the Fusarium species associated with selected medicinal plant species of Lamiaceae and Asteraceae in Kerman, the second-largest province of Iran. The plants showing wilting/rotting symptoms as well as asymptomatic plants were collected from main medicinal plants reservoirs and production areas. Fusarium species were identified based on...

BACKGROUND Identifying patients in the immunosuppressive phase of sepsis is essential for development of immunomodulatory therapies. Little data exists comparing the ability of the two most well-studied markers of sepsis-induced immunosuppression, human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DR expression and lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-ɑ) production, to predict mortality...

A phylogeny of the fungal phylum Basidiomycota is presented based on a survey of 160 taxa and five nuclear genes. Two genes, rpb2, and tef1, are presented in detail. The rpb2 gene is more variable than tef1 and recovers well-supported clades at shallow and deep taxonomic levels. The tef1 gene recovers some deep and ordinal-level relationships but with greater branch support from nucleotides com...

genus trichoderma is a monophyletic fungus which some their species is known as biocontrol agent. this study was carried out for phylogenetic analysis of some isolates of the genus trichoderma. in this study 73 sequences (including 33 sequences from t. aspereluum, t. brevicompactum, t. capillare, t. harzianum, t. koningiopsis, t. pleuroticola and t. virens and 40 sequences obtained from geneban...

BACKGROUND Exercise has shown positive training effects on obesity-related inflammation, however, resistance training has shown mixed results concerning adipocytokine levels. AIMS The purpose of this pilot study was to explore the effects of resistance training on blood adipocytokine concentrations in obese youth, with specific examination of the relationship between these biomarkers and impr...

OBJECTIVES To explore influence of carbohydrates/fat proportions, dietary ingredients on telomere length shortening, oxidative stress and inflammation in a Chinese population with different glucose tolerance status. METHODS Five hundred and fifty-six Chinese subjects without diabetes history underwent a 75 g, 2 h Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT). Subjects with diabetes (n = 159), pre-diabet...

​ *Corresponding author's address: Linguistics, University of Southern California, 3601 Watt Way, GFS 301, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1693, [email protected] In General American English (GAE), only two full vowels [ɑ, ɔ] occur in syllables ending in [ɹ] plus a non-coronal consonant, e.g. , . An articulatory study of rhotic production by three speakers of GAE was conducted using real-time s...

The effects of background noise on speech-evoked cortical auditory evoked potentials (CAEPs) can provide insight into the physiology of the auditory system. The purpose of this study was to determine background noise effects on neural coding of different phonemes within a syllable. CAEPs were recorded from 15 young normal-hearing adults in response to speech signals /s/, /ɑ/, and /sɑ/. Signals ...