The Sicilian Mafia For some people‚ the mere mention of the name “Mafia” paints a portrait in the subconscious of burly or corpulent‚ thuggish-looking men‚ with peppered or jet black hair‚ a scar somewhere on their face‚ dressed in black or gray pinstriped suits garnished with a flower in their lapel‚ a fedora cocked angularly over their brow‚ their necks and fingers decorated in gold jewelry‚ and carrying a briefcase or any means of transportation for weapons or money. This image is typically
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1. Before you read‚ decide which of three explanations for the extinction of the dinosaurs you like best. Write an explanation of why you like it. Sex: Testes function only in a narrow range of temperature. (Those of mammals hang externally in a scrotal sac because internal body temperatures are too high for their proper function.) A worldwide rise in temperature at the close of the Cretaceous period caused the testes of dinosaurs to stop functioning and led to their extinction by sterilization
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Eric Sorenson Leaf Spray: Direct Chemical Analysis of Plant Material by Mass Spectrometry Jiangjiang Liu‚† He Wang‚† R. Graham Cooks‚*‚‡‚§ and Zheng Ouyang*‚†‚§ †Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering‚ ‡Department of Chemistry‚ and §Center for Analytical Instrumentation Development‚ Purdue University‚ West Lafayette‚ Indiana 47907‚ United States Analytical Chemistry ACS Publications Published September 14‚ 2011 This research article written by the researchers Jiangjiang Liu‚ He Wang‚ R.
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177 Global Journal of Medicinal Plant Research‚ 1(2): 177-183‚ 2013 ISSN 2074-0883 Assessment of the safety of tawa-tawa (Euphorbia hirta L.) decoction as alternative folkloric medicine 1 Sharon Rose M. Tabugo‚ 1Rolliebert B. Rampola‚ 2Edgar Vasallo Jr.‚ 1Ma. Reina Suzette B. Madamba 1 Department of Biological Sciences‚ College of Science and Mathematics‚ MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology‚ Iligan City; 2 Capitol University‚ Cagayan de Oro City ABSTRACT Euphorbia hirta
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Funny facts about humans 1. People are more likely to tilt their heads to the right when kissing instead of the left. 2. The human body weighs 40 times more than the brain. 3. You could remove a large part of your internal organs and survive. 4. The majority of American models are skinnier than 98% of American women. 5. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night. 6. A baby is born every seven seconds. 7. The Dutch people are known to be the tallest people in
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Why should we conserve plants and animals? I am arguing for conserving plants and animals. I will discuss how plants and animals have an impact on our lives and how this would be dramatically changed if they weren’t conserved. The word "conserve" means preservation‚ especially of the natural environment. In plants and animals case‚ it means‚ To keep in existence‚ to retain and to keep safe from harm or loss.1 Thousands of plant and animal species are being terminated every year due to many factors
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The occasional Board’s ancient duties embrace the promotion‚ sale and consumption of occasional in Republic of India and abroad; conducting occasional research; monetary help to determine tiny occasional growers; safeguarding operating conditions for labourers‚ and managing the excess pool of unsold occasional. Tata occasional Ltd (TCL)‚ a 57.48% subsidiary of Tata world Beverages Ltd. (TGBL) [earlier referred to as Tata Tea Ltd]‚ is Asia’s largest integrated producer of occasional. TCL is that the
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ABSTRACT Nature has been a source of medicinal agents for thousands of years and an impressive number of modern drugs have been isolated from natural sources Plants used for traditional medicine contain a wide range of substances that can be used to treat chronic as well as infectious diseases. Clinical microbiologists have great interest in screening of plants for antimicrobial activities and phytochemicals as potential new therapeutics. The use of plant extract for medical treatments is enjoying
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INTRODUCTION TLC chromatography or thin layer chromatography is a type of planar chromatography. TLC is routinely used by researcher in the field of phyto-chemicals‚ biochemistry etc. to identify the components in a compound mixture like alkaloids‚ phospholipids‚ amino acids etc. It is a semi quantitative method of analysis and its sophisticated version or highly precise quantitative version is High performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC). Similar to other
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Abstract: Stevia rebaudiana is an herb with a very high medicinal value. It has more than 100 phytochemicals. It is used as sugar substitute. The extracts from leaves are used for the microbial assay and study the antimicrobial activity. The microbes used for the testing the activities are E.coli‚ Staphylococcus aureus‚ Bacillus subtilis‚ Salmonella typhi‚ Aspergillusniger‚ Candida parapsilosis‚ Trichophyton rubrum. With different concentrations of the extracts starting from 2.5µg/ml‚ 5.0µg/ml‚ 7
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