Recordings of neural activity, such as EEG, are an inherent mixture of different ongoing brain processes as well as artefacts and are typically characterised by low signal-to-noise ratio. Moreover, EEG datasets are often inherently multidimensional, comprising information in time, along different channels, subjects, trials, etc. Additional information may be conveyed by expanding the signal int...

A bi-thiadiazole derivative, 5,5'-bis(4- tetradecyloxyphenyl)-2,2'-bi-1,3,4-thiadiazole (BTD-14), was revealed to exhibit an extremely stable thermotropic SmC phase and very interesting aggregation behavior in solutions. H- and J-aggregates could be formed simultaneously in chloroform solutions of BTD-14 with moderate concentration (10(-4) M), and the population of J-aggregates enlarges during ...

We report three symptomatic children with profound biotinidase deficiency from Sri Lanka. All three children presented with typical clinical features of the disorder. The first is homozygous for a missense mutation in the BTD gene (c.98_104 del7insTCC; p.Cys33PhefsX36) that is commonly seen in the western countries, the second is homozygous for a novel missense mutation (p.Ala439Asp), and the t...

A balanced ternary design of order v with block size three, index 2 and P2 = 1 is a collection of multi-subsets of size 3 (of type { x, y, z} or {x, x, y }) called blocks, in which each unordered pair of distinct elements occurs twice possibly in one block and in which each element is repeated in just one block. So there are precisely v blocks of type {x, x, y}. Necessarily v == 0 (mod 3). We d...

The optical properties of two Re(CO)3(bpy)Cl complexes in which the bpy is substituted with donor (triphenylamine, TPA, ReTPA2) as well both (TPA) and acceptor (benzothiadiazole, BTD, ReTPA-BTD) groups are presented. For ReTPA2 absorption spectra show intense intraligand charge-transfer (ILCT) bands at 460 nm small solvatochromic behavior; for ReTPA-BTD ILCT transitions weaker. These assigned T...

Biotinidase deficiency (BTD) is a rare inherited metabolic disorder with predominant dermatogical and neurological manifestations, which if untreated leads to severe sequelae. Early diagnosis prompt treatment biotin prevents further progression of symptoms resolution cutaneous features. We report an interesting case four half year male child presenting seizures, developmental delay non resolvin...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the efficacy and safety of the treatment of the newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (MM) with or without renal impairment receiving the therapy of bortezomib, dexamethasone plus thalidomide (BTD) regimen in order to analyze the effects of BTD regimen on the prognosis of the MM patients with renal impairment compared with the patients without renal impairment. METHODS Sev...

The observations of on-board satellite imaging radiometers are representative of a far-reaching two-dimensional cloud top properties, however with a cutback in the capacity of profiling the cloud vertically. A combination of simulated radiances calculated at the top of the cloud in the near-infrared (IR) and thermal infrared part of the spectra, is used as a proxy to estimate in-cloud droplet g...

The radically distinct morphologies of arthropod and tetrapod legs argue that these appendages do not share a common evolutionary origin. Yet, despite dramatic differences in morphology, it has been known for some time that transcription factors encoded by the Distalless (Dll)/Dlx gene family play a critical role in the development of both structures. Here we show that a second transcription fa...

The one-photon absorption (OPA) properties of donor-pi-bridge-acceptor-pi-bridge-donor (D-pi-A-pi-D)-type 2,1,3-benzothiadiazoles (BTD) were studied with two dimensional (2D) site and three dimensional (3D) cube representations. The 2D site representation reveals the electron-hole coherence on electronic state transitions from the ground state. The 3D representation shows the orientation of tra...