To determine the effects of drought stress, especially light on flower number in passion fruit, one-year-old fruit plants grown 7.5 L plastic pots were subjected to different soil water content treatments, namely wetness, drought, and heavy for two months. Average, maximum, minimum contents (v/v) 44, 47, 41% wetness treatment, 23, 40, 11% treatment 11, 33, 6% treatment. Flower decreased as stre...

DEscARTS' psychotherapeutical designs can be derived from his correspondence with the Bohemian Princess Elizabeth and from his Treatise ofthe Passions, published in 1649, at the age of 53, a few months prior to his death. These psychotherapeutical designs are closely related to his theory of the passions. Descartes conceived the passions as being caused, upheld and fortified by some movement of...

Suicide r isk assessment and management are of significant importance in reducing the likelihood of a completed suicide. Psychiatrists have a responsibility to all patients experiencing suicidal thoughts, regardless of the presence of mental illness. A patient contemplating suicide, or one who has tried to take their life, will at the very least be experiencing personal distress that needs resp...

Chrysin, a passion flower extract, may be beneficial because of its potential to attenuate surgical suppression of natural killer (NK) cell activity. We divided 37 male Sprague-Dawley rats into 3 treatment groups: (1) rats undergoing abdominal surgery and administered isoflurane and a 5% solution of dimethyl sulfoxide in saline (vehicle), (2) rats undergoing abdominal surgery and administered i...

Although the enzyme chlorophyllase has been long known (13) only recently has evidence been presented for its probable function in chlorophyll a (chl a) biogenesis, namely, the demonstration that methyl chlorophyllide a (me chlide a) was transesterified with phytol in the presence of chlorophyllase yielding chl a (2). However, no evidence has been presented that wouild indicate the presence of ...