The evaluation of antioxidant capacity, total phenolics, vitamin C content and identification of several phenolic acids and flavonoids was performed in the following fresh and dried herbs widely used in folk medicine throughout Slovenia and elsewhere: elder berries (Sambucus nigra L.), barberries (Berberis vulgaris L.), rowan tree berries (Sorbus aucuparia L.), coltsfoot flowers (Tussilago farf...

Afghanistan is in danger of capsizing in a perfect storm of insurgency that mimics operations and tactics witnessed in Iraq. This article assesses this insurgency and the re-emergent Taliban. The common view of the Taliban as simply a radical Afghan Islamist movement is overly simple, for that organization has been able to build on tribal kinship networks and a charismatic mullah phenomenon to ...

Many authors have attempted to model the star formation history of the universe (eg Cole et al 1994, Pei and Fall 1995) or equivalently the evolution of the starburst galaxy population (eg Franceschini et al 1991, 1994, 1997, Blain and Longair 1993, Pearson and Rowan-Robinson 1996, Guiderdoni et al 1998, Dwek et al 1998, Blain et al 1999). Most of these studies explore a small range of models d...