The essential oil composition and genetic variability of common sage ( Salvia officinalis L.) and its three ornamental cultivars ('Purpurascens', 'Tricolor', and 'Kew Gold') as well as Judean sage ( Salvia judaica Boiss.) were analyzed by GC-FID, GC-MS, and random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD). Common sage and its cultivars contained the same volatile compounds; only the ratio of compounds d...

The Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment (SAGE) was developed at theUniversity of Illinois at Chicago’s (UIC) Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) to facilitate collaborative efforts that require the sharing of data-intensive information for analysis. SAGE is a cross-platform, communitydriven, open-source visualization and collaboration tool that enables users to access, display, and sha...

We describe the Sage project, a new approach to software engineering for (fault-tolerant) distributed applications. Sage uses the modal logic of knowledge and applies theoretical results detailing how processes learn facts about each other's state to derive the minimal communication graph for a wide range of coordination problems. The speciication interface is controlled, yet expressive enough ...

objectives: in traditional medicine salvia officinalis (sage) has been used as menstrual cycle regulator. in the present study the effects of sage extract on breast tissue were examined. materials and methods: fourteen female rats were divided into two groups: 1) distilled water-treated rats (con) that were gavaged with 1ml distilled water and 2) saliva officinalis hydroalcoholic extract (she)-...

The Iterated Extended Kalman smoother (IEKS) is shown to be equivalent to one iteration of the Expectation Maximisation (EM)-based SAGE algorithm for the class of nonlinear signal models containing polynomial dynamics. Thus the IEKS is a maximum a posteriori (MAP) state sequence estimator for this class of systems. The Iterated Extended Kalman filter (IEKF) can be thought of as a heuristic, onl...

Introduction to Cryptography with Open-Source Software is a well written text book covering many aspects: an introduction to cryptography, a clever use of the open source algebra system Sage and various exercises on cryptography and Sage. It provides a very good understanding of practical cryptography. Many mathematical algorithms and cryptographic schemes are discussed in detail and illustrate...

Background. Hospital acquired infections (HAIs) are a significant issue, impacting 10% of hospitalized patients and hand hygiene (HH) is widely believed to be one of the most important ways of decreasing HAI risk. Numerous studies have found compliance with HH to be low among healthcare workers, with the lowest levels of adherence being associated with limited access to HH while at the bedside....