Plant extracts are extensively researched as a source of green corrosion inhibitors. Herein, we report on a highly efficient and thermally stable corrosion inhibitor from the stem extract of high-altitude shrub Berberis aristata. The corrosion inhibition efficiency (IE) of the extract was tested in 1.0 M H2SO4 for the corrosion protection of mild steel (MS) by using gravimetric and electrochemi...

Information extraction (IE) from semi-structured Web documents plays an important role for a variety of information agents. Over the past few years, researchers have developed a rich family of generic IE techniques based on supervised approaches which learn extraction rules from user-labelled training examples. However, annotating training data can be expensive when thousands of data sources ne...

Facklamia hominis is a rare causative organism of infective endocarditis (IE). Only few cases of infection due to F. hominis have been reported in the literature. We describe a case of IE due to Gram-positive, alpha-haemolytic, catalase-negative coccus F. hominis in an adult patient with rheumatic mitral stenosis. Isolated mitral stenosis is an uncommon valve lesion predisposing to IE. The foll...

The Relationship between Physical Preparedness and Academic Achievement among High School Students   A. A. Fallaahi, Ph.D.* M. H. Abdolaahi, Ph.D.**   In order to make the case for the need to increase the physical education hours in high school curriculum, a sample of 317 students were chosen and their physical preparedness in running, push up, and flexibility was measured usin...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) have been described using MRI in patients with cardiovascular risk factors or prior stroke and could be an indicator of small vessel disease. CMBs have been reported in isolated cases of infective endocarditis (IE), but their frequency and the association of CMBs with IE have not yet been studied. METHODS A case-control imaging study in a ref...

AIMS To investigate patterns of exposure to tobacco smoke in pregnancy among a representative sample of New Zealand women. METHODS Analyses of smoking-related data from the first wave of the Growing Up in New Zealand cohort study, ie from the first data-collection point during the antenatal period in 2009-10. RESULTS Twenty percent of mothers reporting smoking before pregnancy and 9.9% of m...