Natural Products: Ray of Hope for Anxiety Disorders

Background: Anxiety, a familiar form of psychiatric disorder, influences numerous persons throughout the world. These psychological disorders frequently need an enduring regime of recommended medicines and impose huge costs on human societies. For the last few decenniums, discovery in the field of natural neurophysiology garnered a lot of recognition because of its least side effects. Objective: Many people find it helpful to discover an effective herbal remedy for anxiety with fewer detrimental repercussions. The purpose of the present article is to report medicinal plant species used as anti-anxiety agents, which in turn, are helpful to develop new anti-anxiety herbal formulations. Method: An unlimited, semantic electronic and manual exploration of PubMed, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, ISI, Google Scholar, Elsevier's abstract and citation database, and the database libraries was carried using keywords such as medicinal plants, herbal drugs, traditional medicine, and anxiety for recognizing natural medications in the management of anxiety disorders. Results: Literary review collected the information of potential anti-anxiety plants. Data support the effectiveness of some popular herbal remedies by indicating high-quality scientific studies and support several clinically efficacious natural plants as anxiolytics. Conclusion: Evidence-based studies indicate that natural plant treatment is an efficient way to manage anxiety disorders; the benefits outweigh the risks.

The Vigor of Confederacies

The chief way in which the Greeks united in the third century in order to be able to offer resistance to Macedon was by forming large federal states. The two greatest of these were based in Achaea and in Aetolia, but both quickly spread well beyond these ethnic borders. “Aetolia” came to mean almost all of central Greece, and “Achaea” much of the Peloponnese. I discuss the differences between confederacies and the most familiar form of ancient Greek polity, the polis, and show how confederacies gained their strengths, before focusing on the structures set up by the Aetolians and Achaeans. By the time Antigonus came to the Macedonian throne, the Achaeans were on the rise, but the Aetolians were already a powerful threat. They had spearheaded the Greek repulsion of the Celts from central Greece, thus preserving Delphi, the most important of the Greeks’ common religious centers, and they used this as a springboard for further expansion. Antigonus treated them warily throughout his reign.

Promising technologies for improving the efficiency of specialized aviation and rocket-space communication systems

Развитие авиационных и ракетно-космических систем специальной связи в настоящий момент характеризуется увеличением объемов речевых информационных сообщений. Речь, как наиболее привычная форма общения, позволяет выражать эмоции и личные качества говорящего, чего гораздо сложнее добиться иными путями информационного обмена. Растущий спрос на голосовую связь порождает необходимость выработки перспективных технологий повышения эффективности функционирования таких систем, анализ которых и проведен в данной статье. The development of aviation and rocket-space systems of special communication is currently characterized by an increase in the volume of speech information messages. Speech, as the most familiar form of communication, allows you to express the emotions and personal qualities of the speaker, which is much more difficult to achieve in other ways of information exchange. The growing demand for voice communication creates the need to develop promising technologies to improve the efficiency of such systems, the analysis of which is carried out in this article.

Flavour mixing transport theory and resonant leptogenesis

We derive non-equilibrium quantum transport equations for flavour-mixing fermions. We develop the formalism mostly in the context of resonant leptogenesis with two mixing Majorana fermions and one lepton flavour, but our master equations are valid more generally in homogeneous and isotropic systems. We give a hierarchy of quantum kinetic equations, valid at different approximations, that can accommodate helicity and arbitrary mass differences. In the mass-degenerate limit the equations take the familiar form of density matrix equations. We also derive the semiclassical Boltzmann limit of our equations, including the CP-violating source, whose regulator corresponds to the flavour coherence damping rate. Boltzmann equations are accurate and insensitive to the particular form of the regulator in the weakly resonant case ∆m » Γ, but for ∆m ≲ Γ they are qualitatively correct at best, and their accuracy crucially depends on the form of the CP-violating source.

SURGICAL MASK AS A SYMBOL OF LIFE TRANSFORMATION

The article examines the history of the emergence and use of surgical masks. Despite such a significant variety of masks types,the meaning and main function of them are the same in any case: to cover the face, not to let you see emotions, experience, feelings that are always reflected on the face. Hiding the face from others, translated from the language of symbols, means the symbolic "death of the person". The person who puts on the mask "dies", ceases to exist in the familiar form for others and is "reborn" in a new form. Such self-transformation affects not only a different perception for others, but also self-awareness. The surgical mask, updated during the coronavirus pandemic, is becoming a part of people's lives instead of a medical attribute. Today there is a whole world behind these masks: human health, environmental crisis, identity crisis, protest symbol, and surgical masks exacerbate alienation and create an external standardization and template. We would like this symbolic meaning of confusion and fear, loneliness and isolation, uncertainty about the future to turn into a sign of care and a gesture of community of people.

