the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of aerial parts of stachys lavandulifolia vahl. extract on the rat ileum contractions. the crude extract was prepared by maceration method (90% methanol) followed by fractionating into chloroform, ethyl acetate, petroleum ether and water. in adult male wistar rats, ileum was sectioned and mounted in tissue bath and their contractility was reco...

In China, the ridge-furrow water conservation planting (RC) system is advantageous for improving crop yields and rainwater use efficiency. In RC planting system, plastic film-mulched ridges are employed for water harvesting while the furrows serve as infiltration and planting belts. To optimize the RC system and to overcome problems due to the lack of water in semi-humid areas at risk of drough...

Resistive switching (RS) based on the formation and rupture of conductive filament (CF) is promising in novel memory and logic device applications. Understanding the physics of RS and the nature of CF is of utmost importance to control the performance, variability and reliability of resistive switching memory (RRAM). Here, the RESET switching of HfO2-based RRAM was statistically investigated in...

The research into curvilinear flight synthetic aperture radar (CF-SAR) is the inevitable result of comprehensive practicality SAR. path SAR platform in real applications, which highly nonlinear or curvy due to three-dimensional velocity and acceleration, cannot be described by traditional uniform linear motion model. New mathematical models, signal characteristics, imaging algorithms, system de...

A drip irrigation system with plastic mulch film was evaluated in terms of growth, yield, and water productivity (WP) using three leading paddy rice cultivars (Japonica) the Kanto area Japan. cultivation upland field (DI) continuous flooding a (CF) were conducted 2015 2016 (DI CF). The amounts total supply (irrigation precipitation) 715 mm, 599 905 mm 1620 1379 1687 for DI 2015, 2016, CF respec...

Bronchiectasis is an airway disease characterized by thickening of the bronchial wall, chronic inflammation , and destruction of affected bronchi. Underlying etiologies include severe pulmonary infection and cystic fibrosis (CF); however, in a substantial number of patients with non-CF-related bronchiectasis (NCFB), no cause is found. The increasing armamentarium of therapies now available to c...

In this Note we study the causal (anticausal) generalized Riesz potential of order α:R Cf(R α A)f) of the function f∈S (cf. (I,1;8) and (I,1;9), respectively). The distributional functions R Cf(R α Af) are causal (anticausal) analogues of the α -dimensional potentials in the ultrahyperbolic space defined by Nozaki (cf. [6], p.85). Therefore, we define the generalized causal (anticausal) Riesz d...

PURPOSE To compare accelerated hypofractionated (A-HYPO) radiotherapy (RT) with conventionally fractionated (CF) thoracic RT in patients with limited-disease small-cell lung cancer (LD-SCLC). METHODS Out of 217 consecutive LD-SCLC patients, treated between 1997 and 2012, 82 received CF-RT (44-60 Gy, 2 Gy/ fraction) sequentially to 4-6 cycles of platinum-based chemotherapy (CHT), and 100 recei...

We studied the interactions between the entire cecal flora of hamsters and the pathogens Clostridium difficile and Escherichia coli in gnotobiotic mice and in a continuous-flow (CF) culture system in which the growth medium consisted of an extract of fecal pellets from germfree mice. CF cultures and germfree mice were colonized first with C. difficile and E. coli and then with the cecal flora o...

Dry direct-seeded rice has been shown to save irrigation water and labor. Nonetheless, management in dry received very little attention. Here, we examined the potential of different regimes: aerobic (AR), alternate wetting drying (AWD) continuous flooding (CF) cultivation on two cultivars (Pride-1 (hybrid indica) NB-1 (inbred indica)). Growth, yield attributes, grain yield, total input, product...