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Photic Entrainment and onset of puberty in Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus niloticus (2008)
Martinez Chavez, Carlos Cristian
Despite teleosts being the largest and most diverse group of vertebrates, fish models currently used to study photoperiodic effects on fish physiology have been limited to a few species, most of...
Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids From Cynoglossum furcatam (2008)
Ravi, S, Ravikumar, T, Lakshmanan, A J
Two new pyrrolizidine alkaloids of Cynoglossum furcatam have been isolated and characterised. They are lactodine, a monoester alkaloid and viridinatine, a pyrrolizidine diester alkaloid. Lactodine...
A new prenylated flavanol from the arial part of Phyllanthus niruri and confirmed by gc-ms/ms (2008)
Phytochemical investigations on the chloroform extract of Phyllanthus niruri resulted in isolation of one new compound 5,7-dimethoxy-3,4' -dihydroxy- 3',8-di-C-prenylflavanone and one known compound...
Constituents of Nymphaea lotus linn. (2008)
Sowemimo, A A, Omobuwajo, O R, Adesanya, S A
Nine are known amino acids (alanine, tyrosine, phenyl alanine, valine, threonine, arginine, leucine, D and L-isoleucine and aspartic acid), 2 alkanoic acids in form of butanoic acids and its ã-...
Gerige, S J, Yadav, M K, Rao, D M, Ramanjeneyulu, R
Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Haemophilus influenza and Candida albicans, were highly sensitive to 20ml of the volatile oil of Leucas aspera. The chemical compositions of volatile oil identified by GC-MS...
Saboo, S, Deore, S L, Khadabadi, S S, Deokate, U A
Pterospermum acerifolium is used traditionally in the management of tumors. Ethanol and Water extracts showed good antimitotic activity against meristamatic cell growth. Both extracts also showed...
Antimicrobial Studies On Nicandra physaloides (2008)
Mann, A S, Jain, N K, Kharya, M D
Antimicrobial studies were carried out using methanolic and aqueous extract of leaf, fruit, stem and root of Nicandra physaloides. The microorganisms used in study were Bacillus subtilis NCIM 2439,...
Hypoglycemic and antihyperglycemic activity of Nardostachys jatamansi roots (2008)
Mahesh, M G, Dipti, ST, Kaushal, P J, Pragnesh, V P, Balasaheb, D S, Avinash, D
The hydroalcoholic extract of the roots of Nardostachys jatamansi DC, significantly decreased glucose level in normal, glucose loaded and alloxan diabetic (on day 15 and 30) rats as compared to...
Toxicological Evaluation And Antinociceptive Effects Of Wrightia tomentosa In Mice (2008)
Nagarajan, K, Mazumder, A, Ghosh, L K
Acute toxicity testing and the antinociceptive activity in mice of ethanolic extract of Wrightia tomentosa leaves and bark were carried out. The bark extract (400mg/kg) exhibited maximum...
Diuretic Activity Of Leaf Extracts Of Andrographis lineata (2008)
Sangameswaran, B, Reddy, TC, Jayakar, B
The diuretic activity of methanol and aqueous extracts of Andrographis lineata were evaluated by determination of urine volume, electrolyte concentration and diuretic potency in male Wister rats with...
Antiimplantation And Abortifacient Activities Of Oxalis corniculata In Albino Rats (2008)
Petroleum ether and ethanol extracts of the whole plant of Oxalis corniculata were administered orally at the dose level of 100 and 200 mg/kg body weight from day 1 to 7 of pregnancy to evaluate the...
Alam, M A, Awal, M A, Subhan, N, Daulla, K A
The ethanol extract of the stem bark of Xylocarpus granatum collected from mangrove forest significantly prolonged the pentobarbitone-induced sleeping time in mice. It showed mild to moderate central...
Akah, P A, Okpi, O, Okoli, C O
Afzelia africana Smith (Caesalpiniaceae) is a perennial tree which occurs in many parts of Africa where it is used as food and widely employed in traditional medicine practice. Acute toxicity studies...
Platelet Response To Methanolic And Aqueous Extracts Of Euphorbia hirta (2008)
Omeje, E O, Amayo, L, Adikwu, M U, Osadebe, P O, Ibezim, E
Euphorbia hirta Linn (Fam: Euphorbiaceae) locally known as ogwu ugwo' (eczema drug) in some Eastern parts of Nigeria is used locally to arrest bleeding in the event of an injury. The extracts...
