Illicium verum is used in traditional medicine to treat inflammation. The study investigates the effects of IVE and its component, trans-anethole (AET), on airway inflammation in ovalbumin- (OVA-) induced asthmatic mice. Asthma was induced in BALB/c mice by systemic sensitization to OVA, followed by intratracheal, intraperitoneal, and aerosol allergen challenges. IVE and AET were orally adminis...

Objetivo: Describir los métodos anticonceptivos reportados por las usuarias de servicios interrupción voluntaria del embarazo (ive), antes y posterior a la consulta, explorar asociación entre características sociodemográficas antecedentes ginecológicos con elección alta eficacia ive, gestaciones menores 15 semanas, en el departamento Antioquia, Colombia, institución Profamilia, 2015 2020. Metod...

Abstra ct. Thi s pap er describes a connectioni st mod el of prin t-tosound transformation ("word naming" or "reading aloud" ). T he associative network it uses is based on published stu dies of oral reading, and simulat ion res ults are compare d to experiment al data in t he psy chological literature. Th e results ob ta ined are of interest for two separa te reasons. Fir st , the print-to-sou...

Is the identifiable victim effect (IVE; helping a single identified more than statistical victim) stronger for child victims adult victims? In this paper, we test of identifying and whether that is or on motivation donation behaviors. three studies (N = 1508) with different samples from countries, find no main identifiability any our measures, support IVE mainly occurs children. However, an age...

Dynamic Fini te Element (FE) model updat ing may be considered as an opt imisat ion process . Over the pas t few years two powerful new opt imisa t ion a lgor i thms have been developed independent ly of each other, namely simulated annealing and the genetic algori thm. These are bo th probabi l i s t i c search a lgor i thms capable of f inding the global minimum amongst many local minima for ...

Las semillas de hortalizas hoja son más sensibles al ataque patógenos, por lo que es necesario estudiar el potencial fisiológico las misma. Para ello se evaluó la calidad fisiológica semilla acelga (Fordhook Giant), ajo porro (Large American Flag y Flag) espinaca (New Zealand Viroflay). determinó porcentaje germinación, emergencia (PE), velocidad (VE), índice (IVE), microbiota metabolitos secun...

BACKGROUND Influenza vaccination strategies aim at protecting high-risk population from severe outcomes. Estimating the effectiveness of seasonal vaccines against influenza related hospitalisation is important to guide these strategies. Large sample size is needed to have precise estimate of influenza vaccine effectiveness (IVE) against severe outcomes. We assessed the feasibility of measuring ...