We present ovulation that occurred after the administration of traditional Chinese herbal medicine for 3 months in a woman with premature ovarian failure (POF) and secondary amenorrhea for 8 years. Traditional Chinese medicine concentrated herbal extracts of cooked rehmannia, Chinese yam, wolfberry fruit, dogwood fruit, cyathula root, dodder seed, antler glue, tortoise-plastron glue, epimedium ...

in 2011-2012 surveys for phytoplasma diseases, eggplant )solanum melongena l.( plants with phyllody symptoms were observed in eggplant fields of roodan (hormozgan province of iran). agent of roodan eggplant phyllody (rep) was transmitted from phyllody affected eggplant to eggplant and tomato by grafting and to periwinkle via dodder inoculation inducing phytoplasma-type symptoms. phytoplasmal in...

Horses are individual, each having differential characteristics such as height, color, breeding, conformation, and temperament. These bio-characteristics often influence potential purchasers when buying horses. This study sought to investigate if producers and potential purchasers placed similar emphasis on equine bio-characteristics. Sport-horse stakeholders--n = 1377 (792 producers and 585 po...

CONTENTS This document comprises deliverables (a), (b) and (c) of Task 2.2 as described in the Technical Annex of the COP 62 project.

We demonstrate energy exchange between two orthogonally polarized optical waves as a consequence of a two-color multistep parametric interaction. The energy exchange results from cascading of two quasi-phase-matched (QPM) second-harmonic parametric processes, and it is intrinsically instantaneous. The effect is observed when both the type-I (ooe) second-harmonic generation process and higher QP...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to examine the cross-cultural differences of the PANSS across six geo-cultural regions. The specific aims are (1) to examine measurement properties of the PANSS; and (2) to examine how each of the 30 items function across geo-cultural regions. METHODS Data was obtained for 1,169 raters from 6 different regions: Eastern Asia (n = 202), India (n = 185)...

I EEE is actively involved in creating standards for voting systems and related applications via the IEEE Voting System Standards Committee (VSSC/1622). An upcoming VSSC/1622.2 standard on election results reporting lets election officials organize election results and report them to the media. Another goal of VSSC/1622 is to improve US voting processes by creating a common data format (CDF) fo...

In the first part of this century, there was little advancement in horse nutrition and little research was undertaken. However, in the last few years, there has been a great increase in interest in this whole area. This review surveys some of the more recent developments and how they have influenced feeding practices and also compares these with those feeding practices found at the start of thi...