Hepatoprotective Activity Evaluation Of Cichorium glandulosum (2008)
Abulimiti, Y, Hankui, W U, Akber Aisa, H, Kasimu, R, Hang, B
The EtOAc and n-BuOH extracts of Cichorium glandulosum were tested for hepatoprotective activity against paracetamol-induced hepatotoxicities in mice. C. gladulosum exhibited significant...
Thirupathi, K, Sathesh Kumar, S, Goverdhan, P, Ravikumar, B, Krishna, D, Krishna Mohan, G
The methanolic extract of the leaves of Cordia dichotoma at 300 mg/kg and 500 mg/kg were studied for hepatoprotective action in male Wistar rats by inducing liver damage using carbon tetrachloride...
Hypoglycemic Activity Of Polygala arvensis In Normal And Alloxan Induced Diabetic Rats (2008)
Sammaiah, G, Thirupathi, K, Narsaiah, N, Srivastava, R S
Albino rats were divided into groups (n=6) receiving different treatments consisting of vehicle, alcoholic extract of Polygala arvensis (PA) (1.25 g/Kg) and standard antidiabetic drugs, glibenclamide...
Motlhanka, D M, Habtermariam, S
This study was undertaken to assess anti-inflammatory activity of crude extracts of Cassine transvaalensis Burtt-Davy, Clerodendrum uncinatum Schinz and Commiphora glandulosa Schinz using COX...
Anti Coagulation And Antithrombotic Effects Of Triclisia Dictyophylla (2008)
Azikiwe, C C, Amazu, L U, Unekwe, P C, Chilaka, K C, Afonne, O J, Nwankwo, M J, ...
Triclisia Dictyophylla (moonseed) root was investigated for the anticoagulation and antithrombotic properties. The median lethal dose (LD50) based on Lorke's methods was 550mg/kg. The aqueous root...
Okonta, M, Okonta, L, Aguwa, C N
The n-hexane, chloroform and methanol extracts of Persea americana seeds obtained by cold maceration were assessed for blood glucose lowering activity using two doses of alloxan. The different...
Uwumarongie, O H, Onwukaeme, D N, Obasuyi, O
The ethanolic extracts of the dried root bark and stem bark has antiamebic activity against Entamoeba histolytica; antibacterial activity against Bacillus subtilis, Staphylococcus aureus,...
Jain, S C, Jain, R, Menghani, E, Singh, R
Medicinal plants play a very important role in the treatment of various diseases but usually their authenticity and standards are lacking, inspite of their prime importance to generate some...
Pharmacognostic Evaluation Of Curcuma aromatica (2008)
Srivastava, S, Rawat, A K, Mehrotra, S
A pharmacognostic evaluation of the rhizome Curcuma aromatica showed moisture content of 43.4%, total ash 6.2%, acid insoluble ash 0.5%, alcohol soluble extractives 7.9%, water soluble extractives...
Pharmacognostic Investigations On Turnera ulmifolia (2008)
Turnera ulmifolia Linn. has been traditionally used for the treatment of various ailments such as rheumatism, vertigo, dysmenorrhea and dysentery. Microscopically, leaf of T. ulmifolia showed the...
Reducing the Male Monopoly of State Drumming in Ghana: The Axim Experience (2008)
This paper, based on empirical research using Axim as a case study, looks at the changing role of women in the area of court music. It explores the genesis, dynamics and challenges of women in...
Because the phenomenon of an ageing population is occurring more slowly in Ghana and other parts of Africa than elsewhere in the world, very little attention is paid to ageing in Ghana by both the...
Instrumentation as a Stylistic Determinant in Nigerian Gospel Music (2008)
Generally, in Africa, musical instruments perform various functions, both musical and non-musical. In Nigerian gospel music these functions are not only found but also have expanded. In this paper,...
In this study, I intend to conceptualize nugormesese as a basis of social capital in a West African farming community on the Ghana side of the Ghana-Togo border area. I will show that, by functioning...
In his attempt to challenge colonial hegemony and promote the colonized sense of identity, the African poet, Mohamed Al-Fayturi is engaged in an intercultural dialogue with his master, the African...
Three Essays on the Cross-National Impact of Trust and Social Factors on Culture of Equity
Nations have broadly varying cultures of equity financing. This dissertation examines both cross-national differences in the price of equity risk and cross-national differences in preference for...
