Background: Vitex agnus - castus extract (Vitex) is available in dosage forms for female disorders treatment. This extract has shown controversial effects against seizures induced by Maximal electroshock (MES) or pentylenetetrazole (PTZ).   Objective: In the present study the anti-seizure activity of Vitex against acquisition of amygdala kindling was evaluated in male rats.   Methods: Intact ...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a degenerative of central nervous system, which seriously threatens the life and health elderly people. It has been for long time that Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) treatment AD effective. This study analyzed potential target molecular mechanism most often used drug pair Astragalus membranaceus Acorus tatarinowii to treat by network pharmacological method. First...

This paper evaluates the suitability of the workflow modeling tools through process-based material workflow perspective. A case example in inbound logistics system of “Resource Reception” workflow at the highest domain abstract level is examined with four nominated workflow modeling standards of Data Flow Diagram (DFD), Event-based Process Control (EPC), Business Process Model and Notation (BPM...

Hesperetin (Hst) is a well-known bioflavonoid, has low bioavailability. Hesperetin nanoparticles (Nano-Hst) enhance its bioavailability. Nano-Hst were not explored for their potential therapeutic activities in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Hence, the present study was performed to evaluate the protective effect of Nano-Hst in comparison to free Hesperetin on against intracerebroventricular in...

Introduction: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an age-related neurodegenerative disease, which impairs memory and cognitive function. Walnuts are a dietary source of polyphenols, antioxidants and other compounds with health beneficial effects. These characteristic of walnuts make them perfect candidates for evaluation of their possible effects on neurodegenerative diseases. Therefore the prese...

A cooperating-agents based algorithm is described to detect temporal consistency among sensory events and for constraint processing. We describe the algorithm using an example. Also we describe the cooperative aspects of the agent -based algorithm using an UML activity diagram.

2012 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank all people which have made this work possible. I express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Professor Militon Frent¸iu, for his help during these years. I also thank Professor Horia F. Pop for research opportunities offered and valuable ideas. The passion for research, encouragements and many ideas came from my coleague Andreea Vescan to whom I am ...

Generation of test cases is the most important issue in the software testing. Thus test cases need to be carefully designed. An activity diagram is used for modelling the dynamic aspects of the system. It helps in visualizing the sequence of activities involved in a control flow. The proposed approach is to automate the generation of test scenarios from activity diagram using DFS and BFS method...