Keith Rayburn, MD, is a physician in the Department of Medicine, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, California. Eric Fleischbein, PharmD, is a pharmacist in the Department of Pharmacy Services, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Jessica Song, PharmD, is a pharmacist in the Department of Pharmacy Services, Santa Clara VaUey Medical Center, and an instructor at the University ofthe Paci...

This article describes the phonetic process of post-nasal devoicing in Tswana. We propose a multi-agent exemplar model with various interaction schemes which include factors like functional and social biases in order to account for this counter-intuitive phenomenon. Our novel hybrid multi-agent modeling framework facilitates investigation of sound change by combining the sociophonetic model of ...

An earlier study (Nettle 1999b) concluded, based on computer simulations and some inferences from empirical data, that languages will change the more slowly the larger the population gets. We replicate this study using a more complete language model for simulations (the Schulze model combined with a BarabásiAlbert network) and a richer empirical dataset (the World Atlas of Language Structures e...

Bones, even after their growth has been completed, react to both external and internal factors which include feeding. The process of bone mineralization, including limb bones, is a very important index of the effectiveness and quality of feeding procedures, aswell as a measure of the organism’s health status. Antibiotics, which used to be very popular growth stimulators in feeding, have recentl...

Objective: Finding compounds that could be used for prevention of atherosclerosis (AS) is highly desired. The present study evaluated the protective effects of Urtica dioica (UD, commonly known as stinging nettle) leaf ethanolic extract against high-fat diet-induced AS in rats. Materials and Methods: In this study, 40 male adult Sprauge-Dawley rats were randomly allocated to 4 equal groups and ...

Submitted 23 Jul 2016; Accepted 10 Aug 2016; Published 21 Sep 2016 Urtica dioica is a perennial plant used as herbal medicine due to its many pharmacological and clinical effects. Because of its antioxidant activity, it is widely used in traditional diabetes treatment but is also known as antimicrobial, anti inflammatory or anti prostate cancer agent. Extensive studies have been conducted on di...

  Pharmacologists believe analgesic and anti-inflammatory drugs such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and opioid compounds, due to their side-effects and, in some cases, inadequacy, are not always useful. Therefore it seems necessary to search for newer analgesic compounds. In traditional Iranian Medicine, the leaf and rhizome of Sambucus ebulus is used as a topical medication ...

In this study, all conditions of the natural dyeing process cotton fabric with antibacterial efficiency, extracted from leaves nettle were optimized using a central composite design. The are: concentration 16.943 g, temperature 50 °C, time 40 min, and color strength obtained at optimum condition was 1.53. Nettle dye is applied to fabrics by Pad-Dry-Cure method for imparting properties textile p...