The present study compared the relative effectiveness of simple, commercially available food and non-food olfactory tasks on chocolate craving reduction. Chocolate cravings were induced by a series of coloured photographs and 67 undergraduate women were asked to smell one of three odours (green apple, jasmine, or water). The non-food odorant (jasmine) significantly reduced chocolate cravings re...

Herb teas, Arabian jasmine, Balsam pear, Barley grass, Guava, Hardy rubber tree, Japanese persimmon, Jobs tears, Oolong tea, Puerh tea and Wolofberry have been consumed as beverages for health in Asia. Oxidative stress induces various diseases. Some of them, Arabian jasmine, Guava, Hardy rubber tree, Japanese persimmon, Oolong tea and Puerh tea, have high total polyphenol content and antioxidan...

The aim of the study is to evaluated the neuroprotective effect of the red jasmine rice extract and tested the beneficial effect on memory impairments induced the rat ethylcholine mustard azirinium ion (AF64A) injection model of Alzheimer’s disease. After that the male Wistar rats were supplemented with the red jasmine rice extract at doses of 250 and 500 mg/kg BW once daily continually for 2 w...

The application of object-oriented database has only started. We applied an objeceoriented database “Jasmine* to to au automobile service document publishing system “MASCOT” and confirmed its practibility. The service material is a “hyper document” which includes logical structure and reference structure. The conventional database cannot deal with them easily. To overcome these difficulities, i...

Crosses among single-, double- and multi-petal jasmine cultivars (Jasminum sambac Aiton) are unable to easily generate hybrids. To identify the reproductive barriers restricting hybrid set, dynamic changes in jasmine pollen viability and pistil receptivity were compared at different flowering stages. Pollen-pistil interactions in six reciprocal crosses were also investigated to characterize pol...

A counter-intuitive property of many pleasant and attractive stimuli is that they are hedonically complex, containing both pleasant and unpleasant components. A striking example is the floral scent of natural jasmine, which may contain more than 6% of indole, a pure chemical which is usually rated as unpleasant. Using fMRI we investigate the hypothesis that the interaction between the pleasant ...

This thesis descnbes the research and development into the intelligent tutoring system called JASMINE (JAVA Adaptive Student Modelling In a NLP Environment). JASMINE is designed to address the ideas of adaptive and responsive, presentation and remediation in tutonng. Remediation is indicated when the confidence level of a given fragment of knowledge falls below a set mastery level. As a result,...

There are mounting concerns and evidences about climate change impacts on agriculture sector in general and on flowering plants in particular. There is also growing recognition that some degree of climate change impacts are now inexorable and almost all regions, sectors, and people are prone to climate change impacts to varying degrees [1,2]. Over the period 1951-2012, global mean surface tempe...

This research aimed at exploring eco-friendly green synthesis of CuNPs using different plant species used for purpose were Nyctanthes arbor-tristris (Night jasmine), Gardenia jasminoides (Cape Tabernaemontana divartica (Crape Cascabela thevetia (Yellow oleander), Clerodendrum inerme (Glory bower), Hibiscus rosa-sinensis (China rose) and Allamanda cathartica (Allamanda) synthesizing CuNPs. Out s...