Consumption of tea has been shown to improve endothelial function. It is assumed that catechins are the tea components responsible for these beneficial effects. In black tea, catechin concentrations are significantly lower than in green tea. The present study was designed to compare green and black tea with regard to amelioration of endothelial function. Endothelial function in response to both...

The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of demonizing in the two major media that young children use (television and movies). Two content analyses were conducted using the animated feature films (n = 34) of the Walt Disney Company and after-school cartoons (n = 41). Each was coded for the modeling of the use of "evil" words when referring to a person, e.g., monster, devil, demon,...

It is necessary to generate the automorphism group of a chemical graph in computer-aided structure elucidation. An Euclidean graph associated with a molecule is defined by a weighted graph with adjacency matrix M = [dij], where for i≠j, dij is the Euclidean distance between the nuclei i and j. In this matrix dii can be taken as zero if all the nuclei are equivalent. Otherwise, one may introduce...

This article analyses one of the ‘worst movies ever made’, Robot Monster (), demonstrating how text, through weirdness, pulpy absurdity and cinematic ineptitude, examines mediates on existential anxieties modern America during Cold War. Through strange language gorilla-robots alien invasion, text articulates those that arise from our awareness freedom vs. need to be contingent under increasingl...

Irish seanchaithe and other traditional storytellers must, like Scheherazade, have had a thousand one tales to inform, educate entertain their audiences. If journalist Christopher Booker is correct, however, all of these would been crafted from only seven plot types. In his 2004 book,1 argues that the plots stories, ancient modern, can be categorised as The Quest, Overcoming Monster, Rags Riche...

In this paper, we aim at finding a cultural explanation of the controversy around the introduction of electronic voting, especially Internet voting. In her PhD thesis, Martijntje Smits (2002b) argues that controversies surrounding the introduction of new technologies can often be explained in terms of a clash between cultural categories. Whereas traditional cultures may for example see twins as...

We generalize the CAPM to a setting where a regulator requires firms to report earnings before their shares are publicly traded but does not specify the reporting system that maps economic income into reported earnings. We show that under fairly mild conditions, a riskaverse entrepreneur (as representative of the initial owners of the firm) will endogenously choose a reporting system where repo...

We consider the problem of identifying the CFT’s that may be dual to pure gravity in three dimensions with negative cosmological constant. The c-theorem indicates that threedimensional pure gravity is consistent only at certain values of the coupling constant, and the relation to Chern-Simons gauge theory hints that these may be the values at which the dual CFT can be holomorphically factorized...

is one of the most spectacular and mysterious mathematical achievements of the past fifty years. Unfortunately the various standard approaches to the Monster are notoriously difficult to learn. This paper presents a relatively elementary approach to the Monster. We describe a construction of the smallest non-Abelian finite simple group (of order 60), and show that it very closely parallels a co...