the pomegranate seed oil (pso), containing 17-α-estradiol, is one of the newly found phytosterols with synergistic health effects on estrogen related physiological conditions. herein, pso was assessed for its potential improving effects on bone characteristics in a rat model of menopausal syndrome. three month old non-pregnant female wistar rats (n = 30) were either sham-operated (sham) or ovar...

London burning: Buildings in Tottenham, North London, on fire during the riots at the beginning of August. (Photo: PA Wire/Press Association Images.) The ‘English riots’ of this summer started in the North London suburb of Tottenham on Saturday 6th of August, following a peaceful demonstration protesting against the death of Mark Duggan, who had been shot by special police forces two days earli...

in this study, the effects of two metarhizium anisopliae isolates, originally obtained from red palm weevil (rhynchophorus ferrugineus) and a beetle (parandra caspica), on adults of russian wheat aphid diuraphis noxia were studied under laboratory coditions. after a determination of the minimum & maximum concentrations, the adults were treated with conidial concentrations of 1×103 to 1×106 coni...

The aim is to investigate the analgesic effect of transcranial direct current stimulation(tDCS) on central neuropathic pain(CNP) in spinal cord contusive rat model. Twenty Sprague-Dawley rats(250±50 g, male) were used. Thoracic spinal cord(T10) was contused using New York University(NYU) spinal cord impactor. The animals were randomly assigned to two groups; GroupI: Nontreatment after SCI induc...

Strategic games: simultaneous choices of 2 or more players • 2 firms: P1 sets q1 and maximizes payoff π1(q1, q2), P2 sets q2 and maximizes payoff π2(q1, q2). Want simultaneous optimal choices given the other player’s choice. • Chapters 2: Finite number of choices for each player • Chapters 3: Continuous choice of quantity for each player • Chapter 4: Play choices probabilistically, mixed strate...

were saponified; the second case was an European adult, who fell (September 1881) into the river the body was found after two days, and " all external portions of the body were found to be saponified." The third case was that of an European sailor, who fell into the Hooghly on 6th October 1883 ; the body was found after eight days and ten hours; " the external parts, heart, liver, spleen, &c., ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of the bleeding complications in pacemaker implanted patients receiving different antiplatelet regimens, and the influence of each regimen on hospital stays after device implantation. METHODS We prospectively enrolled 364 patients receiving the cardiac rhythm device implantations in Fuwai Hospital from July 2012 to December 2013. Bleeding complications inclu...