One of the most important aromatic plants is Pimpinella anisum. The genus Pimpinella contains 23 species that are found wild in different regions of Iran. Pimpinella eriocarpa is distributed in south and west of Iran. In this research, the oil composition of P. eriocarpa was studied. Essential oils were isolated by hydro-distillation from the arial parts and seeds of Pimpinella eriocarpa indivi...

Medicinal plants are the local heritage with global importance. They have curative properties due to presence of various complex chemical substances of different composition, which are found as secondary plant metabolites in one or more parts of these plants. These plant metabolites according to their composition are grouped as flavonoids, tannins, alkaloids, saponins etc...Guiera senegalensis ...

The eradication of intellectual disability from iodine deficiency in Western countries is one of the great public health triumphs of 20th-century child health care. Yet the problem persists today in many parts of the world. This article explores why a strategy so successful in the West has proven difficult to export to certain other contexts and how new kinds of thinking may point the way forward.

One of the interesting parts about school is the opportunity to explore different world s, cultures and ideas. In this paper we have been able to examine the health care system of two very disparate countries. Although they are very different, China and the U.S. also share something very important. These two countries are two of the world’s individual juggernauts, one of economics and represent...

This map shows model-based, county-level percentage decline in heart disease death rates from 1973 to 2010 in the Southern United States. During this 37-year period, the fastest declines (in yellow) occurred primarily on the East Coast and central and west Texas, and the slowest declines (in dark blue) were concentrated largely in the counties along the Mississippi River and parts of Kentucky, ...

Barring a few exceptions (such as rauwolfia), most of the psychiatric medications have been developed in the West, especially the USA, the UK and Europe. Their safety trials have been conducted in the populations living in these parts of the world. Although these drugs are used all over the world there is a limited research to determine accurate pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic profiles acro...

Computer vision systems being developed at Virginia Tech University with the support and cooperation from the U.S. Forest Service are presented. Researchers at Michigan State University, West Virginia University, and Mississippi State University are also members of the research team working on various parts of this research. Our goals are to help U.S. hardwood producers automate, reduce costs, ...

Shigella dysenteriae type 1 is known to cause epidemics of bacillary dysentery worldwide. In 1984, an extensive outbreak of bacillary dysentery swept through several districts of West Bengal, including the state capital Kolkata, and subsequently, spread to other parts of India (1). Multidrug-resistant S. dysenteriae type 1 was identified as the sole aetiological agent in this outbreak. In the l...

member of the Hunterian Society of Edinburgh. He started on his career as an assistant to a practitioner in London; and being desirous of visiting foreign parts, he next took employment in the Government mail-packet service, which gave him opportunities of going to the West Indies, and to the Mediterranean, where the odious usage of quarantine was then exercised to its fullest extent. He retain...

Among plants with proven medicinal properties, jaborandi (Pilocarpus microphyllus Stapf.) is ascribed priority in conservation programs (Vieira 1999). It is a Rutaceae shrubby tree that occurs in penumbra areas and, according to Skorupa (2000), is found in parts of the Amazon region, mainly in the East of the state of Pará, West and North of Maranhão and North of Piauí. Its leaves contain the i...