Background: Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a progressive stage of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), is characterized by steatosis with inflammation. Investigations have suggested that oxidative stress may play an important role in the progress of NAFLD to NASH. To provide further insights into beneficial effects of antioxidants in NASH prevention, we employed two manganese-supero...

background nafld/nash is a manifestation of metabolic syndrome and is associated with obesity/overweight. not all obese/overweight individuals develop nash. gastro-esophageal reflux disease (gerd) is considered a gastrointestinal manifestation of the metabolic syndrome and is associated with obesity/overweight. again not all obese/overweight individuals develop gerd. recent data show associatio...

The classical bankruptcy problem (O’Neill, 1982) is extended by assuming that there are multiple estates to be divided. In the finite case, there are finitely many estates and the agents have homogenous preferences, i.e., constant utilities, per estate, but preferences may differ across estates. In the general case, i.e., the infinite estate problem, players have arbitrary preferences over an i...

Cake cutting is a fundamental model in fair division; it represents the problem of fairly allocating a heterogeneous divisible good among agents with different preferences. The central criteria of fairness are proportionality and envy-freeness, and many of the existing protocols are designed to guarantee proportional or envy-free allocations, when the participating agents follow the protocol. H...

Ž Ž .. AS IS WELL KNOWN, Maskin monotonicity Maskin 1977 is a necessary condition for a social choice correspondence to be Nash implementable. In economic environments with at least three agents and a private good, this condition is also sufficient for Nash Ž . Ž . implementation. Remarkably, Abreu and Sen 1991 and Matsushima 1988 showed that this condition can be entirely dispensed with if the...

objective(s):non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (nash), is an important component of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) spectrum, which progresses to the end stage liver disease, if not diagnosed and treated properly. the disproportionate production of pro- and anti-inflammatory adipokines secreted from fat contributes to the pathogenesis of nash. in this study, the comparative effect of piog...

There exists a large literature on two-person bargaining games and distribution games (or divide-the-dollar games) under simple majority rule, where in equilibrium a minimal winning coalition takes full advantage over everyone else. Here we extend the study to an n-person veto game where players take turns proposing policies in an n-dimensional policy space and everybody has a veto over changes...