Recent epidemiological studies have positively associated total dietary fat intake to prostate cancer (CaP) incidence and progression. However, the role of fat-specific intake remains unclear through these patient-orientated studies, which in-turn warrants the need for controlled molecular based investigations. FTIR microspectroscopy is now a well established tool for the metabolomic analysis o...

Large unilamellar vesicles (LUVs) composed of 1-[2H31]palmitoyl-2-oleoyl phosphatidylcholine (POPC-d31), with diameters of approximately 117 +/- 31 and 180 +/- 44 nm, were prepared by extrusion through polycarbonate filters with pore sizes of 0.1 and 0.2 microns, respectively. The 2H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra obtained at 21 degrees C contain two components: a broad component (app...

Increases in the minimum wage can substantially reduce earnings inequality. To demonstrate this, we combine administrative and survey data with an equilibrium model of Brazilian labor market. We find that a 128 percent increase real Brazil between 1996 2018 had far-reaching spillover effects on wages higher up distribution. The increased accounts for 45 large fall inequality over this period. A...

This paper builds a new microdatabase that covers 100 countries at all income levels and long-run time series in the United States (1870–2010) Mexico ( 1960–2010) to document how modern tax system arises over development. I establish set of stylized facts, which show exemption threshold decreases distribution as country develops, tracking growth employee share employment occurs gradually furthe...

The nullification of slave wealth after the US Civil War (1861–1865) was one largest episodes compression in history. We document that White Southern households owned more slaves 1860 lost substantially by 1870, relative to had been equally wealthy before war. Yet, their sons almost entirely recovered from this shock 1900, and grandsons completely converged 1940. Marriage networks connections o...

The Abl non-receptor tyrosine kinase has been implicated in a wide variety of cellular processes, yet its function and regulation remain poorly understood. Abl has resisted complete understanding not due to lack of interest, but due to the complexity of its overall structure and the corresponding complexity and diversity of its biological activities in the cell. Although Abl consists of many fa...

The debate on the measurement of income, poverty and social exclusion in Europe has increased significantly in recent years. Poverty is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon and, according to the definition used, various measures to assess poverty are calculated and different poverty sizes are obtained. The aim of this work is to make a review of the literature on the most used approaches t...

Subjective Well-Being and Relative Deprivation: An Empirical Link This paper explores the relationship between two well-established concepts of measuring individual well-being: the concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with income and life, and relative deprivation/satisfaction, i.e. the gaps between the individual's income and the incomes of all individuals richer/poor...

To take into account both ex ante and ex post inequality considerations, one has to deal with inequality and uncertainty simultaneously. Under certainty, much of the literature has focused on ``comonotonically linear'' indices: functionals that are linear on cones of income profiles that agree on the social ranking of the individuals. This family generalizes both the Gini index and the egalitar...