cosmos caudatus is widely used as a traditional medicine in southeast asia. c. caudatus has been reported as a rich source of bioactive  compounds such as ascorbic acid, quercetin, and chlorogenic acid. studies have shown that c. caudatus exhibits high antioxidant capacity and various medicinal properties, including anti-diabetic activity, anti-hypertensive properties, anti-infl ammatory respon...

adult-onset still’s disease (aosd) is a rare systemic inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology. there is not currently any specific serological markers for aosd , and  diagnosis still relying on the exclusion of other likely diagnoses. yamaguchi’s criteria are used as a diagnostic criterion which contains negative serologic markers for other collagen vascular diseases including systemic lupus ...

nigella sativa has attracted healers in ancient civilizations and researchers in recent times. traditionally, it has been used in different forms to treat many diseases including asthma, hypertension, diabetes, inflammation, cough, bronchitis, headache, eczema, fever, dizziness and influenza. experimentally, it has been demonstrated that n. sativa extracts and the main constituent of their vola...

Abstract This article examines the work of Mexican diplomat and jurist Jorge Castañeda as an insight into trajectory international legal thought in semi-periphery on organizations. It argues that adopted a distinct approach to organizations law foregrounds power asymmetries. The considers three interventions made by express this semi-peripheral have lasting relevance. First, it shows how, focus...

[Two notes from “Americanism and Fordism”] Antonio Gramsci’s work Quaderni del carcere , his “Prison Notebooks”, consolidated fame influenced generations of Marxists. The short extract published here in Swedish translation for the first time consists two “prison notes”, second “paragraph” notebook Fordism”. Here, Gramsci analyzes contemporary capitalist development after First World War, especi...

Realism is a painting style that began with Millet and Courbet in politically convulsed France in the middle of the nineteenth century. In the second half of that century, the pragmatic and democratic tradition of the United States fostered the careers of many realist painters, including that of Thomas Eakins. Eakins, trained in France, developed his career completely associated with Philadelph...

The Tea Party (TP), whose candidates made significant gains in the 2010-midterm elections, lacks a place in the comparative party literature and also defies ready classification. Is it solely a movement to reduce the size of government and cut taxes as its name – some refer to it as the Taxed Enough Already party – implies? Or do its supporters share a broader set of conservative positions on s...

THEidea of publicly recognizing an important milestone in the life of Mack Walker’s book German Home Towns, which appeared in 1971, goes back to January 2011 when David Luebke and Yair Mintzker put out a call for papers to discuss “German Home Towns—Forty Years Later” at the upcoming meeting of the German Studies Association (GSA) in Louisville, Kentucky.1 The robust response to their call conf...