Objective(s): Longan seeds have been used as a folk medicine in China. Longan seed extract (LSE) is known for antioxidative, antiproliferative, hypoglycemic, and hypouremic effects. However, its anti-inflammatory effect has not been shown. Materials and Methods: In this study, Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were given LSE orally (vehicle, 10, and 30 mg/kg) for 3 days to its test anti-inflammatory eff...

Background: Libman-Sacks endocarditis (LSE) is characterized by sterile lesions that commonly affect the aortic and mitral heart valves. Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have been associated with LSE. Cardiac manifestations including LSE could be interrelated with other manifestations and early diagnosis could help in preventing further complications. Case...

The Mechanism of Action of Liquid Seaweed Extracts in the Manipulation of Frost Resistance in Winter Barley (Hordeum vulgare. L) By Stephen Burchett Frost assays carried out on winter barley (Hordeum vulgare cv Igri) showed that a single (IOml I) application of liquid seaweed extract (LSE) marginally increased the frost resistance of non-acclimated (NA) plants by 2.3% compared to NA controls an...

This paper presents a novel method for implicit active contours, which is completely free of the costly re-initialization procedure in level set evolution (LSE). A diffusion term is introduced into LSE, resulting in a specialized-LSE equation, to which a piecewise constant solution can be derived. In order to have a stable numerical solution of the RD based LSE. I propose a two-step splitting m...

BACKGROUND Fibroscan is a quick, non-invasive technique used to measure liver stiffness (kPa), which correlates with fibrosis. To achieve a valid liver stiffness evaluation (LSE) the operator must obtain all the following three criteria: (1) ≥10 successful liver stiffness measurements; (2) IQR/median ratio <0.30 and (3) ≥60% measurement success rate. OBJECTIVES To assess the operator training...

Participants: Stephanie von Ahlefeldt (BMWi), Anthony Barker (University of Essex), Alison Brimelow (Patent Office), Graham Bryce (DTI), Chris Clifford (LSE), Eric Deakins (Industry Forum), Andrew Dobbie (DTI), Wilhelm Eschweiler (BMWi), Gerald Frankel (Industry Forum), Wally Ford (DTI), Sir Christopher Foster (RAC Foundation), Jonathan Green (Edison Mission), Christopher Hood (University of Ox...

Retrieval of land-surface temperature (LST) using data from MSG/SEVIRI requires adequate estimates of land-surface emissivity (LSE). In this context LSE maps for SEVIRI channels IR3.9, IR8.7, IR10.8, and IR12.0 were developed based on the vegetation cover method. A broadband LSE map (3-14 μm) was also developed for estimating long-wave surface fluxes that may prove to be useful in both energy b...

The medicinal Malaysian leeches have been used in traditional medicine to treat many different ailments. In this study, leech saliva extract (LSE) was collected from the medicinal Malaysian leech Hirudinaria manillensis. Gel electrophoresis of LSE was carried out to estimate the peptide and protein molecular weights of its content. Results showed that LSE contains more than 60 peptides and prot...

Magnetisation transfer (MT) imaging of the central nervous system has provided further insight into the pathophysiology of neurological disease. However, the use of this method to study the lower spinal cord has been technically challenging, despite the important role of this region, not only for motor control of the lower limbs, but also for the neural control of lower urinary tract, sexual an...

This work presents a first approach to the synthesis of Spanish Sign Language’s (LSE) Classifier Constructions (CCs). All current attempts at the automatic synthesis of LSE simply create the animations corresponding to sequences of signs. This work, however, includes the synthesis of the LSE classification phenomena, defining more complex elements than simple signs, such as Classifier Predicate...