44 research outputs found
Pomegranate juice consumption reduces simulated ischemic stroke damage and increases brain antioxidant status in rats
No full textPomegranate phytochemicals / Navindra P. Seeram ... [et al.] -- Antioxidative properties of pomegranate : in vitro studies / Mira Rosenblat and Michael Aviram -- Bioavailability of pomegranate polyphenols / Francisco A. Tom?s-Barber?n, Navindra P. Seeram, and Juan Carlos Esp?n -- Protection against cardiovascular disease / Bianca Fuhrman and Michael Aviram -- Protection against stroke / Marva I. Sweeney-Nixon -- Anticancer potential of pomegranate / Shishir Shishodia ... [et al.] -- Molecular mechanisms of chemoprevention of cancer by pomegranate / Deeba Syed ... [et al.] -- Pomegranate and prostate cancer chemoprevention / John T. Leppert and Allan J. Pantuck -- Assessment of estrogenicity of pomegranate in an in vitro bioassay / Diane M. Harris, Emily Besselink, and Navindra P. Seeram -- Absence of significant estrogenic effects in the postmenopausal population / Michelle P. Warren ... [et al.] -- Antimicrobial activities of pomegranate / G.K. Jayaprakasha, P.S. Negi, B.S. Jena -- Commercialization of pomegranates : fresh fruit, beverages, and botanical extracts / Navindra P. Seeram, Yanjun Zhang, and David Heber -- Pomegranates: a botanical perspective / David W. Still -- Postharvest biology and technology of pomegranates / Adel A. Kader
Reforming WTO rules on state-owned enterprises
No full textThe purpose of this research is to make proposals to the World Trade Organization (i.e., the WTO) rules to address the problem of granting advantages to state-owned enterprises (SOEs). SOEs tend to receive various advantages, including financial advantages, monopolies and exclusive, regulatory advantages and so on, leading to economic concerns. The problem is typical in the context of China. However, current WTO rules are not sufficient to address the problem of SOEs receiving various advantages.
The dissertation makes recommendations to improve them. It makes three types of proposals, i.e., trade remedies proposals, trade rules proposals, and competition rules proposals. It assesses these
proposals in terms of the possibility of implementing them, particularly the political willingness of WTO Members to accept these proposals. Lastly, I lay out the framework for the competition rules proposals which prevail in my analysis.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2019-12-01The student, Yingying Wu, accepted the attached license on 2017-10-18 at 03:15.The student, Yingying Wu, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2017-10-18 at 03:17.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2017-10-24 at 09:09.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #11689 on 2018-03-13 at 10:33:05Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-13T17:29:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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A public choice analysis of developing constitutional review in contemporary China
No full textConstitutional review, the idea that adjudicators have the authority to invalidate laws or governmental actions that conflict with the constitution, has spread around the world over the past two centuries. However, there is no constitutional review in contemporary China. This dissertation uses the methodology of public choice theory to examine the feasibility of developing constitutional review in modern China.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2019-12-01The student, Aisi Zhang, accepted the attached license on 2017-11-21 at 16:38.The student, Aisi Zhang, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2017-11-21 at 16:40.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2017-11-27 at 09:21.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #11748 on 2018-03-13 at 10:33:23Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-13T17:29:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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A gate-tunable single-molecule diode
No full textIn the pursuit of down-sizing electronic components, the ultimate limit is the use of single molecules as functional devices. The first theoretical proposal of such a device, predicted more than four decades ago, is the seminal Aviram–Ratner rectifier that exploits the orbital structure of the molecule. The experimental realization of single-molecule rectifiers, however, has proven to be challenging. In this work, we report on the experimental realization of a gate-tunable single-molecule rectifier with rectification ratios as high as 600. The rectification mechanism arises from the molecular structure and relies on the presence of two conjugated sites that are weakly coupled through a saturated linker. The observed gate dependence not only demonstrates tunability of the rectification ratio, it also shows that the proposed rectification mechanism based on the orbital structure is operative in the molecule
Emerg Infect Dis
No full textThis 2-year cross-sectional evaluation of nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infections involved all Israeli medical centers that treat cystic fibrosis patients. The study comprised 186 patients whose sputum was analyzed for NTM. The prevalence of NTM isolates was 22.6%, and 6.5% and 10.8% of the patients fulfilled the 1997 and 2007 American Thoracic Society criteria for NTM lung disease, respectively. Mycobacterium simiae (40.5%), M. abscessus (31.0%), and M. avium complex (14.3%) were the most prevalent. Presence of Aspergillus spp. in sputum and the number of sputum specimens processed for mycobacteria were the most significant predictors for isolation of NTM (odds ratio [OR] = 5.14, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.87-14.11 and OR = 1.47, 95% CI 1.17-1.85, respectively). The incidence of NTM pulmonary infections is increasing among cystic fibrosis patients, reflecting the increase in longevity of such patients as well as environmental exposure to various species of mycobacteria
Overlap effects on electron transmission through doped molecular wires
