Induction of growth hormone (GH) by Glycyrrhizae Radix (GR), one of the most popular herbal medicine, and its major ingredients were studied in rat pituitary cells in vitro and in vivo assay. The MeOH extract and the n-hexane (HX) fraction of GR induced rat GH (rGH) release up to 1.89 times (0.34 +/- 0.04 nM) and 4.59 times (0.83 +/- 0.03 nM), compared to the basal level (p < 0.05). Among many ...

We present an algorithm for approximating a given open polygonal curve with a minimum number of circular arcs. In computer-aided manufacturing environments, the paths of cutting tools are usually described with circular arcs and straight line segments. Greedy algorithms for approximating a polygonal curve with curves of higher order can be found in the literature. Without theoretical bounds it ...

We investigate if the mapping between text and time series data is feasible such that relevant data mining problems in text can find their counterparts in time series (and vice versa). As a preliminary work, we present the T (Text To T ime series) framework that utilizes different combinations of granularity (e.g., character or word level) and n-grams (e.g., unigram or bigram). To assign approp...

By using high-performance liquid chromatography, the metabolism and pharmacokinetics of difloxacin were characterized in humans after single oral doses of 200, 400, and 600 mg. Group mean peak levels in plasma were obtained 4 h after administration. The means of the individual peak levels for the 200-, 400-, and 600-mg groups were 2.17, 4.09, and 6.12 micrograms/ml, respectively. The mean respe...

We discuss Chapter 6 from Silverman & Tate’s Rational Points on Elliptic Curves, in which the authors outline a means of proving Kronecker’s Jugendtraum for Q and Q(i). One considers C[n], the kernel of the multiplication-by-n map on an elliptic curve C. After defining the number field Q(C[n]), we examine instances in which its Galois group over a field K is abelian. For the elliptic curve

Let X be a smooth projective curve over C, and let M X be the moduli space of stable Higgs bundles on X (with genus g > 1), with rank n and fixed determinant ξ, with n and deg(ξ) coprime. Let X ′ and ξ′ be another such curve and line bundle. We prove that if M X and M n,ξ X are isomorphic as algebraic varieties, then X and X ′ are isomorphic.

Effects of morphine and 2 N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists, phencyclidine and LY235959, were studied using a within-subject, repeated-acquisition/performance procedure adapted to the Morris Swim Task. In the performance component, subjects swam to a hidden platform that was always in the same location in the pool. In the acquisition component, the platform was moved to a differe...

‎In a (t,n)-threshold secret sharing scheme‎, ‎a secret s is distributed among n participants such that any group of t or more participants can reconstruct the secret together‎, ‎but no group of fewer than t participants can do‎. In this paper, we propose a verifiable (t,n)-threshold multi-secret sharing scheme based on Shao and Cao‎, ‎and the intractability of the elliptic curve discrete logar...

The technique of Weil restriction of scalars has signiicant implications for elliptic curve cryptography. In this paper we apply these ideas to the case of the discrete logarithm problem in the Jacobian of a curve of genus greater than one over a nite eld F q n where n > 1.

varieties of st. john’s wort (hypericum perforatum l.) native to iran possess the largest percentage of hypercin in their leaves and flowers. isotherm curves show the relationship between the relative humidity and moisture content of the plant at a constant temperature. it is essential to understand the isotherms curves for successful storage and drying of the plant. this study used adsorption ...