Background: Oleuropein (OE) is the most abundant biophenol compounds in olive leaves and its healthy effects as a strong antioxidant is well known. The oleuropein level in olives depends upon cultivated variety, climate, place, time and the method of extraction. In Lorestan province, many varieties of olive have been cultivated that the study of OE level in their leaves, as whilst sources of th...

Fourier transform Raman spectroscopy combined with pattern recognition has been used to discriminate olives of different qualities. They included samples of sound olives, olives with frostbite, olives that have been collected from the ground, fermented olives, and olive samples with diseases. Milled olives were measured in a dedicated sample cup, which was rotated during spectrum acquisition. A...

BACKGROUND This study examines differences in the factors female and male physicians considered influential in their rural practice location choice and describes the practice arrangements that successfully recruited female physicians to rural areas. METHODS This cross-sectional study was based on a mailed survey of physicians successfully recruited between 1992 and 1999 to towns of 10,000 or ...

In this study, it was aimed to compare the antioxidant properties of extracts obtained from extraction olive leaves in Hatay province prepared with different solvents. For purpose, were extracted using pure methyl alcohol soxhlet and also by maceration 60% ethanol, 70% methanol, 90% acetone (v/v) distilled water. Total Flavonoid Content (TFC), Phenolic (TPC), Ferric Antioxidant Reducing Power (...

Assumptions about the importance of mothers’ time for children’s healthy development permeate policy debates over child care, maternal employment, and family leave. Studies consistently show that mothers’ time in particular activities with children relate positively to indicators of child well-being, but results are more mixed regarding associations between child outcomes and the sheer amount o...

We describe trends in maternal employment and leave-taking after birth of a newborn and analyze the extent to which these behaviors are influenced by parental leave policies. Data are from the June Current Population Survey (CPS) Fertility Supplements, merged with other months of the CPS, and cover the period 1987 to 1994. This time span is one during which parental leave legislation expanded a...

abstract planting of olive (olea europaea l.) tree due to salt and drought tolerance and ever green habit increasingly is considered in urban landscape in recent years. the low resistance to cold has been a major problem in using this tree in temperate and cold zones. so, determination of frost resistance cultivars is one of the important measures for use of this tree in urban landscape. to eva...

Background: It was shown that olive leave extract has antifungal, antibacterial and antiviral activities. The effects of OLE on herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) have not been systematically investigated yet. The aim of this study was to examine the in vitro effect of olive leaf hydroalcoholic extract (OLHE) on HSV-1. Methods: Virucidal effect and viral replication in Vero cell line were studied i...

Increasing the level of urea and uric acid is an associated complication of diabetes mellitus. Many spices and herbs are known to be hypoglycaemic. Olea europaea belonging to the family oleaceae is widely used in herbal medicine for the treatment of diabetes. The present study was carried out to investigate the role of the alcoholic extract from leaves of olive on level of urea and uric acid in...