This study examined the psychometric properties of the Teasing Questionnaire-Revised (TQ-R) and the relationships among recalled childhood teasing and current psychosocial distress in 414 undergraduate students. Participants were administered the TQ-R, Beck Depression Inventory-II, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory-Trait Version, Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale, and UCLA Loneliness Scale. C...

BACKGROUND Most chemotherapeutic drugs are known to cause nephrotoxicity. Therefore, new strategies have been considered to prevent chemotherapy-induced nephrotoxicity. It is of note that Nigella sativa (NS), or its isolated compound Thymoquinone (TQ), has a potential role in combating chemotherapy-induced nephrotoxicity. AIM To analyze and report the outcome of experimental animal studies on...

There has been a growing interest in naturally occurring compounds from traditional medicine with anti-cancer potential. Nigella sativa (black seed) is one of the most widely studied plants. This annual herb grows in countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea and India. Thymoquinone (TQ) is an active ingredient isolated from Nigella sativa. The anti-cancer effect of TQ, via the induction of apop...

Knee pain and dysfunction have been often associated with an ineffective pull of the patella by the vastus medialis (VM) relative to the vastus lateralis (VL), particularly in individuals with knee joint malalignment. Such changes in muscular behavior may be attributed to muscle inhibition and/or atrophy that precedes the onset of symptoms. The aim of this study was to investigate possible effe...

Network devices supporting 100G links are in demand to meet the communication requirements of computing nodes in datacenters and warehouse computers. In this paper, we propose TQ and TQ-Smooth, two lightweight, fair schedulers that accommodate an arbitrarily large number of requestors and are suitable for ultrahigh-speed links. We show that our first algorithm, TQ, as well its predecessor, DRR,...

Recent preclinical and clinical studies provide evidence that adoptive transfer of in vitro activated T cells can results in significant antitumour responses in vivo upon acquisition of certain survival and homing properties during in vitro activation. Based on recent studies showing in vivo antioxidant effects of thymoquinone (TQ), the active ingredient of Nigella sativa seeds, this study aims...

The solid angle theorem was used to analyze the relationships between TQ and ST segment deflections recorded from precordial and epicardial locations and the time course, size, shape, and transmural location of the ischemic process in the ventricular myocardium. Mathematical predictions were compared with experimental data from the intact heart. Precordial electrograms obtained in anesthetized ...

Herbs are known to play a vital role in the management of various liver diseases. Thymoquinone (TQ) is the bioactive constituent of Nigella sativa seed. The present work was planned to evaluate the potential hepatoprotective effects of TQ against the cytotoxic effects and the oxidative stress induced by carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) in isolated primary rat hepatocytes. Cytotoxicity was determined...

Over many centuries humans have been mining the bounties of nature for discovering substances that have been used for the treatment of all human diseases; many such remedies are useful even today as modern day medicine. Emerging evidence also suggests that the search is still continuing for harnessing active compounds from nature in combating human illnesses although pharmaceutical industries a...

Round Robin (RR) Scheduling is the basis of time sharing environment. It is the combination of First Come First Served (FCFS) scheduling algorithm and preemption among processes. It is basically used in a time sharing operating system. It switches from one process to another process in a time interval. The time interval or Time Quantum (TQ) is fixed for all available processes. So, the larger p...