For thousands of years, medicinal herbs have been an integral part traditional medicine, since a number them exhibit potent antioxidant properties, mainly associated with their rich content in bioactive compounds. Based on these attributes, nowadays, are used for industrial purposes (e.g., as natural food additives) and also evaluated chemopreventive strategies diseases the disruption redox hom...

With the aim of gaining insight into true bugs assemblages, and of giving tools to enhance environmental manager tasks, an analysis was made of the alpha and beta diversity of true bug assemblages in the NE Iberian Peninsula. The study took place during the years 1999, 2000, and 2001. The diversity of true bug assemblages among four typical Mediterranean plant communities (dry grassland, calcic...

Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.) has traditional reputations that justify investigation for a potential role in reducing widespread cognitive decline in the elderly. A randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blinded, repeated-measures crossover study was conducted to investigate possible acute effects of dried rosemary leaf powder on cognitive performance. Twenty-eight older adults (mean age...

Maria-Isabel Milanes-Montero 1,*, Fermin Barrero-Gonzalez 1, Jaime Pando-Acedo 1, Eva Gonzalez-Romera 1, Enrique Romero-Cadaval 1 and Antonio Moreno-Munoz 2 1 Department of Electrical, Electronic and Automation Engineering, University of Extremadura, Badajoz 06006, Spain; [email protected] (F.B.-G.); [email protected] (J.P.-A.); [email protected] (E.G.-R.); [email protected] (E.R.-C.) 2 Departmen...

This investigation was carried out at the experimental farm of Medicinal and Aromatic plants Research Department, Horticulture Research, Dokki, Giza during two successive seasons of 2009/2010 and 2010/2011.The research aimed to study the effect of compost rates (2,4and 8 ton/fed) and some biofertilizers (Azotobacter Chroococcum, Bacillus megaterium, Bacillus circulanse) alone or all strains in ...

This study assessed the inhibitory effects of the essential oils (EOs) from Origanum vulgare L. (OVEO) and Rosmarinus officinalis L. (ROEO), as well as of the its majority individual constituents (ICs) carvacrol (CAR) and 1,8-cineole (CIN), respectively, combined at subinhibitory concentrations against a cocktail of Staphylococcus aureus. The Minimum inhibitory Concentration (MIC) of both OVEO ...

A variety of image artifacts are routinely observed on MRI images. We concentrate on the Gibbs Ringing that manifests itself as bright or dark rings seen at the borders of abrupt intensity change on the images. Gegenbauer High Resolution Reconstruction method has been previously shown to eliminate the undesirable ringing at the jump discontinuities in MRI. Prior work concentrated on applying th...