VISCUM ALBUM EXTRACT MAY INCREASE OVERALL SURVIVAL IN ADULTS WITH LOCALLY ADVANCED OR METASTATIC PANCREATIC CANCER NOT ELIGIBLE FOR ANTINEOPLASTIC THERAPY Level 2 (mid-level) evidence Reference: Eur J Cancer 2013;49 (18):3788 At least 60% of medications used to treat cancer were originally derived from plants. Viscum album (European mistletoe) is widely used in Europe for the treatment of cance...

Despite a long tradition of use in the treatment of mental disorders, Viscum album L. (Ujjral; family – Viscaceae) has not been systematically investigated to validate its traditional claims. The methanol extract of V. album aerial parts, its ethyl acetate fraction (EAF) and 1-butanol fraction (BF) were screened for various neuropharmacological activities. The methanol extract, EAF and BF exhib...

The rate and products of trichloroethylene (TCE) oxidation by Methylomicrobium album BG8 expressing membrane-associated methane monooxygenase (pMMO) were determined using 14C radiotracer techniques. [(14)C]TCE was degraded at a rate of 1.24 nmol (min mg protein)(-1) with the initial production of glyoxylate and then formate. Radiolabeled CO(2) was also found after incubating M. album BG8 for 5 ...

In Figure 1 we show an example of the need to collect the multi-label ML-CUFED dataset with because of albums with ambiguous or multiple event types. The two albums in Figure 1 are both labeled as birthday events in CUFED, but they can also fall into the category of casual family/friends gathering. These two event types are not mutually exclusive. Moreover, intuitively, we would consider the al...

The objective of the study was to validate the content and appearance of a serial album created for the promotion of food safety and utilizing regional foods. This methodological study was performed with 12 judges between April and June of 2010, who analyzed pictures and discussion cards from the serial album in terms of the appearance (clarity/comprehension) and content (relevance) validity. R...

This demo shows a real-time object-layout-aware image retrieval system for personal album management. The query of the system is image’s object layout and the system retrieves images based on the layout similarity of concerned objects in the query. Using automatic object localization algorithms, we propose to index the personal album with the object positions and scales in the 2D image plane, w...

Twenty-two species of bacteria were isolated from Linum usitatissimum stored for retting. Achromobacter parvulus, Clostridium beijerinckii, C. saprogenes, C. saccharoacetoperbutylicum, C. perenne, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa and its achromogenic variety are retting agents. The last species mentioned performs the retting in only 72 hr. This is the first time A. parvulus has been shown to be a ret...

riographic project in a volume celebrating the work of Thomas F. Mathews, who, as my teacher and mentor, set me on the path of an intellectual adventure that never fails to surprise.1 At the center of this study is a set of Late Antique Egyptian textiles assembled in an album for Dikran Ga rabed Kelekian (1868–1951), an influential collector and art dealer who was a source of historic and archa...

In this paper, we describe a course of research investigating the potential for new types of music made possible by location tracking and wireless technologies. Listeners walk around downtown Culver City, California and explore a new type of musical album by mixing together songs and stories based on their movement. By using mobile devices as an interface, we can create new types of musical exp...

Phylogeographic analyses of plants in Europe have revealed common glacial refugia and migration routes for several trees and herbs with arctic-alpine distributions. The postglacial histories of dry grassland species in central Europe have rarely been analyzed, even though the extremely species-rich habitat is threatened. Sedum album (Crassulaceae) is a common inhabitant of rocky sites in centra...