Web services require XML formatted data. Human translation of business information from the rapidly expanding volume of documents to XML is labor-intensive and impractical. Computer programs can be built to extract domain-specific facts from web documents and convert them into an XML format. With a continual feed of web articles, such a system could be used to maintain an up-to-date XML knowled...

Human placental extract is used in the treatment of skin wrinkles and wounds. To date, no studies have evaluated the effects of placental extract on dermal fibroblast proliferation. To investigate the effects of placental extract versus ascorbic acid on fibroblast proliferation and transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta1 expression, cultured human fibroblasts were treated with placental extract ...

Under the APA (5 U.S.C. 551–553) our normal practice is to publish policies with a 30-day delay in effective date. In this case, however, we use the ‘‘good cause’’ exemption under 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(3) to make this rule effective upon publication. This rule relieves a restriction, and it is not in the public interest to delay its effective date. We believe that another nontoxic shot option likely ...

The amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) technique was applied to identify palm varieties. Fluorescence labelled primers were used in selective amplifications and the amplified fragments were detected on capillary gel electrophoresis using an automated DNA sequencer with the analysis fragment option. This is a rapid and efficient technique for detecting a large number of DNA markers on...

New primer pairs of genomic DNA microsatellite markers were tested to assess the genetic diversity of eleven date palm genotypes. The results indicated that out of thirty, only seven primers (23.3%) failed to amplify the expected PCR fragments, while thirteen primers (43.3%) amplified monomorphic banding patterns and the remaining ten primers (33.4%) generated polymorphic banding patterns. A to...

In 2011, the FIGO classification system (PALM-COEIN) was published to standardize terminology, diagnostic and investigations of causes of abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB). According to FIGO new classification, in the absence of structural etiology, the formerly called "dysfunctional uterine bleeding" should be avoided and clinicians should state if AUB are caused by coagulation disorders (AUB-C)...

Pure cultures of a gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium, which produced endospores after 3 to 5 days on solid medium, were isolated exclusively from tissue cultures of the date palm Phoenix dactylifera L. Electron microscopic examination of thin sections of the bacteria revealed the bilayer membrane typical of gramnegative bacteria and confirmed the nature of the spores as true endospores. Bioch...

Keeping an up-to-date overview of the knowledge and skills available in an organization is a difficult task. Looking at this problem we propose the use of data, that already exists in the organization’s information systems, as a means to keep user knowledge profiles up to date. To extract the required information from these information systems, we suggest the use of process mining. We illustrat...

An introductory note of the talk on cosmology. Some of the text are copied from the talk by G. Lazarides, http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/9904502v2.pdf. As of the date: May 29, 2012.