In this paper we present the architecture of WOAD, a framework that we propose to make clinical end-users more autonomous in tailoring Electronic Patient Records (EPR) to their changing needs. We provide a short overview of the main concepts of WOAD and then we present the two visual tools that we developed to allow end-users to create their own templates and endow these with proactive and cont...

Population structure and genetic diversity of invasions are the result of evolutionary processes such as natural selection, drift and founding events. Some invasions are also molded by specific human activities such as selection for cultivars and intentional introduction of desired phenotypes, which can lead to low genetic diversity in the resulting invasion. We investigated the population stru...

A novel cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) in Brassica napus (inap CMS) was selected from the somatic hybrid with Isatis indigotica (Chinese woad) by recurrent backcrossing. The male sterility was caused by the conversion of tetradynamous stamens into carpelloid structures with stigmatoid tissues at their tips and ovule-like tissues in the margins, and the two shorter stamens into filaments witho...

Isatis indigotica is widely used in Chinese Traditional Medicine for clinical treatment of virus infection, tumor, and inflammation, yet its antiviral activities remain unclear. This study probed antiviral activity of I. indigotica extract and its marker compounds against Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV). I. indigotica methanol extract, indigo, and indirubin proved less cytotoxic than other co...

A pair of new diphenyl glycerol ether enantiomers (-)-1 and (+)-1 and two new methyl benzamidobenzoates 2 and 3, named (-)-(R)- and (+)-(S)-isatindigotrioic acid [(-)-1 and (+)-1] and isatindigoticamides A (2) and B (3), respectively, were isolated from an aqueous decoction of the roots of Isatis indigotica (ban lan gen). Their structures were elucidated by spectroscopic data analysis including...