Palms (Arecaceae) are prominent elements in African traditional medicines. It is, however, a challenge to find detailed information on the ritual use of palms, which are an inextricable part of African medicinal and spiritual systems. This work reviews ritual uses of palms within African ethnomedicine. We studied over 200 publications on uses of African palms and found information about ritual ...

BACKGROUND Psoriasis is a common chronic inflammatory skin, nails, and joints disease related to the immune system by periods of exacerbations and remissions. It is characterized by thick end, erythematous, and scaling lesions, which affects about 2 to 4 percent of the general population. The disease occurs equally in both sexes and the most common form of the disease is psoriasis vulgaris. The...

abstract- over the past 50 years, oil mulching has been a common technique for sand dune stabilization in the southwest of iran (khuzestan province). however, concerns over the release of heavy metals from oil mulching have led to the search for alternative mulches that are capable of stabilizing sand dunes without environmental hazards. this study investigates the feasibility of using sugarcan...

The Coal Oil Point (COP) seeps offshore Goleta, CA, are estimated to release 20-25 tons of oil daily, providing an ideal natural laboratory to investigate the fate of oil in the coastal ocean. To address the long-term fate of COP oil, we collected 15 sediment samples down current from the seeps and quantified petroleum content and individual biomarkers using traditional and comprehensive two-di...

  Objective(s): The objective of this study was to design a topical microemulsion of Vit B12 and to study the correlation between internal structure and physicochemical properties of the microemulsions. Microemulsions are thermodynamically stable mixtures of water, oil, surfactants and usually cosurfactants with several advantages for topical and transdermal drug delivery. The formul...

X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry has been used by the oil industry since the 1950s. XRF can be found supporting activities in exploration, production, research as well as intellectual properties. Traditional applications for XRF were the analysis of single element or a limited range of multiple elements. Today, XRF encompasses high precision full spectral elemental profiles along with high...

Fifty North Sea oil & gas investment transactions were analysed using traditional spreadsheet based financial modelling methods. The purpose of the analysis was to determine if there was a statistically significant relationship between the price paid for an oil & gas asset and the actual or expected financial return over the asset’s economically useful life. Several interesting and statisticall...

Traditional oil painting works enable the spectators to feel the various impressions because it can be shown differently by the changes of light effect. The reason of oil painting’s distinguishing feature is that it contains the texture and volume of color expressed by thickness of used pigments and brushing. In this paper, we present a novel method that reproduces oil painting-like image from ...

Gamma-oryzanol is the major component, 2%, in the extract from rice bran. Rice bran oil contains a mixture of several phytosteryl ferulates. Several reports mention the rice bran oil health beneficial activities, reduction of plasma cholesterol, inhibition of platelet aggregation, and particular antioxidant functions. In Japanese traditional medicine, rice bran oil has been used to ameliorate t...

The present study aim to evaluate the potential inhibitory effect of Curcuma longa (turmeric) oil on lipophilic, yeast like fungus Malassezia furfur which causes Pityriasis versicolor disease, a common superficial fungal skin disease. The antifungal activity of turmeric oil was screened by using disc diffusion method and microdilution method. Results indicated that, in screening of turmeric oil...