Shape-selective methylation of naphthalene (NAPH) over SAPO-11 zeolite was carried out in a fixed-bed flow reactor under atmospheric pressure. Some zeolites, such as H-beta (Hβ), HUSY and ZSM-5 were also evaluated for comparison with SAPO-11 zeolite.The results showed that SAPO-11 exhibited higher stability, higher selectivity of  2,6-dimethylnaphthalene (2,6-DMN), and higher 2,6-/2,7-DMN r...

Naturalistic environments have been demonstrated to promote relaxation and wellbeing. We assess opposing theoretical accounts for these effects through investigation of autonomic arousal and alterations of activation and functional connectivity within the default mode network (DMN) of the brain while participants listened to sounds from artificial and natural environments. We found no evidence ...

Understanding how dynamic changes in brain activity control behavior is a major challenge of cognitive neuroscience. Here, we consider the brain as a complex dynamic system and define two measures of brain dynamics: the synchrony of brain activity, measured by the spatial coherence of the BOLD signal across regions of the brain; and metastability, which we define as the extent to which synchron...

Abstract Purpose: Disruptions in cognitive performance are commonly reported after a sports-related concussion (SRC) and may be related to brain network changes, particularly within the default mode (DMN). Since well-connected regions across networks (hubs) play an important role organization, we hypothesize that DMN hubs will disrupted SRC associated with symptoms performance. Methods: We coll...

Geometries, relative stabilities, electronic excited states, atomic charges, and electronic dipole polarizabilities of dimethylnaphthalene (DMN) isomers have been calculated in gas and aqueous phases by ab initio and DFT methods. At the highest levels of calculation, alpha,alpha-DMN (2,6-DMN, 2,7-DMN, and 2,3-DMN) are the lowest energy isomers, while 1,8-DMN is the less stable by 7-8 kcal mol(-...

Vestibular neuritis is defined as a sudden unilateral partial failure of the vestibular nerve that impairs the forwarding of vestibular information from the labyrinth. The patient suffers from vertigo, horizontal nystagmus and postural instability with a tendency toward ipsilesional falls. Although vestibular neuritis is a common disease, the central mechanisms to compensate for the loss of pre...

The default mode network (DMN) is one of the most widely studied resting state functional networks. The structural basis for the DMN is of particular interest and has been studied by several researchers using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). Most of these previous studies focused on a few regions or white matter tracts of the DMN so that the global structural connectivity pattern and network pro...

This article is devoted to the early detection of psychopathological changes, study temperament and character accentuation, as well identification anxiety-phobic disorders which are observed in taekwondo athletes through psycho diagnostic examinations.

Although it is generally accepted that cognitive factors contribute to the pathogenesis of major depressive disorder (MDD), there are missing links between behavioral and biological models of depression. Nevertheless, research employing neuroimaging technologies has elucidated some of the neurobiological mechanisms related to cognitive-vulnerability factors, especially from a whole-brain, dynam...

The present investigation was designed to identify potential biomarker(s) and assess the involvement of inflammatory pathway in dimethylnitrosamine (DMN)-induced liver fibrosis in rats. Following DMN-treatment (10 mg/ml/kg, i.p., given three consecutive days each week for 4 weeks) body and liver weights were significantly decreased concurrent with increasing severity of liver damage assessed by...