There is a popular belief that the lunar cycle influences spontaneous delivery in both humans and cattle. To assess this relationship, we investigated the synodic distribution of spontaneous deliveries in domestic Holstein cows. We used retrospective data from 428 spontaneous, full-term deliveries within a three-year period derived from the calving records of a private farm in Hokkaido, Japan. ...

Background and objectives: Oliveria decumbens belongs to Apiaceae family and is used in wide range of diseases such as gastrointestinal disorder. Several studies have shown that Oliveria decumbens essential oil possessed high amount of thymol and carvacrol but some other studies revealed that myristicin was one of the main components of the oil. The aim of the...

S ix patients walk into the emergency department asking for opiates while 3 code blues are announced on the PA. Someone mutters , " Damn! It must be a full moon! " The belief that the moon exerts an influence on human affairs has survived rather obstinately through history. Hippocrates wrote that " no physician should be entrusted with the treatment of disease who was ignorant of the science of...

BACKGROUND It is a common belief in medical community that lunar phases have an impact on human health. A growing body of evidence indicates that lunar phases can predict the risk to develop acute neurological and vascular disorders. The goal of present report was to present our institution data and to perform systematic review of studies examining the association of intracranial aneurysm ruptu...

The global distribution of surficial hydroxyl on the Moon is hypothesized to be derived from implantation solar wind protons. As traverses geomagnetic tail, it generally shielded wind; therefore, concentration hydrogen expected decrease during full Moon. A Monte Carlo approach used model diffusion implanted atoms in regolith as they form metastable bonds with O atoms, and subsequent degassing H...

Some years ago I visited M. F. Perutz, the Cambridge biochemist who deciphered the structure of the hemoglobin molecule. Professor Perutz showed me a series of artifacts from his 20-year struggle to unravel the twists and folds of the oxygen-carrying protein. There was an x-ray diffraction film whose symmetrical array of dots looked like a lace doily, a contour map of electron density drawn on ...