Alcohol consumption is known to cause substantial neuronal loss in several regions of the brain. In Oriental medicine, medications based on Puerariae radix have been known to be of efficacy in the treatment of alcohol-related problems. In the present study, the effect of the aqueous extract of Puerariae radix on the expression of c-Fos, an immediate early gene whose expression is sometimes used...

The FFT processor is a very important component in Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing(OFDM) communication system. In this paper, we propose an efficient variable-length radix-8/4/2 FFT architecture for OFDM systems. The FFT processor is based on radix-8 FFT algorithm and also supports radix-4 or radix-2 FFT computation. The pipelined radix-8/4/2 butterfly unit computes radix-8 FFT algor...

Radix Puerariae is the dried root of Pueraria lobata (Willd.) Ohwi, which releases a variety of isoflavones. The objective is to investigate the extraction process of total flavonoids in Radix Puerariae and to examine their effects on blood glucose MDA in alloxan-diabetic mice. Solvent extraction and column chromatographic isolation were used to extract the total flavonoids in Radix Puerariae, ...

An aqueous extract of Platycodi radix inhibited the hydrolysis of triolein emulsified with phosphatidylcholine by pancreatic lipase in vitro and it reduced the elevation of rat plasma triacylglycerol level 2-4 h after oral administration of a lipid emulsion containing corn oil. These preliminary results suggested that the aqueous extract of Platycodi radix may inhibit the intestinal absorption ...

Load balanced parallel radix sort solved the load imbalance problem present in parallel radix sort. By redistributing the keys in each round of radix, each processor has exactly the same number of keys, thereby reducing the overall sorting time. Load balanced radix sort is currently known as the fastest internal sorting method for distributed-memory multiprocessors. However, as the computation ...

Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease characterized histologically by hyperproliferation and aberrant differentiation of epidermal keratinocytes. While screening 60 psoriasis-treating Chinese herbs for their anti-proliferative properties using a cultured human HaCaT keratinocyte model, we found Radix Rubiae to be highly effective. Evidence is now provided that induction of apoptosis ...

This paper presents radix-4 and radix-8 Booth encoded modular multipliers over general Fp based on interleaved multiplication algorithm. An existing bit serial interleaved multiplication algorithm is modified using radix-4, radix-8 and Booth recoding techniques. The modified radix-4 and radix-8 versions of interleaved multiplication result in 50% and 75% reduction in required number of clock cy...

In this work we derive two families of radix-4 factorizations for the FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) that have the property that both inputs and outputs are addressed in natural order. These factorizations are obtained from another two families of radix-2 algorithms that have the same property. The radix-4 algorithms obtained have the same mathematical complexity (number of multiplications and ad...

Achyranthis Bidentatae Radix has a long history in China as a commonly used herb that can be used to treat various diseases, including those related to the liver, muscles, bones, and kidneys. Recently, an increase in the number of adulterants has been reported, which affects the clinical safety of Achyranthis Bidentatae Radix. To identify adulterants of Achyranthis Bidentatae Radix, we collecte...