In this paper, we identify the most efficient decay and isomerization route of the S1, T1, and S0 states of azobenzene. By use of quantum chemical methods, we have searched for the transition states (TS) on the S1 potential energy surface and for the S0/S1 conical intersections (CIs) that are closer to the minimum energy path on the S1. We found only one TS, at 60° of CNNC torsion from the E is...

background: prolongation of qt interval is one of the most important abnormalities in cardiovascular system of cirrhotic patients. the aim of this survey was determination of propranolol effect on frequency adjusted qt interval (qtc). materials and methods: thirty six cirrhotic patients (m/f=20/16, mean age:56 â± 3.8 years) and 40 healthy age and sex matched controls (m/f=25/15, mean age: 58 â±...

It has been established that oximes cause endothelium-independent relaxation in blood vessels. In the present study, the cardiovascular effects of the new oxime 3-hydroxy-4-(hydroxyimino)-2-(3-methylbut-2-enylnaphtalen-1(4H)-one (Oxime S1) derived from lapachol were evaluated. In normotensive rats, administration of Oxime S1 (10, 15, 20 and 30 mg/Kg, i.v.) produced dose-dependent reduction in b...

A double-loop digraph G=G(N ; s1; s2), with gcd(N; s1; s2)=1, has the set of vertices V =ZN and the adjacencies are given by u → u + si (mod N ) i = 1; 2. The diameter of G, denoted by D(N ; s1; s2), is known to be lower bounded by lb(N ) with D(N ) = min 16s1¡s2¡N; gcd(N;s1 ; s2)=1 D(N ; s1; s2)¿ ⌈√ 3N ⌉ − 2 = lb(N ): This lower bound is known to be sharp. For a 0xed N ∈N, some algorithms to 0...

Tactile information processing in the rodent primary somatosensory cortex (S1) is layer specific and involves modulations from both thalamocortical and cortico-cortical loops. However, the extent to which these loops influence the dynamics of the primary somatosensory cortex while animals execute tactile discrimination remains largely unknown. Here, we describe neural dynamics of S1 layers acro...

We have examined the S1 nuclease sensitivity in the promoter of both the chicken and mouse alpha 2(I) collagen genes. When these DNAs are introduced into supercoiled plasmids and digested with S1 nuclease, a discrete region containing one or more cleavages is found in each promoter. These S1 cleavage sites were mapped by the distance of the S1 site from known restriction enzyme cleavage sites. ...

A bisection of a graph G is a bipartition S1, S2 of V (G) such that −1 ≤ |S1|− |S2| ≤ 1. It is NP-hard to find a bisection S1, S2 of a graph G maximizing e(S1, S2) (respectively, minimizing max{e(S1), e(S2)}), where e(S1, S2) denotes the number of edges of G between S1 and S2, and e(Si) denotes the number of edges of G with both ends in Si. There has been algorithmic work on bisections, but ver...

The S1 element is a plant short interspersed element (SINE) that was first described and studied in Brassica napus. In this work, we investigated the distribution and the molecular phylogeny of the S1 element within the Cruciferae (= Brassicaceae). S1 elements were found to be widely distributed within the Cruciferae, especially in species of the tribe Brassiceae. The molecular phylogeny of S1 ...

We used small-angle X-ray solution scattering (SAXS) technique to investigate the nucleotide-mediated conformational changes of the head domains [subfragment 1 (S1)] of myosin V and VI processive motors that govern their directional preference for motility on actin. Recombinant myosin V-S1 with two IQ motifs (MV-S1IQ2) and myosin VI-S1 (MVI-S1) were engineered from Sf9 cells using a baculovirus...

Four cost measures s1, s2, s3, s4 were recently studied for sorting the operations in Lazy propagation with arc reversal (LPAR), a join tree propagation approach to Bayesian network inference. It has been suggested to use s1 with LPAR, since there is an effectiveness ranking, say s1, s2, s3, s4, when applied in isolation. In this paper, we also suggest to use s1 with LPAR, but to use s2 to brea...