BACKGROUND Buddleja saligna Willd (Loganiaceae) is a small to medium-sized evergreen tree; trunk short, often gnarled and crooked; crown dense, rounded or domed-shaped; foliage greyish green. The wild olives are traditionally used to lower blood pressures in many parts of the world. In southern Africa, bark and leaf decoctions are used to treat colic, coughs, colds, sore eyes, urinary problems ...

Dialium guineese is a plant traditionally used as anticancer, antioxidant, antiulcer, antidiarrhea and heart diseases. However, the pharmacognosy of this could be more explored. Therefore, we have conducted study to assess distinctive qualities D. guineese. The leaves were extracted using ethanol, crude ethanol extract was then fractionated solvents increasing polarity (n-Hexane, ethyl acetate,...

Let / be a monotone and strictly convex (or concave) function on a real interval and let g be the inverse function. Let I(x) = x. For a real valued function and N a positive integer let (t>pf(x) denote the rounding of (x) to N significant figures. Let h = gff » fa, the composition of f^ and g^¡. It is shown that h » ft » Iff = h o h » h « Ifj, and that equality can fail for fewer iterati...

A striking demonstration that sound-object correspondences are not completely arbitrary is that adults map nonsense words with rounded vowels (e.g. bouba) to rounded shapes and nonsense words with unrounded vowels (e.g. kiki) to angular shapes (Köhler, 1947; Ramachandran & Hubbard, 2001). Here we tested the bouba/kiki phenomenon in 2.5-year-old children and a control group of adults (n =20 per ...

Under near-equilibrium growth or melt conditions, ice crystals in the melt are bounded by two parallel facets (basal planes or c-facets) and rounded surfaces between the facets. We observed such disk-shaped ice crystals perpendicularly to the c-axis in two and three dimensions, and found that the growth andmelt shapes are asymmetric. On imposition of a small driving force, a rounded crystal gre...

Corpus data from the Audio British National Corpus was used to compare the acoustics of British English stops with velar and/or labial articulation in onset positions preceding back rounded vowels. The acoustics of labialized velar stops in British English have not commonly been described due to their frequent phonological analysis as clusters. Labialized velars have been characterized cross-li...