Traditional or folk medicinal herbs continue to be prescribed in the treatment of various diseases and conditions in many cultures. Recent scientific efforts have focused on the potential roles of extracts of traditional herbs as alternative and complementary medications for cancer treatment. In Taiwan, Davallia divaricata Blume has been traditionally employed in folk medicine for therapy of lu...

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We prove the generic equivalence between quasi-perfect equilibrium and sequential equilibrium. Combining this result with Blume and Zame (1994) shows that perfect, quasi-perfect and sequential equilibrium coincide in generic games.

Gastrodia elata Blume (GEB) is an important medicinal plant in Korea. In order to confirm the anti-tumor activities of GEB extracts, we carried out various in vitro anti-tumor assays, including a wound assay and an invasion assay using an ethyl ether extract of GEB. The results showed that the GEB extract exhibits potent anti-tumor activity in vitro in a dose-dependent manner. The expression of...

A generalised integer S Ising spin glass model is analysed using the replica formalism. The bilinear couplings are assumed to have a Gaussian distribution with ferromagnetic mean < Jij >= J0. Incorporation of a quadrupolar interaction term and a chemical potential leads to a richer phase diagram with transitions of first and second order. The first order transition may be interpreted as a phase...

Synchronized air breathing may have evolved as a way of minimizing the predation risk known to be associated with air breathing in fish. Little is known about how the size of individuals affects synchronized air breathing and whether some individuals are required to surface earlier than necessary in support of conspecifics, while others delay air intake. Here, the air-breathing behavior of Hopl...

A highly CO2-tolerant green alga, Chlorococcum littorale, was investigated at temperatures ranging from 8 to 28 °C, light intensities from 30 to 170 μmol m-2 s-1, a constant CO2 concentration of 5% (v/v) and atmospheric pressure. The experimental results showed that a specific growth rate μ, defined in terms of cell growth rate under a logarithmic growth phase, increased with temperature up to ...

In ferromagnetic spin models above the critical temperature (T>T_{cr}) the partition function zeros accumulate at complex values of the magnetic field (H_{E}) with a universal behavior for the density of zeros rho(H) approximately mid R:H-H_{E}mid R:;{sigma} . The critical exponent sigma is believed to be universal at each space dimension and it is related to the magnetic scaling exponent y_{h}...