Root ofPlumbago indica Linn is used in ayurveda and siddha medicine for the treatment of colic inflammations bronchitis, helminthiasis, hemorrhoids, elephantiasis, hepatosplenomegaly, amenorrhea, odontalgia, piles, and diabetes. The present study aims to investigate the anatomical characters of thin and thick root and to confirm the physicochemical characters of the root. Anatomical st...

The paper presents an automatic method for liver vasculature segmentation in volumetric images obtained during Computed Tomography (CT) patient examination. The method, apart from the CT image, also requires an additional image containing binary liver mask. A modified multiscale vesselness filter (VF) performs vasculature detection. VF response is used to determine the starting voxels for the s...

Author’s affiliations: S. Gomez, Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California; Northern California Cancer Center, 2201 Walnut Ave, Suite 300, Fremont, California 94538, [email protected]. C. O’Malley, Northern California Cancer Center, 2201 Walnut Ave, Suite 300, Fremont, California 94538 (affiliation at time of work), [email protected] A. Stro...

[1] Equatorial zonal currents and associated oxygen distributions are studied using shipboard hydrographic data, trajectories from isopycnic floats drifting at about 300 m depth, and velocity time series from the upper 1100 m obtained at two equatorial moorings located at 35 W and 23 W. Mean profiles of zonal velocity measured by moored acoustic Doppler current profilers yielded a westward flow...

N. T. Zinner,1,2,3 B. Wunsch,1 D. Pekker,1,4 and D.-W. Wang5,6,7 1Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, DK-8000, Denmark 3The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Ø, DK-8000, Denmark 4Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 911...

This study investigated the effects of protease treatments (trypsin, chymotrypsin, and pepsin) under various pressure levels (0.1-300 MPa) for the characteristics of porcine placenta hydrolysates. According to gel electrophoretic patterns, the trypsin showed the best placental hydrolyzing activity followed by chymotrypsin, regardless of the pressure levels. In particular, the peptide bands of t...

The tungsten piperidylhydrazido complex Cl4 CH3CN W N-pip 1 was used for film growth of tungsten carbonitride WNxCy by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition CVD in the absence and presence of ammonia NH3 in H2 carrier. The microstructure of films deposited with NH3 was x-ray amorphous between 300 and 450 °C. The chemical composition of films deposited with NH3 exhibited increased N levels and...

BACKGROUND To investigate the effect of Ubiquinol supplementation on physical performance measured as maximum power output in young and healthy elite trained athletes. METHODS In this double-blind, placebo-controlled study, 100 young German well trained athletes (53 male, 47 female, age 19.9 ± 2.3 years) received either 300 mg Ubiquinol or placebo for 6 weeks. Athletes had to perform a maximu...

introduction: the aim of this study was to evaluate the composite surface treated by different powers of erbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (er:yag) laser in comparison with bur preparation via scanning electron microscope. methods: fourteen composite resin blocks with 15× 10 × 10 mm dimensions were used in this study. the samples were divided to seven groups as follow: group 1 (power: 1 w, e...