Abstract: Aim: Finding out the biological sources is essential for pharmaceutical field. Materials and Methods: Endophytic fungus was isolated from Catharanthus roseus originated in Vietnam then identified by comparing, phylogeny analyzing its 18S sRNA sequence using Blast search GenomeNet. The supernatant sonicated mycelia were fractionated with methanol, ethyl acetate, hexane. All fractions u...

The existing tax policies towards gasoline and diesel cars in European countries provide a unique opportunity to analyze quality-based price discrimination and the implied tax incidence. We develop an econometric framework for the demand and pricing of gasoline and diesel cars. Consumers choose the type of engine based on their annual mileage; prices are set by the manufacturers. Our empirical ...

OBJECTIVE Chronic viral hepatitis B and C cause liver fibrosis, leading to cirrhosis. Fibrosis assessment is essential to establish prognosis and treatment indication. We compared seven non-invasive tests, separately and in combination, in chronic hepatitis patients to detect early stages of fibrosis according to the Metavir score in liver biopsy. MATERIAL AND METHODS Galactose and methacetin...

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The collapse of exports that has attended the current global economic recession threatens the export-led economic growth of the four Asian dragons. To better understand the economic performances and future prospects of the four dragons, this paper first examines the economic structural changes that have taken place in Hong Kong, China; the Republic of Korea; Singapore; and Taipei,China, as well...

China’s economic ascendance over the past two decades has generated ripple effects in the world economy. Its search for natural resources to satisfy the demands of industrialization has led it to Sub-Saharan Africa. Trade between China and Africa in 2006 totaled more than $50 billion, with Chinese companies importing oil from Angola and Sudan, timber from Central Africa, and copper from Zambia....

The p a p e r i s d e v o t e d t o l i n g u i s t i c problems of defining the basic formalized representation of text in an automatic translation system within the frsmlework of the so-called integral formal model of tile tr~ulslation process, the primary requirement for tills representation considered to be a compromise between its semal~ticity, superficiality~ a/id exhaustiveness. A repres...

Epidemiological data haAe identified chronic alcohol col1SLImptim as a 518111 ficant 1'1 k facto' for Li pper alimenllll • tract cancer. including cancer of the oropharynx, lar•nx and the oesophagus and of the li y ei The increased risk attributable to alcohol consumption of cancer in the large intestine and in the breast is much smaller_ However, although the risk is lo•er, carcino,,enesis can...