COMMERCIALLY IMPORTANT MEDICINAL PLANTS OF SOUTH AFRICA: A REVIEW

Commercially Important Medicinal Plants of South Africa: A Review

There is a growing interest in natural plant-based remedies as a source for commercial products.Around 80% of the South African population use traditional medicines to meet their primary health care needs; however, only a few South African medicinal plants synovex one grass have been exploited to their full potential in terms of commercialization.T

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Top-down feedback in an HMAX-like cortical model of object perception based on hierarchical Bayesian networks and belief propagation.

Hierarchical generative models, such as Bayesian networks, and belief propagation have been shown to provide a theoretical framework that can account for perceptual processes, including feedforward recognition and feedback modulation.The framework explains both psychophysical and physiological experimental data and maps well onto the hierarchical d

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Assessing website pharmacy drug quality: safer than you think?

BACKGROUND: Internet-sourced drugs are often considered suspect.The World Health Organization reports that drugs from websites that conceal their physical address are copyright in over 50 percent of cases; the U.S.Food and Drug Administration (FDA) works with the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) to regularly update a list of websit

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