We 1 present a method for controlling autonomous agents in un-predictible environments. For this, the agent's architecture of Hayes-Roth et al. (1995) is extended regarding spontaneous goal generation and goal selection. This method seems psychologically plausible under the term motivation. In addition, its implementation exhibits attractive real-time characteristics, relating environment, agen...

Drug discovery for neglected tropical diseases is carried out using both target-based and phenotypic approaches. In this paper, target-based approaches are discussed, with a particular focus on human African trypanosomiasis. Target-based drug discovery can be successful, but careful selection of targets is required. There are still very few fully validated drug targets in neglected diseases, an...

Spontaneous histamine release from isolarted Mastcells was found to be independent of cal­cium in the concentration range up to 1 m. mole/lit. Phosphatidyl serine do not change the effect of calcium on spontaneous release. The activation of anaphyla.ctic histamine release by calcium is potentiated by phosphatidyl serine but the laitter can't do so w1th strontium.  Mastcells, pretreated with AT...

background: fillet is a popular part of chicken carcass which its high perishability is an economic problem. the present research was designed to study the microbial, chemical, and sensorial properties of chicken fillets coated by gelatin-carboxymethyl cellulose (cmc) film containing essential oil (eo) of bene (pistacia atlantica). methods: the chicken fillets were coated by gelatin-cmc film co...

musa sapientum (m.sapientum) commonly known as ‘banana’ is widely used in bangladeshi folk medicine for the treatment of various ailments including diarrhea. hence, the present study was designed to investigate antidiarrheal, antioxidant and antibacterial potential of the methanolic extract of m.sapientum seed (mmss). the extract was studied for antidiarrheal property using castor oil and magne...

a major group of drugs that have been approved for the therapy of systemic fungal infections are polyene antibiotics. amphotericin b (amb), one of the polyene antibiotics, has been used to treat serious systemic fungal infections by binding to sterols such as ergosterol in fungal cells membrane, and is believed to form pores in the membrane and create a transmembrane ion-channel. since all euka...

introduction and aims: impact of treatment on progression of fibrosis in autoimmune hepatitis (aih) is unknown. we assessed the changes in liver fibrosis before and after treatment among these patients. materials and methods: nineteen aih patients who had paired liver biopsies were studied. of these, seven had been treated with 6 months of cyclosporine-a and the rest with 6 months of prednisolo...