Thunbergia laurifolia leaf is used in Thai herbal medicine to moderate alcohol, food poisoning, and other health-related diseases mainly due its overwhelming phytochemical compounds which exert several biological functions such as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory properties, among others. This study investigated the potential effects of hot air-drying conditions (TL-D80°C, TL-D90°C, TL -D100°C) T...

Article history: Received 16 November 2009 Received in revised form 12 August 2010 Accepted 20 August 2010 Available online 21 October 2010 JEL classification: C72 C92 D80 D84

BACKGROUND For two decades, onchocerciasis control has been based on mass treatment with ivermectin (IVM), repeated annually or six-monthly. This drug kills Onchocerca volvulus microfilariae (mf) present in the skin and the eyes (microfilaricidal effect) and prevents for 3-4 months the release of new mf by adult female worms (embryostatic effect). In some Ghanaian communities, the long-term use...

Interactions between yeasts and lactic acid bacteria are strain specific, and their outcome is expected to change in simultaneous alcoholic--malolactic fermentations from the pattern observed in successive fermentations. One Oenococcus oeni strain Lalvin VP41™ was inoculated with two Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains either simultaneously, three days after the yeast inoculation, or when alcoholi...

--This research is aimed to investigate experimentally the performance and exhaust emission characteristics of a direct injection (DI) diesel engine when fuelled with blends of conventional diesel fuel and ethanol, blends of rice bran methyl ester with ethanol, blends of diesel and rice bran methyl ester over the entire range of load on the engine. The experimental results showed that the highe...

This paper derives the Nash-equilibrium degrees of commitment to a partnership where lack of full commitment fuels suspicion and increases potential losses for partners. JEL classification: C72, D01, D80 Corresponding Author: Amnon Levy, Economics Discipline, School of Economics and Information Systems, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia. Tel: 61-2-42213658 Fax: 61-2-4221...

When Cubitt, Munro and Starmer (2004) presented their new experimental investigation of preference reversal, they pointed out that their test results cannot be explained by any of the best-known explanations proposed by economists and psychologists. In this paper we propose a model based on lotteries qualities to explain these new test results. JEL classification: D80.