... is that controlling shareholders in unifying firms started (in year -2) with (slightly) more voting power than their counterparts in non-unifying firms, and ended up (in year +7) with less voting ... marketwide trends: in these later years, changesin voting rights in unifying firms seem to move in tandem with those in non-unifying firms (see Figure and Figure 2) Figure also suggests that “active” ... matching between unifying and control (non-unifying) firms is as explained in Table Mean difference in the controlling shareholders’ voting power between unifying and non-unifying firms in year...
... reflection, and critical-thinking ability Continuing professional educators can accomplish this by employing strategies such as verbal reasoning and problem solving and consciously raising questions and ... insight and understanding into how they initially learned and continued to learn their professional responsibilities in an organizational setting ? he introI have scoured t t find a nno duction and ... development in a work setting and can serve to improve both athletic training education and continuing education strategies The preceding text further explains the significance of the study and begins...
... during walking are quite different from those involved in maintaining upright posture During standing, the goal is to maintain the body's center of gravity (CG) within the base of support The initiation ... chain is over m, starting with the stance phase foot and continuing up to the hip, across the pelvis, and down the swing limb, and the chain involves at least 12 degrees of freedom at the joints ... walking, the horizontal momentum of the HAT results in inherent instability The role of the ankle muscles in standing balance is paramount, but in walking the role of the ankle plantar-flexor and...
... presents encouraging results indicating that the proposed method can put in the correct context dynamic changes observed in post-stroke individuals undergoing rehabilitation Wang and Kiryu in their ... under investigation Clinical applications of wearable technology inphysical medicine and rehabilitation A final set of papers is focused on applications that are relevant to physical medicine and ... post-stroke individuals undergoing rehabilitation that targets fine motor control skills While initial research in the area of wearable technology was aimed at combining existing, miniature sensors with...
... differences in the definition of insurance groups, including the level of the insurance premia and who has to pay these, in the guaranteed payments for total and partial invalidity andin additional ... Labour Inspectorate Social Insurance Institute Belarus Ministry of Health Ministry of Labour Ministry of Statistics Bosnia-Herzegovina Ministry of Health Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Ministry ... handicapped persons during training, rehabilitation or practical training, persons with second jobs or involved in social activities No family allowance; Nursing care allowance; Cumulation with...
... Keneba and Manduar (situated in West Kiang district) in the period before 1986–1990, when the national vaccination programme in The Gambia commenced, have shown that infection was uncommon in infants ... born after 1951 During the 1984 survey 82 chronic carriers were identified in Keneba and 108 in Manduar They have been followed at time points (in 1989), (in 1993 )and 19 (in 2003) years after ... machine after the PCR amplification and quantification Linear trend was tested by fitting a generalized estimating equation to allow for multiple responses within subjects using a logistic link with...
... 0-10 point pain NRS, and compared the magnitude of within-patient change in pain severity with corresponding changesin function and health status The cutpoint analysis indicated that pain severity ... 11.9-point decrease in MOS Sleep Disturbance, and 1.6-point decrease in Sleep Interference (Figure 1) A 2-point decrease in pain was associated with an estimated 1.5-point decrease in pain interference ... Thus, changesin pain severity were associated withchangesin daily functioning and health status, findings similar to those reported in the presented study A two-point reduction on pain is...
... protein g–1 mycelium fresh weight, according to assays following the method of Bradford (1976) using bovine serum albumin as a standard The final protein content of the intracellular fraction in ... decline of total stilbene glycosides to 73% (compared with the control) The decline in the levels of isorhapontin and astringin continued 24 h after PF application representing less than 68% and ... containing 0.1M KCl and stirred for h at 20°C The extract was centrifuged (3,000 g for 10 min) and the protein content of the supernatant was determined (Bradford 1976) using bovine serum albumin...
... chrominium potassium sulfate 0.55 b AIN vitamin mix containing (g/kg): thiamin HCl 0.6, riboflavin 0.6, pyridoxine HCl 0.7, niacin 3, calcium pantothenate 1.6, folic acid 0.2, biotin 0.02, vitamin ... the brain, 2nd ed pp 528-533 Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, 2001 Beck B Cholecystokinin, neurotensin and corticotropinreleasing factor-3 important anorexic peptides Ann Endocrinol ... washed with 0.01 M PBS for 35 with five changes Finally, the sections were mounted on gelatin-coated glass slides and examined with a Olympus U-SPT light microscope (Olympus, Japan) Changes in orexin-A...
... [CO in C allo] cation to fine roots does not mean that root activity has not been modified by CO enrichment Original insights into fine root activity in response to doubling [CO were ] C again ... acorns were peeled, soaked in water and sown in 5-L cylindrical plastic containers filled with a shagnumpeat and sand mixture (1/1, v/v) The substrate was fertilized with delayed Nutricote 100 ... lignin and cellulose are affected by rising atmo2 spheric CO in trees Thus, whether the amounts of carbon fixed in such metabollically inert pools differ with the availability of carbohydrates and...
