Danzhixiaoyao Wan (DW) is a common 10 herbs formulation in China for regulating several clinical conditions affecting women. This research tried to explain one of DW's functions, purging heat, using in vitro pharmacological analyses. The whole formulation and each single herb of DW were compared based on antioxidant activity with the oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) assay, and for thei...

AIMS Reference ranges of ascending aorta diameters (AAoD) for two-dimensional echocardiography (2DE) using inner edge (IE) convention are lacking, preventing the comparison of AAoD measurements by 2DE with those obtained by other imaging modalities. METHODS AND RESULTS We used harmonic imaging 2DE to prospectively study 218 healthy volunteers (56% women, 42 ± 15 years, 18-80 years). Measureme...

O n e of a l is tener 's m a jo r tasks in unders tand ing con t inuous speech is segment ing the speech signal into separa te words. W hen listening condi t ions are difficult, speakers can help l isteners by de l ibera te ly speaking m ore clearly. In four exper im en ts , we exam ined how word boundar ie s are p roduced in del ibera te ly clear speech. In an ear l ier repor t we showed that ...

background and objective: high-level gentamicin resistance (hlgr: mic ≥ 500 µg/ml) in enterococci is mediated by aminoglycoside modifying enzymes which is mainly encoded by aac(6′)-ie-aph(2′′)-ia gene. the aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of   aac(6′)-ie-aph(2′′)-ia gene in clinical isolates of enterococcus facium and enterococcus faecalis collected from hospitals in northwest of...

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The problem of finding a perfect matching in an arbitrary simple graph is well known and popular theory. It used various fields, such as chemistry, combinatorics, game theory etc. M G set pairwise nonadjacent edges, ie, those that do not have common vertices. Matching called if it covers all vertices the graph, ie each incidental to exactly one edges. By Koenig's theorem, regular bipartite grap...