In recent years, concerns about the adverse effects of hormone replacement therapy have increased interest in alternative therapies for the management of the symptoms of perimenopause. Here, we investigated the effects of moxibustion, a traditional Chinese practice that is involved in heated Artemisia vulgaris (mugwort) stimulation, on hormonal imbalance and ovarian granulosa cell (GC) apoptosi...

The Morris water maze test (MWM) is one of the most popular and established behavioral tests to evaluate rodents' spatial learning ability. The conventional training period is around 5 days, but there is no clear evidence or guidelines about the appropriate duration. In many cases, the final outcome of the MWM seems predicable from previous data and their trend. So, we assumed that if we can pr...

As a consequence of the competition between different manufacturers, current smartphones improve their features continuously and they currently include many sensors. Mobile Workforce Management (MWM) is an industrial process that would benefit highly from the information captured by the sensors of mobile devices. However, there are some problems that prevent MWM software from using this informa...

Introduction: The cholinergic system plays an important role in learning and memory. Administration of either extracts of Crocus Sativus (Saffron) or its constituent, crocin, reduced ethanol-induced memory impairment. Based on the above findings, we investigated the effect of crocin in antagonizing spatial learning and memory impairment induced by scopolamine, a cholinergic receptor antagonist,...

Wireless applications, protocols and simulators can significantly benefit from thorough understanding and accurate modeling of the medium access control (MAC) layer residual bit-errors at high bitrates. In this paper, we analyze and model the biterrors encountered at the highest achievable 11 Mbps data rate of an 802.11b wireless local area network. We employ autocorrelation, aggregation and va...

[1] Biomass burning is a major source of air pollutants, some of which are also climate forcing agents. We investigate the sensitivity of direct radiative forcing due to tropospheric ozone and aerosols (carbonaceous and sulfate) to a marginal reduction in their (or their precursor) emissions from major biomass burning regions. We find that the largest negative global forcing is for 10% emission...

Transgenic mice that express familial Alzheimer's disease mutant forms of the human amyloid precursor protein (hAPP) have proved to be invaluable in determining the impact that the neurotoxic amyloid-β peptide has in vivo. In addition to the propensity to accumulate cerebral amyloid plaques, a crucial characteristic of hAPP mouse models is their cognitive impairments. To date the most widely us...

Exposure to chronic stress can affect cognitive processes in a complex manner depending upon the intensity and duration of the stressors. The current study investigated the effects of chronic unpredictable stress (CUS), a procedure thought to use moderate stressors, on acquisition of and performance in the Morris Water Maze (MWM). Separate behavioral tests were also used to determine whether th...

Latar Belakang: Patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) merupakan sumber umum nyeri lutut bagian depan yang menyumbang 25-40 persen dari semua masalah dilaporkan di pusat kedokteran olahraga. Tujuan: Adapun tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui perbedaan efektivitas kombinasi MWM, UST, dan ET dibandingkan UST dalam menurunkan meningkatkan kemampuan fungsional pada PFPS. Metode: Penelitian k...