OBJECTIVE Crude preparations of Fun-boi (Stephania tetrandra), a traditional antirheumatic herb, have been reported to have immunomodulatory effects on both cell-mediated and humoral immunity in vitro, but little is known about the mode of action in vivo. The objective of this study was therefore to evaluate the efficacy of Fun-boi against arthritis and its effect on the immune system. METHOD...

Barbara Zwi knagl1 and Robert S haba k2 Abstra t: The univariate Taylor formula without remainder allows to reprodu e a fun tion ompletely from ertain derivative values. Thus one an look for Hilbert spa es in whi h the Taylor formula a ts as a reprodu tion formula. It turns out that there are many Hilbert spa es whi h allow this, and they should be alled Taylor spa es. They have ertain reprodu ...

With exergames (as with physical activity in general), more intense and longer-duration game play should accrue more health benefits. Exergames, however, appear to be played for relatively short durations, often at medium or lower intensities. Ostensibly games are played for fun or enjoyment. Enhancing the fun or enjoyment experienced during exergame play should enhance the intensity and durati...

INTRODUCTION: Anatomical marker placement reliability is an important consideration in 3D gait analysis given its influence on defining joint centers, anatomical coordinate systems (ACSs), and ultimately the resulting joint kinematic outputs. It has been postulated that gait kinematic reliability could be improved using a functional (FUN) method compared to a manual marker placement approach (M...

This paper assesses BitTorrent’s robustness against selfish peers, who try to download more than their fair share by abusing existing protocol mechanisms. We design and implement three selfish-peer exploits and evaluate their effectiveness on public and private torrents. In practice, BitTorrent appears quite robust against this kind of exploit: selfish peers can sometimes obtain more bandwidth,...

This is a combination of various notes on supersymmetry. The first half is an introduction to SUSY for beginners, while the rest of the document contains special topics that are of interest to the author.

In 2011 FUN celebrated 20 years of training tomorrow's neuroscientists today. Over the past two decades we've become an international organization of members dedicated to excellence in teaching and research at the undergraduate level. FUN has enacted its mission through our flagship journal JUNE, student travel awards, faculty awards, education workshops, and regional conferences. More recent i...

We show that the algebra and the endomotive of the quantum statistical mechanical system of Bost–Connes naturally arises by extension of scalars from the " field with one element " to rational numbers. The inductive structure of the abelian part of the endomotive corresponds to the tower of finite extensions of that " field " , while the endomorphisms reflect the Frobenius correspondences. This...