Purpose To compare tumor control, vision, and complications between patients with a choroidal melanoma of <10 mm in largest basal diameter (LBD) irradiated 10-mm or 15-mm ruthenium plaques. Design Retrospective, comparative case series. Participants One hundred sixty-four consecutive LBD, 76 88 treated the plaque, respectively, from 1998–2014 national ocular oncology service. Methods Diagnosis ...

Bangladesh is considered one of the countries most at risk to the effects of climate change and its coastal area is most vulnerable. This study tries to explore the experiences of cyclones Sidr and Aila affected people living in the coastal areas of Bangladesh. This study was conducted in the cyclone Sidr affected Amtali Upazila of Barguna District and in the cyclone Aila affected Koyra Upazila...

Improving the Nutritional Value of Ziziphus Spina-Christi using Degrading Bacteria Isolated from Rumen

The goal of this research is to investigate some morphological (fibre length, fibre diameter, cell wall thickness, Runkel coefficient, flexibility slenderness rigidity Luce's solid coefficient), physical (dry wood density, volumetric shrinkage) and chemical (cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, ash acetone soluble extractives contents) composition Konar (Ziziphus spina-christi) grown in Hormozgan ...

BACKGROUND Herbal medicine has becoming a potential source of treatment for different types of cancer including breast cancer. It has been shown that plants from the family Rhamnaceae possess anticancer activity. OBJECTIVE In this study, we determined the antiproliferative influence of Ziziphus spina christi- a species from this family- on the MCF-7 (human breast adenocarcinoma) cell line. ...

Response of near-isogenic sorghum lines, differing at the P locus for plant colour, to grain mould and head smut fungi" (2013). Abstract Leaves and stalks of many sorghum genotypes accumulate dark red or purple pigments upon wounding while some plants, called 'tan,' do not. Grains with unpigmented 'white' pericarps grown on tan plants are more desirable for food. The hypothesis tested was that ...

The subject of this article is a Polish-language collection emblems by Paweł Mirowski, the Spiritual Hammer, 1656. work in fact paraphrase Thomas à Kempis’s Imitatio Christi, which author admits neither on title page nor preface. In addition, translation supplemented with five to seven engravings (depending surviving copies) an emblematic kind. purpose twofold. Firstly, juxtapose Mirowski’s ord...

The antibacterial activity of ethanolic extracts of Ziziphus spina-christi leaves were examined using agar disc diffusion method against five bacteria (Streptococcus feacalis, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa). These extracts had inhibitory activity at various stages of germination;1st stage has inhibitory activity of 22 mm against Strept...