A double-loop digraph G(N ; s1, s2) = G(V,E) is defined by V = ZN and E = {(i, i + s1), (i, i + s2)| i ∈ V }, for some fixed steps 1 ≤ s1 < s2 < N with gcd(N, s1, s2) = 1. Let D(N ; s1, s2) be the diameter of G and let us define D(N) = min 1≤s1<s2<N, gcd(N,s1,s2)=1 D(N ; s1, s2), D1(N) = min 1<s<N D(N ; 1, s). Some early works about the diameter of these digraphs studied the minimization of D(N...

This study deals with the problem of whether the processing of irrelevant location information in Simon-like tasks is triggered exogenously or endogenously. In Experiment 1, the primary task required one to press, as fast as possible, a left-hand-side key or a right-hand-side key (R1) to the pitch of a tone that was presented binaurally (S1). The secondary task required identifying, without tim...

Helicobacter pylori, a gram-negative bacterium associated with gastritis, peptic ulceration, and gastric adenocarcinoma in humans, secretes a protein toxin, VacA, that causes vacuolar degeneration of epithelial cells. Several different families of H. pylori vacA alleles can be distinguished based on sequence diversity in the "middle" region (i.e., m1 and m2) and in the 5' end of the gene (i.e.,...

PURPOSE Children's blood changes during angiocardiography may not be only due to the contrast media (CM). METHODS We studied the presence and severity of changes in those parameters in 35 pediatric patients undergoing angiocardiography with ioxaglate aiming to identify independent variable responsible for those changes. Blood samples were taken at the beginning of the procedure (SI), at the e...

Equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV) is a member of the Lentivirus genus in the Retroviridae family that exhibits a genomic structure similar to that of HIV-1. The S2 accessory proteins play important roles in viral replication in vivo and in viral pathogenicity; however, studies on S2 evolution in vivo are limited. This study analyzed the evolutionary characteristics of the S2 gene of a patho...

Research suggests that the discriminative and affective aspects of touch are processed differently in the brain. Primary somatosensory cortex is strongly implicated in touch discrimination, whereas insular and prefronal regions have been associated with pleasantness aspects of touch. However, the role of secondary somatosensory cortex (S2) is less clear. In the current study we used inhibitory ...

UNLABELLED Objective : Esophageal stethoscope has the advantage of being non-invasive, easily placed and capability to monitor the heart sound. This study was designed to determine whether the ratio of S1 to S2 analyzed by esophageal stethoscope and wireless bluetooth transmission can be accurate indicator that express the correlation with blood pressure. METHODS Total 33 adult male and femal...

The SALMFamides S1 and S2 are two structurally related neuropeptides that are present in starfish, and which share the C-terminal amino acid sequence SXLXFamide, where X is variable. To establish the distribution of S1 and S2 in starfish, we have raised antisera that recognise specifically the C-terminal pentapeptide sequence of either S1 or S2. Here we describe the production and characterisat...

To identify the precursors and elucidate the reaction conditions that yield heterocyclic amine mutagens in cooked meat products and fish, we have used a supernatant 2 (S2) fraction prepared from H2O-homogenized lean round steak. Compounds (MW less than 500) in S2 are the sources of the microsomal-dependent, Salmonella TA 1538 mutagenic activity in open boiled (aqueous), 200 degrees C pressure-h...

It is proved that the fixed point set of a smooth involution which preserves orientation and a spin structure on a smooth manifold is necessarily orientable. As an application it is proved that a simply connected spin 4-mamfold with nonzero signature admits no involution which acts by multiplication by -1 on its second rational homology group. Consider a smooth orientation-preserving action of ...