BACKGROUND Emerging evidence suggests that an increased arginase activity is involved in vascular dysfunction in experimental animals. Zingiber officinale Roscoe, commonly known as ginger, has been widely used in the traditional medicine for treatment of diabetes. OBJECTIVES This study aimed at investigating the effects of the hydroalcoholic extract of Z. officinale on arginase I activity and...

This study aims to investigate the difference in quality of rice wine fermented with different yeasts (Saccharomyces cerevisiae FBKL2.8022 (Sc) and Wickerhamomyces anomalus FBKL2.8023 (Wa)) by adding Dendrobium officinale (D. officinale). The results showed that addition D. improved physicochemical indices sensory scores promoted release active substances from officinale. increased types conten...

The crowding of wireless band has necessitated the development of multiband and wideband wireless antennas. Because of the self similar characteristics, fractal concepts have emerged as a design methodology for compact multiband antennas. A Koch-like fractal curve is proposed to transform ultra-wideband (UWB) bow-tie into so called Koch-like sided fractal bow-tie dipole. A small isosceles trian...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to characterize anisotropy in the triangle of Koch by relating electrophysiology with anatomy. BACKGROUND Atrioventricular (AV) node fast and slow pathway characteristics have been suggested to be due to nonuniform anisotropy in the triangle of Koch. METHODS During atrial pacing, we determined the electrical activity within the triangle of Koch by mu...

Herbal plant supplements are one of the important natural growth promoters used as alternatives to commercial antibiotics. This experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of spice and Herbal plant products on the growth, carcass qualities, biochemical, Microbial Count and immune response factors in Japanese quail meat. A total of 360 fourteen-day-old Japanese quails female were randoml...

Fractal objects have some unique geometrical properties. One of them is the possibility to enclose in a finite area an infinitely long curve. The resulting curve is highly convoluted being nowhere differentiable. One such curve is the Koch curve. In this paper, the behavior the Koch monopole is numerically and experimentally analyzed. The results show that as the number of iterations on the sma...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2015.01.008 1474-0346/ 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. q Handled by W.O. O’Brien ⇑ Corresponding author at: The University of Nottingham, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Room B27 Coates Building, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK. Tel.: +44 (0) 115 84 68933. E-mail address: [email protected] (C. Koch). URL: htt...

Real-world systems in nature can be described by complex networks. It is of current interest for researchers to construct network models depicting complex systems. In this paper, the generalized Koch network is proposed, which exhibits some properties of Koch networks. Analytical expressions involving the degree distribution, clustering coefficient and average path length for the generalized Ko...

Rare studies have been performed to trace the mineral elements in Dendrobium officinale. In this study, we aim to trace the mineral elements in D. officinale collected from ten geographical locations in China. ICP-MS system was used for simultaneous determination of mineral elements. Principal component analysis was performed using the obtained data in the quantification of mineral contents. Cl...

Alimurgic species are edible wild plants growing spontaneously as invasive weeds in natural grassland and farmed fields. Growing interest in biodiversity conservation projects suggests deeper study of the multifunctional roles they can play in metal uptake for phytoremediation and their food safety when cultivated in polluted land. In this study, the responses of the tap-rooted perennial specie...