Like other physiological functions, food intake and metabolism (including alcohol consumption) in humans and animal models may be regulated by circadian rhythm. For example, many studies of rodents have found that alcohol consumption in these nocturnal animals peaks during their active dark period. This alcohol consumption pattern can be influenced, however, by experimental manipulation. One fa...

Artificial Neural Network (ANN) has been used in nonlinear systems modeling and simulation. One of the most useful and interesting factors of ANNs is forecasting. This paper discusses the application of ANNs to predict the long range energy consumption for a country. In this study the long-term energy consumption for the years ahead is predicted, exploiting ANN computational speed, ability to h...

The utility company has many motivations for modifying energy consumption patterns of consumers such as revenue decoupling and demand response programs. We model the utility company–consumer interaction as a reverse Stackelberg game and present an iterative algorithm to design incentives for consumers while estimating their utility functions. Incentives are designed using the aggregated as well...

This paper introduces consumption externalities in a one-sector Ramsey model with heterogeneous households and borrowing constraints. Externalities are taken into account by writing that the felicity functions depend on the consumption of all the households of the economy. Focusing on the class of equilibria in which the most patient household owns the whole capital stock, it is proved that the...

We consider the infinite horizon optimal consumption-investment problem under the drawdown constraint, i.e. the wealth process never falls below a fixed fraction of its running maximum. We assume that the risky asset is driven by the constant coefficients Black and Scholes model. For a general class of utility functions, we provide the value function in explicit form, and we derive closed-form ...

A bioartificial liver (BAL) will bridge patients with acute liver failure (ALF) to either spontaneous regeneration or liver transplantation. The nitrogen metabolism is important in ALF, and the metabolism of nonparenchymal liver cells (NPCs) is poorly understood. The scope of this study was to investigate whether cocultivation of hepatocytes with NPCs would augment the functions of a BAL (HN-BA...

This study investigated the recovery of renal proximal tubule cellular (RPTC) functions following oxidant-induced sublethal injury. tert-Butylhydroperoxide (TBHP) treatment resulted in 24% cell death and loss 4 h following the exposure. The remaining sublethally injured RPTC proliferated, and monolayer DNA content returned to control values on day 4 following TBHP exposure. Basal oxygen consump...

INTRODUCTION To compare the performance of the Framingham and SCORE functions to estimate fatal cardiovascular events. In addition, we explored the ability of both functions to detect the risk contributed by factors not included in their equations: sedentariness, obesity, abdominal circumference, abdomen/height razón, abdomen/pelvis ratio, and excessive alcohol consumption. METHODS We perform...

Every three years, Indonesia fields simultaneously two nationwide surveys which collect consumption data. One collects consumption using 23 questions, the other using 320 questions. Based on a repeated experiment in which the two questionnaires were randomly assigned across households, I examine the consequences of using a higher level of aggregation in questioning. A mapping of distribution fu...