Gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) were employed to determine the chemical composition of the essential oil (EO) from aromatic water (AW) of Zataria multiflora. Thymol (66.9%), carvacrol (15.2%), and carvone (7.3%) were found to be the major EO constituents. Eighty laboratory BALB/c mice were infected intraperitoneally by injection of 1,500 viable protoscol...

INTRODUCTION An early diagnosis of Intensive Care Unit-acquired weakness (ICU-AW) using muscle strength assessment is not possible in most critically ill patients. We hypothesized that development of ICU-AW can be predicted reliably two days after ICU admission, using patient characteristics, early available clinical parameters, laboratory results and use of medication as parameters. METHODS ...

The roles of the alveolar and systemic CO₂ on the lung mechanics were investigated in dogs subjected to cardiopulmonary bypass. Low-frequency pulmonary impedance data (Z(L)) were collected in open-chest dogs with an alveolar CO₂ level (FA(CO₂)) of 0.2-7% and during systemic hypercapnia before and after elimination of the vagal tone. Airway resistance (R(aw)), inertance (I(aw)), parenchymal damp...

A striking signal of dark matter beyond the standard model is the existence of cores in the centre of galaxy clusters. Recent simulations predict that a Brightest Cluster Galaxy (BCG) inside a cored galaxy cluster will exhibit residual wobbling due to previous major mergers, long after the relaxation of the overall cluster. This phenomenon is absent with standard cold dark matter where a cuspy ...

Individual and combined effects of aw and incorporation of selected concentrations of Mexican oregano essential oil on the time to growth (TTG) of Aspergillus niger intentionally inoculated into dried tomatoes were studied during storage at 25°C for 100 days. For aw 0.96, 1,000 ppm of Mexican oregano essential oil inhibited A. niger growth during 100 days, whereas 500 ppm were sufficient at aw ...

It is shown that the concepts of AW*-algebras and their types are the same both in the ordinary universe and in Scott's and Solovay's Boolean valued universe of ZFC set theory. Using this transfer principle, it is proved that a finite AW*-algebra has a centre-valued trace if and only if its centre is the range of a faithful norm one projection.

KRYSTYNA MICHALAK* , ANDRZEJ B. HENDRICH, OLGA WESOł OWSKA, ANDRZEJ POł A, BARBARA ł ANIA-PIETRZAK, NOBORU MOTOHASHI, YOSHIAKI SHIRATAKI and JOSEPH MOLNAR Department of Biophysics, Wroc–aw Medical University, Wroc–aw, Poland, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Meiji Pharmaceutical University, Tokyo, Japan, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Josai University, Keyakidai, Sakado, Saitama, Japan, ...