ETHNO PHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Plants have been the most important natural resources for traditional medicine and for the modern pharmaceutical industry. They have been in demand in regards to finding alternative medicinal herbs with similar efficacy. Due to the very low probability of discovering useful compounds by random screening, researchers have advocated for using targeted selection app...

We study the problem of imposing conversational goals/keywords on open-domain agents, where agent is required to lead conversation a target keyword smoothly and fast. Solving this enables application agents in many real-world scenarios, e.g., recommendation psychotherapy. The dominant paradigm for tackling 1) train next-turn classifier, 2) keyword-augmented response retrieval model. However, ex...

after the boom of pharmacological research during the 1950s, mainly as a result of the screening technique, the identification of active molecules, their reshaping by means of pharmaco-chemical drug design, and the creation of extremely efficacious and successful medicines, the pharmaceutical world sought a new source of inspiration. such biota as the tropical forest, a quantity of plants credi...

abstract background: abdominal tumors are still a diagnostic problem in children. this study was conducted to assess the presentation and types of childhood intra abdominal tumors in children in shiraz. materials and methods: participants of this historical cohort study consisted of 298 children aged between 1.5 months to 15 years old who were diagnosed with abdominal mass between march 2003 an...

objective: himalayan mountain populations have been dependent upon indigenous plant resources for their health care for many years. tribal women are interested in use of local herbs for cosmetic purposes. the present work is based on the results of research conducted on cosmetic uses of some important plants by the tribal women in district poonch, azad kashmir pakistan. materials and methods: a...

Queries in literature search engines are usually conducted on metadata derived from scientific publications. The search engine LIVIVO holds a corpus of 63 Million life science publications. About 25 Million publications in LIVIVO are taken from PubMed that have annotations with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). The other publications have heterogeneous keyword annotations. Hence, a workflow is d...