... S Kobayashi et al Role ofenvironmentalfactors in RA Table Risk and defensive factors for RA Risk factors Infection Smoking Sex hormones Pregnancy Complications ... variables affect the occurrence of pain in RA and that low temperature increases the risk of joint pain [55] Concluding remarks A large variety ofenvironmentalfactors have been proposed to be ... Further research is required to gain a better understanding of the impact of these environmentalfactors on human immunity and their effects on RA disease outcomes References MacGregor AJ, Snieder...
... nice ambience i Table of Contents Acknowledgement i Table of Contents ii List of Articles by the Author iv Summary v List of Figures vi List of Tables x List of Symbols xi List of Abbreviations xiv ... EFFECTSOF MICROMECHANICAL FACTORS IN THE STRAIN INVARIANT FAILURE THEORY FOR COMPOSITES ARIEF YUDHANTO (B.Eng, BANDUNG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ... amplification factorsof square array with volume fraction of 50%, 60% and 70% loaded in direction-2 .41 Figure 4-13 Mechanical amplification factorsof square array with volume fraction of 50%,...
... paper The Fraction of Cancer Attributable to Lifestyle and EnvironmentalFactors in the UK in 2010 Authors Dr D Max Parkin with Lucy Boyd Professor Sarah C Darby David Mesher Professor Peter Sasieni ... Foreword The fraction of cancer attributable to lifestyle and environmentalfactors in the UK in 2010 R Peto*,1 University of Oxford, Oxford, UK British Journal of Cancer (2011) 105, S1; ... addiction in time to avoid most of the risk of premature death, tobacco still remains the most important avoidable cause of cancer, responsible for almost 20% of all cases of cancer (and, although this...
... concentration of total PBDEs in serum of WEEE dismantling workers of Guiyu was twice as high than that of a control group (from a village located 50 km away of Guiyu) Although studies like the one of the ... North Carolina: Publ United States Environmental Protection Agency Ofce of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Ofce of Air and Radiation; 1997 USEPA Release of guidance for developing Ecological ... samples of Guiyu, and comparison values Pb (àg m 3) TSP samples taken on the roof of buildings in WEEE recycling areas in Guiyu, China (Deng et al., 2006) mean PM2.5 samples taken on the roof of...
... assay Figure HPLC analysis of the synthesis and release of DA by RPE cells HPLC analysis of the synthesis and release of DA by RPE cells.(A) HPLC analysis of standard of DA, 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic ... important neurotrophic factors in the survival of DAergic cells [14,19,20] So we focused on these two neurotrophic factors and measured the level of these two neurotrophic factors by ELISA assay ... provide trophic effects on the host DAergic neurons In the present study, we attempt to determine whether the neurotrophic effectsof RPE cells play a role in restoring the function of nigrostriatal...
... and environmentalfactors "environmental" related to coughfor the dates Frequency of studies and different publicationterms "cough" Frequency of studies related to cough and environmentalfactors ... "cough" and different environmentalfactors PubMed3 PubMed search for the terms "cough" and different environmentalfactors Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Occupational Medicine ... pathology of cough and airway inflammation [27-33] In the light of the clinical, epidemiological and experimental data which point to a major role ofenvironmental pollutants as co -factors for...
... duration of 40 minutes and an intensity of 70 % VO2 max for a period of 24 weeks, plus a weekend walk was successful at improving lipid subfraction profile and cardiovascular risk independent of diet ... production of nitric oxide and prostacyclin [12], decreased atherogenic activity of blood mononuclear cells effecting the production of cytokines [13], and a reduced accumulation of collagen ... mean (SD) Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2008, 3:7 http://www.occup-med.com/content/3/1/7 Table 2: Effectsof the exercise-training...
... investigated factors are important during different healing phases The controlled temporal regulation of growth factor action is necessary because of the interaction of the different factors Less ... interaction offactors is available, but the study by Cirri et al demonstrated the inhibition of PDGF induced cell proliferation after application of insulin [26] The simultaneous application of IGF-I, ... delivery of growth factors for bone repair European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics 2004, 58:197-208 Zapf J, Hauri C, Waldvogel M, Froesch ER: Acute metabolic effects and half-lives of...
... Association of German Engineers [VDI] [2] It applies to the monitoring of ecological effectsof GMP, but does not address possible effectsof GMP on human health Contrary to the directive of the European ... cumulative long-term effectsEnvironmentaleffectsof GMP can occur on several levels of ecological organization in terms of structures and underlying functions, and correlated levels of time and space ... intensity of maize or OSR in the neighbourhood of each of the 7,338 NSG in Germany The combination of GC and CC resulted in a total of nine risk categories [RC], describing the potential risk of endangerment...
... Association of German Engineers [VDI] [2] It applies to the monitoring of ecological effectsof GMP, but does not address possible effectsof GMP on human health Contrary to the directive of the European ... cumulative long-term effectsEnvironmentaleffectsof GMP can occur on several levels of ecological organization in terms of structures and underlying functions, and correlated levels of time and space ... intensity of maize or OSR in the neighbourhood of each of the 7,338 NSG in Germany The combination of GC and CC resulted in a total of nine risk categories [RC], describing the potential risk of endangerment...
