... with the inhibition of bone formation (confirmed by bone histomorphometry) and lower concentrations of bone for-mation markers (especially OC) [60, 61]. By contrast, data on bone resorption markers ... hormones are major determinants of bone turnover in older men. Low concentration ofthe bioavailable fraction of 17-estradiol is strongly associated with higher levels ofthe markers of bone ... Organization ofthe Skeleton, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1986. 5. R. Baron, Importance ofthe intermediate phases between resorption and formation in the measurement and under-standing ofthe bone...
... additional contextual information to the students, confirming the value of DCT. Furthermore, Hall, Bailey, and Tillman [31] conducted a study to examine theeffectsof illustrations on reading ... study. The translation task would evaluate theeffectsof pictures on students’ understanding ofthe texts and the questionnaire was used to assess student viewpoints ontheeffectsof pictures ... texts with the help of graphic classification trees reflecting the organization ofthe text; another group of students read the text without the graphic trees. The results showed that the students...
... 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 ... ofthe model. The level of profit efficiency the ratio of predicted profits to maximum or optimal profits on the frontier (7r/7r0) was measured for all large banks over 1980-1990, whether ... precipitated by the removal of many intrastate and interstate gwgraphic restrictions on bank branching and holding companyaffiliation has continued into the 1990s. At the outset ofthe 1980s, only...
... Hartman 7 on the Domestic Capital Stock 43 of Capital 95 123 vii Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research 1. The ... motivation. Within multinational firms, the higher the share of overseas operations in the total production ofthe multinational, the higher the ratio of home employ- ment to home production, ... associate ofthe National Bureau of Economic Research. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London 0 1995 by the National Bureau of Economic...
... between parents and other adults, the microcontext of interactions between parents and children, the macrocontext ofthe neighborhood one lives in and the 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 ... was the job ofthe schools). Laosa (50) found that Chicano mothers praised theirchildren less often and used more nonverbal cues than white mothers.One limitation of these studies was that they...
... seamless connections. The present study aimed to detect the expression of Cx40 and Cx43 in the artery at early stage of high fat diet induced atherosclerosis and to investigate the effects of AT1 ... proliferation is one ofthe important features of atherosclerosis. The gap junction (GJ) and connexin (Cx) between cells play crucial roles in the VSMC disintegration and proliferation (1). At ... In the Losartan group, the ex-pression of Cx40 in the intima did not profoundly change compared with the high fat diet group (Fig. 2). Transmission electron microscopy Transmission electron...
... con-dition. If the participant failed to indicate the name of the condition regardless of a “yes”, the survey was discarded assuming the participant did not fully un-derstand the question. ... each situation, the participant was required to rate their level of laughter on a scale of one (don’t laugh) to ten (uncontrollable laughter). This question represented the common daily scenarios ... beneficial effectsof laughter onthe blood vessel. This study consisted of twenty volunteers, where two video clips from both extremes ofthe emotional spectrum were shown. At the end ofthe videos,...
... Lifespan11 The Effectsof Childhood Stress on Health Across the Lifespan is a publication of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control ofthe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Centers ... http://www.developingchild.net/pubs/wp/Young_Children_Environment_ Relationships.pdf The Effectsof Childhood Stress on Health Across the Lifespan15 The Effectsof Childhood Stress on Health across the LifespanStress is an inevitable part of life. ... prevention, with ideas about how to incorporate this information into their work.Types of StressFollowing are descriptions ofthe three types of stress that The National Scientific Council on the...
... illness, the cost to their employer is not only the cost ofthe absentee’s forgone labour, it is also the cost ofthe loss of production from other members ofthe team who rely onthe absent ... health on wages. 2. Estimate theeffectsof each ofthe target conditions on general health. 3. Combine the estimates from steps one and two to estimate the effect of each of the target conditions ... suggest that the most significant labour market effectsof chronic illness relate to the effects ofthe conditions on workforce participation. People who contract the target conditions but remain...
... dis-tribution to units within the MACOM. These requirements were not countedin the OPTEMPO budget process at the national level. After the implementa-tion of SSF and the elimination ofthe retail ... thank the careful reviews of this document provided byEllen Pint of RAND and Raymond “Chip” Franck ofthe Naval PostgraduateSchool.vi TheEffectsof Equipment Age on Spare Part Costs: A Study of ... onthe effect of age on spare part costs, we use the available data to study theeffectsof equipment age on both estimates of spare part costs, with and without turn-in behavior. We define the...