background: black seed (bs) is used in traditional medicine as a therapy for a variety of diseases including allergic asthma. materials and methods: in the present study, anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects of bs on cytokine gene expression, lung airway eosinophilia and goblet cell hyperplasia were examined in a mouse mice model of allergic asthma. groups of 6-week-old female balb/c ...

To investigate the potential health effects of several traditional medicinal plants and spices commonly used for daily consumption, we selected eight traditional medicinal plants and 32 spices for bioactivity screening in several anti-obesity related bioassays: adenosine A1 receptor binding, cannabinoid CB1 receptor binding, inhibition of TNF-α and induction of 3T3-L1 adipocytes lipolysis. Beni...

There is clear evidence that the γ-ray emission from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is attributed to the inverse Compton scatterings in the relativistic blobs near the massive black holes. If the soft seed photons are from the regions outside the blobs, a linear relation between (νFν,γ/νFν,synu ) and Doppler factor δ is expected, where νFν,γ and νFν,syn are monochromatic γ-ray and synchrotron fl...

We study fractional variability as a function of energy from black-hole X-ray binaries on timescales from milliseconds to hundreds of seconds. We build a theoretical model of energydependent variability in which the X-ray energy spectrum varies in response to a changing physical parameter. We compare these models to rms spectra obtained from RXTE PCA observations of black-hole binaries XTE J155...

Chia (Salvia hispanica L.) is an edible seed that comes from an annual herbaceous plant, Salvia hispanica L. of mint family (Lamiaceae) (Figure 1). The shape of Chia seed is oval with 1 to 2mm in size, which may be black, grey or black spotted to white in colour. Chia means strength and the tiny seeds have been used as energy booster. Chia seeds can be used in the form of whole seeds, mucilage,...

The growth of enterotoxigenic Bacillus cereus in perishable foods is a well-known cause of food poisoning. In this study, we evaluated sprouting seeds (broccoli, green peas, lentil, mung bean, mustard, radish, red clover, soybean, and triticale) for their antimicrobial activity toward B. cereus. The filter-sterilized seed extracts of red clover, lentil, and mung bean yielded inhibition zones of...

We construct a hitting set generator for sparse multivariate polynomials over the reals. The seed length of our generator is O(log2(mn/ )) where m is the number of monomials, n is number of variables, and 1− is the hitting probability. The generator can be evaluated in time polynomial in logm, n, and log 1/ . This is the first hitting set generator whose seed length is independent of the degree...

We describe our efforts to study dwarf galaxies with active nuclei, whose black holes, with masses ≤ 106 M⊙, provide the best current observational constraints on the mass distribution of primordial seed black holes. Although these low-mass galaxies do not necessarily contain classical bulges, Barth, Greene, & Ho (2005) show that their stellar velocity dispersions and black hole masses obey the...

soil and water salinity in arid and semi-arid regions, is one of the most important stresses, can severely limit crop production. black cumin (nigella sativa l.) is annual important herbal plant in rununculaceae family that sense to salinity. this study was conducted to evaluate the effects of the priming on seed germination of black cumin under saline stress. the experiment was carried out as ...

Local distributions of black spruce (Picea mariana) and white spruce (Picea glauca) are largely determined by edaphic and topographic factors in the interior of Alaska, with black spruce dominant on moist permafrost sites and white spruce dominant on drier upland sites. Given the recent evidence for climate warming and permafrost degradation, the distribution of white spruce is expected to expa...