Economic challenges associated with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and the sociocultural outlook of many patients especially in Africa have increased dependence on traditional herbal medicines (THMs) for these diseases. A cross-sectional descriptive study designed to determine the prevalence of and reasons for THM use in the management of NCDs among South African adults was conducted in an urb...

Off-energy-shell effects in p - p scattering have been investigated at p - p relative energies from 600 down to 80 keV applying the Trojan horse method (THM) to the p + d --> p + p + n reaction at 5 MeV. In contrast with the on-energy-shell case, no Coulomb-nuclear interference minimum has been found in the extracted THM p - p cross section, due to the suppression of the Coulomb amplitude as pr...

Significant fractions of bromine-substituted disinfection byproducts (DBPs)—particularly trihalomethanes (THMs)— have been observed to form during treatment of water from the Missouri River. THM speciation was also noted to follow a seasonal pattern during a 2.5-year period, during which samples were collected multiple times per month. Although some treatment processes were effective at reducin...

A combined process for temperature measurements in THM growth systems is described including the preparation of the source material as well as the liquid solution zone in one and the same ampoule. Using starting compositions with an excess of that component to act as the solvent the solution zone is formed during the travelling heater procedure. With thermocouples attached to the slightly modif...

Renin, a rate-limiting enzyme in the renin-angiotensin system, is regulated to maintain blood pressure homeostasis: renin gene expression in the kidney is suppressed in a hypertensive environment. We found that expression of a 15-kb human RENIN (hREN) transgene was aberrantly upregulated (>4.2-fold), while the endogenous mouse renin (mRen) gene was suppressed (>1.7-fold) in Tsukuba hypertensive...

objective: investigating the dynamics of iranian nano-related publications form the ‎perspective of triple helix model (thm) is the goal of this research. ‎methodology: the data of nano-related publications collected from iranian isi ‎papers. this study maps the emergence of dynamics of knowledge base of ‎innovations using mutual information and transmission of uncertainty calculated ‎by thm. t...

representation of the physical layout. The algor i thm works on a set o f configurations constituting a constant size population. The transformations are performed through crossover operators that generate a new configuration assimilating the characteristics o f a pair o f configurations existing in the current population (similar to biological reproduction). Muta t ion and inversion operators ...

Bladder cancer has been associated with exposure to chlorination by-products in drinking water, and experimental evidence suggests that exposure also occurs through inhalation and dermal absorption. The authors examined whether bladder cancer risk was associated with exposure to trihalomethanes (THMs) through ingestion of water and through inhalation and dermal absorption during showering, bath...

Most people with epilepsy (PWE) live in developing countries with limited access to health care facilities. In sub-Saharan Africa with approximately 12 million PWE, 90% do not receive adequate medical treatment. In this context, traditional medicine, being easily accessible, plays an important role. However, in sub- Saharan Africa, studies on the attitude of people (both affected and not affect...

G r i f f i t h s and Pet.rick (1965) propose several algori thms for recognizing sentences of contex t f ree grammars in the general case One of these algor i thms, the NBT (Non-select ive Bottom to Top) Algor i thm, has since been ca l led a " l e f t c o r n e r " algor i thm. Of l a te , i n te res t has been rekindled in l e f t co rne r parsers. Chester (1980) proposes a modi f ica t ion ...