In this study, we investigated cortical thickness and functional connectivity across longitudinal acupuncture treatments in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Over a period of four weeks (six treatments), we collected resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans from 30 patients before their first, third and sixth treatments. Clinical outcome showed a significantly grea...

Recent studies have shown that in French initial accents occur more frequently at the start of a focus domain. We investigated whether this tendency also holds when the focus domain starts with an auxiliary (since function words have a different prosodic status than content words). We therefore compared semi-spontaneous utterances in Verum Focus, which signals a contrast in response to a claim ...

OBJECTIVES Nowadays, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the major risk factors of death globally. One of the most undeniable reasons of CVDs is metabolic syndrome (MetS). MetS is defined as a complex of diseases including insulin resistance, hyperglycemia, obesity, high blood pressure and dyslipidemia. The use of complementary medicine such as traditional herbal species can be effective in trea...

In the last years intoxications after consumption of Illicium verum Hook. f. have been reported due to adulterations with I. anisatum L.. Many efforts have already been made to develop a simple method which would enable the detection of I. anisatum in powdered samples of I. verum. Since many controversial facts concerning the value of anatomic characters for differentiation have been published ...

The problem of fibring paraconsistent logics is addressed. Such logics raise new problems in the semantics of fibring since previous work assumed verum-functional models. The solution is found in a general notion of interpretation system presentation that “specifies” the intended valuations in some appropriate meta language. Fibring appears as a universal construction in the category of interpr...

Cinnamomum verum-functionalized Fe3O4 nanoparticles of 9.4 nm in size were laser transferred by matrix assisted pulsed laser evaporation (MAPLE) technique onto gastrostomy tubes (G-tubes) for antibacterial activity evaluation toward Gram positive and Gram negative microbial colonization. X-ray diffraction analysis of the nanoparticle powder showed a polycrystalline magnetite structure, whereas ...