Analisis Kualitatif Zat Bioaktif Pada Ekstrak Daun Alpukat (Persea Americana Mill) Dan Uji Praklinis Dalam Menurunkan Kadar Glukosa Darah Pada Mencit (Mus Musculus)

Diabetes is the oldest disease in the world, the death rate cause by diabetes mellitus is increasing. This study aims to know bioactive substances of avocado leaf and effective concentrate in decreasing the level of mice blood glucose. The study apply experimetal method to analyze bioactive substance in avocado leaf extract qualitatively. Whereas the preclinical testing use random group design. This study used 15 male mice as test animal which are induced with etilen diamin tetra asetat (EDTA). The mice are divided into 5 groups (n=5) randomly with different treatment. Treatment I, II, III are given avocado leaf extarct each with concentrate of 10%, 20% and 40%, treatment IV is given suspension of glibenklamid as a positive control (+) and treatment V is given 1% suspension of sodium carboxymethil cellulose (Na-CMC) as a negative control (-). Data obtained is analysed by using statistical analysis of varians (ANOVA) wich is continued with Duncan test. The research result shows that advocado leaf extract positively contains compounds of alkaloid, flavonoid, saponin, tanin and steroid. Praclinic test shows that advocado leaf extract proven can lower the level of mice glucose and relatively the most effective concentrate is 10%

Vortex Multiplication in Applied Flow: the Precursor to Superfluid Turbulence

The dynamics of quantized vortices in rotating $^3$He-B is investigated in the low density (single-vortex) regime as a function of temperature. An abrupt transition is observed at $0.5 T_{\rm c}$. Above this temperature the number of vortex lines remains constant, as they evolve to their equilibrium positions. Below this temperature the number of vortices increases linearly in time until the vortex density has grown sufficiently for turbulence to switch on. On the basis of numerical calculations we suggest a mechanism responsible for vortex formation at low temperatures and identify the mutual friction parameter which governs its abrupt temperature dependence.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures; version submitted to Phys. Rev. Let

Superconducting Nb-film LC resonator

Sputtered Nb thin-film LC resonators for low frequencies at 0.5 MHz have been fabricated and tested in the temperature range 0.05--1 K in magnetic fields up to 30 mT. Their Q value increases towards decreasing temperature as sqrt(T) and reaches 10^3 at 0.05 K. As a function of magnetic field Q is unstable and displays variations up to 50%, which are reproducible from one field sweep to the next. These instabilities are attributed to dielectric losses in the plasma deposited SiO_2 insulation layer, since the thin-film coil alone reaches a Q > 10^5 at 0.05 K.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Review of Scientific Instrument

AB interface in rotating superfluid He-3: the first example of a superfluid shear-flow instability.

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability takes place on the interface between two horizontally stratified fluid layers which are in a state of relative shear flow with respect to each other. The problem was solved for the ideal case of inviscid and incompressible fluids in 1871 by Lord Kelvin. The first case of superfluid shear flow has been discovered in uniformly rotating superfluid He-3, when the phase boundary between the A and B phases is maintained at a stable location with a magnetic barrier field. At sufficiently high rotation the AB interface undergoes an instability, in which the interface becomes corrugated in a standing-wave pattern. The critical velocity of this process displays the temperature and magnetic field dependences which fit the characteristics of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved