medicine for the relief of diabetes symptoms, fever, vomiting, and non-specific intoxication. In previous editions of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, both the roots of Pueraria lobata (WILLD.) OHWI and Pueraria thomsonii BENTH. are treated as Radix Puerariae. However, they have different chemical profiles and biological activities. The roots of P. lobata are often used for clinical prescriptions and...

The wildlife of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem carries brucellosis, which was first introduced to the area by cattle in the 19th century. Brucellosis transmission between wildlife and livestock has been difficult to study due to challenges in culturing the causative agent, Brucella abortus . We examined B. abortus transmission between American bison ( Bison bison ), Rocky Mountain elk ( Cerv...

Like many Americans, especially New Yorkers like me, and probably most readers of Palliative & Supportive Care around the world, I don’t often think about the great state of Montana (aka Big Sky Country) in the Western United States. It usually doesn’t make news, and because it’s ranked 44 in population (about 1 million people) and has very few electoral college votes, it isn’t even one of thos...

Arnica montana has been widely used as a homeopathic remedy for the treatment of several inflammatory conditions in pain management and postoperative settings. This review gives an overview of the therapeutic use of Arnica montana in the above-mentioned fields also focusing on its mechanisms of action learned from animal models and in vitro studies. Arnica montana is more effective than placebo...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to evaluate the antioxidant and antimicrobial activity of extracts (aqueous, ethanolic and essential oil) from Satureja montana and to characterise the chemical composition of its essential oil. RESULTS Satureja montana L. essential oil had relatively high antimicrobial activities against the seven species of bacteria tested. In contrast, aqueous extracts did not r...

The Montana C++ programming environment provides an API interface to the compiler, which allows the compilation process to be extended through programmer-supplied tools. This paper investigates the feasibility of that interface, using smart pointers as an example. Smart pointers are a powerful feature of the C++ language that enable a variety of applications, such as garbage collection, persist...

Patrick J. Kennelly* Assoc. Research Professor & GIS Manager Montana Tech of the University of Montana Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology 1300 W. Park Street Butte, MT 59701 Hillshading renders a surface with a three-dimensional appearance using shades of gray. Although shades appear as continuous tones, they must undergo a halftoning process for use with most computer output devices. This pro...