BACKGROUND Descurainia sophia seeds have a variety of pharmacological functions and been widely used in traditional folk medicine. However, their effects on human drug metabolizing enzyme (DME) activities have not been elucidated. The present study investigated the inhibitory effects of an ethanol extract of D. sophia seeds (EEDS) on human Phase I/II (DMEs) and P-glycoprotein (p-gp) in vitro. ...

Persistence provides a way of grading the importance of homological features in the sublevel sets of a real-valued function. Following the de nition given by Edelsbrunner, Morozov and Pascucci, an ε-simpli cation of a function f is a function g in which the homological noise of persistence less than ε has been removed. In this paper, we give an algorithm for constructing an ε-simpli cation of a...

The ability to quickly evaluate network protocols or infrastructure shapes on real-life scale simulations is a key factor for network researchers work. Since multi-core systems are now widely available and installed, doing multithreading parallelism is a simple but potentially efficient optimization for simulators performance, which may also be implemented so that the parallelism is completely ...

We describe here some recent developments in mesh adaption for compressible viscous inviscid ow simulation. One of the most challenging task is to capture eeciently thin layers such as boundary layers, mixing layers. Two important issues, the coupling between mesh and ow, and the use of at elements for stretching are considered in the case of deformation mesh systems. RESUME : On pr esente une ...

Background and Objectives: Production and consumption of freshly-cut fruits have been increased in recent decades.  One of the major problems in storage of freshly-cut fruits, the color change, is a result of the oxidative reactions of phenolic compounds by polyphenol oxidases. Various treatments such as coating and refrigeration are used to improve quality and shelf-life of the fresh-cut fruit...

The Romanian hamster Mesocricetus newtoni is endemic to South-Eastern Romania (Dobruja region) and North-Eastern Bulgaria, prefers steppic, arid, uncultivated habitats, but also found in alfalfa fields, less often corn cultures field-protecting vegetation belts. Previous studies provide only limited data regarding the diet of this cryptic species. one family group (one female four pups) was mon...