Poppy, a plant belonging to the papaveraceae family, is source of opium.It that blooms. It has sedative, somniferous, and neurotoxic properties in addition being cerebrally poisonous. Due its nature, opium causes variety adverse effects, including anxiety, seizures, hallucinations, sleepiness, giddiness, many more. In order create various types analgesic medications cure pain promote sleep, thi...

This is a critical review of the paper “An Airway Tree-shape Model for Geodesic Airway Branch Labeling” written by Feragen et. al. [1]. This paper presents a method for airway branch labeling by computing geodesic deformations between mathematical airway tree-shape models. The authors claim that the labeling results are good taking the large variation in the training set into account. Even thou...

This critical review of B.J. Fogg’s book Persuasive Technology regards captology as an eclectic and formative work. It summarises two other reviewers’ work and identifies several new strengths. It scrutinises Fogg’s functional triad computers functioning as tools, media and social actors and some categorical changes are recommended. It investigates further Johnson’s concerns about specific ethi...

During the next three decades, the world population is expected to increase from 6.1 billion to 8.1 billion, with nearly all of this growth concentrated in urban areas (from 2.9 billion to 4.9 billion). While only 30% of the world population lived in urban areas in 1950, this has increased to 47% by 2000 and is expected to reach 60% by 2030, of which 80% (3.9 million) will be living in less dev...

In this paper both the mechanistic and kinetic aspects of furfural formation from pentoses in aqueous acidic media have been reviewed. Based on the reviewed literature, a comprehensive reaction mechanism has been proposed consisting of more than one route, all starting from acyclic xylose, and involving alternately 1,2-enolization, β-elimination or isomerization via 1,2-hydride shift as key ste...

Background Communication problems are a common sequela of cerebrovascular disease and other central nervous system disorders. Behavioral treatment of these disorders aims to harness uninjured parts of the brain to improve the communicative life of the individual. While pharmacotherapy has held promise for the treatment of aphasia for over 50 years, it has not fulfilled this promise. This articl...

Through catalytic epoxidation and aziridination of olefins versatile synthetic intermediates and subunits of biologically active compounds and pharmaceuticals –epoxides and aziridines– can be obtained. The focus of this review is on recent advances in the epoxidation and aziridination of challenging terminal alkenes with respect to safety of solvents or reagents used and atom economy aspects, a...

Within recent years, there has been an increasing interest in purified digitalis preparations. However, in spite of the original optimistic reports , the recent literature tends to discredit the value of the new preparations. Most criticisms fall into two groups: (A) Inadequacy of digitali-zation with the original recommended dosage schedules. (B) Increase in the incidence of drug toxicity. It ...

In this talk I review some recent applications of NRQCD. I first discuss the unquenched NRQCD lattice extractions of the strong coupling constant, paying particular attention to the recent advances in reducing systematic errors. I then discuss the progress made in testing the NRQCD/factorization formalism for onium production. In particular, I gather the evidence, or lack thereof, for the unive...