Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge, which is also known as a traditional Chinese herbal medicine, is widely studied for its ability to accumulate the diterpene quinone Tanshinones. In addition to producing a variety of diterpene quinone, S. miltiorrhiza Bunge also accumulates sterol, brassinosteroid and triterpenoids. During their biosynthesis, squalene synthase (SQS, EC 2.5.1.21) converts two molecules...

BACKGROUND Insomnia is an often seen primary health care problem. Valerian might be an alternative treatment with fewer secondary effects. The aim of this study is to evaluate its effectiveness on insomnia through a meta-analysis of published literature. METHODS Search for randomized clinical trials (RCTs) of Valerian preparations compared with a placebo on Medline, the Cochrane Library, Emba...

Squaraine dyes are considered an important group of photoactive materials in the field of organic photovoltaic devices. In this work, we purposely tuned the side chains and number of hydroxyl (OH) groups in a series of squaraine (SQ) dyes, i.e., SQ1−4, to investigate the effect of structural variations on the material properties as well as the performance of these dyes as donor materials in bul...

Physical activity in hot environments can increase the risk of heat stress or heat stroke in dogs. Heat tolerance is influenced by acclimatization to the environment, physical fitness, and hydration state. Three common strategies to promote hydration in working dogs are free access to water (W), oral electrolyte solutions (OESs), and administration of subcutaneous fluids (SQs). None of these me...

The exponential growth of data and application complexity has brought new challenges in the distributed computing field. Scientific applications are growing more diverse with various workloads, including traditional MPI high performance computing (HPC) to fine-grained loosely coupled many-task computing (MTC). Traditionally, these workloads have been shown to run well on supercomputers and high...

BACKGROUND The dried root of Polygala tenuifolia, named Radix Polygalae, is a well-known traditional Chinese medicine. Triterpenoid saponins are some of the most important components of Radix Polygalae extracts and are widely studied because of their valuable pharmacological properties. However, the relationship between gene expression and triterpenoid saponin biosynthesis in P. tenuifolia is u...

A Steiner quadruple system SQS(16) is a pair (V,B) where V is a 16-set of objects and B is a collection of 4-subsets of V , called blocks, so that every 3-subset of V is contained in exactly one block. By classical is meant the boolean quadruple system, also known as the affine geometry AG(4,2). A parallel class is a collection of four blocks which partition V . The system possesses a resolutio...

Muito se sabe que as condições, a idade e execução das calçadas do Plano Piloto de Brasília ainda estão muito aquém necessidades locomoção deslocamento vislumbrados nos manuais técnicos. Pensando nisso, o objetivo desse estudo foi fazer um levantamento patológico dos materiais compõem interligam quadras SQS 316 à 302 demonstrar como precariedade daquele piso afeta diretamente os pedestres, em e...

This paper describes a new reconstruction method for digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT). The new method incorporates detector blur into the forward model. The detector blur introduces correlation in the measurement noise. We formulate it as a regularized quadratic optimization problem with data-fit term that accounts for the non-diagonal noise covariance matrix. By making a few assumptions base...

As one of the most important test of China, Gaokao is designed to be difficult enough to distinguish the excellent high school students. In this work, we detailed the Gaokao History Multiple Choice Questions(GKHMC) and proposed two different approaches to address them using various resources. One approach is based on entity search technique (IR approach), the other is based on text entailment a...