Many natural shapes are chiral (or handed). Our hands, for example, have a righthand version and a left-hand version, the two types being mirror images of each other. Molecules are also classi ed according to their chirality, which determines their chemical characteristics. Glucose, for example, is sweet only in one chirality, while it is tasteless in the other. The notion of chirality for two ...

The present study assessed the ability of normal Japanese adults to recognize kanji and hiragana characters through passive finger tracing without visual cues. We tested fifty-six right-handed Japanese university students using the left or right hand. Participants recognized approximately 50% of 44 kanji characters, regardless of the hand they used. The results are consistent with previous find...

This study aims to investigate the relations between limbic regions and motivation in convergence and mathematics learning. For this purpose, the magnetic resonance images of brain of 22 right-handed high school students were collected. The partial correlated subcortical regions between volume and motivation scores were left accumbens and right Pallidum. Among these regions, left accumbens was ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between visual evoked potentials (N1, P2, N2, P3 and Sw) and levels of neuroticism, psychoticism and depression. Based on previous research, longer EP-latencies were expected in more depressed subjects, and smaller EP-amplitudes in subjects with higher levels of neuroticism and psychoticism. The sample consisted of female psychology stud...

These notes give a concise exposition of the theory of fields, including the Galois theory of finite and infinite extensions and the theory of transcendental extensions. They are an expansion of those handed out during a course taught to first-year graduate students. v2.01 (August 21, 1996). First version on the web. v2.02 (May 27, 1998). Fixed about 40 minor errors; 57 pages. v3.00 (April 3, 2...

BACKGROUND: Studies have emphasized on the frontal EEG asymmetry as a mediator of emotional states. This research was aimed to examine the overall and asymmetric activities of the brain lobes under the affective states. METHODS: A coupling EEG was recorded in an eye closed awakened condition from 40 right handed female students under the baseline and affective states. RESULTS: Bilaterally decre...

These are notes that I used myself to lecture from. A modified version was handed to the students, which is reflected in various changes of fonts and marginal hacks in this version. These things were not in their version. In particular, certain things were omitted and they were given space to write things that either were in my notes or on which I expanded in class. The first part of the course...