Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) are an important food staple in many traditional diets. There is limited evidence to suggest an inverse relationship between bean consumption and colon cancer. The objective of this study was to determine whether consumption of black beans and/or navy beans would reduce colon carcinogenesis in rats. Rats were fed a modified AIN-93G diet (control) or diets containing 7...

Abstract This study contextualises the official introduction of double entry bookkeeping in Royal Navy, 1832. The objective is to consider how accounting developed and changed through competing logics path dependent processes provide insights explanations those changes Navy. An innovative theoretical framework combines longer-term lens historical institutionalism with roles key actors investiga...

verbascoside (acteoside), a phenyl propanoid glycoside, comprises 0.5 to 3.5% dry weight of lippia citriodora leaves. a wide range of biological activities are attributed to verbascoside including anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-bacterial, anti-tumor, anti-fungal, photoprotective as well as chelating effects. the objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of verbascoside on pregnanc...

Abstract Despite calls for ‘no more parades’ following the First World War, and while period was supposedly inhospitable to militaristic martial ceremony, ‘naval theatre’, navalism cultural displays of militarism all enjoyed significant resonance in popular civic ritual interwar Britain. One most prominent forms naval theatre this annual celebration Navy Weeks. staged at Portsmouth, then extend...

Non-Hodgkin's lymphomas are one of the most commonly occurring cancers in the age groups heavily represented in the U.S. Navy. The Navy has a wide range of potential occupational exposures. This study was initiated to identify any occupational associations of non-Hodgkin's lymphomas that may adversely affect naval readiness. The objective of this study was to compare the incidence of non-Hodgki...

Craniosynostosis (CS) is the premature fusion of cranial sutures during embryonic development, and this results in intracranial pressure skull deformities. Thyrotoxicosis, specifically maternal hyperthyroidism, has been linked to development CS. Our lab currently validating an avian model thyroxine-induced CS study mechanism involved thyroxine-enhanced ossification. We hypothesized that thyroxi...

The spectacle of brown skin in Jamaica emerged the late eighteenth century to early nineteenth with “balls at Kingston ‘Brown Girls’” (Lewis 382), referred as “Brown Girls Balls.” Girls” mulatto women or mulatress, infantilized “girls,” who were off-springs Europeans and enslaved Africans. Brown considered “fair sex” by Eurocentric standards, known for their beauty elegance, sponsored British R...

Recently retrieved from the Monckton House basement in INM, and added to the catalogue of the Historic Collections Library, is the following small book: An account of a contagious fever, which occurred amongst the Danish and American prisoners of war at Chatham, in the years 1813, 1814. by Sir Wm. Burnett [...], Medical Commissioner of the Royal Navy. London: Burgess and Hill... , 1831. The boo...