... between parents and other adults, the microcontext of interactions between parents and children, the macrocontext ofthe neighborhood one lives in andthe availability of basic educational and health ... incidences of LBW among the population. There should be reason to anticipate similar effectsonthe level of the household with respect to cognitive and mental health outcomes.Despitethe importanceofhouseholdclimateandparentingbehavioron ... to “poverty” rather than, for example, low educational levels of parents.Once a convergence is reached onthe net and correlation effectsof poverty on a variety of indicators, the task ahead...
... Lowestoft] 35 EFFECTS OFPOLLUTANTSONTHE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH OF MALE VERTEBRATE WILDLIFE - MALES UNDER THREATsection 4conclusions and recommendationsConclusions from ndings in wildlifeThere ... prediction ofthe response of freshwater sh to a mixture of estrogenic chemicals. Environ Health Perspect., 113(6):721-728. 42 EFFECTS OFPOLLUTANTSONTHE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH OF MALE VERTEBRATE ... population, and that anti-androgenic chemicals were a possible cause ofthe effects (Toft et al.,2003). Similarly, effects onthe gonopodia of male mosquitosh taken from polluted wetlands...
... interpretation ofthe results for each measure, onesupplemental question was added after completion of the fourth interview (and thus asked of only 16 ofthe 20 par-ticipants). The question asked ... conceptelicitation or item generation phases. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of FM on participants, including their sleep, and to test the content validity of these twosleep ... the greater detail it providedabout their sleep, an additional indication ofthe overallrelevance ofthe measure from the participants' perspec-tives.Ease of administration and response...
... tropic environments. The committee began its work in March 1990. It sought to understand the overarching environmental, social, and policy contexts of land conversion and deforestation andthe promise ... mitigatesome of their effects, particularly storm surges in coastal zones and mud slides on sloping lands.CONVERSION OF HUMID TROPIC FORESTSForest conversion is the alteration of forest cover and forest ... recommendations. Chapter 1 describes the humidtropics, the consequences of forest conversion and deforestation, environmentalfactors affecting agriculture, andthe fostering of sustainable land use...
... explanation ofthe increase in measured profit efficiency from megamergers maybe the specification ofthe profit finction. The standard profit function takes prices and fixed netputs asgiven and ... time-consuming for firms to change the size of their asset portfolio because ofthe size of their markets and/ or because of regulatory restrictions on their expansion.In this event, the ... efficiency model in equations (1) and parameters ofthe model. The level of profit efficiency the ratio of predicted profits to maximum or optimal profits on the frontier (7r/7r0) was measured...
... Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 iiAbstract The Effectsof Land Use onthe Mobility of Elderly and Disabled and Their Homecare Workers, andtheEffectsof Care on Client Mobility: ... identify the relationship between residential location, the transportation habits and needs of consumers and providers, andthe extent of care consumers received. The six interrelated hypotheses ... traffic analysis zone (TAZ) and zip code. Note. Based on Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) data i The Effectsof Land Use onthe Mobility of Elderly and Disabled and Their Homecare...
... study, the effect of NaCl concentration on the kinetic constants and thermodynamic stability of VsEndA and VcEndA was investigated. In addition, the effectsof reciprocal mutations of two non-con-served ... is the ithmeasurement of reflection h and <I(h)> is the weighted mean of allmeasurements of h.b5% ofthe reflections were used in the R-free calculations. Effects of salt on Vibrio endonucleases ... boundary conditions, and the resulting grid was adopted as the boundary condi-tion for one further focused calculation. The protein mole-cules occupied 90% ofthe box in the final calculations. The molecular...
... asymptotically the value ofthe band-gap of the undoped Si-nw. This is another indication of how dopingcan modify the electronic and optical properties ofthe Sinanostructures.6. Conclusions The structural, ... optical excitation,we consider both the self-energy corrections by means ofthe GWmethod [33] to obtain the quasiparticle energies andthe excitonic effects through the solution ofthe Bethe-Salpeter ... deeper as the Si-nc becomesmaller and their level positions are influenced by the position of the impurity site. Significant changes onthe onset of the absorption spectra are present due to the doping....
... THE EFFECTSOF CORRUPTION ON ECNOMIC AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT The purpose of this chapter is to show the impacts that corruption has onthe economic and political development of Armenia ... (1997) the president of Armenia is the central person for the judiciary system. According to article 55 ofthe Constitution of Republic of Armenia the President of RA not only can appoint and ... societies. They Have discretion over the creation, proliferation, and interpretation of conterproductive regulations. Thus instead of corruption being the grease for the squeaky wheels of a rigid...