BACKGROUND Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent mental health condition in Australia. In addition, there are many people who experience problematic anxiety symptoms who do not receive an anxiety disorder diagnosis but require treatment. As herbal medicine use is popular in Australia, and little is known about how adults experiencing anxiety are using these medicines, this study aimed to ide...

Subband Adaptive Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) constitutes an effective method of compensating for the frequency selective fading incurred by mobile receivers. The channel transfer function estimation error increases both as a function of the Doppler frequency and that of the subband modem mode signalling delay. This leads to a degradation of the system’s performance. In thi...

The use of herbal remedies by African farmers in the treatment of livestock diseases was investigated using a range of methods, including group interviews, structured interviews, semi-structured interviews and participant observation. The study was concerned mainly with the 'why' and 'how' of herbal remedy use among African livestock holders farming on communally-owned land in central Eastern C...

Sheng-Mai-San is a multi-component traditional Chinese herbal preparation. Due to the fact granulated additives, such as starch, carboxymethyl cellulose, lactose and raw herbal powder may alter the content of the bioactive markers in the herbal products, a developed ultra-high performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS) method was used to measure the herbal biomarke...

In this paper, symbol-by-symbol maximum likelihood (ML) detection is proposed for a cooperative diffusionbased molecular communication (MC) system. In this system, a fusion center (FC) chooses the transmitter (TX) symbol that is more likely, given the likelihood of its observations from multiple receivers (RXs), where the TX sends a common information symbol to all RXs. The transmission of a se...

The processing complexity of optimal receivers in frequency selective channels grows exponentially with the channel memory length. Linear receivers, alternatively, offer significantly less complexity with the cost of performance degradation. Such degradation can be due to not fully capturing the inherent frequency diversity or degraded coding gain. In this paper we investigate how effectively t...

Symbol-by-symbol maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoding algorithms for linear nonbinary block and convolutional codes over both extension elds GF(q = p a) and integer rings Z q are presented. Equivalent MAP decoding rules employing the dual code are given which are computationally more eecient for high-rate codes. The suitabil-ity of the proposed algorithms is demonstrated by applying them to a pa...

the prevalence of allergic diseases is high in the general population, and the high prevalence of these diseases not only leads to considerable mortality and morbidity, but also has economic importance. in this study 400 patients were evaluated in tehran and karaj cities during 1995-1998. skin prick test with stan¬dard extracts was done in patients in comparison with controls. selection of ex¬t...

BACKGROUND Infertility is a public health problem associated with devastating psychosocial consequences. In countries where infertility care is difficult to access, women turn to herbal medicines to achieve parenthood. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and factors associated with herbal medicine use by women attending the infertility clinic. METHODS This was a cross-sectio...

BACKGROUND Herbal products available to consumers in the marketplace may be contaminated or substituted with alternative plant species and fillers that are not listed on the labels. According to the World Health Organization, the adulteration of herbal products is a threat to consumer safety. Our research aimed to investigate herbal product integrity and authenticity with the goal of protecting...