The common cold is the leading cause of doctor visits in the United States and annually results in 189 million lost school days. In the course of one year the U.S. population contracts approximately 1 billion colds. Influenza infection is still a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, accounting for 20-25 million doctor visits and 36,000 deaths per year in the United States. Conventional the...

Let E be an elliptic curve over Q, with L-function LE(s). For any primitive Dirichlet character χ, let LE(s, χ) be the L-function of E twisted by χ. In this paper, we use random matrix theory to study vanishing of the twisted L-functions LE(s, χ) at the central value s = 1. In particular, random matrix theory predicts that there are infinitely many characters of order 3 and 5 such that LE(1, χ)...

Cisplatin is widely used chemotherapeutic agent for the treatment of several human malignancies. The efficacy is dose dependent, but the significant risk of nephrotoxicity frequently inhibits the use of higher doses to maximize its anti-neoplastic effects. In the present investigation, the Avuri kudineer [Decoction of Indigofera tinctoria] made of indigo leaves AKL, the Avuri kudineer made of i...

In this work, Isatis tinctoria hairy root cultures (ITHRCs) were established as an alternative source for flavonoids (FL) production. I. tinctoria hairy root line V was found to be the most efficient line and was further confirmed by the PCR amplification of rolB, rolC and aux1 genes. Culture parameters of ITHRCs were optimized by Box-Behnken design (BBD), and eight bioactive FL constituents (r...

The present study deals with isolation, taxonomic characterization and biological activity of medicinal mushroom Ganoderma spp. The results of the present study Ganoderma sp. DKR1 and Ganoderma sp. DKR2 were isolated from two hard woods of Casurina equiestifolia and Morinda tinctoria respectively in Cuddalore district, Tamil Nadu, India. The Ganoderma isolate were characterized for macro and mi...

drought stress is one of the most important factors limiting the survival and growth of plants in the different habitats of iran. detailed knowledge about the ecophysiological responses of native plants to drought stress could contribute to the success of breeding and re-vegetation programs. six wild populations of anthemis tinctoria, were assigned to four drought treatments, i.e. well-watered ...

In this article, we focus on the analysis of dyed textile fragments uncovered at an early Iron Age (11th-10th centuries BCE) copper smelting site during new excavations in the Timna Valley conducted by the Central Timna Valley (CTV) Project, as well as those found by the Arabah Expedition at the Hathor Temple (Site 200), dated to the Late Bronze/early Iron Ages (13th-11th centuries BCE). Analys...

We study zeros of the L-functions L(f, s) of primitive weight two forms of level q. Our main result is that, on average over forms f of level q prime, the order of the L-functions at the central critical point s = 1 2 is absolutely bounded. On the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, this provides an upper bound for the rank of the Jacobian J0(q) of the modular curve X0(q), which is of the sam...