Evidence from epidemiological studies suggest that low levels of vitamin D during early life alter brain development and may increase the risk of various adverse health outcomes, including schizophrenia. The aim of this experiment was to examine the effect of developmental vitamin D (DVD) deficiency on attentional processing using the 5-choice serial reaction time task (5C-SRT) and the 5-choice...

Purpose: More than half of the diagnostic and therapeutic recombinant protein production depends on mammalian-based expression system. However, the generation of recombinant antibodies remains a challenge in mammalian cells due to the disulfide bond formation and reducing cytoplasm. Therefore, the production of functional recombinant antibodies in target cell line is necessary to be evaluated b...

A series of some novel 1,2,4-triazol-5(4H)-one derivatives were designed and synthesized under microwave irradiation via multistep reaction. The structures of 1,2,4-triazoles were confirmed by (1)H NMR, MS, FTIR, and elemental analysis. The antifungal activities of 1,2,4-triazoles were determined. The antifungal activity results indicated that the compounds 5c, 5f, and 5h exhibited good activit...

Soybean lipoxygenase (SLO) serves as a prototype for fundamental understanding of hydrogen tunneling in enzymes. Its reactivity depends on the active site structure around a mononuclear, nonheme iron center. The available crystal structures indicate five-coordinate iron, while magnetic circular dichroism experiments suggest significant populations of both five-coordinate (5C) and six-coordinate...

We give sound and complete analytic tableau systems for the propositional bimodal logics KB, KB C , KB 5, and KB 5C . These logics have two universal modal operators K and B , where K stands for knowing and B stands for believing. The logic KB is a combination of the modal logic S5 (for K ) and KD45 (for B ) with the interaction axioms I : Kφ → Bφ and C : Bφ → K Bφ. The logics KB C , KB 5, KB 5...

In this paper we describe a backtrack search over parallel classes with a partial isomorph rejection to classify resolvable 2-(12, 6, 5c) designs. We use the intersection pattern between the parallel classes and the fact that any resolvable 2-(12, 6, 5c) design is also a resolvable 3-(12, 6, 2c) design to effectively guide the search. The method was able to enumerate all nonsimple resolutions a...

We investigate the mass spectrum of pentaquark baryons with anticharm quark, in quenched lattice QCD with exact chiral symmetry. By chiral extrapolation to mπ = 135 MeV, we determine the masses of the lowest lying states of the antisextet (JΠ = 1/2+) and the triplet (JΠ = 1/2), in the isospin limit (mu = md). The masses of the antisextet are: 2977(109) MeV for the iso-singlet Θc([ud][ud]c̄); 318...

A series of N-substituted pyrroles having phosphorylcholine with different methylene chain lengths between pyrrole group and phosphorylcholine group were synthesized and their electropolymerizations were performed in aqueous solution. The methylene chains were trimethylene (n = 3), pentamethylene (n = 5), nonamethylene (n = 9), and undecamethylene (n = 11), for 3-(1-pyrrolyl)propyl-2-(trimethyl...