Whereaswater drops on both lotus leafs and rose petals have high contact angles, the drops can easily roll off lotus leafs but strongly adhere to rose petals. Here, we report a simple and cost-effective approach to fabricate highly stretchable large-area surfaces that give lotusleaf and rose-petal effects by harnessing origami patterns formed in graphene paper (GP) bonded on a pre-strained elas...

Rhizome is the storage organ of lotus derived from modified stems. The development of rhizome is a complex process and depends on the balanced expression of the genes that is controlled by environmental and endogenous factors. However, little is known about the mechanism that regulates rhizome girth enlargement. In this study, using RNA-seq, transcriptomic analyses were performed at three rhizo...

BACKGROUND A lotus root appearance is a rare entity, and there is little opportunity to perform coronary intervention for this kind of lesion. Because of its peculiar anatomical characteristics, one of the problems regarding percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for these lesions is related to the involvement of branch vessels. CASE PRESENTATION We encountered a case of PCI for a stenotic ...

Plant and animal lectins with various carbohydrate specificities were used to type 35 Irish clinical isolates of Helicobacter pylori and the type strain NCTC 11637 in a microtiter plate assay. Initially, a panel of eight lectins with the indicated primary specificities were used: Anguilla anguilla (AAA), Lotus tetragonolobus (Lotus A), and Ulex europaeus I (UEA I), specific for alpha-L-fucose; ...

Kumud the herb mentioned with different names in Nighantu is one of herbs useful Rakta and Pitta Doshas. It well known ayurveda many medicinal properties. Blue lotus, red blue aquatic plant, star or manel flower are number common for it. also called as Indian lotus. belongs to southern eastern parts Asia, national Bangladesh Sri Lanka. Its Sanskrit name utpala. a well-known found classical text...

Zizyphus lotus, which belongs to Rhamnaceae family, has been widely used formulate many healthy food products. The aim of this work was new functional cookies enriched with different amounts lotus powder (ZLP; 15%, 30%, 45% and 100%). chemical properties ZLP were also determined. formulated evaluated for their physicochemical, textural sensory characteristics. Results revealed that contained va...

tificial Intelligence Corporation's I n t e l l ec t 1 was introduced in the 1970's, but expanded in this decade to support interaction with a wide variety of systems. Each year, AIC hosts a user group conference that draws hundreds of people. The middle of the decade saw the arrival of Symantec's Qg~A whose natural language interface has helped it win honors as one of the PC programs that is e...

The practice of meditation has become an interesting research issue in recent decades. Meditation is known to be beneficial for health improvement and illness reduction and many studies on meditation have been made, from both the physiological and psychological points of view. It is a fundamental requirement of meditation practice to be able to sit without body motion. In this study, a novel bo...

Seed set is usually low and differs for different crosses of flower lotus (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.). The reasons remain unknown, and this has a negative impact on lotus breeding. To determine the causes, we carried out two crosses of flower lotus, that is, "Jinsenianhua" × "Qinhuaihuadeng" and "Qinhuaihuadeng" × "Jinsenianhua" and pollen viability, pistil receptivity, and embryo development we...

INTRODUCTION Vulvar reconstruction using the "lotus petal" fascio-cutaneous flap offers a relatively novel means to restore symmetry and functionality after extirpative gynecologic or oncologic procedures. We sought to assess the success rates and morbidity in a large series of consecutively treated patients. METHODS We performed a retrospective review of 59 consecutive cases of lotus petal f...