No full textThe electron transmission properties of a molecular wire, containing a single impurity, are investigated in the context of the tight-binding approximation. The inclusion of overlap gives rise to nonorthogonal orbitals, whose treatment requires a tensorial formalism to obtain the Green function arising in the Lippmann-Schwinger equation approach to the transmission probability T(E). The presence of overlap has profound effects on the T(E) curves. In particular, two antiresonances appear, which are governed by different conditions. The T(E) behavior, throughout the parametric space in question, is described in detail. It is clear that a viable theory of electron transmission should take account of overlap. The tensorial procedure, adopted here, provides a direct means of doing so.PT: J; CR: ARTACHO E, 1991, PHYS REV A, V43, P5770 AVIRAM A, 1998, MOL ELECT SCI TECHNO DAVISON SG, 1992, BASIC THEORY SURFACE EMBERLY E, 1998, PHYS REV LETT, V81, P5205 EMBERLY EG, 1999, J PHYS-CONDENS MAT, V11, P6911 ENGLISH RA, 1994, PHYS REV B, V49, P8718 ENGLISH RA, 1998, J PHYS-CONDENS MAT, V10, P4423 FARCHIONI R, 2001, ORGANIC ELECT MAT JORTNER J, 1997, MOL ELECT LIPPMANN BA, 1950, PHYS REV, V79, P469 LOHEZ D, 1983, PHYS REV B, V27, P5007 MARSDEN JE, 1973, BASIC COMPLEX ANAL MIRABELLA DA, 1994, AM J PHYS, V62, P162 RATNER MA, 1990, J PHYS CHEM-US, V94, P4877 SAUTET P, 1988, PHYS REV B, V38, P12238 SLATER JC, 1930, PHYS REV, V35, P509; NR: 16; TC: 5; J9: PHYS REV B; PG: 7; GA: 687MFSource type: Electronic(1
Electron transmission through a doped semi-conducting atomic wire
No full textThe electron transmission properties of a semiconducting wire are investigated via the tight-binding approximation. The wire is modeled as a chain of sp-hybrid orbitals, including overlap effects. The transmission probability is calculated using the tensorial Green function method. An impurity in the chain is shown to be able to serve as a switch for transmission through either its Coulomb integral or its overlap. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.PT: J; CR: AVIRAM A, 1998, MOL ELECT SCI TECHNO DOUMERGUE P, 1999, PHYS REV B, V59, P15910 EMBERLY E, 1998, PHYS REV LETT, V81, P5205 EMBERLY EG, 1999, J PHYS-CONDENS MAT, V11, P6911 ENGLISH RA, 1994, PHYS REV B, V49, P8718 FARCHIONI R, 2001, ORGANIC ELECT MAT HARRIS PJ, 2001, CARBON NANOTUBES REL JORTNER J, 1997, MOL ELECT LIPPMANN BA, 1950, PHYS REV, V79, P469 MISKOVIC ZL, 1996, PHYS REV B, V54, P255 RATNER MA, 1990, J PHYS CHEM-US, V94, P4877 SAUTET P, 1988, PHYS REV B, V38, P12238 SULSTON KW, 2003, PHYS REV B, V67; NR: 13; TC: 0; J9: CHEM PHYS; PG: 6; GA: 930CDSource type: Electronic(1
The anticommons problem in China’s landownership system and its reform
No full textThis is a law and economics study trying to analyze China’s current law and policy about landownership. During its fast industrialization and urbanization process, it is widely believed that China has been suffering from the inconsistency between the growing demands of assembled urban land and factually highly fragmented suburban and rural land. Based on this knowledge, the China government’s expropriation power is economically justified. The logic is that the traditional absolute property right or privatization conception should yield to the more realistic economic benefits, and China’s long-lasting economic miracle endorses this theory.
However, this theory cannot explain the fact that China’s economic takeoff exactly synchronized with its landownership fragmentation process. Also, with stressing on its efficiency of saving “transaction cost” by avoiding costly bargaining between right holders and land assemblers, this theory selectively ignores the expropriation power’s externality, or the social costs. Gradually, these costs become less invisible. Even though, China still has to face the land fragmentation problem. When a functional alternative institution has not emerged, the government will not disarm itself.
In this thesis, I try to promote an autonomous bargain institution to substitute the state’s direct economic interventions. Before this proposal, I analyzed that why the current expropriation institution could happen in China instead of other “similar” transitional countries, and also answered the question that why the same land distribution management promoted China’s economy but soon becomes an obstacle after less than 20 years.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I only', the embargo will last until 2017-08-01The student, Ye Feng, accepted the attached license on 2015-07-16 at 17:48.The student, Ye Feng, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2015-07-16 at 18:01.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2015-07-17 at 14:03.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #8513 on 2015-09-29 at 15:00:15Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-29T20:50:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Clinical impact of Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonization in patients with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia
No full textBackground: Airway infections in Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) are caused by different microorganisms, including pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA). The aim of this study was to investigate the association of PA colonization and the progression of lung disease in PCD.Methods: Data from 11PCD centers were retrospectively collected from 2008 to 2013. Patients were considered colonized if PA grew on at least two separate sputum cultures; otherwise, they were classified as non-colonized. These two groups were compared on the lung function computed tomography (Cr) Brody score and other clinical parameters.Results: Data were available from 217 patients; 60 (27.6%) of whom were assigned to the colonized group. Patients colonized with PA were older and were diagnosed at a later age. Baseline forced expiratory volume at 1 s (FEV1) was lower in the colonized group (72.4 +/- 22.0 vs. 80.1 +/- 18.9, % predicted, p = 0.015), but FEV1 declined throughout the study period was similar in both groups. The colonized group had significantly worse CT-Brody scores (36.07 +/- 24.38 vs. 25.56 +/- 24.2, p = 0.034). A subgroup analysis with more stringent definitions of colonization revealed similar results.Conclusions: Lung PA colonization in PCD is associated with more severe disease as shown by the FEV1 and CT score. However, the magnitude of decline in pulmonary function was similar in colonized and non colonized PCD patients. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
