Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) can lead to lower urinary tract symptoms. Rape pollen is an apicultural product that is composed of nutritionally valuable and biologically active substances. The aim of the present study was to investigate the protective effect of rape pollen supercritical CO2 fluid extract (SFE-CO2) in BPH development using a testosterone-induced BPH rat model. BPH was induc...

A new evaluation method is presented that employs cut sequence set (CSS) to analyze fault trees. A cut sequence is a set of basic events that fail in a specific order that can induce top event. CSS is the aggregate of all the cut sequences in a fault tree. The paper continues its former researches on CSS and uses CSS, composed of sequential failure expressions (SFE), to represent the occurrence...

We show that there is a computational primitive which can be used (in a blackbox manner) to securely implement certain 3-party SFE tasks which do not have secure protocols otherwise, but is “useless” for any finite, deterministic 2-party SFE: that is, the only finite, deterministic 2-party SFE that have a secure protocol using this primitive are those which have a secure protocol unconditionall...

Secure Function Evaluation (SFE) protocols are very hard to design, and reducibility has been recognized as a highly desirable property of SFE protocols. Informally speaking, reducibility (sometimes called modular composition) is the automatic ability to break up the design of complex SFE protocols into several simpler, individually secure components. Despite much effort, only the most basic ty...

The mode of action of spent coffee grounds supercritical fluid CO2 extract (SFE) in melanogenesis has never been reported. In the study, the spent coffee grounds were extracted by the supercritical fluid CO2 extraction method; the chemical constituents of the SFE were investigated by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The effects of the SFE and its major fatty acid components on mela...

A supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) method has been developed for the extraction of lipids in bilberry. Experimental design was used to optimize pressure, temperature and extraction time using CO2 as solvent. Best SFE condition for total lipids was 450 bar, 60 °C and 45 min. The SFE method was compared to conventional Bligh & Dyer (B&D) extraction. The amount of fatty acid methyl esters (FAM...