Objective(s): The application of synthetic antimicrobial and antifungal compounds is reducing in the last decades in the food and nutrition fields owing to their various side effects and increasing interest of consumers to eat natural foodstuffs without artificial constituents. Clove (Syzygium aromaticum) has numerous medicinal properties, including analgesic, antiseptic, stimulants, carminativ...

Cerium oxide (CeO₂) represents an important nanomaterial with wide ranging applications. However, little is known regarding how CeO₂ exposure may influence pulmonary or systemic inflammation. Furthermore, how mast cells would influence inflammatory responses to a nanoparticle exposure is unknown. We thus compared pulmonary and cardiovascular responses between C57BL/6 and B6.Cg-Kit(W-sh) mast ce...

When a CEO holds the title of Chairman of the Board, the board has the formal authority, but the CEO often holds the leadership. This paper shows that if the board is not independent enough to discipline a CEO, it is optimal for the board to take leadership by separating the titles. However, the board (or shareholders) is better-off if it can increase its independence without separating the tit...

We developed a facile strategy for clean synthesis of Pt/CeO(2)/graphene nanomaterials with remarkably enhanced catalytic properties. The graphene oxide (GO) could be used as an oxidant to oxidize Ce(3+) into CeO(2) NPs, and l-lysine was used as a linker to realize the in situ growth of Pt NPs around CeO(2) NPs dispersed on graphene.

This paper investigates whether the family status of a company’s top officer affects managerial replacement decisions in UK firms. We report evidence that family firms are characterized by higher levels of board control and weak internal governance in the form of independent company board structures. Consistent with a managerial entrenchment hypothesis, we find evidence that family CEOs are les...

The CeO(2)/La(2)Zr(2)O(7)/Ni piled-up structure is a very promising architecture for YBa(2)Cu(3)O(7) (YBCO) coated conductors. We have grown YBCO/CeO(2)/LZO/Ni epitaxial structures by metalorganic decomposition (MOD) and metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) methods. The crystallographic quality of the CeO(2) layer is not well determined by conventional X-ray diffraction (XRD) due to t...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the present study was to determine the ability of cerium oxide (CeO(2)) nanoparticles to protect against monocrotaline (MCT)-induced hepatotoxicity in a rat model. METHOD Twenty male Sprague Dawley rats were arbitrarily assigned to four groups: control (received saline), CeO(2) (given 0.0001 nmol/kg intraperitoneally [IP]), MCT (given 10 mg/kg body weight IP as a si...

Herein, we report a facile surfactant-assisted solvothermal synthetic method to prepare nearly monodisperse spherical CeO(2) nanocrystals. A good control of the size of CeO(2) nanocrystals in the range of 100-500 nm was achieved by simply varying the synthetic parameters such as reaction time, volume ratio of ethanol to water (R), molar ratio of PVP, and concentration of Ce(NO(3))(3)⋅6 H(2) O i...

This paper investigates the effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on CEO compensation, using panel data constructed for the S&P 1500 firms on CEO compensation, financial returns, and reported accounting income. Empirically SOX (i) changes the relationship between a firm’s abnormal returns and CEO compensation, (ii) changes the underlying distribution of abnormal returns, and (iii) significant...