BACKGROUND Glycyrrhizae Radix (GR) is a Korean traditional herb medicine that is widely-used in clinical health care. The clinical functions of GR include relief of toxicity, anti-cancer, regulating blood cholesterol and anti-inflammation. This study investigated the role of GR on ulcerative colitis in a dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced mouse model of colitis. METHOD Western blot analysis...

OBJECTIVES Several studies have demonstrated associations of birth weight with metabolic and reproductive abnormalities in adults. The aim of this study was to investigate the birth weight in women with PCOS and its correlation with clinical and biochemical characteristics of the syndrome. MATERIALS AND METHODS We studied 288 women with PCOS according to the NIH criteria and 166 women with no...

In this paper, we introduce generalized extended Hamming codes over Galois rings GR(2,m) of characteristic 2 with extension degree m. Furthermore we prove that the minimum Hamming weight of generalized extended Hamming codes over GR(2,m) is 4 and the minimum Lee weight of generalized extended Hamming codes over GR(8,m) is 6 for all m ≥ 3. ——————————————————————– ———Received May 25, 2011. This w...

The electromagnetic properties of Carbon-Graphene Xerogel (CGX), Flaky graphite (GR) and Nickel-Zinc ferrite (FeNiZn) composites in polystyrene (PS) matrix were studied the X-Band range (8.2 – 12.4 GHz). In this work Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) waste material was processed into through recycling EPS. obtained utilized as dielectric matrix, mainly because PS is a well-known organic polymer that p...

BACKGROUND Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ERCP is a painful and long procedure requiring transient deep analgesia and conscious sedation. An ideal anaesthetic that guarantees a rapid and smooth induction, good quality of maintenance, lack of adverse effects and rapid recovery is still lacking. This study aimed to compare safety and efficacy of a continuous infusion of low dose r...

Refactorings are source-to-source program transformations that change program structure and organisation, but not program functionality. Documented in catalogues and supported by tools, refactoring provides the means to adapt and improve the design of existing code, and has thus helped to address long-standing problems in software maintenance while also enabling the trend towards modern agile s...

Background: The project was conceived in 1994 following formulation of a FEAST hypothesis. This stated that the software evolution process is a feedback system and must be treated as such to achieve major process improvement. Three self-funding international workshops were held at IC [fea94,5] to explore the hypothesis, with some 40 participants from the UK, Europe and North America at each. Fo...

This project arose out an EPSRC/Unilever funded programme in the mid-1990’s in which we established the overflowing cylinder (OFC) as a platform for studying adsorption kinetics and Marangoni effects in surfactant solutions, using the cationic surfactant hexadecyltrimethyl ammonium bromide (C16TAB) as a model system. Following the success of the earlier project, a new collaborative programme wa...