In this study, effect of acupuncture (AP) on the luteal size (LS), luteal blood flow (LBF) and progesterone (P4) levels were investigated in the presence of corpus luteum (CL) in cows. Seven days after 14-days interval PGF2α estrus synchronization protocol, CL positive animals were assigned either to a control group (AP–, n=10) or to an AP group (AP+, n=10) stimulated by using B22 and B23 sensi...

We consider a broad class of intertemporal economic problems and characterize the short-run long-run responses demand for good to permanent increase in its market price. Depending on interplay between self-productivity time discounting, we show that dynamic substitution effects can generate price elasticities opposite signs short run long run. (JEL D11, D15, H20, J22, J24)

Spinal chondroma is a rare benign tumor it accounts for 2.8% of bone tumours and 12% all tumours. 3.6% to 4% are located in the spine representing 10% chondromas. It can originate from vertebral bodies or posterior arch described patients between 5 78 years age [1]. We present clinical case 60 year old woman, who consulted dorso-thoracic pain around belt line was treated as gastroduodenal ulcer...

Mutual diffusion coefficients of chloroquine diphosphate (CDP) in aqueous solutions both without and with ?-cyclodextrin (?-CD) were measured at concentrations from (0.0000 to 0.0100) mol dm?3 298.15 K, using the Taylor dispersion technique. Ternary mutual (Dik) by same technique are reported for CDP + ?-CD K. The presence ? CD led relevant changes process, as showed nonzero values cross-diffus...

We provide a framework to decompose preferences into a notion of distributive justice and a selfi shness part and to recover individual notions of distributive justice from data collected in appropriately designed experiments. “Dictator games” with varying transfer rates used in Andreoni and Miller (2002) and Fisman et al. (2007) can be used to assess individuals’ preferences, but – with the he...

When a household decides whether the woman participates or not in the labour market, we ask two questions: (i) Is the loss in female leisure made up for a change in consumption?, and (ii) Is this change considered when the household makes the decision? In order to answer such questions, we propose a collective model that takes into account the joint decision on consumption of several commoditie...

We investigate how households in temporarily straitened circumstances due to an unemployment spell cut back on expenditures and how they spend marginal dollars of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit. Our theoretical and empirical analyses emphasize the importance of allowing for the fact that households buy durable as well as non-durable goods. The theoretical analysis shows that in the short r...

Evidence increasingly points to the importance of reference-dependence in predicting consumer behavior. We utilize detailed data from penny auctions, which first appeared as an internet phenomenon in the late 2000’s, to uncover how consumers’ prior experiences predict their willingness to try a new experience again. The penny auction setting allows us to concretely quantify consumers’ positive ...

Opening the Black Box of Intra-Household Decision-Making: Theory and Non-Parametric Empirical Tests of General Collective Consumption Models We non-parametrically test a general collective consumption model with public consumption and externalities inside the household. We further propose a novel approach to model special cases of the general collective model. These special cases include altern...

This paper employs Quality Function Deployment (QFD) methodology to translate customer needs and requirements into the quality characteristics to improve quality for an existing product to develop a new consumer product. The traditional quality function deployment technique consists of six steps. The purpose of the first step is to measure the voice of the customer that reveals his/her needs an...