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African journal of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicines : AJTCAM
Jul 3, 2016
BACKGROUND: Chagas disease, amebiasis, giardiasis and trichomoniasis represent a serious health problem in Latin America. The drugs employed to treat these illnesses produce important side effects and resistant strains have appeared. The present stud...
African journal of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicines : AJTCAM
Jul 3, 2016
BACKGROUND: is used traditionally in many countries for the treatment of cancer and benign prostate hyperplasia.
African journal of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicines : AJTCAM
Jul 3, 2016
BACKGROUND: Prolonged use of antibiotics may lead to the selection of drug-resistant bacteria; as a result, efforts are being made to identify new and effective antimicrobial agents, particularly, from medicinal plants, against bacterial infections. ...
Scientific reports
Jun 28, 2016
Leaf nitrogen content (LNC) is a significant factor which can be utilized to monitor the status of paddy rice and it requires a reliable approach for fast and precise quantification. This investigation aims to quantitatively analyze the correlation b...
Computational intelligence and neuroscience
Jun 22, 2016
The latest generation of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has achieved impressive results in the field of image classification. This paper is concerned with a new approach to the development of plant disease recognition model, based on leaf image...
Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany)
Apr 7, 2016
Ecological limits to phenotypic plasticity (PP), induced by simultaneous biotic and abiotic factors, can prevent organisms from exhibiting optimal plasticity, and in turn lead to decreased fitness. Herbivory is an important biotic stressor and may li...
Environmental science and pollution research international
Apr 5, 2016
The contents of Cd, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb, and Zn in leaves of Typha latifolia (broadleaf cattail), water and bottom sediment from 72 study sites designated in different regions of Poland were determined using atomic absorption spectrometry. The aim of ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Mar 7, 2016
Understanding the extremely variable, complex shape and venation characters of angiosperm leaves is one of the most challenging problems in botany. Machine learning offers opportunities to analyze large numbers of specimens, to discover novel leaf fe...
Applied spectroscopy
Jan 18, 2016
Parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC) has facilitated an explosion in research connecting the fluorescence properties of dissolved organic matter (DOM) to its functions and biogeochemical cycling in natural and engineered systems. However, the validatio...
Food chemistry
Dec 12, 2015
A high performance liquid chromatography method with refractive index detection (HPLC-RI), for simultaneous determination of glucose, fructose, sucrose and sorbitol in leaf and/or apple peel samples from nine apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) cultivars ...