Acetylcholinesterase inhibition, antioxidant and cytotoxic activities of Hedychium gardnerianum leaf essential oils from S. Miguel Island were determined. All the oils inhibited acetylcholinesterase, with IC(50) values of approximately 1 mg/mL, showing no statistical differences between collection sites. Three oils presented mixed inhibition, whilst one was almost truly competitive. This activi...

background: students often use social network sites and are willing to share information and communicate with teachers, colleagues and patients. despite the increase in the application of the social network sites as a tool for obtaining health knowledge, few studies have been conducted to evaluate the production and share of health information by rehabilitation students, especially in iran. the...

the paper demonstrates the result of changes in the physicochemical and biological properties in soil as a result of the operation of illegal dumping sites. soil was sampled from the research points located on the outskirts of the city of bydgoszcz (poland) from the site not affected by illegal dumping sites (control c), within the dumping sites, having removed the waste layer (w), and 10 m awa...

Governments and customers are forcing the paper manufacturers to become more sustainable. Accordingly, there still exists a gap in the quantitative modeling of these issues. In this paper, this gap is covered through simultaneously considering economical, environmental and social impacts in the paper closed-loop supply chain network design. The proposed multi-objective, multi-echelon, multi-pro...

BACKGROUND There is an urgent need for expanding and enhancing autism spectrum disorder (ASD) samples, in order to better understand causes of ASD. METHODS In a unique public-private partnership, 13 sites with extensive experience in both the assessment and diagnosis of ASD embarked on an ambitious, 2-year program to collect samples for genetic and phenotypic research and begin analyses on th...

We report here the generation of an additional collection of Dissociation (Ds) transposon-tagged, sequence-indexed lines of Arabidopsis thaliana. Our RIKEN Ds insertion collection now totals 17,668 lines. Our collection has preferential insertions in chromosomes 1 and 5, because Ds was transposed from start loci on those chromosomes (11,854 and 5,814 lines, respectively). We describe here featu...

The infrastructure for data collection implemented by the National Consortium on Alcohol and NeuroDevelopment in Adolescence (N-CANDA) for data collection comprises several innovative features: (a) secure, asynchronous transfer and persistent storage of collected data via a revision control system; (b) two-stage import into a longitudinal database; and (c) use of a script-controlled web browser...

Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) compact policies (CPs) are a collection of three-character and four-character tokens that summarize a website’s privacy policy pertaining to cookies. User agents, including Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) web browser, use CPs to evaluate websites’ data collection practices and allow, reject, or modify cookies based on sites’ privacy practices. CPs can p...

This study ventures into the new domain of s-commerce. It studies the moderating impact of the four privacy concern dimensions (collection, secondary use, improper access and errors) and security concerns on trust between e-commerce and s-commerce sites of e-vendors. Several studies have examined privacy concern; however, the knowledge pertaining to the role of its individual dimensions is very...

A total of 256 sites in 11 habitats were surveyed for Biomphalaria in Melquiades rural area (State of Minas Gerais) in August and November 1999 and in March 2000. Of the 1,780 Biomphalaria collected, 1,721 (96.7%) were B. glabrata and 59 (3.3%) B. straminea. Snails were found in all habitats except in wells, with the largest mean numbers in tanks, seepage ponds and canals, and the smallest numb...