This study investigated speaker sex differences in F2 Locus equations (F2 LEs) based on linearly (Hz) and tonotopically (Bark) scaled formant measurements. F2 data based on English monosyllabic words produced by thirteen women and eleven men were tonotopically scaled [20, 21] and F2 LEs were derived for both the linear and tonotopically scaled formant values. Although the overall sex difference...

This paper presents the data on the anticipatory coarticulation of C2 and V2 on V1 in V1#C2V2 sequences in Standard Chinese. Electropalatographic measures and F2 trajectory were obtained to define the articulatory and F2 targets for V1 as well as the displacement for articulatory and F2 transition of V1. Results show that the articulatory target is affected only by C2 place, while C2 place, C2 ...

PM-F2-OB is one of the most well-known traditional herbal medicines that are frequently used for the treatment of obesity in Korea. The anti-obesity effect of PM-F2-OB on rats fed a high-fat diet was investigated through analyses of changes in body weight, kidney fat weight, and blood biochemicals including cholesterol, free fatty acid, BUN, creatinine, HDL, LDL, phospholipids, SGOT, SGPT, tota...

For n ∈ N consider the n-dimensional hypercube as equal to the vector space F2 , where F2 is the field of size two. Endow F2 with the Hamming metric, i.e., with the metric induced by the `1 norm when one identifies F2 with {0, 1} ⊆ R. Denote by `2 (F2 ) the n-fold Pythagorean product of F2 , i.e., the space of all x = (x1, . . . , xn) ∈ ∏n j=1 F n 2 , equipped with the metric ∀x, y ∈ n ∏ j=1 F2...

Given two maps f1, f2 : M −→ N between manifolds of the indicated arbitrary dimensions, when can they be deformed away from one another? More generally: what is the minimum number MCC(f1, f2) of pathcomponents of the coincidence space of maps f ′ 1 , f ′ 2 where f ′ i is homotopic to fi, i = 1, 2 ? Approaching this question via normal bordism theory we define a lower bound N(f1, f2) which gener...

Airway inflammation plays a major role in the pathogenesis of influenza viruses and can lead to a fatal outcome. One of the challenging objectives in the field of influenza research is the identification of the molecular bases associated to the immunopathological disorders developed during infection. While its precise function in the virus cycle is still unclear, the viral protein PB1-F2 is pro...

The influenza A virus PB1-F2 protein, encoded by an alternative reading frame in the PB1 polymerase gene, displays a high sequence polymorphism and is reported to contribute to viral pathogenesis in a sequence-specific manner. To gain insights into the functions of PB1-F2, the molecular structure of several PB1-F2 variants produced in Escherichia coli was investigated in different environments....

Context. Low levels of systemic F2-isoprostanes (F2-IsoP) increase the risk of diabetes and weight gain and were found in African Americans. Low F2-IsoPs could reflect an unfavorable metabolic characteristic, namely, slow mitochondrial metabolism in individuals with African ancestry. Objective. To examine differences in plasma F2-IsoPs in three groups with a priori different proportion of Afric...

Bibir membutuhkan perlindungan agar kelembabannya tetap terjaga. Bunga kecombrang (Etlingera elatior (Jack) R.M.Sm.) memiliki potensi antioksidan yang dapat digunakan sebagai bahan aktif pada kosmetik untuk bibir. Penelitian ini bertujuan memformulasi sediaan lipbalm mengandung ekstrak etanol bunga masing-masingnya 0%(F0), 0,5%(F1), 1%(F2), dan 1,5%(F3) melihat stabilitasnya. Evaluasi meliputi ...