an academic title. Tesla was an autodidact. He started to read many works, memorizing whole books. Specialists supposed that T. had a photographic memory. In his autobiography he tells that many times he experienced detailed moments of inspiration. Since his childhood, T. was stricked by halucinations accompanied frequently by blinding flashes of light. Much of the effects of this peculiar affl...

Strong antioxidant activity of Pelargonium graveolens is well known. The question addressed in this study was whether different concentrations of exogenous ascorbic acid (AsA) and iron (Fe) were able to influence antioxidant activity and total phenol content (TPC) of geranium. Thus, three levels of Fe (0, 20 and 40 µM) and three levels of AsA (0, 1 and 2 mM) in nutrient solution were c...

Apple consumption is related to the prevention of chronic diseases due to the presence of phenolic acids and flavonoids that have antioxidant capacity. However, phenolic profile and antioxidant capacity can vary between varieties. The aim of this study was to analyze the total phenolic content (TPC) and antioxidant capacity (AC) of thirty-six apple varieties to establish a classification of the...

TWIST1, a transcription factor, plays a pivotal role in cancer initiation and progression. Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) is one of the deadliest human malignancies; TWIST1 is overexpressed in ATC and increases thyroid cancer cell survival, migration and invasion. The molecular mechanisms underlying the effects of TWIST1 are partially known. Here, using miRNome profiling of papillary thyroi...

This study investigated the effect of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) on the proliferation of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) cells and the therapeutic effect of levothyroxine sodium (TH). PTC cells (TPC-1) were cultured using 0.1, 1.0 and 10 U/l TSH and 10-2, 10-4 and 10-6 mol/l TH. After the appropriate concentration was screened, TPC-1 cells were further divided into control group, TSH g...

Partial correlation based variable selection method was proposed for normal linear regression models by Bühlmann, Kalisch and Maathuis (2010) as a comparable alternative method to regularization methods for variable selection. This paper addresses two important issues related to partial correlation based variable selection method: (a) whether this method is sensitive to normality assumption, an...

Kurzfassung: Objekt-relationale Datenbanksysteme (ORDBS) bieten heute zahlreiche Erweiterungsmöglichkeiten. Über Erweiterungsschnittstellen ist es möglich, Teile der sonst in der separaten Anwendung vorhandenen Funktionalität in das ORDBS zu integrieren. Mittlerweile lassen sich sogar komplette Anwendungsdienste in Form eines Servers in das ORDBS integrieren, um so eine datennahe Verarbeitung z...

the current study was assigned to evaluate the total phenol, total flavonoid content (tpc, tfc) and antioxidant properties of extracts from the aerial parts of scrophularia frigida (s. frigida). extracts were also tested by preliminary phytochemical screening as well as cytotoxic activity against artemia salina, mcf-7 (human breast carcinoma) and sw-480 (colon carcinoma) and l-929 (normal) cell...