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    Physics

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    Chemistry

    • Daphnogirins A and B, Two Biflavones from Daphne giraldii

      • Guang-Xiong Zhou, Ren-Wang Jiang, Yan Cheng, Wen-Cai Ye, Jian-Gong Shi, Ning-Bo Gong, Yang Lu
        Original article citation: Chem. Pharm. Bull. 55," 1287 - 1290, (2007).

      • Categories: Chemistry
      • Recommended by : Qichao Zhao on 02/18/2008 11:31PM GMT

        It is quite a hot area using chromatographic separation technique to separate and analyse the components of traditional Chinese medicine. In this specific work, the authors used SPME coupled with reversed-phase HPLC, which significantly improved detection limit and selectivity.
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    Neuroscience

    • Fisher discriminative analysis of resting-state brain function for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

      • C ZHU, Y ZANG, Q CAO, C YAN, Y HE, T JIANG, M SUI, Y WANG
        Original article citation: NeuroImage 40," 110 - 120, (2008).

      • Categories: Neuroscience
      • Recommended by : Jie Huang on 02/18/2008 09:36PM GMT

        They demonstrated the potential improvement to diagnose ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder). They utilized functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and used resting-state signals as classifier, which was identidied by Principle Component Analysis based Fisher discriminative analysis (PC-FDA). The most significant contributors, such as prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex were consistent with previous findings on ADHD. Their findings offer practical value to current behavioral symptom-based ADHD diagnosis.
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    Neuroscience

    • The Visual Word Form Area: Evidence from an fMRI study of implicit processing of Chinese characters

      • C LIU, W ZHANG, Y TANG, X MAI, H CHEN, T TARDIF, Y LUO
        Original article citation: NeuroImage doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.10.014

      • Categories: Neuroscience
      • Recommended by : Jie Huang on 02/18/2008 09:21PM GMT

        Visual ventral stream is known to be associated with object recognition and form representation, some specific types of obejcts have their own corresponding brain regions, such as Fusiform Face Area (FFA). In this study, they identified Visual Word Form Area (VWFA) in the left middle fusiform gyrus for written Chinese characters, which area is in line with previously reported VWFA for alphabetic scripts. This study, further, affords applicability of results drawn from alphabetic language to logographic Chinese.
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    Neuroscience

    • Altered functional connectivity in early Alzheimer's disease: A resting-state fMRI study

      • Kun Wang, Meng Liang, Liang Wang, Lixia Tian, Xinqing Zhang, Kuncheng Li, Tianzi Jiang
        Original article citation: Hum. Brain Mapp. 28," 967 - 978, (2007).

      • Categories: Neuroscience
      • Recommended by : Yong HE on 02/18/2008 12:26PM GMT

        Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia associated with aging. To explore AD-related alteration in the brain functionality, Wang et al. employed resting-state functional MRI to investigate inter-regional correlations of spontaneous brain activity. They found that, compared with the controls, AD patients had decreased positive correlations between the prefrontal and parietal regions, and increased positive correlations within the prefrontal, parietal and occipital regions. In addition, they also found that AD patients had decreased negative correlations between two intrinsically anti-correlated networks that had been exhibited to be intrinsically organized in the healthy brain. This study provides important evidence for abnormal functional integrity among regions in AD.
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    Ecology & Evolution

    • Differences in soil bacterial diversity: driven by contemporary disturbances or historical contingencies?

      • Yuan Ge, Ji-zheng He, Yong-guan Zhu, Jia-bao Zhang, Zhihong Xu, Li-mei Zhang, Yuan-ming Zheng
        Original article citation: ISME J doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.2 (2008)

      • Categories: Ecology & Evolution, Earth & Environment, and Cell & Molecular Biology
      • Recommended by : James Moir on 02/14/2008 09:54PM GMT

        It is an open debate in microbial ecology that if there is any distribution pattern for soil microbial diversity. Professor Ji-Zheng He and colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Sciences provided strong evidence that the bacterial diversity variation is mainly controlled by the soil historical contingencies across a regional scale (1000 km), while contemporary disturbances contribute much less variations of the bacterial diversity, according to their paper published in The ISME Journal by the Nature Publishing Group (published online 31 January 2008). They used a large set of manipulated field-based molecular data and advanced statistical analyses to elucidate quantitatively the contributions of the historical contingencies and the contemporary disturbances to the variations of soil bacterial diversity. This study is the first quantitative examination of the relative importance of contemporary disturbances (~20%) and historical contingencies (~60%) in influencing large-scale soil bacterial diversity. Moreover, this paper showed an important approach for accessing soil microbial biogeography by using latest molecular techniques, advanced statistical analyses and ecological theories. The findings of this study indicated that there are some aspects of biogeography that might be common to all life, which would extend our understanding of the biogeography of organisms.
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    Neuroscience

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    Neuroscience

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    Neuroscience

    • Broca's area plays a role in syntactic processing during Chinese reading comprehension

      • S WANG, Z ZHU, J ZHANG, Z WANG, Z XIAO, H XIANG, H CHEN
        Original article citation: Neuropsychologia doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.12.020

      • Categories: Neuroscience
      • Recommended by : Jie Huang on 02/13/2008 04:19PM GMT

        The open question in linguistic researches is, whether results derived from studies using alphabetic materials can apply to logographic Chinese. This study shows Broca's area was activated for syntactic violation during written Chinese semantic judgment task, which is in line with the studies using English, reaffirming the role of Broca's area in syntactic processing for different language systems.
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    Neuroscience

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