Jaundice is the commonest ailments affecting the citizens of both developed and poor Asians countries including Iran. An ethnobotanical survey of plants used by the traditional healers for the treatment of jaundice was conducted in the Mashhad city, Northeastern Iran. A total of 37 plants belonging to 32 genera and 26 families have been documented for their therapeutic use against jaundice. The...

The Prosit project, launched in 1991, is devoted to the development of a new discrete event simulation system based on the object paradigm. Object orientation is used to ensure two main concerns: performance on both conventional and multi-processor machines versatility and ease of use. The project described in this paper is a joint effort of Simulog, INRIA and GEC-Alsthom and has been partially...

Jaundice begins in the infants from the very early days of birth; the symptoms usually appear with yellow skin and sometimes eyes, jaundice first involves only the face, but it also affects the chest, abdomen, legs, and the soles of the feet and the lower limbs.  In this ethnobotanical study, attempt was made to identify medicinal plants used in the herbal medicine of Shahrekord region to treat...

Pulmonary valve replacement (PVR) is a pivotal treatment for patients who suffer from chronic pulmonary valve regurgitations. Two PVR techniques are becoming prevalent: a minimally invasive approach and an open-heart surgery with direct right ventricle volume reduction. However, there is no common agreement about the postoperative outcomes of these PVR techniques and choosing the right therapy ...