INTRODUCTION Herbal medicines are traditionally prescribed to manage blood pressure. OBJECTIVES We aimed to evaluate effect of sour tea pill containing the herb's extract versus captopril on the treatment of hypertension. PATIENTS AND METHODS In our crossover clinical trial 20 patients were enrolled in the study and advised for life style modification then the participants were randomly div...

Grape sour (bunch) rot is a polymicrobial disease of vineyards that causes millions of dollars in lost revenue per year due to decreased quality of grapes and resultant wine. The disease is associated with damaged berries infected with a community of acetic acid bacteria, yeasts, and filamentous fungi that results in rotting berries with high amounts of undesirable volatile acidity. Many insect...

Tetraploid sour cherry (Prunus cerasus L.) exhibits gametophytic self-incompatibility (GSI) whereby the specificity of self-pollen rejection is controlled by alleles of the stylar and pollen specificity genes, S-RNase and SFB (S haplotype-specific F-box protein gene), respectively. As sour cherry selections can be either self-compatible (SC) or self-incompatible (SI), polyploidy per se does not...

Commercial juices of sweet pomegranates and fresh juices of sour-sweet pomegranates were analysed for organic acids, sugars, antioxidant activity, volatile composition, sensory profile and consumer liking. Organic acids and sugars were analysed by HPLC, while volatiles were extracted using hydrodistillation and analysed by GC-MS and GC-FID. Malic acid was predominant in sweet juices while citri...

Photosynthesis is the basic process influencing crop productivity. It can be inhibited by drought. Seven sour cherry genotypes were challenged by drought to assess their photosynthetic efficiency in such conditions. All together with relative water content (RWC) as indicator of plant water status, maximum quantum yield of photosystem II (Fv/Fm) and chlorophyll content (Chl a+b) differentiated i...

In most prokaryotes Asn-tRNA and Gln-tRNA are formed by amidation of aspartate and glutamate mischarged onto tRNA and tRNA, respectively. Coexistence in the organism of mischarged Asp-tRNA and Glu-tRNA and the homologous Asn-tRNA and Gln-tRNA does not, however, lead to erroneous incorporation of Asp and Glu into proteins, since EF-Tu discriminates the misacylated tRNAs from the correctly charge...

The gustatory and olfactory systems are the only two systems in which stimuli act directly on the receptor. There are five taste categories which have been identified as gustatory stimuli: sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and umami (MSG). Bitter and sour are known as aversive stimuli and help mammals avoid toxic and spoiled foods. Although both are similar in that they are aversive, they work throug...

Blind sour e separation (BSS) de omposes a multidimensional time series into a set of sour es, ea h with a one-dimensional time ourse and a xed spatial distribution. For EEG and MEG, the former orresponds to the simultaneously separated and temporally overlapping signals for ontinuous non-averaged data; the latter orresponds to the set of attenuations from the sour es to the sensors. These sens...

Abstra t | In this work, we investigate the joint sour ehannel oding issue of transmitting non-uniform independent and identi ally distributed (i.i.d.) sour es over additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) hannels via Turbo odes. The sour e redundan y in the form of non-uniformity is exploited in the Turbo de oder via a modi ed extrinsi information. In ontrast to previous work, non-systemati re urs...