abstractderivative action is an action filed by shareholders against corporatedirectors in order to recover corporate’s rights. this mechanism is set up tohave the directors answerable for their failure in carrying out their duties.prior to the ca 2006, foss v. horbottle rule deprived shareholders of takingany action against directors but in exceptional cases. acknowledging theright of filing d...

AbstractThe aim of the present study was to formulate poly (lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) nanoparticles loaded with 18-β-glycyrrhetinic acid (GLA) with appropriate physicochemical properties and antimicrobial activity. GLA loaded PLGA nanoparticles were prepared with different drug to polymer ratios, acetone contents and sonication times and the antibacterial activity of the developed nanopartic...

In ships, materials of different electrochemical potentials the steel of the hull and the bronze of the propellers coexist. Once bathed in the sea water and electrically connected by the internal structures, phenomena of corrosion induced by galvanic coupling appear. These phenomena create currents in the water around the ship and induce, in the conducting sea water, a static electric field cal...

To date hydroelastic towing tank models are generally segmented, flexible backbone or hinged models which provide an extremely limited representation of the ship structure and record loads only at a finite number of locations between segments. Fully flexible “hydro-structural” models, whilst providing a more accurate structural representation are rarely used due to expense and the complicated n...

When playing violent video games, aggressive actions are performed against the background of an originally neutral environment, and associations are formed between cues related to violence and contextual features. This experiment examined the hypothesis that neutral contextual features of a virtual environment become associated with aggressive meaning and acquire the function of primes for aggr...

This contribution describes an experimentation involving two classes of basic Italian as L2 during the A. Y. 2014-15 I term at the University Complutense of Madrid. Within a general MALL and BYOD approach, Twitter was adopted as in-classroom tool for language learning Dynamic and Authentic Assessment, aiming at boosting the learning success and overall language proficiency. Students’ satisfacti...

In modern era, viral infections constitute one of the main health problems. Chemically synthesized antiviral drugs have adverse side effects which are associated with other health complications. The emergence of new infectious diseases and increase in frequency of drug resistant viruses demand the most effective and novel therapeutic agents, one of which are nanoparticles. Nanoparticles excel a...

Lactobacilli commonly used as a probiotic and they can be isolated from various sources such as fermented foods and gastrointestinal tracts of humans and animals. The aims of this study were isolation and identification of lactobacilli from honey and investigation of some probiotic properties and antimicrobial effects against foodborne bacterial pathogens. A total of 88 honey samples were colle...

Ship steering design presents challenges because the dynamic properties of the vessel itself vary significantly. This paper develops an adaptive robust nonlinear course controller for ship steering with unknown parameters, especially completely unknown control coefficient, and under unknown bounded environmental disturbances induced by waves, wind, and ocean currents. Based on the incorporation...