Dr Grace Dammann had devoted decades of her life to the compassionate care of AIDS patients in San Francisco, California, when, on May 21, 2008, a head-on vehicle collision on the Golden Gate Bridge nearly took her life. When she not only survived but came out of a coma with all of her mental faculties intact, Grace, her family, and her doctors agreed it was nothing short of a miracle. Her path...

Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of Ruta graveolens (RG) Aqueous Extract on in vitro fertilization (IVF) rate and embryo development. RG, commonly called sudab or rue, has been known as a medical plant since ancient times. Recently some medicinal properties were reported for RG such as: antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor, anti-androgenic, anti- conceptive...

In this work phytochemical, pharmacological and toxicological studies were carried out on Eruca saliva,Petroselinum crispum and Anethum graveolens alcoholic extract. LDso of these extracts can not be detected, when given orally in mice. These alcoholic extracts inhibit rabbit's intestinal motility . Eruca sativa extract stimulates the uterine motility of all stages of sex cycle, while Petroseli...

Three Apium graveolens (L.) varieties and cultivars within varieties were evaluated for host plant suitability to two polyphagous lepidopteran herbivores: the beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua (Hiibner), and the cabbage looper, Trichoplusia ni (Hiibner). Overall, there were no significant differences in survivorship, developmental time, and pupal weight of S. exigua or T. ni reared on the two va...

Oiketicus kirbyi (Guilding, 1827) é uma mariposa pertencente à família Psychidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Essa espécie possui característica em seu ciclo de vida diferente das demais da sua ordem, onde apenas o macho adulto sofre a metamorfose e fêmea adulta mantém forma lagarta (larva neotênica). Com um cesto bastante resistente contra inimigos naturais inseticidas, bicho do longo (140 dias par...

Yongkang Luo,1 Qian Tao,1 Yuke Li,1 Xiao Lin,1 Linjun Li,1 Guanghan Cao,1 Zhu-an Xu,1,* Yun Xue,2 Hiroshi Kaneko,2 Andrey V. Savinkov,2 Haruhiko Suzuki,2 Chen Fang,3 and Jiangping Hu3 1Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China 2Department of Physics, Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan 3Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, In...

Joshua A. Kellar,† Jui-Ching Lin,† Jun-Hyun Kim,‡ Nathan L. Yoder,† Kirk H. Bevan,§ Grace Y. Stokes,‡ Franz M. Geiger,*,‡ SonBinh T. Nguyen,*,‡ Michael J. Bedzyk,*,† and Mark C. Hersam*,†,‡ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern UniVersity, EVanston, Illinois 60208-3108, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern UniVersity, EVanston, Illinois 60208-3113, and School of Electri...

Since the launch of the GRACE (Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment) satellite mission in 2002, significant progress in the knowledge regarding the temporal variations of the Earth’s gravity field has been achieved. The main objectives of this contribution are to define a suitable filter to reduce the noise contained in the latest release, i.e. RL05, of GRACE-based GGMs as well as to select ...