This paper reports the formation of an organogel of an asymmetric bisphenazine through the growth of one-dimensional nanofibers via a coopertive interplay of pi-pi interaction, hydrogen bonding, and van der Waals interaction and the colorimetric acid sensing property of the nanofibers.

Abstract We study subfields of quotient division algebras of domains of finite GK dimension and introduce a combinatorial property we call the straightening property. We show that many classes of algebras have this straightening property and show that if A is a domain of GK dimension d with this property that is not PI, then the maximal subfields of the quotient division algebra of A have trans...

We provide a new quantitative version of Helly’s theorem: there exists an absolute constant α > 1 with the following property: if {Pi : i ∈ I} is a finite family of convex bodies in R with int (⋂ i∈I Pi ) 6= ∅, then there exist z ∈ R, s 6 αn and i1, . . . is ∈ I such that z + Pi1 ∩ · · · ∩ Pis ⊆ cn 3/2 ( z + ⋂

S. V. Bulanov1,†, T. Zh. Esirkepov1, J. K. Koga1, S. S. Bulanov2, Z. Gong3, X. Q. Yan3,4 and M. Kando1 1Department of Advanced Photon Research, Kansai Photon Research Institute, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, 8-1-7 Umemidai, Kizugawa-shi, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan 2Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 3State Key Laboratory of Nucle...

Phonetic manifestation of paralinguistic information (PI) like speaker’s attitude and intention is a unique property of speech communication. Production and perception of six PI types were examined using Japanese. In speech production, acoustic and articulatory analyses revealed that speech signal and the underlying articulatory gesture differed systematically and considerably under the specifi...

Privacy protection is an important requirement in both everyday life and the Inter-net. As the Internet is an open network, adversaries can observe and manipulate data flowing over it. To ensure privacy in communications over open networks, cryptographic protocols have been widely used, and thus, proposing such protocols has become a popular research area. However, design of cryptographic proto...

Green tea is a popular drink consumed daily by millions of people around the world. Previous studies have shown that some polyphenol compounds from green tea possess anticancer activities. However, systemic evaluation was limited. In this study, we determined the cancer chemopreventive potentials of 10 representative polyphenols (caffeic acid, CA; gallic acid, GA; catechin, C; epicatechin, EC; ...

Techniques from algebraic geometry, in particular the hard Lefschetz theorem, are used to show that certain finite partially ordered sets O x derived from a class of algebraic varieties X have the k-Sperner property for all k. This in effect means that there is a simple description of the cardinality of the largest subset of C) x containing no (k + 1)-element chain. We analyze, in some detail, ...