Journal of Medicinal Plants Research Vol. 5(10)‚ pp. 2035-2040‚ 18 May‚ 2011 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/JMPR ISSN 1996-0875 ©2011 Academic Journals Full Length Research Paper Screening of chemical composition of essential oil‚ mineral elements and antioxidant activity in Pulicaria Undulata (L.) C. A. Mey from Iran Mehdi Ravandeh1‚ Jafar Valizadeh2*‚ Meissam Noroozifar1 and Mozhgan Khorasani-Motlagh1 1 Department of Chemistry‚ University of Sistan and Baluchestan‚ Zahedan
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How to Change Oil in Your Vehicle General maintenance on a vehicle is an essential skill that you can easily learn for your benefit. It doesn’t require many tools or time and will save money. In addition‚ most people experience a feeling of pride and independence when completing this handy task. Anybody can learn how to change their own oil. Changing oil is a necessity when it comes to proper engine care. There is one process and several steps taken to change oil in a car. A
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of edible oil | | | Oil and fat have always been an essential part of the human diet because of the energy they provide. Obtaining oil and fat from plants is a characteristic of many ancient cultures. There is evidence of the cultivation of plants that produce vegetable oils such as poppy seed‚ rapeseed and linen even in the Stone Age. The first oil presses were found on Crete from 3500 B.C. and Chinese sources from 2800 B.C. show that soy and hemp plants were used to produce oils. As vegetable
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The movie‚ "Lorenzo’s Oil"‚ was about a family that found out that their son had been diagnosed with a rare‚ genetic disorder of which was considered incurable. The sex-linked disorder ALD‚ passed on by the x-chromosome‚ of which is usually accompanied by the unfortunate fate of death‚ has also been known to bring forth muteness‚ blindness‚ comas‚ seizures‚ and deafness. With no known cure for ALD‚ or any possible way of escaping its final result (death)‚ doctors would use a special treatment to
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Madonna in a Church is a small oil panel on oak by Flemish painter Jan van Eyck. Madonna in a church was made between c. 1438-1440. Van Eyck has been traditionally credited with the invention of painting in oils‚ and‚ although this is incorrect‚ there is no doubt that he was the real master of the technique. The use of oil paints is very significant in this artworkʼs luminescent quality and presentation of space. The artist creates a new relationship between the viewer and the picture. There is an
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contents of art work were limited. Oil painting became popular because it could facilitate the exactitude in rendering details. With oil medium‚ artists created richer color than previously had been possible‚ giving their paintings an intense tonality‚ the illusion of glowing light and enamel-like surfaces. Robert Campin was one of the earliest masters of oil painting. His most famous work is Merode altarpiece‚ a private commission for household prayer. Oil painting allowed the artist to paint every
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effect on warfare. The invention of the printing press in Europe would cause innumerable changes to society boosting literacy rates and helping supporting the intellectual renewal of Europe. Oil painting techniques became widely adopted forming the bases of Venetian style painting while also allowing paintings to survive to the present day because of increased durability. Our first example of technological diffusion is the firearm whose vital component‚ gunpowder‚ made its way to Europe sometime
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deploys to achieve their goals such as size‚ space‚ composition‚ perspective‚ line‚ colour and subject matter can help a viewer discern what the artist was trying to convey – his final goal. In his 1871 oil on panel painting Waiting for the Train‚ Jacques Joseph Tissot uses the formal elements of painting to draw the viewer into his work and to get them to begin to contemplate not only it’s subject matter but their place within it. Waiting for the Train does not immediately command it’s space within
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used. The specific type of art that Jan van Eyck did was oil paintings. Next to nothing is known about Jan van Eyck’s brother. Many of his paintings were completed by Jan‚ which leads to a conclusion that Hubert may have taught Jan a great deal about art. But Jan van Eyck’s gifting was in oil‚ different from traditional Netherland art. His use of oil paints in his detailed panel paintings resulted in him being known as the father of oil painting. Both Giorgio Vasari‚ (in his Lives of the Artists‚ 1550)
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This painting is by Guastave Courbet who created it in 1866. The painting has a close up view of a woman lying on a bed. The painting specifically show her belly and the legs are spread. According to the painting‚ this is a Caucasian woman. Her breasts are developed and she has pubic hair. We can tell by her body size shows that she is a mature woman. The head and arms are covered by something and they are not part of the view. The first thing you think of when you see this picture‚ is the nudity
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