Spices and herbal vegetables have long been traditionally used in habitual diets in tropical regions including Thailand. They contain not only essential nutrients but also are rich in various phytochemicals such as polyphenols, terpenes, alkaloids and phenolic acids, etc. The purified or crude extracts from some plants have been demonstrated to play a vital role in prevention and treatment of s...

Graz University of Technology, Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, Petersgasse 12, A6 8010 Graz, Austria; Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI), Messeweg 11, D-38104 Braunschweig, 7 Germany, Kawanda Agricultural Research Institute, National Banana Research Program, 8 Uganda; Makerere University, Department of Agricultural Production, College of 9 Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Uganda and B...

Production scheduling is the process of allocating the resources and then sequencing of task to produce goods. Allocation and sequencing decision are closely related and it is very difficult to model mathematical interaction between them. The allocation problem is solved first and its results are supplied as inputs to the sequencing problem. High quality scheduling improves the delivery perform...

Much controversy still seems to surround the role of molecular data in general, and DNA barcoding in particular, within the taxonomic community. This has lead to numerous “call and response” pairs of papers, most recently Ebach (2011) and Mitchell (2011), but preceded by many other pairs, such as Packer et al. (2009) and Hołyński (2010). There have been numerous calls for a more “integrative” a...

A fast-growing theoretical literature on the political economy of reform has provided a sizable collection of models that have deepened our understanding concerning how distributional conflict manifests itself in the political process and can prevent efficiency-enhancing economic reform from taking place (see e.g., Allan Drazen [2000 Ch. 10, 13] for an insightful review). Unfortunately, systema...

9 Country Comparisons of Human Stroke Research Since 2001 A Bibliometric Study Kjell Asplund, MD; Marie Eriksson, PhD; Olle Persson, PhD (Stroke. 2012;43:830-837.)

Comparative Performance of Multi-view Stereoscopic and Mammographic Display Modalities for Breast Lesion Detection by Lincoln Jon Webb Medical Physics Graduate Program Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Ehsan Samei, Supervisor ___________________________ Joseph Lo ___________________________ Sua Yoo An abstract of a thesis submitted in partial ful...