Valeriana glechomifolia Meyer is a small herb 5}10 cm high, growing in South Brazil. The plant was collected in April, 1998 in Sa8 o JoseH dos Ausentes, RS, Brazil and identi"ed by M. Sobral (Curso de PoH s-Graduac7 a8 o em Cie( ncias Farmace( uticas da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil). Voucher specimens (M. Sobral, 7733) are kept in the Herbarium of the Universidade Federal d...

The southern Andean clade of Valeriana provides an excellent model for the study of biogeography. Here we provide new data to help clarify phylogenetic relationships among the South American valerians, with special focus on taxa found in the southern Andes. We found that the southern Andean taxa formed a clade in maximum likelihood and maximum parsimony analyses, and used a Bayesian relaxed clo...

The aim of the conducted research was to identify and explain the differences in basic non-standard situational efficiency indicators between winning and defeated European senior basketball teams. Discriminant analysis and Mann-Whitney U-test were used with the purpose of investigating the differences between winning and defeated teams in the domain of basic non-standard situational variables. ...

It is well known that psychoemotional disorders may be accompanied by decreased sociability in humans. It has been shown that repeated social defeats in 10 daily agonistic interactions in male mice led to development of the expressed level of anxiety and to reduction of communication estimated in the elevated plus-maze and partition tests, respectively. In the social interactions test, sociable...

Patrick Haggard1 and Valerian Chambon1,2 in a nearly complete overthrow of the seedless vascular plants, which once dominated the planet. The modern‐day descendants of these giants, still dependent on water for half of their life cycle, are almost exclusively confined to swampy or tropical habitats. Equisetum, with their highly proliferative and resilient rhizomes, are more versatile than many ...