Paliurus spina-christi Mill. (Rhamnaceae), also known as Christ's thorn, is a perennial thorny shrub of widespread distribution in dry and rocky places in the Mediterranean region and Asia. In Croatia, this plant grows along the Adriatic coast and on the islands (Polunin and Huxley, 1981). Christ's thorn is used as a diuretic, against diarrhoea and rheumatism in traditional Croatian herbal medi...

We show that the number of combinatorially distinct labelled d-polytopes on n vertices is at most (n/oo. A similar bound for the number of simplicial polytopes has previously been proved by Goodman and Pollack. This bound improves considerably the previous known bounds. We also obtain sharp upper and lower bounds for the numbers of real oriented and unoriented matroids with n elem...

INTRODUCTION Sub-acute septic arthritis of knee following a thorn prick injury to patella is an uncommon condition and seen in active playful children. The child may be afraid to narrate the incident to their parents or examining doctor, so a high index of suspicion is must. The delayed presentation is inevitable. Early synovitis due to the organic biological foreign body may progress to septic...

We study thorn forking and rosiness in the context of continuous logic. We prove that the Urysohn sphere is rosy (with respect to finitary imaginaries), providing the first example of an essentially continuous unstable theory with a nice notion of independence. In the process, we show that a real rosy theory which has weak elimination of finitary imaginaries is rosy with respect to finitary ima...

In a communication network, several vulnerability measures are used to determine the resistance of the network to disruption of operation after the failure of certain stations or communication links. If the communication network is modeled as a simple, undirected, connected and unweighted graph G, then average lower independence number of a graph G can be considered as a measure of graph vulner...

The eosinopenic response to stress has been recognized since Zappert (1893) described its occurrence m certain infections, and in recent years it has been included among the phenomena of the alarm reaction (Selye, 1949). It was also shown that a decrease in the number of circulating eosinophils followed the injection of corticotrophin or cortisone, and Hills, Forsham and Finch (1948) concluded ...