Тotal probability formula for vector gaussian distributions

The total probability formula for continuous random variables is the integral of product of two probability density functions that defines the unconditional probability density function from the conditional one. The need for calculation of such integrals arises in many applications, for instant, in statistical decision theory. The statistical decision theory attracts attention due to the ability to formulate the problems in a strict mathematical form. One of the technical problems solved by the statistical decision theory is the problem of dual control that requires calculation of integrals connected with the multivariate probability distributions. The necessary integrals are not available in the literature. One theorem on the total probability formula for vector Gaussian distributions was published by the authors earlier. In this paper we repeat this theorem and prove a new theorem that uses more familiar form of the initial data and has more familiar form of the result. The new form of the theorem allows us to obtain the unconditional mathematical expectation and the unconditional variance-covariance matrix very simply. We also confirm the new theorem by direct calculation for the case of the simple linear regression.

The French Hong: The Physical Plant

Chapter 5 focuses on the buildings that provided the French with living, work, and warehouse space in Canton; over the years, they rented at least seven different ones, and occasionally more than one at a time. They most often referred to these structures, which were a familiar form of Cantonese vernacular architecture, as hangs or hams (hongs), and only rarely as factoreries (factories). Their 1767 renovations to the façade of the hong that they rented from the merchant Tinqua were widely emulated by other trading nations on the Canton riverfront; less impressively, control of the same hong was twice a cause of major friction among French traders, the second time with long-lasting consequences. Besides identifying the various French hongs and locations, building structure, layout, furnishings, and residents, the chapter also explores the significance of the hong, to both the Chinese and the international community, as the symbol of a nation’s success in the Canton Trade. As the outward expression of a nation’s presence in Canton, the hong served as the public face of that nation, and thus came to assume an importance that far exceeded any merely physical function.

Carnival of Education: between McDonald’s and Traditionalism

The article by P.A. Orekhovsky and V.I. Razumov expresses the attitude of the Russian professors to the processes of transformation of domestic science and education and the search for their foundations, one of which was the concept of the carnival of M. Bakhtin. The applicability of this concept in relation to postmodern social reality is questionable, since the carnival involves the inversion of the “triumphant truth”, relativized in the familiar form of “buffoonery and debunking”. Modern reality no longer contains the “triumphant truth” that could be subjected to inversion; in this regard, only buffoonery remains from the concept of the carnival. We offer our own view on the foundations of the transformation of science and education in Russia, in a postmodern manner suggesting the duality of reality. The first is bureaucratic reality, described by the metaphor of McDonaldization (D. Ritzer), focused on the goal-oriented market relations of “educational services”, quantitative calculation of ratings and controllability of the system. The second reality is the collective unconscious of Russian teachers, whose position is not close to the carnival inversion of M. Bakhtin, but to the traditionalist mystical and religious inversion of R. Genon. Modernity appears to be a distortion of the primordial Tradition, the sacred initiation, in the role of which the Soviet system of science and education most often appears. Each phenomenon becomes the opposite of its true meaning - “servants” teachers, “athletes” scientists, “clowns” experts, while “true” science and education are presented as something self-evident. Both realities are not capable of dialogue, since the former is oriented towards market-oriented rationality and social opportunism, while the latter is oriented toward implicitly or explicitly sacred ethical values of the “cult of science and progress”. Under these conditions, it is naive for scientists to wait for an understanding of their intentions from the reality of the bureaucracy, but it is pointless and destructive to conflict with it. A more realistic way of developing science and education is the self-organization of the scientific community through the formation of circles and dialogue between them, which can be a real discussion.

Stability Numbers for Unsupported Conical Excavations in Multi-Layered Cohesive Soils

This paper presents the results of a numerical analysis into undrained stability of conical excavation in multi-layered clays. Stability predictions for a wide range of geometric and material combinations are calculated by finite element analyses. The results from the present analysis are expressed in the familiar form of stability numbers reflecting the effect of (1) angle of inclination, (2) depth ratio, which is relative top layer thickness to excavation depth, (3) strength difference between two layers on the rigid base, (4) width ratio, which is excavation height to radius at the bottom of excavation, and (5) thickness ratio, which is the ratio of the excavation height to thickness of soil 1 layers. The obtained stability numbers are compared with existing solutions published in the literature. The failure mechanism in multi-layered clays are also discussed in terms of the displacement pattern.

Strong Reading, or the Literary Conversion of the Urban

This chapter examines the phenomenon of “Strong reading,” named after the nineteenth-century New York lawyer, bibliophile, and diarist George Templeton Strong. As evidenced by Strong’s own historical example, the Strong reader placed such great faith in his traditional standards of literary discrimination that he proceeded to read all of urban life as if it were a work of literature. The unstated aim of this manner of city reading was to remake the more troubling aspects of urban life into a more familiar form of “text.” In turn, the Strong reader might have managed to convert the modern city into a safer kind of aesthetic spectacle, but he often purchased his interpretive reassurance at the expense of a less mediated relation to urban life.