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Ask Your Doctor About MegaNatural®-BP

GSEs (grape seed extracts) which contain polyphenolic compounds cause an endotheliumdependent relaxation of blood vessels. The aim of the present study was to examine the mechanisms involved in this response. A well-characterized GSE was applied to rabbit aortic rings suspended in organ baths containing Krebs–Henseleit buffer maintained at 37 ◦C. In aortic rings pre-contacted with noradrenaline...

Ask Your Doctor? Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Pharmaceuticals

We measure the impact of direct-to-consumer television advertising (DTCA) by drug manufacturers. Our identification strategy exploits shocks to local advertising markets generated by the political advertising cycle and a regulatory intervention affecting a single product. We find evidence of significant business stealing effects among branded, advertised drugs. In addition, we show positive spi...

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Employee Motivation: “Just Ask Your Employees”

Employee motivation is an intricate and sophisticated subject; however, contemporary managers must face and deal with this topic to obtain organizational success. To enhance understanding of employee motivation, mangers must recognize the imperativeness of employee motivation, its concepts, and differences in individual needs. Subsequently, managers need to be aware of a variety of employee mot...

Get Your Jokes Right: Ask the Crowd

Jokes classification is an intrinsically subjective and complex task, mainly due to the difficulties related to cope with contextual constraints on classifying each joke. Nowadays people have less time to devote to search and enjoy humour and, as a consequence, people are usually interested on having a set of interesting filtered jokes that could be worth reading, that is with a high probabilit...