western North America, and its aerial parts have been used as a cough suppressant and a remedy for respiratory disease by America Indians. As chemical constituents of this plant, the presence of triterpenoids, such as ursolic acid and cucurbitan-type triterpenes as inhibitors of Epstein-Barr virus early antigen (EBV-EA) activation were reported. We reported the isolation and characterization of...

A total of 65 Nubian dairy goats were selected to represent a combination of age and physiological status. Changes in some plasma concentrations underlying different physiological states were monitored. There were young and adult animals, pregnant animals, all with more than 50 days after kidding, divided into subgroups according to gestation, first, second or third pregnancy. Lactating animals...

RNA APTAMERS TARGETING THE CELL DEATH INHIBITOR CED-9 INDUCE CELL KILLING IN C. ELEGANS* Chonglin Yang, Nieng Yan, Jay Parish, Xiaochen Wang, Yigong Shi and Ding Xue From the Department of MCD Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Princeton, Princeton, NJ 08544 Current address: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Universi...

• Dr. Barbara Buttenfield, Professor, Dept. of Geography, University of Colorado – Boulder, Guggenheim 110; 260 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0260, (303)492-3618, [email protected] • Dr. Olaf David, Computer Scientist – Colorado State University/USDA Agricultural Research Service, 2150 Centre Avenue, Building D, Suite 200, Fort Collins, CO 80526-8119, (970) 492-7312, [email protected] • Dr. Char...

1Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan 2Library Information Center, Nagoya Bunri University, 365 Maeda, Inazawa-cho, Inazawa 492-8520, Japan 3Department of Information and Media Studies, Nagoya Bunri University, 365 Maeda, Inazawa-cho, Inazawa 492-8520, Japan 4Faculty of Home Economics, Kobe Women’s University, Suma-ku, Kobe 654-...

background: initial symptoms of multiple sclerosis (ms) may be varied and nonspecific. we tried to find the frequency distribution of the first clinical symptoms in iranian patients with ms. methods: in a case series study, 1130 patients with definite diagnosis of ms who had been referred to three referral university hospitals of tehran, iran, were enrolled. the patients' medical records were r...

Finding communities is an important task for the discovery of underlying structures in social networks. While existing approaches give interesting results, they typically neglect the fact that communities may overlap, with some hub nodes participating in multiple communities. Similarly, most methods cannot deal with outliers, which are nodes that belong to no germane communities. The definition...

Rates of probable pathological gambling in colleges and universities across Scotland were investigated with a nationally distributed sample consisting of students (n = 1,483) and members of staff (n = 492). Gambling-related erroneous cognitions (Gambling Beliefs Questionnaire [GBQ]) and gambling severity (South Oaks Gambling Screen [SOGS]) were measured, with additional questions enquiring abou...