Previous research has indicated a surprising statistically significant impact on the local economy in the city that wins the Super Bowl. An analysis of personal income growth in victorious Super Bowl cities from 1972-2000 cannot further confirm these results, finding no statistically significant effect on the local economies of these cities. JEL Classification Codes: L83 Sports; Gambling; Recre...

The features we present of the augmented bowl have been designed to exploit our commonsense understandings and everyday uses of container-like objects. As we’ll explain, in choosing the features, we’ve attempted to build on the ways in which physical content can be casually added to or retrieved from a bowl with little to no thought. We’ve also tried to capture the way bowls loosely contain the...

Fatty acid composition in membranes plays an important role in cellular processes and has shown to be associated with the aetiology of several complex diseases in humans. We report strong associations between variants in the human delta-5 and delta-6 desaturase genes FADS1 FADS2 and fatty acid composition in serum phospholipids. Eighteen polymorphisms located in this gene cluster were genotyped...

AIMS The present study aimed to investigate the interaction between erythrocyte phospholipid (PL) fatty acids and variants of inflammation-related genes in a Chinese population. METHODS A total of 622 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and 293 healthy subjects were included. Determination of erythrocyte PL fatty acids composition and genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms we...

The safety and shelf-life of food products can be, respectively, ensured and extended with important food-processing technologies such as irradiation. The joint effect of cooking and 10 kGy gamma irradiation on the fatty acid composition of the oil of Pentaclethra macrophylla Benth was evaluated. Oils from the raw seed, cooked seeds, irradiated seeds (10 kGy), cooked, and irradiated seeds (10 k...

In this investigation, the interaction of C20 and Si2H2 molecules was explored in the M06-2X/6-311++G(d,p)level of theory in gas solution phases. The obtained interaction energy values with standard method werecorrected by basis set superposition error (BSSE) during the geometry optimization for all molecules atthe same level of theory. Also, the bonding interaction between th...

Microsomal preparations from livers of Sprague-Dawley rats catalyze the glucuronidation of 3 alpha-hydroxy-5 beta-H (3 alpha, 5 beta) short-chain bile acids (C20-C23), predominantly at the hydroxyl group, while the glucuronidation of 3 beta, 5 beta short-chain bile acids occurs exclusively at the carboxyl group. A similar pattern of conjugation was also observed in Wistar rats having normal lev...

Activation of CD1d-restricted invariant NKT (iNKT) cells by alpha-galactosylceramide (alphaGalCer) significantly suppresses development of diabetes in NOD mice. The mechanisms of this protective effect are complex, involving both Th1 and Th2 cytokines and a network of regulatory cells including tolerogenic dendritic cells. In the current study, we evaluated a newly described synthetic alphaGalC...

BACKGROUND To screen biomarkers to differentiate early-stage colorectal cancer (CRC) from benign colorectal disease (BCD) and healthy controls. MATERIALS & METHODS Quantitative and qualitative analysis of C16:1, C18:3, C18:2, C18:1, C20:4, and C22:6 in 185 healthy controls, 55 patients with BCD, and 139 patients with CRC was performed. Comparisons of their levels in between CRC patients, BCD ...

An interesting empirical result in the assembly line literature states that slightly unbalanced assembly lines (in the format of a bowl with central stations less loaded than the external ones) present higher throughputs than perfectly balanced ones. This effect is known as the bowl phenomenon. In this study, we analyze the presence of this phenomenon in assembly lines with integer task times. ...