BACKGROUND Depression is a chronic, recurring and potentially life-threatening illness. Current treatments for depression are characterized by a low success rate and associated with a wide variety of side effects. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the behavioral anti-depressant effect of a novel herbal compounds named ziziphi spinosae lily powder suspension, as well as to investigate...

In order to determine the reasons for pollen sterility in lily hybrids, four diploid sterile Oriental x Trumpet (OT) lily cultivars ('Nymph', 'Gluhwein', 'Yelloween', and 'Shocking') were used to investigate the meiotic chromosome behaviors in pollen mother cells (PMCs), using genomic in situ hybridization and conventional cytological methods. At metaphase I, chromosome associations were quite ...

In a recent article [4] the first two authors and R.L. Petersen have defined a notion of parametric LAPL-structure. Such structures are parametric models of the equational theory PILLY , a polymorphic intuitionistic / linear type theory with fixed points, in which one can reason using parametricity and, for example, solve a large class of domain equations [4,5]. Based on recent work by Simpson ...

1. INTRODUCTION. The purpose of this article is to describe a computer game I created. I named the game " Lucy and Lily, " after my two daughters. If you want to play this game, you can find it on my website www.math.umd.edu/∼res. Some browsers have trouble with the game, but some work just fine. Many people have expressed enthusiasm for the game, and their enthusiasm has encouraged me to write...