urtica dioica l. is an iranian native pharmacological plant for which little attention has been paid to the anatomical structure. medical applications of this plant include diabetes therapy, digestive improvement, anemia and kidney disease therapy. because climatic conditions can affect the anatomical structure which in turn affects pharmacological compositions, research on the anatomy of this ...

This article provides an overview of OSGi (open services gateway initiative) standardization activities for software technology that is applicable to gateways that control and manage, in a coordinated fashion, various services and devices connected to networks in homes, offices, vehicles, and factories. The OSGi architecture allows for the timely provision of various new network-based services,...

A major technological barrier to achieving superior properties of nano-structured composite materials is the difficulty of dispersing fillers uniformly in a host matrix. The existing nanocomposite manufacturing processes achieve property improvements through chemical modifications of filler structures and utilization of chemical interactions between the chemically modified fillers and matrix po...

Specification of interactive distributed systems has been a challenge for decades. We present an overview of the specification techniques for these systems based on dataflow networks and stream processing. It covers models of streams and specification of stream processing systems that are related to and based on the development method Focus invented by Manfred Broy and his group. We introduce a...

the study of lexical bundles, among types of text analysis, is gaining importance over the others in the last century. the present study employed a frequency-based analysis approach to the use of lexical bundles. the discussion section of 60 political science articles, with corpora around 253,063 words were investigated in three aspects of structure, form, and function of lexical bundles. the p...

Th e search for interventions to reduce avoidable readmissions aft er an exacerbation of COPD has attracted substantial attention aft er the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services included COPD exacerbations in its Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. 1 We read with great interest the study by Jennings et al 2 in a recent issue of CHEST (May 2015) and applaud the authors for conducting a ...

National surveys have revealed significant differences in patient outcomes following admission to hospital with acute exacerbation of COPD which are likely to be due to variations in care. We developed a care bundle, comprising a short list of evidence-based practices to be implemented prior to discharge for all patients admitted with this condition, based on a review of national guidelines and...

Using digital image processing and pattern recognition techniques, a supervised classification procedure of bamboo vascular bundles was developed and tested on polished cross sections of bamboo culms from four different species. Results obtained for same species samples were similar and were consistent with visual observations.