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Herbal Medicines: Boon or Bane for the Human Liver?
2016
Since ages, medicine is the most consistent companion of man. While in primeval time, disease was cured through natural preparations, onset of technology has made today’s formulations synthetic or nature derived. Across the ages, the plausibility of the “savior-turned-slayer” functionality of these drugs remained constant. With the increment in documentation, it becomes evident that many of the commonly used drugs are associated with toxicities. Thus, any drug, irrespective of its origin, needs to be thoroughly assessed. Rampant use of herbal drugs has often been a threat to human health owing to the scarcity in quality assessment. What needs to be understood is that everything natural is n…
Observational Approach and Perspective
1983
Well you did not cover more than half of my planned talk! (laughter). Let me comment on interferometric techniques, in particular speckle imaging which you mentioned. Doing speckle imaging with the largest telescopes now available will not give you better than the theoretical resolving power of the telescope. With a 4m telescope that is about 30 marc sec in the visible. That happens to be the radius of the supergiant Betelguese. So you are not going to achieve much with speckle imaging on these stars. One technique which has not been adequately exploited is that of lunar occultation which can give much better angular resolution than speckle, of the order of 2-3 marc sec. By using suitably c…
Temporal difference method for processing dynamic speckle patterns
2010
A temporal difference method for processing dynamic speckle images is proposed. In the method two speckle images of an object, separated by a time interval, are subtracted one from the other to detect whether the speckle structure has changed or not. The rationale of the method is discussed. A variant of the method that allows measuring the area of an activity zone surrounded by a static region is tested in digital simulations. As a demonstrative experiment, that variant is employed to characterize the drying of a damp patch in filter paper.
Dynamic Laser Speckle Technique Sensing Long-Term Changes Caused by Painting Treatments in Restauration of Paintings
2017
Dynamic laser speckle is applied as a reliable sensor of activity in all sort of material. Traditional applications are based on a time rate that is usually higher than 10 frames-per-second (FPS). Even in drying processes, where there is a high activity in the first moments after the painting and a slow activity after some minutes or hours, the process is based on the acquisition of images in a time rate that is the same in both moments of high and low activity. In this work, we present an alternative approach to follow the drying of paint and the other processes related to restauration of paintings that takes long-term to reduce the activity. We illuminated, using three different wavelengt…
Decreased neck muscle strength is highly associated with pain in cervical dystonia patients treated with botulinum toxin injections11No commercial pa…
2004
Abstract Hakkinen A, Ylinen J, Rinta-Keturi M, Talvitie U, Kautiainen H, Rissanen A. Decreased neck muscle strength is highly associated with pain in cervical dystonia patients treated with botulinum toxin injections. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2004;85:1684–8. Objectives To compare the isometric neck muscle strength of cervical dystonia patients treated with botulinum toxin injections with that of healthy control subjects and to evaluate the association between neck strength, neck pain, and disability in these patients. Design Clinical cross-sectional study. Setting Outpatient rehabilitation and neurology clinics in a Finnish hospital. Participants Twenty-three patients with cervical dystonia wi…
Eiropas Cilvēktiesību un pamatbrīvību aizsardzības konvencijas 16. protokols: mērķi, saturs, nozīme
2016
Eiropas Cilvēktiesību un pamatbrīvību aizsardzības konvencijas (turpmāk - Konvencija) 16.protokols ir daļa no pasākumiem, kas tiek veikti Konvencijas ilgtermiņa reformu kontekstā. Ar to paplašina Eiropas Cilvēktiesību tiesas (turpmāk – ECT) rekomendējošo jurisdikciju un ievieš jaunu mehānismu Konvencijas cilvēktiesību aizsardzības sistēmā, atbilstoši kuram šī protokola dalībvalstu pēdējo instanču tiesas un tribunāli varēs lūgt ECT sniegt rekomendējošu viedokli. Darbā autors atklāj Konvencijas 16.protokola mērķus, analizē un pēta protokola saturu. Tiek secināts, ka regulējums kaut gan nepilnīgs, ir apmierinošs. Darbā arī tiek izvērtēta protoko…
Eiropas vienotā viedokļa (European Consensus) jēdziens un problemātika Eiropas Cilvēktiesību tiesas judikatūrā
2018
Eiropas Cilvēktiesību tiesai ir būtisks uzdevums interpretēt Cilvēktiesību un pamatbrīvību aizsardzības konvencijā nostiprinātās vērtības atbilstoši mūsdienu apstākļiem un pārmaiņām Eiropas sabiedrībā. Viens no risinājumiem, kādā veidā ir iespējams nodrošināt tiesu prakses attīstību, izšķirot strīdus par politiski un morāli sensitīviem jautājumiem, ir Eiropas vienotā viedokļa jeb Eiropas konsensusa identificēšana un piemērošana. Eiropas Cilvēktiesību tiesa konstatē Eiropas konsensusa esamību, veidojot Eiropas Padomes dalībvalstu salīdzinošo normatīvo aktu un prakses analīzi, un izvērtējot, vai pastāv kopīgas tendences vai vienots pamats noteikta jautājuma risināšanā. Situācijā, kādā tiesa n…
Tardigrades of Finland: new records and an annotated checklist
2020
Species checklists are powerful and important tools of communication between taxonomists and applied environmental biologists, which in turn lead to well-planned and successful conservation strategies and ecological studies. Despite this, only recently the interest on compiling systematic checklists is growing among taxonomists who study tardigrades—micrometazoans that inhabit almost every habitat worldwide. As the Finnish records of tardigrades (a.k.a. water bears) species are incomplete, outdated and no checklist has ever been compiled for this country, an easy-to-consult checklist is here reported. This checklist covers all Finnish tardigrade taxa identified in the past and in the 13 sam…
Deformation Imaging by Strain in Chronic Heart Failure Over Sacubitril-Valsartan: A Multicenter Echocardiographic Registry
2022
Aims: Sacubitril/valsartan has changed the treatment of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), due to the positive effects on morbidity and mortality, partly mediated by left ventricular (LV) reverse remodelling (LVRR). The aim of this multicenter study was to identify echocardiographic predictors of LVRR after sacubitril/valsartan administration. Methods and results: Patients with HFrEF requiring therapy with sacubitril/valsartan from 13 Italian centres were included. Echocardiographic parameters including LV global longitudinal strain (GLS) and global peak atrial longitudinal strain by speckle tracking echocardiography were measured to find the predictors of LVRR [= LV end-…
Challenging fear: chemical alarm signals are not causing morphology changes in crucian carp (Carassius carassius)
2010
Published version of an article in the journal: Environmental Biology of Fishes. Also available at SpringerLink: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10641-010-9707-9 Crucian carp develops a deep body in the presence of chemical cues from predators, which makes the fish less vulnerable to gape-limited predators. The active components originate in conspecifics eaten by predators, and are found in the filtrate of homogenised conspecific skin. Chemical alarm signals, causing fright reactions, have been the suspected inducers of such morphological changes. We improved the extraction procedure of alarm signals by collecting the supernatant after centrifugation of skin homogenates. This removes the minute …