A rapid, selective and sensitive UPLC-MS/MS assay was established to determine the plasma concentrations of four steroidal saponins. Sprague-Dawley rats were allocated to four groups which were orally administered Anemarrhena asphodeloides extracts (ASE), ASE combined with macromolecular fraction (ASE-MF), ASE combined with small molecule fraction (ASE-SF) and ASE combined with small molecule a...

This paper describes the “Assemble and Animate” (ASE) control framework. The objective of ASE is to provide a flexible and extendable control framework, which facilitates rapid development and deployment of modular reconfigurable robots. ASE includes a simple event-driven application framework, a library of common control and adaptation strategies, and a module abstraction layer which allows AS...

To investigate the cholesterol-lowering effects of alfalfa saponin extract (ASE) and its regulation mechanism on some key genes involved in cholesterol metabolism, 40 healthy 7 weeks old male Sprague Dawley (SD) rats were randomly divided into four groups with 10 rats in each group: control group, hyperlipidemic group, ASE treatment group, ASE prevention group. The body weight gain, relative li...

background: this study has been undertaken to find out the possible radioprotective potential of the alstonia scholaris extract (ase). materials and methods: for experimental study, healthy swiss albino male mice were selected from an inbred colony and divided in four groups. group i (normal) did not receive any treatment. group ii was orally supplemented ase once daily at the dose of 100 mg/ k...

A rapid test to detect the hydrolysis of sodium hippurate by beta-hemolytic streptococci within 2 h was developed. All group B streptococci tested were positive using this method and all other groups were negative.

To implement a generalization of value functions in Adaptive Search Element (ASE)-reinforcement learning, CMAC is integrated into ASE controller. ASEreinforcement learning scheme is briefly studied to discuss how CMAC is integrated into ASE controller. Neighbourhood Sequential Training concept is utilized to establish the look-up table of CMAC and to produce discrete control outputs. In compute...

To achieve population inversion an EDFA uses stimulated emission process where incident photon and emitted photon have same phase. But, alongwith the stimulated emission that creates gain, the gain medium also produces spontaneous emission, which gives rise to the amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) spectrum of the amplifier []. In this paper we have considered the setup to measure amplified s...

Short-term waterlogging stress-induced changes in phosphatase (P-ase) activities in relationship with phosphorus were studied in sorghum (Sorghum bicolor). Waterlogging was imposed by watering 3-day-old grown seedlings with water. The shoots and roots were harvested and P-ase activities were estimated. Significant waterlogging stress-induced increase in shoot and root P-ase activities coupled w...

We identify a fundamental difference between the ASE noise filtering properties of different all-optical SOA-based switch configurations, and divide the switches into two classes. An in-band ASE suppression ratio quantifying the difference is derived theoretically and the impact of the ASE filtering on the optical spectrum is verified experimentally using a hybrid DISC setup. ASE power suppress...

OBJECTIVES To determine the importance of skin deformity in systemic sclerosis (SSc) relative to other disease stressors and to find psychological correlates of appearance self-esteem (ASE) after controlling for disease status. METHODS Disease-related stressors, symptoms, physical and psychological functioning, social support, coping styles, cognitions and ASE were assessed in 123 patients wi...