... maintain the air -1 temperature close to that of the outside air (+ °C max) In half of these mini-greenhouses, a double CO concentration (ie, 700 ppm) was maintained with pure industrial CO introduced ... Norby RJ (1987) Increases in mycorrhizal colonisation andin Pinus echinata and Queralba in an enriched CO atmosphere Can J For Res 17, 878-883 seedling growth cus Sionit N, Strain BR, Riechers ... production of the seedling with the increase in nutrient availability This confirms that trees’ mineral nutrition was a strong growth limiting factor It can also be noticed that fertilization enhanced...
... subchondral bone changesin patients with knee OA Inthat 24-month longitudinal study the investigators showed that bone loss occurred in all patients with OA in the medial compartment A decrease in ‘fractal ... demonstrated that leptin injections in the joints of normal rats can mimic the features of OA Leptin was also found to be associated with inflammatory states and to stimulate prostaglandin (PG)E2 and ... National Institutes of Health examining the symptomatic effects of glucosamine-HCl and CS alone or in combination recently became available [40] The results indicate that combined treatment with CS and...
... agrees with previous findings At 20 °C the opposite result occurred with D melanogaster always being eliminated Fig At 25 Introducing homologous mutants (sepia or vermilion) into the wild strains ... cages and the system used to designate them is summarized in Table The initial frequency of the mutants was 0.8 The populations were maintained in overlapping generations by supplying each cage with ... mutations certainly had a similar influence, in both species, on the competitive ability of the populations into which it has been introduced In fact, it was established that both sepia and vermilion...
... subsequently investigated changesin joint coupling for both injured and healthy participants and reported that, overall, non-injurious coupling involves an inphase relationship and injurious coupling involves ... useful tool for understanding injury aetiology based on the notion that asynchrony in joint coupling andchangesin joint coupling variability of movement may result in injury [24] Some researchers ... studies have investigated the complexities of the multiple foot segments using a joint coupling approach or by investigating joint coupling variability Variability in joint coupling has been...
... ankle pain without any trigger events Although treatment, including physiotherapy and NSAID administration, was initiated in another clinic, the pain in his ankle progressively worsened and he ... treatment, including physiotherapy and NSAID administration, was initiated in another clinic, the pain and swelling of his right foot progressively worsened, and he demonstrated gait disturbance A physical ... participated in its design and coordination, and helped to draft the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests...
... presents encouraging results indicating that the proposed method can put in the correct context dynamic changes observed in post-stroke individuals undergoing rehabilitation Wang and Kiryu in their ... under investigation Clinical applications of wearable technology inphysical medicine and rehabilitation A final set of papers is focused on applications that are relevant to physical medicine and ... post-stroke individuals undergoing rehabilitation that targets fine motor control skills While initial research in the area of wearable technology was aimed at combining existing, miniature sensors with...
... sniffing cocaine (for at least the last 12 months) IDUs stopped injecting (no injection during the last 12 months) Table (bottom lines) shows the mean hours spent using drugs in 2001 andin 2004 Changes ... been reported among injection drug users in Argentina andin other Latin American countries [30-33] Comparing changesin drug use between 2001 and 2004, the number of IDUs and drug users stayed ... poor and students drove four successive presidents from office in less than two months During the 1980s and 1990s, Argentina struggled with high inflation and industrial stagnation that peaked in...
... between the morning milkings day and day Night milking interval = the time between afternoon and morning milking Day milking interval = the time between morning and afternoon milking Data represent ... during the interval between milkings (column B) before and after a single prolonged milking interval of 24 hrs The prolonged milking interval (PMI) occurred between the morning milkings day and ... only in day and day Discussion The main findings of the present study were that during the PMI there was a distinct increase in proportion of PMN while the increase in SCC was slight andthat the...
... making it possible to assess changesin incidence and outcome over a significant timespan We therefore interrogated the ANZICS APD to obtain information on the incidence and outcome of AKI in ... associated with an increased incidence of AKI (Table 2) There were no significant changesin incidence by diagnostic category over the study period, with the exception of an increasing trend in incidence ... but that the incidence has declined in those patients admitted with trauma or haematologic malignancies We confirmed that the mortality rate associated with AKI remains high andthat the increased...
... differential mRNA stability of tat mRNA in macrophages at any time after infection, changesin the balance between enhancing and inhibitory cellular splicing factors induced by infection suggest that regulation ... determine whether the changesin splicing factor expression in MDM following infection with HIV-1 were reflected at the message level, mRNA was extracted from uninfected and infected MDM from individual ... variability in expression of hnRNPs A1, A2/B1 and H, the major splicing inhibitory factors implicated in binding HIV-1 pre-mRNA [20- 23,25], andin SC35 and ASF/SF2, SR proteins similarly implicated in...