An important problem in concatenative synthesis is the occurence of spectral discontinuities or “concatenation mismatch” between sonorant speech units. In this paper, we present an approach to reduce concatenation mismatch by combining spectral information from two sequences of speech units selected in parallel. Concatenation units, on one hand, define initial spectral trajectories for a target...

Solidphase organic synthesis is a rapidly expanding area of synthetic chemistry which is being widely exploited in the search for new medicinally important compounds by combinatorial techniques. In recent decades, a large number of reports related to solidphase synthesis of heterocycles have appeared owing to a wide variety of their biological activity. In this review, we report the important r...

patients with alzheimer's disease have cognitive deficits, impaired long-term potentiation and learning and memory. a progressive reduction in cholinergic neurons in some areas of the brain such as cortex and hippocampus is related to the deficits in memory and cognitive function in alzheimer’s disease (ad). in the current project a new series of phthalimide derivatives were synthesized. p...

in this paper, new (2e, 2'e)-3, 3'-(((3- hydroxypropane-1, 2-diyl) bis (oxy)) bis (2, 1-phenylene)) bis (1-phenylprop-2-en-1-one) (2a) was prepared in good yield by condensation reaction of acetophenone with bisaldehyde (1a) in ethanolic naoh solutions at room temperature. the (2e, 2'e)-3, 3'-(((3- hydroxypropane-1, 2-diyl) bis (oxy)) bis (2, 1-phenylene)) bis (1-phenylprop-2-en-1-one) (2a) was...

Most problems in logic synthesis are computationallyhard, and are solved using heuristics. This often makes algorithms un-stable; if the input is changed slightly, the new result of synthesis can be significantly different. A designer can spend much effort hand-optimizing a circuit, so it is desirable to retain as much of this human insight as possible. This motivates the need for incremental s...

the production of colony-stimulating factors (csf) is delicately controlled through a complex network of humoral and environmental factors. we have studied some of the mechanisms which regulate the production of csf as compared to general protein synthesis in the lung tissue ill vitro. when lung tissue from mice was cultured for various times in serum free medium, the first detectable level of ...

substituted naphthofurans and naphthopyrans were constructed at high temperature from allyl or propargyl naphthyl ethers via claisen rearrangement in moderate to good yields. also, substituted (trimethylsilyl)-naphthofurans were synthesized from the corresponding naphtofurans.

a new, high yielding method for the preparation of vasicinone (7) is described. reaction of 2-nitrobenzoic acid with n, n¢-carbonyldiimidazole followed by 2-pyrrolidinone gave 1-(2-nitrobenzoyl)pyrrolidine-2-one (3). reduction of the latter with 10% pd-c afforded deoxyvasicinone (4). reaction of deoxyvasicinone (4) with bromine yielded monobromo-deoxyvasicinone (5). exchange of bromine of 5 wit...

objective(s): alzheimer's disease (ad) is a neurodegenerative disorder in elderly patients. decrease in cholinergic neurotransmission is the main known cause in the pathophysiology of the disease. improvement and potentiation of the cholinergic system could be beneficial for treatment of the ad. acetylcholinesterase inhibitors such as donepezil can enhance the duration of action of acetylc...