Objective(s): The object of the study is to examine the effects of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) against oxidative stress in the blood and excretion of THC metabolites in urine of type 2 diabetic rats. Materials and Methods: The control (n=8), THC control (n=6), diabetes (n=8) and diabetes + THC (n=7) groups were created. Type 2 diabetes was induced by nicotinamide (NA, 85 mg/kg) + streptozotoc...

We describe a Cat-valued nerve of bicategories, which associates to every bicategory a simplicial object in Cat, called the 2-nerve. This becomes the object part of a 2-functor N : NHom → [∆,Cat], where NHom is a 2-category whose objects are bicategories and whose 1-cells are normal homomorphisms of bicategories. The 2-functor N is fully faithful and has a left biadjoint, and we characterize it...

This is an expanded, revised and corrected version of the first author’s preprint [1]. The discussion of one-dimensional cohomology H in a fairly general category E involves passing to the (2-)category Cat(E) of categories in E . In particular, the coefficient object is a category B in E and the torsors that Hclassifies are particular functors in E . We only impose conditions on E that are sati...

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One goal of applied category theory is to understand open systems. We compare two ways describing systems as cospans equipped with extra data. First, given a functor $L \colon \mathsf{A} \to \mathsf{X}$, "structured cospan" diagram in $\mathsf{X}$ the form $L(a) \rightarrow x \leftarrow L(b)$. If $\mathsf{A}$ and have finite colimits $L$ preserves them, it known that there symmetric monoidal do...

Play in domestic cats has been largely studied using a contextual approach, i.e., with focus on what the cat is playing with, such as an object, itself or another cat. Such classification may be superficially attractive scientifically but it limits ability to investigate function. We propose consideration of psychobiological which increases attention hypotheses about motivational and emotional ...

To account for the phenomenon of quantum decoherence of a macroscopic object, such as the localization and disappearance of interference, we invoke the adiabatic quantum entanglement between its collective states(such as that of the center-of-mass (C.M)) and its inner states based on our recent investigation. Under the adiabatic limit that motion of C.M dose not excite the transition of inner s...