more than 12,000 alkaloids are known in plants, mostly used as medicine with a world market value of about 4 billion us$. opium poppy, papaver somniferum, is the most important economic source of morphinane alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, thebaine, narcotine and papaverine that are exploited by the pharmaceutical industry as analgesics, antitussives and anti-spasmodics. with regard to incr...

We are currently conducting experiments to discriminate more phonemes, and evaluate the performance under the constraints imposed by limited computational precision. In addition, we will evaluate the performance of the model when trained on cochleagrams of the signal, rather than DFT's. Finally, we are planning to extend the model to deal naturally with time-dependence, making use of the tempor...

Open Journal of Big Data (OJBD) is an open access journal addressing aspects of Big Data, including new methodologies, processes, case studies, poofs-of-concept, scientific demonstrations, industrial applications and adoption. This editorial presents three articles in the second issue. The first paper is on Big Data in the Cloud. The second paper is on Statistical Machine Learning in Brain Stat...

Globally, cervical cancer accounted for an estimated 528,000 new cancer cases worldwide and for 266,000 deaths in 2012. In Ethiopia, 35.9 new cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed and 22.6 die from it, per 100,000 women annually. There are many factors associated with cervical cancer in Ethiopia such as Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), cultural factors, Poverty, Coinfection and lack of awareness. ...

Pursuant to Government Code Section 12525, the California Department of Justice has death in custody information since 1980. However, due to limited resources, an annual publication on this topic has not been possible. This report provides a brief overview of the facts regarding deaths in custody in California from 1994 through 2003, with a more detailed analysis for 2003. Areas discussed inclu...

Ripple is a payment system and a digital currency which evolved completely independently of Bitcoin. Although Ripple holds the second highest market cap after Bitcoin, there are surprisingly no studies which analyze the provisions of Ripple. In this paper, we study the current deployment of the Ripple payment system. For that purpose, we overview the Ripple protocol and outline its security and...

The publication of these two very different books, indicates the increasing frankness with which the subject of homosexuality can nowadays be discussed; it is not many years since the word was practically unusable in newspaper or novel. Not unnaturally such past repression, even of discussion, has led now to some highly emotional pronouncements and illogical attitudes of our present society, wh...

My assignment at this conference is to assess where we are in high-energy physics and speculate on where we might be going. This frees me from any obligation to summarize all that went on here and allows me to talk just about those topics that interest me the most at this time. I will let my prejudices show and talk a bit about physics in general, CP violation, neutrinos, accelerators, non-acce...

Over 40 years after the first successful heart transplant in humans, it remains the treatment of choice for a selected group of patients with advanced heart failure (HF), despite the considerable progress made in HF treatment. Improved medical therapy has doubled the life expectancy of patients with HF and left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction, while in some patients cardiac resynchronizat...