Objective: Previous studies reported that asafetida from Ferula assa-foetida Linn. species and its essential oil (AEO) have antioxidant effects. In the present study, the effect of AEO was evaluated on ischemic-reperfusion injury in isolated rat hearts. Materials and Methods: Forty-eight male Wistar rats were divided into 6 groups: 1) control group, 2) vehicle group, 3-5) AEO groups and, 6) car...

ASE sessions at the 2014 ASSA Philadelphia, January 3-5, 2014 ! The Role of Economic Rights and the Law in Social Economics: a Classic Natural Law Perspective !! Stefano Solari Università di Padova, Departement of Economics & Management [email protected] http://www.giuri.unipd.it/~solari/ ! !!! first draft !!!!! Abstract The paper presents a legal approach to social economics, that is to ...

This paper surveys some of the theoretical and econometric issues involved in estimating growth models that include military spending. In particular, it critically evaluates the commonly used Feder-Ram model, detailing its problems and limitations and suggesting a more acceptable theoretical approach. It also surveys the econometric issues involved in estimating these models and uses a panel of...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most prevalent form of progressive degenerative dementia and it has a high socio-economic impact in Western countries, therefore is one of the most active research areas today. Its diagnosis is sometimes made by excluding other dementias, and definitive confirmation must be done trough a post-mortem study of the brain tissue of the patient. The purpose of this pa...

Policy exploration for downtown revitalization gets becoming important in also Japan. This article deals with a modeling and simulation project of downtown visitors' shop-around behavior using an intelligent agent approach, by mainly devising and implementing planning (dynamic scheduling/ rescheduling), learning and adaptation functions. In this article, first, we explain the architecture of AS...

Do men and women have different social preferences? Previous findings are contradictory. We provide a potential explanation using evidence from a field experiment. In a door-to-door solicitation, men and women are equally generous, but women become less generous when it becomes easy to avoid the solicitor. Our structural estimates of the social preference parameters suggest an explanation: wome...

background: development of biodegradable and biocompatible films based on protein polymer with strong antioxidant and antibacterial activities has gradually obtained extensive concern in the world. in this study, the improvement of gelatin film properties incorporated with ferula assa-foetida essential oil (fao) as a potential antioxidant/antibacterial wound dressing film was investigated. mate...

This study offers new evidence on the effects of the matching contributions made by employers to 401(k) plan accounts on plan participation rates, exploiting microdata from the National Compensation Survey, a large, nationally representative, establishment dataset. It addresses the potential endogeneity of the matching contributions by employing coworker and labor market characteristics as inst...