Psoriasis is a common dermatological disease affecting up to 1-2% of the world's population. It is associated with both organic and psychosocial complications like psoriatic arthropathy, nephritis, infection, hyperuricemia, hypoproteinemia, depression, and stress, and is responsible for hindering patients' daily activities. The present study was conducted to assess the safety and efficacy of tw...

Objectives: Lantadene A (LA, 22β-angeloyloxy-3-oxoolean-12-en-28-oic acid) a pentacyclic, triterpenoid isolated from the leaves of the obnoxious weed, Lantana camara L. was evaluated for apoptosis induction in the human leukemia HL-60 cell line. Materials and Methods: The effect of LA on cell proliferation of HL-60 cancer cells was determined by using the MTT assay. The morphological effects of...

Since their earliest days, databases have held themselves to a strict invariant: Never give the user a wrong answer. So ingrained into psyche of database theoreticians, researchers, and DBAs is this invariant, that those few attempts to violate it have included cumbersome data models [3,7,8], huge warning signs [4], or obnoxious language constructs that break classical SQL [1,5]. Sadly, by focu...

Consumer acceptance of manufactured frozen "heat and serve" foods has produced a fast growing industry. Mass processing of these foods brings about various problems of a microbiological nature on the production, distribution, and retail level. Many segments of the industry have developed adequate quality control measures for flavor, physical appearance, stability, and wholesomeness. Slocum (195...

A junior doctor who acted in the best interests of his patient as he saw it has found himself before a criminal court, suspended, and subjected to a trust inquiry and a future General Medical Council hearing. Such multiple jeopardy is unreasonable. Obstetricians condemned these actions, and the patient was quoted as saying, “I am concerned about being labelled as the first woman in the UK invol...

. . . Mr. C, diagnosed as brain-damaged and schizophrenic . . . gradually became more and more unmanageable . . . continually disrupting ward routine, both by provoking other patients and by directly plaguing the staff with demands. Mr. C's rehabilitation and psychotherapy were retarded because of his direct lack of motivation as well as the staff's unwillingness to have anything to do with him...

BACKGROUND Transient receptor potential vanilloid type 1 (TRPV1) is a cation channel activated by diverse obnoxious stimuli like capsaicin, low pH or heat. Recently, it was revealed that TRPV1 might be deeply associated with skin permeability barrier function, suggesting that modulation of TRPV1 might be beneficial for the skin disorders with barrier damages. OBJECTIVE We aimed to investigate...

In managing our way through interpersonal conflict, anger might be crucial in determining whether the dispute escalates to aggressive behaviors or resolves cooperatively. The Ultimatum Game (UG) is a social decision-making paradigm that provides a framework for studying interpersonal conflict over division of monetary resources. Unfair monetary UG-offers elicit anger and while accepting them en...

Suppose a firm has a widespread reputation for sexually harassing its workers (or it follows the practice of telling workers that if they wish to work for the firm they must be prepared for sexual harassment). When a worker offers to work for such a firm and is accepted, there is, therefore, a Pareto improvement. Is there a case for banning such 'contractual' sexual harassment? This paper argue...

Since the emergence of the civilization, poverty has been a big challenge and in present time, it is a worldwide spread problem. Poverty is an obnoxious situation when people are deprived from access to many things but most common of these are longevity (long and healthy life) health (adequate levels of health), nutrition (food), shelter (adequate housing), clothing, education, literacy, knowle...