Background: Hemodialysis patients are at greater risk of cardiovascular disease. Higher than expected cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in this population has been attributed to dislipidemia as well as inflammation. The causes of inflammation in hemodialysis patients are multifactorial. Several markers were used for the detection of inflammatory reaction in patients with chronic renal dise...

We examine multilateral bargaining in vertical supply relationships which involve an upstream manufacturer who sells through two competing retailers to end consumers. In these relationships the negotiations are inter-dependent and a bargaining externality may arise across the retailers. In addition, the timing by which the manufacturer negotiates with the retailers becomes important. The manufa...

In this paper it is shown that a well known procedure (GEKS) of transitivizing a bilateral system of productivity comparisons is implicitly a way of imposing a homothetic structure onto the data. The main implication of this result is that deviations between the bilateral and the multilateral (GEKS) indexes can be interpreted as a measure of local deviation from the homothetic assumption. This ...

We address the problem of how a group of agents can decide to share a resource, represented as a unit-sized pie. We investigate a finite horizon non-cooperative bargaining game, in which the players take it in turns to make proposals on how the resource should be allocated, and the other players vote on whether or not to accept the allocation. Voting is modelled as a Bayesian weighted voting ga...

mankind, as his divine nature, is able to perceive spirituality and god’s presence among his interactions. also human's need to spiritual cultivation is an undeniable point, but the studies around industrial design, hasn’t perpended that well enough. actually there are so limited available scales and references, if a designer intend to design a product according to spiritual identity, or i...

lentiviral vectors (lvs) are useful vehicle for genetransfer to dividing and non-dividing cells and genetic manipulations. however, the use of lentiviruses in studies requires an accurate titration technique.quantitative real-time pcr (qpcr) is a sensitive technique for the indication and quantitation of retrovirals particles. in this study, we used the qpcr for lentiviral vector titeration. th...