Cervical cancer is the second most common gynaecologic cancer worldwide. Unlike the other cancers it does not show any symptoms in its earlier stage which causes mortality among women. It takes 8 to 10 years to develop from precancerous to severe stage. The important reasons for higher cervical cancer in developing countries are lack of resources, lack of effectual screening programs and inadeq...

Slow rates of plant production and decomposition in ombrotrophic bogs are believed to be partially the result of low nutrient availability. To test the effect of nutrient availability on decomposition, carbon dioxide (CO2) flux dynamics, microbial biomass, and nutrients, we added nitrogen (N) with phosphorus (P) and potassium (K), to prevent limitation of the latter 2 nutrients, over 2 growing ...

SoilScience • Volume 175, Number 11, November 2010 Urease is one of the most thoroughly studied soil enzymes because it greatly influences the fate and performance of a widely used fertilizer (urea) (Bremner and Mulvaney, 1978; Ma et al., 1999; Tate, 2002). Urea was reported to be taken up by microorganisms, such as Corynebacterium glutamicum and Paxillus involutus (Jahns and Kaltwasser, 1989; ...

Z. Naturforsch. 43c, 269-274 (1988); received December 7, 1987 Chlorophyll Fluorescence, S02 , Spinach, Intact Leaves, Calvin Cycle The effects of short-time fumigation (0-60 min) of intact spinach leaves with S02 (2 ppm) on the photosynthetic apparatus were investigated. A rather high S02 concentration was applied to monitor immediate effects on the fluorescence behaviour with the influence of...

Abstract: Classification of the cervical cell is one of the most important and crucial tasks in the medical image analysis. Due to its importance, the aim of the paper is to investigate about the classification of Cervical Cell as Normal Cell or Abnormal Cell by using individual feature extraction method and combining individual feature extraction features method with the classification techniq...

A search for biosynthetic precursors of salvinorin A (1) led to the isolation of a new neoclerodane diterpenoid hemiacetal mixture, salvinorins J (2), from the chloroform extract of Salvia divinorum. A leaf surface extraction method was used on S. divinorum, affording a chlorophyll-free extract containing predominantly neoclerodane diterpenoids, including the new salvinorins J (2) and 14 known ...

Plants fumigated with 40ppbv, 80 ppbv and 120ppbv concentrations of O3 exhibited significant reduction in total chlorophyll content, RuBP carboxylase activity and net photosynthesis. The reduction in total chlorophyll activity ranged from 12 to 36% in Bauhinia variegata, 11 to 35% in Ficus infectoria and 3 to 26% in Pongamia pinnata on fumigation with O3, while the RuBP carboxylase activity was...

Extraction and analysis of labile compounds in complex sample matrices, such as plants, is often a big analytical challenge. In this work, the use of a "green and clean" pressurised hot water extraction (PHWE) approach performed in continuous flow mode is explored. Experimental data for extraction and degradation kinetics of selected compounds were utilised to develop a continuous flow extracti...