Improved Photodecarboxylation Properties in Zinc Photocages Constructed Using <i>m‐</i> Nitrophenylacetic Acid Variants**

Characterization of engineered channelrhodopsin variants with improved properties and kinetics.

Channelrhodopsin 2 (ChR2), a light-activated nonselective cationic channel from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, has become a useful tool to excite neurons into which it is transfected. The other ChR from Chlamydomonas, ChR1, has attracted less attention because of its proton-selective permeability. By making chimeras of the transmembrane domains of ChR1 and ChR2, combined with site-directed mutagene...

A cubic coordination framework constructed from benzobistriazolate ligands and zinc ions having selective gas sorption properties.

Two novel metal coordination polymers, [Zn5Cl4(BBTA)3].3 DMF (1), and [ZnCl(BBTA)(0.5)(DMA)] (2) {H2-BBTA = 1H,5H-benzo(1,2-d:4,5-d')bistriazole}, have been synthesized under solvothermal conditions using ZnCl2 and H2-BBTA in DMF (DMF = N,N'-dimethylformamide) or DMA (DMA = N,N'-dimethylacetamide). Moreover, a highly efficient microwave synthetic route has been developed for 1. The structures o...

Variants of Mixtures: Information Properties and Applications

In recent years, we have studied information properties of various types of mixtures of probability distributions and introduced a new type, which includes previously known mixtures as special cases. These studies are disseminated in different fields: reliability engineering, econometrics, operations research, probability, the information theory, and data mining. This paper presents a holistic ...

Using Instant Messaging Interaction (IMI) in Intercultural Learning

Imi Research Seminar

The effectiveness of virtual environments has often been linked to the sense of presence reported by users of those virtual environments. Presence studies look investigate the phenomenon of acting and feeling that we are in the world created by computer displays. We propose to study relations between virtual humans and sense of presence in immersive environments. We particularly consider how su...