a national newspaper in the UK, the Sunday Times, published a supplement purporting to demonstrate the relative performances of British hospitals in terms of in-hospital mortality. 1 The data were supplied and promoted by a group of researchers from a leading medical school, internationally renowned for its scientific excellence. The publication attracted much public, political and media attent...

Stryphnodendron pulcherrimum (Willd.) Hochr. (Fabaceae) is a native Amazonian tree, popularly known as “barbatimão”. The stem barks of this tree are widely used in folk medicine to treat infections, cutaneous and ulcerative wounds, under the form suspension bark-derived powder. present study aimed investigate vitro antibacterial cytotoxic activities ethanolic extract S. (SPEE). Likewise, putati...

Front Cover: In article 2300008 by Dhruba J. Haloi and co-workers, chitosan/kaolin clay biocomposite films are prepared mixing an aqueous acidic solution of chitosan with various amounts kaolin followed casting them in a petri dish. These exhibit better mechanical thermal properties good water absorption capacity. significant inhibition for the growth gram-negative bacteria.

Kaolin is often used as an excipient in pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries well anticaking, bulking, absorbent, opacifying agent. It also required some with a limited number of microbial contaminations, but no study has explored the reduction these contaminant microbes based on requirements. Therefore, this aims to produce kaolin that complies contamination specifications. Several methods w...

We present the first experimental demonstration of intermittency in a granular medium. The medium consists of magnets embedded within spheres. These spheres are placed in a horizontal Petri dish where they roll by virtue of an alternating, homogenous magnetic field. Due to collisions with the wall, clustering leads to self-organization into ring pieces circulating along the wall. The intermitte...

background traditional medicines are among the oldest medicines and their extensive use in the recent years reflects the public’s interest in alternatives to conventional medicine. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the genotoxicity of dillsun herbal medicine in dna damage of rat hepatocytes compared to sodium dichromate using a comet assay technique. materials and methods male...

The adverb ”then” is among the most frequent English temporal adverbs, being also capable of filling a variety of semantic roles. The identification of anaphoric usages of ”then” is important for temporal expression resolution, while the temporal relationship usage is important for event ordering. Given that previous work has not tackled the identification and temporal resolution of anaphoric ”...