In a probability guessing experiment, subjects try to guess which of two events will occur next. Humans tend to match the frequency of previous occurrences in their guesses. Animals other than humans tend to maximize or always choose the option that has occurred the most frequently in the past. Investigators have argued that frequency matching results from the attempt of humans to find patterns...

Hemisphere differences in word reading were examined using explicit and implicit processing measures. In an inclusion task, which indexes both conscious (explicit) and unconscious (implicit) word reading processes, participants were briefly presented with a word in either the right or the left visual field and were asked to use this word to complete a three-letter word stem. In an exclusion tas...

Ligand-induced conditional protein splicing (CPS) using a split intein allows the covalent reconstitution of a protein from two polypeptide fragments. The small molecule rapamycin binds to the fused FKBP and FRB dimerizer domains and thereby induces folding of the split intein, which then removes itself in the trans-splicing reaction. CPS has great potential for the experimental control of prot...

This paper reports a novel combination of hydrophilic/hydrophobic materials for the evolution of liquid manipulation. Droplet generation based on a hydrophilic/hydrophobic mechanism is a promising method for highly accurate liquid manipulations. Although several droplet manipulation devices utilizing hydrophilic/hydrophobic patterns have been reported, it has been difficult to split fluid into ...

This work introduces a novel method for the detection of H2O2 vapor/aerosol low concentrations, which is mainly applied in sterilization equipment medical industry. Interdigitated electrode (IDE) structures have been fabricated by means microfabrication techniques. A differential setup IDEs was prepared, containing an active sensor element (active IDE) and passive (passive IDE), where former im...

Naturally occurring water vapor maser emission at 1.35 cm wavelength provides an accurate probe for the study of accretion disks around highly compact objects, thought to be black holes, in the centers of active galaxies. Because of the exceptionally fine angular resolution, 200 microarcseconds, obtainable with very long baseline interferometry, accompanied by high spectral resolution, < 0.1 km...

Excipients are included in dosage forms to aid manufacture, administration or absorption. Other reasons for inclusion concern product differentiation, appearance enhancement or retention of quality.1 They rarely, if ever, possess pharmacological activity and are accordingly loosely categorized as ‘inert.’ However, excipients can initiate, propagate or participate in chemical or physical interac...

We present high-resolution spectral line and continuum VLBI and VLA observations of the nuclear region of NGC 253 at 22 GHz. While the water vapor masers in this region were detected on arcsecond and milliarcsecond scales, we could not detect any compact continuum emission with a 5σ upper limit of ∼ 1 mJy. The observations reveal that the water maser emission is not related to a possible low-lu...