liver injury induced by viruses, chemicals and drugs can be protected by different medicinal plants. Feijoa sellowiana (Myrtaceae) is an evergreen bush native to southern areas of South America, as well as Iran where the fruits are very popular. Feijoa has shown a potent antimicrobial effect. Morever, the antioxidant activity of total Feijoa extract has also been reported. MDMA or ecstasy is a ...

The first time went a bit like this: I walked slowly and painfully into the consulting room, leaning heavily on my stick. I got myself settled. My general practitioner asked to weigh me; I slowly and carefully levered myself back up to standing, walked the six steps across the room to the scales with my stick, and then slowly and carefully propped it up and balanced myself solo. We were rapidly...

The ‘sensory turn’ in anthropology has generated a significant literature on sensory perception and experience. Whilst much of this is critical the compartmentalization particular ‘senses’, there been limited exploration how anthropologists might examine beyond ‘the senses’. Based ethnographic fieldwork with people who have impaired vision walking South Downs landscape England, article develops...

Reinforcement learning is considered to be a strong AI paradigm which can be used to teach machines through interaction with the environment and learning from their mistakes. Despite its perceived utility, it has not yet been successfully applied in automotive applications. Motivated by the successful demonstrations of learning of Atari games and Go by Google DeepMind, we propose a framework fo...

Superoxide reductases (SORs) belong to a new class of metalloenzymes that degrade superoxide by reducing it to hydrogen peroxide. These enzymes contain a catalytic iron site that cycles between the FeII and FeIII states during catalysis. A key step in the reduction of superoxide has been suggested to involve HO2 binding to FeII, followed by innersphere electron transfer to afford an FeIII-OO(H)...

Numerous studies have suggested anomalies in semantics in patients with schizophrenia. We addressed whether one such anomaly might reflect a difference in knowledge content or in the structure or organization of this information. Using a category member production task and a typicality rating task we assessed knowledge content, and found that patients’ and controls’ knowledge about categories o...

The purpose of the current study was to characterize autobiographical memory (AM) in terms of its general episodic, emotional, and experiential components in order to examine gender differences in how positive life experiences are remembered. Participants were asked to recall pleasurable memories in response to positive adjectives. For each adjective, participants were asked to write a brief de...