The effects of a rose-flower extract, Rosa damascena, on the mortality rate of Drosophila melanogaster was evaluated in this study. R. damascena is a potent antioxidant that has many therapeutic uses in addition to its perfuming effects. Supplementing Drosophila with this rose extract resulted in a statistically significant decrease in mortality rate in male and female flies. Moreover, the obse...

Cyclically Indecomposable Triple Systems that are Decomposable Martin Grüttmüller Institut für Mathematik, Universität Rostock In this talk, we construct, by using Skolem-type and Rosa-type sequences, cyclically indecomposable two-fold triple systems TS2(v) for all admissible orders. We also investigate exhaustively the cyclically indecomposable triple systems TSλ(v) for λ = 2, v ≤ 33 and λ = 3...

Fecal samples from 155 mantled howling monkeys (Alouatta palliata palliata) examined at Centro Ecologico La Pacifica, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, revealed 75 (48%) had parasitic infections. A sampling of nine howling monkeys from Santa Rosa National Park. Costa Rica indicated only one infected animal (11%). Only three of 19 (16%) spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) also from Santa Rosa were ...

Mechanisms of Deep Brain Stimulation for the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease: Evidence from Experimental and Computational Studies by Rosa Qi Yue So Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Warren M. Grill, Supervisor ___________________________ Roger C. Barr ___________________________ Craig S. Henriquez __________...

In spite of that Chinese species of the genus Omalus Panzer, 1801 were recently revised by Wei et al. (2014), the study of more material has revealed the presence of other four species: two of them are new, O. corrugatus Rosa, Wei & Xu, sp. nov. (China, Guangdong) and O. hainanensis Rosa, Wei & Xu, sp. nov. (China, Hainan); the other two are newly recorded from China, O. stella (Semenov & Nikol...

Treatment of mice with crude extract of Hibiscus rosa sinensis flowers (500 mg/kg BW) and Bougainvillea spectabilis leaves (800 mg/kg BW) for a period of 30 days indicates a significant increase in the level of hemoglobin and count of RBC but a significant decline in the level of MCH and MCV in the former case. On the other hand, in B. spectabilis treated animals, the level of hemoglobin, RBC c...