Jih-Hsing Chang, Department of Environmental Engineering and Management, Chaoyang University of Technology, 168 GiFong E. Rd., WuFong Hsiang, 41349 Taichung County, Taiwan Yan-Hsong Shi, Department of Environmental Engineering and Management, Chaoyang University of Technology, 168 GiFong E. Rd., WuFong Hsiang, 41349 Taichung County, Taiwan Cheng-Hung Tung, Department of Environmental Engineerin...

BACKGROUND Preparations from anthroposophical medicine (AM) are clinically used to treat inflammatory disorders. We wanted to investigate effects of a selection of AM medications for parenteral use in cell-based systems in vitro. METHODS Colchicum officinale tuber D3, Mandragora D3, Rosmarinus officinale 5% and Bryophyllum 5% were selected for the experiments. Induction of apoptosis and necro...

Several psychoactive species have been used for centuries as a part of religious rituals or as medicines. These drugs are now being used recreationally by young people both because plants are considered safer than chemicals and because most of them are not illegal to use, possess, grow or distribute and cannot be detected by specific laboratory drug tests. Despite being ‘natural substances’ the...

a Both authors contributed equally. 15 16 *Corresponding author: Shih-Chieh Chang 17 250, Kuo-Kuang Road, Taichung 40227, TAIWAN 18 Tel.: +886 4 22840404; fax: +886 4 22852016. 19 E-mail address: [email protected] 20 21 Short Title: MMTV-like nucleotide sequences in dogs and cats 22 Copyright © 2010, American Society for Microbiology and/or the Listed Authors/Institutions. All Rights R...

1 Department of Information Management, Chaoyang University of Technology, No. 168, Jifong E. Rd., Wufong Township Taichung County 41349, Taiwan 2 Department of Computer Science, National Tsing-Hua University, No. 101, Section 2, Kuang-Fu Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan 3 Department of Management Information Systems, National Chung Hsing University, 250 Kuo-kuang Road, Taichung 402, Taiwan 4 Departme...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Beginning in the last two decades of the 14th century, richly illuminated versions of the Tacuinum Sanitatis, the Latin translation of an 11th-century Arabic manuscript known as Taqwim al-Sihha bi al-Ashab al-Sitta, were produced in northern Italy. These illustrated manuscripts provide a window on late medieval life in that region by containing some 200 full-page illustratio...

A particle-filter based estimation method is developed for the stochastic volatility model with/without jumps and applied on the S&P 500 index value and the VIX term structure jointly. The model encompasses all mean-reverting stochastic volatility option pricing models with a constant elasticity of variance, and can allow for price jumps. Our contention is that using the VIX term structure in e...

The mandrake, Mandragora officinarum, is a perennial plant found in the Middle East, southern Europe, and northern Africa, that has ovate leaves, white or purple flowers, and edible globose yellow fruits, historically thought to have aphrodisiac properties. The mandrake also has a large bifurcated root, which has been credited with human attributes and has been the subject of many myths and sup...