... question About the author: John R McNeill is a professor of history at Georgetown University He is the author of Global Environmental History of the Twentieth Century among numerous other publications ... was not uncommon Residents of industrial cities witnessed the loss of pine trees and some wildlife, due to the high levels of sulfur dioxide These people suffered rates of pneumonia and bronchitis ... annual coating of fertile silt on land along the river In addition, many Egyptians who drank Nile water, which carried increasing amounts of fertilizer runoff, experienced negative health effects In...
... both the group of students and the group of teachers A major contribution of the current study is that it looked at the effectsof RJPs on ratings of organizational attraction of both students ... of participants in each group, Levene’s test of equality of error variances was used to determine that the assumption of homogeneity of variance was met F(6, 184) = 98, p = 0.44 The results of ... the results of the tests of hypotheses Tests of Hypotheses Hypothesis A significant interaction was hypothesized between Type of Preview and Type of Participant affecting ratings of organizational...
... processing of results consisted of these steps: description of the phloem formation in relation to temperatures; definition of the trend of phloem cell growth; and the investigation of specific ... the factor of age, the final numbers of cells of particular tissues (EP, AP, LP) did not differ considerably, however, there were differences of weeks in the timing of the formation of the tissues ... the objective of our research was to analyse the impact of external factors on the formation and development of phlo- J FOR SCI., 57, 2011 (5): 226–232 em cells Further, the influence of an internal...
... between reference conditions and environmental change allowed identification of the major growth-changing factors So far, most of the analysis of the results of the process-based modelling study ... calculations of EuroBiota show the broad trend in productivity across Europe at different periods The simplicity of the model precludes much detailed analysis of the relative importance of different environmental ... (NEP) of forest ecosystems in European countries as estimated by EuroBiota These estimates are of MgC ha–1 y–1 and hence not include effectsof expansion in forest area but include the effect of...
... sites were at similar stages of maturity (the stage of maturity was considered as the ratio {current Effectsof tree species on vegetation and soil Table V Mean effectsof tree species on Ellenberg ... error linked to site differences Indeed, the effect of the “site” factor was much greater than the effect of the “tree species” factor Effects of tree species on vegetation and soil 825 Table I ... possible to find sites with stands of the same age 2.2 Methods 2.2.1 Understory In the centre of each stand of each site, a sample plot with a surface area of 400 m2 was laid out in a homogenous...
... However, the functional characteristics of these species are of interest for understanding different adaptive mechanisms The aim of this work was to study the effectsof weather variables and leaf water ... stomatal response to environmentalfactors is the boundary-line analysis, which may approximate the response when no other factors are limiting The argument for the existence of a boundary line ... fluctuations in several major environmental factors, a boundary-line analysis was applied A semi-empirical model of stomatal conductance was used to improve understanding of the sensitivity to water...
... and generally over a range ofenvironmental conditions (e.g water stress) the combined presence of both of these effects may lead to errors in instantaneous computations of canopy conductance Such ... heat of vaporization of water, is the specific heat of air, p is the water, T is temperature, E is evaporation rate, C and D is vapor pressure deficit of the canopy air This simplification of the ... number of diurnal values accepted for averaging, potentially affecting the statistical representation of diurnal averages Therefore a choice of a threshold D condition must balance 1) the effects of...
... effectsof both climatic and nonclimatic factors on the radial growth of trees It is possible to evaluate the effectsof nonclimatic factors on the radial growth of trees in the past by comparing actual ... nonclimatic factors, such as air pollution, also affect the variance of ring widths and wood densities [12, 13, 19, 24, 26, 32] Thus, ring widths and wood densities provide records of the effectsof both ... one of the species that provides the longest tree-ring chronologies in Hokkaido, Japan However, no dendrochronological approach to an understanding of the effectsof climatic and nonclimatic factors...
... fixed effect of a combination of herd and i year which was absorbed; M is a fixed effect of month of calving (or month of j pregnancy) for j= 1, 12; A,! is a fixed effect of number of calvings ... number of the sire of the cow and birth date of the cow As a consequence of this process, the new data set has a total of 232 291 records with the information of each cow The number of calvings was ... observations; (3 is a vector of fixed effects including age and herd-year-season of calving (natural trimester); s is as vector of random sire effects and e is a vector of random residuals, and X...
... presents a summary of information for health professionals about the causes and effectsof indoor air pollution Figure from this document provides an overview of the effectsof air pollutants ... basis of two factors One describes the potency of the air contaminant, the other the magnitude and duration of the exposure, which is commonly assumed to be a lifetime of 70 years The potency of ... production of carbon monoxide Graphic representations of the conversion of hemoglobin to carboxyhemoglobin in the presence of different concentrations of ambient carbon monoxide and the effect of various...