carbon sequestration in soil, leaf and litter of three tree species, viz. eucalyptuscamaldulensis, prosopisjuliflora and ziziphus spina-christi, plantation was investigated in the dehloran city, iran. results showed that the amount of sequestered c in leaf, litter and soil was significantly different among these species. the highest amount of sequestrated c was in leaf and the lowest amount in ...

Zizyphus spina-christi (ZSC) fruit is a rich source of bioactive compounds but any medicinal properties in chemoprevention of colon cancer have hitherto not been studied. The aim of the present study was to examine in vivo protective effects of ZSC water extract on colon carcinogenesis in azoxymethane (AOM)-treated rats. Our results showed that ZSC significantly reduced AOM-induced colonic aber...

[1] With large volumes of data arriving in near real time from environmental sensors, there is a need for automated detection of anomalous data caused by sensor or transmission errors or by infrequent system behaviors. This study develops and evaluates three automated anomaly detection methods using dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs), which perform fast, incremental evaluation of data as they bec...

Robert Bridges OM is the only medical graduate (he was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1900) to have held the office of Poet Laureate. Educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and St Bartholomew's Hospital he practised as a casualty physician at his teaching hospital (where he made a series of highly critical remarks of the Victorian medical establish...

(Fam Med 2004;36(3):162-3.) Editor’s Note: In this month’s column, Douglas Lewis, MD, discusses how the Socratic method can be used in office-based teaching to help the learner gain new knowledge. Dr Lewis is the associate director of the Via Christi Family Practice Residency in Wichita, Kan. I welcome your comments about this feature, which is also published on the STFM Web site at www.stfm.or...

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo presentar una serie de piezas mobiliario litúrgico época fundacional del Real Colegio Seminario Corpus Christi Valencia, construido entre 1596 y 1615 fundado por el Patriarca San Juan Ribera. “Colegio Patriarca” es uno los mayores exponentes en España la puesta práctica doctrina Concilio Trento (1563) cuanto a construcción las iglesias al ajuar eclesiásti...

The Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi (BASIC) project is a population-based stroke study comparing Mexican Americans and non-Hispanic whites. Extensive effort is made to detect all patients regardless of ethnicity and ensure equal participation in the interview among both groups. We describe here the study's design and process evaluation with a focus on reducing bias in case ascertain...

Application of molecular diagnostic technology in the past 10 years has resulted in the discovery of several new species of pathogenic rickettsiae, including Rickettsia felis. As more sequence information for rickettsial genes has become available, the data have been used to reclassify rickettsial species and to develop new diagnostic tools for analysis of mixed rickettsial pathogens. R. felis ...