... 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...
... 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...
... characterization ofthe promoterregion ofthe gene andthe associated transcriptionalfactors. Therefore, delineation ofthe transcriptionalregulation ofhuman DNASE1 may provide clues to the mechanisms ... that of pGL3–basic vector and was half that of pGL3–promoter vector. These findingsdemonstrate the promoter activity ofthe 5Â-ankingregion of exon 1 in DNASE1. Deletion of the upstream end ofthe ... splicing junction betweenexon 1a and a portion of exon 1. The thick straight lines represent the intron sequence. +1 indicates the position ofthe transcriptionstart site of exon 1. Dashed v-shaped...
... independent of glucose concentration(1.4–1.7); second, the rate of glycogen synthesis is asigmoidal function of Glc6P concentration when deter-mined over a range of glucose concentrations and activities ... inhibitor of Glc6P hydrolysis [31],for evaluating the role of Glc6P, we determined the effect of different inhibitor concentrations on the Glc6P content andthe rate of glycogen synthesis inhepatocytes ... determine the contribution of Glc6P concentration, as distinct from glucokinase protein or activity, to the control of glycolysis and glycogen synthesis by glucokinase overexpres-sion. The validity of...
... 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...
... 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 ... information they pro-vided to their physicians about the consequences of theirnocturnal FM pain. These findings, along with the brevity,ease of use, and daily recall period provide further supportfor ... further confirm the FM diagnosis,participants also responded to questions regarding the nature, frequency, and location of their pain. Recruitmenttook place in August and September of 2008 and...
... empiricalevidence. The honesty of naăve falsicationism demanded the testing ofthe falsiable and the rejection ofthe unfalsifiable andthe falsified. Finally, the honesty of sophisticated falsificationismdemanded ... demanded the acceptance of only what was proven andthe rejection of everything unproven. Neojustificationist honestydemanded the specification ofthe probability of any hypothesis in the light ofthe ... sametime offering an evolutionary form of natural religion.⁷⁴ The ‘agnostics’ could presentthemselves onthe one hand as opponents of immoderate religious movements andon the other as opponents of...
... Payments andthe Digitization of Money will Change Everything…Or will it? 5 MOBILE SHOPPING? 26 From Theory to Action: The work of SapientNitro 2 Business Transformation ... the days of consumers being “dumb” at point of sale Consumer empowerment to the max. 6 Using our phones as shopping and payment devices is big… … and getting BIGGER. 20 6. There ... in the retail experience. 28 Thanks Donald Chesnut, dchesnut@sapient.com, @D_Chesnut Alex Sion, asion@sapient.com, @ASion1 22 8. The mPayment landscape is diverse, and...
... 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...
... 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...