I'll see you on MySpace: Self-presentation in a social network website
Social network sites like MySpace and Facebook are a popular online venue for interaction and expression. This study was designed to identify the ways in which people present themselves online in the...
Interview of Patrick Bateson (2008)
Interview and film by Alan Macfarlane in December 2007, transcript by Sarah Harrison, About two hours
Interview of Ruth finnegan (2008)
Filmed by Alan Macfarlane in January 2008, transcript by Sarah Harrison. About two hours.
Engineering Polymer Informatics: Towards The Computer-Aided Design of Polymers (2008)
Adams, Nico, Murray-Rust, Peter
The computer-aided design of polymers is one of the holy grails of modern chemical informatics and of significant interest for a number of communities in polymer science. The paper outlines a vision...
CrystalEye - From Desktop to Data Repository (2008)
Downing, O J, Day, N E, Murray-Rust, P
This presentation was delivered at the Open Repositories 2008 conference in Southampton, on the 2nd April, 2008
A preview of the TheOREM project (2008)
The presentation was originally written (and delivered) in the Macintosh Keynote software.
Geometric approach to Pontryagin's Maximum Principle (2008)
Barbero Liñán, María, Muñoz Lecanda, Miguel Carlos
Pontryagin's Maximum Principle has been widely discussed and used in Optimal Control Theory since the second half of the 20th century. Here, we focus on the proof and on the understanding of this...
Higher-order Cartan symmetries in k-symplectic field theory (2008)
Román Roy, Narciso, Salgado, Modesto, Vilariño, Silvia
For k-symplectic Hamiltonian field theories, we study infinitesimal transformations generated by certain kinds of vector fields which are not Noether symmetries, but which allow us to obtain...
Can values and attitudes in engineering education be regarded as unchanging matters? (2008)
Sylvestre François Lacroix (1765-1843) composed textbooks in mathematics that turned out to be highly popular and influential over a period of fifty years. In fact with his work Lacroix contributed...
Earls Colne, Essex. Records of an English Village 1375-1854 (1971)
Harrison, Sarah, Jardine, Charles, King, Tim, King, Jessica, Macfarlane, Alan
The Earls Colne database was constructed by a team at the University of Cambridge between 1972 and 2002. It contains a large part of the surviving records of an English parish over the period...
Hiraoka, Shuichi, Hyodo, Susumu, Kubokawa, Kaoru, Ando, Hironori, Urano, Akihisa
Changes in expression of vasotocin (VT) and isotocin (IT) genes were analyzed in chum salmon during the last stages of spawning migration. Pre-spawning chum salmon were caught at following four...
Iba, Michiyo, Nagao, Takashi, Urano, Akihisa
Secretory activity of the corpora allata (CA) and corpora cardiaca (CC) in the parsintercerebralis complex has been suggested to be controlled by biogenic amines, despite a lack of quantitative...
Iba, Michiyo, Nagao, Takashi, Urano, Akihisa
We examined quantitative changes in biogenic amines in relation to effects of population density on growth and behavior in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus, which were reared in two different...
Asante, Albert, Tahara, Satoshi, Hashidoko, Yasuyuki
We isolated 332 rhizoplane bacteria from 74 plant samples consisting of 38 different plant species that belong to 20 different families. The bacterial isolates were screened for their decarboxylation...
The essential feature of a lexicon-grammar is that the elementary unit of computation and storage is the simple sentence: suject-verb-complement(s). This type of representation is obviously needed...
Linguistic Representations and Text Analysis (2008)
Understanding a text, whether by a human being or by a computer, implies that units of meanings be identified in the text and that rules composing these units and the corresponding meaning units...
Rodriguez, Marcos, Ravelet, Florent, Delfos, Rene, Witkamp, Geert-Jan
During crystallization the control and effective distribution of heat transfer from the solution to the heat exchanger (HE) plays an important role. Inhomogeneity in temperature on the HE-surface...
Note on 2-rational fields (2008)
Gras, Georges, Jaulent, Jean-François
We compute the Galois group of the maximal 2-ramified and complexified pro-2-extension of any 2-rational number field.
Delivering the News with Blogs: The Georgia State University Library Experience (2005)
To deliver information about library news, services and resources to the science faculty and students at Georgia State University, several librarians developed a blog, Science News . Despite the...
Is the PDF format accessible? (2007)
The Adobe PDF format is one of the most widely used in scientific communications in digital format and in administrative documents. In its latest versions it has incorporated structural tags and...