the present study aims to investigate the effect of noscapine (0.5-2.5 µm), an alkaloid from the opium poppy, on primary murine fetal cortical neurons exposed to oxygen–glucose deprivation (ogd), an in vitro model of ischemia. cells were transferred to glucose-free dmem (dulbecco's modified eagle medium) and were exposed to hypoxia in a small anaerobic chamber. cell viability and nitric ox...

In light of widespread agreement that poverty and social exclusion should be understood as multidimensional phenomenon, in this paper we explore the practical implications of such an understanding in relation to widely employed indicators of such phenomena in Ireland. One persistent critique of the current national measures of poverty and social exclusion comes from those who feel that the find...

ii SUMMARY The aim of this document is to study the multidimensional aspect of poverty in Guinea taking into account the monetary and non monetary dimensions for a better characterization of the poor. The work is done using data from the Full Base Survey on Poverty Assessment (FBSPA 2002-2003). The methodological approach of Dagum and Costa (2004) on the fuzzy set theory has been adopted which ...

The main objective of this study was to investigate modernism and relative deprivation in girls` tendency in the use of cosmetics. Today, among the range of young girls we have seen excessive use of cosmetics and this requirement could make industry to become more sustainable. Existing theoretical literature and previous research claim to influence modern appliances as a social pattern that has...

P overty and the so-called war against it provide a principal theme for the domestic program of the present Administration. In the midst of a population that enjoys un­ exampled material well-being-with the average annual family income exceed­ ing $7,000-it is officially acknowledged that some 18 million families, number­ ing more than 50 million individuals, live below the $3,000 "poverty line...

Multi-dimensional poverty index is an international measure of acute poverty covering over 104 countries. As everyone knows that Poverty is measured as a single dimensional index such as income. But income alone misses a lot because India is growing fast in economic perspective but health, education and living standard not improved yet. It is the fact that India’s per capita income lies in one ...

This paper introduces a measure of distribution-sensitivity, which is similar to Arrow-Pratt's measure of risk aversion, for a poverty index. The measure also gauges poverty aversion and has a clear and straightforward interpretation. Using this measure, we can define various classes of minimum distribution-sensitive poverty indices. We show that the ordering condition for such a class of pover...