a comparative study was made between the acaricidal activities of some essential oils: rosemary (rosmarinus officinalis l.), lavandula (lavandula angustifolia mill.), thyme (thymus vulgaris l.) and ziziphora (ziziphora clinopodioides lam.) on the important mite pest, tetranychus cinnabarinus boisduval, the carmine spider mite, oncut roses during 2010-2012. the sublethal concentrations of ziziph...

Four essential oils in two concentrations (50 and 100%) of thyme, Thymus vulgaris; Cinnamon, Cinnamomum zeylanicum; Lemon grass, Cymbopagon flexuosus; Anise, Pimpinella anisum and formic acid (65%) were used against varroa mite, Varroa destructor infesting honey bee colonies. Results show that, formic acid and the highest concentration (100%) of tested essential oils caused effective control of...

Residual enzymatic activity in certain foods, particularly of polyphenoloxidase (PPO), is responsible for the majority of anthocyanin degradation in food systems, causing also parallel losses of other relevant nutrients. The present work explored the feasibility of modifying phenolic profiles of thyme extracts, by use of chromatographic resins, to obtain phenolic extracts capable of enhancing a...

BACKGROUND Several compounds obtained from plants have potential insecticidal, growth deterrent or repellent characteristics. The control of hard ticks by non-chemical substances was targeted in this study. METHODS The effect of 36 materials on in-vitro ticks was studied, including 2 absolute controls (water only or absolute ethyl alcohol only), 6 conventionally used spinosad preparations (aq...

Smart mobile devices are increasingly ubiquitous and are the primary source of usergenerated content, and current communication infrastructures are failing in keeping up with the rising demand for the avid sharing of such content. To alleviate this problem and fully harness the amount of resources currently available at the network edge, mobile edge paradigms started to emerge. Though, applicat...

The antimicrobial activity of essential oils extracted from a variety of aromatic plants, often used in the Portuguese gastronomy was studied in vitro by the agar diffusion method. The essential oils of thyme, oregano, rosemary, verbena, basil, peppermint, pennyroyal and mint were tested against Gram-positive (Listeria monocytogenes, Clostridium perfringens, Bacillus cereus, Staphylococcus aure...

This study was conducted to examine the effects of thyme extract and probiotic on biological growth promoters. Therefore blood thyroid hormones (T3 and T4) concentration and growth hormone (GH) gene expression were measured. 108 one-day-old Ross male broiler were randomly allocated in 3 experimental treatments including: controlunsupplemented (CTRL), birds supplemented with Zataria multiflora e...

Searches in the databases of Cochrane, EMBASE, NCCAM, NLM, DIMDI, CAMbase, and Medline and in the archives of Karger, Kluwer, Thieme, Springer, and the Merkurstab reveal only few specific data on skin infections in the neonatal period [1–3]. Knowledge about the treatment of these skin infections partly derives from the treatment of contagious impetigo of the older child [4–6]. The national and ...

Essential oils from anise, hyssop, thyme, ginger, camomile and sandalwood were screened for their inhibitory effect against herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) in vitro on RC-37 cells using a plaque reduction assay. Genital herpes is a chronic, persistent infection spreading efficiently and silently as sexually transmitted disease through the population. Antiviral agents currently applied for t...

We present a neural architecture for containment relation identification between medical events and/or temporal expressions. We experiment on a corpus of deidentified clinical notes in English from the Mayo Clinic, namely the THYME corpus. Our model achieves an F-measure of 0.613 and outperforms the best result reported on this corpus to date.