OBJECTIVES our study had two objectives: a) to systematically identify all existing systematic reviews of Chinese herbal medicines (CHM) published in Cochrane Library; b) to assess the methodological quality of included reviews. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We performed a systematic search of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR, Issue 5, 2010) to identify all reviews of CHM. A...

GABAergic input to Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons is necessary to initiate the onset of puberty and its action mainly depends on GABAA receptor of which the subunit composition, properties and consequently function varies during this period. Nourishing “Yin”-Removing “Fire” Chinese herb mixture, a Chinese herb-based formulation, has been proved that it may retard the initiation o...

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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has now emerged as a global public health crisis, requiring the discovery of new and novel antimicrobial compounds, that may be precursors future therapeutic antibiotics. Chinese Herbal Medicine (CHM) comes with rich pedigree holistic empirical usage in Asia for last 5000 years. Extracts Anemarrhena asphodeloides Bunge, Angelica sinensis (Oliv.) Diels, Dianthus su...

OBJECTIVES To determine epidemiological characteristics and clinical presentation of complete hydatidiform mole (CHM) and complications associated with prophylactic chemotherapy with oral methotrexate. SETTING Mulago hospital, Kampala. DESIGN Prospective study. METHODS Ninety-four patients with clinically and histologically confirmed complete hydatidiform mole admitted between 1/9/1995 an...

This paper highlights several approaches to segment and reconstruct trees from LIDAR data and compares the results acquired both from first/last pulse and full waveform data. In a first step, we set up a conventional watershed based segmentation procedure, which robustly interpolates the CHM from the LIDAR data and finds possible stem positions of the tallest trees in the segments calculated fr...

Digital aerial photogrammetry has recently attracted great attention in forest inventory studies, particularly in countries where airborne laser scanning (ALS) technology is not available. Further research, however, is required to prove its practical applicability in deriving three-dimensional (3D) point clouds and canopy surface and height models (CSMs and CHMs, respectively) over different fo...

OBJECTIVES We appraised the methodological and reporting quality of randomised controlled clinical trials (RCTs) evaluating the efficacy and safety of Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). DESIGN For this systematic review, electronic databases were searched from inception until June 2015. The search was limited to humans and non-case report studies, but wa...

Osteosarcoma (OS) is the most common primary malignant tumor of bone, showing complex chromosomal rearrangements but with few known consistent changes. Deeper biological understanding is crucial to find new therapies to improve patient survival. We have sequenced the whole exome of two primary tumors (before and after chemotherapy), one metastatic tumor and a matched normal sample from two OS p...

One problem of individual tree detection on aerial images or on raster canopy height models is handling of tree crowns of different sizes. On laser scanner data one size attribute, height, is directly available. This gives possibilities to develop processing methods that adapt to the object size. In this study, three adaptive methods were developed and tested for individual tree detection on ca...