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... compounds, performed solubility tests and dissolved NEFA; K R W and L J per-formed Ca and b-arrestin-2 assays; M G and K S perper-formed DMR assays; R K P designed and performed PPAR assays; C J S and ... were taken from the tail tip for glucose measurement at 30 min before the glucose load and after 30 min Further samples for glucose only were obtained at 0, 30, 60 and 120 min after the glucose load ... high potency and high efficacy on both receptors, and was thus further evaluated in both the Ca2þand the b-arrestin-2 inter-action BRET assay on the human and mouse orthologues of FFA1 and FFA4 (Table

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... protein intake and the highest carbohydrate in-take) to 30 (the highest protein and fat intake and the lowest carbohydrate intake) Therefore, the higher the score, the more closely the partic-ipant’s ... questionnaire and the average of six 1-week diet records collected in 1980 and 1986 was 0.73 for carbohydrate, 0.67 for total fat, and 0.56 for protein.15 The method used to assess glycemic load in the ... consumption and summed these values for all foods Dietary gly-cemic load, therefore, represents both the quality and quantity of carbohydrate consumed Each unit of glycemic load represents the equivalent

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... Markers and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Men and Women The new england journal of medicine original article Inflammatory Markers and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Men and Women ... sTNF-R2, interleukin-6, and C-reactive protein as markers of risk for coronary heart disease among women participating in the Nurses’ Health Study and men participating in the Health Professionals ... women Further adjustment for lipid and nonlipid factors attenuated all associations; only C-reactive protein levels remained significant The relative risk among all participants was 1.79 for those

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 00:20

... ORs with the 95% CIs for the clas-sic risk factors for the patient and control groups of the two cohorts Aging and being male gender were the two Trang 5common risk factors that had the strongest ... To evaluate whether there was an interactive effect between the HO-1 length polymorphism and arsenic exposure for the risk of developing atherosclerosis, we first estimated the risk associated ... software, and the statis-tical significance level was defined asp < 0.05 Results Conventional risk factors and carotid atherosclerosis Table 1 presents the frequency distribution and the age-and

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... groups, even after adjusting for the predictors listed above The standard deviations of the QOL scores differ between ethnic groups, and the models do not account for all of this, leading to heteroscedasticity ... differed in the reported importance [Figure 1] The largest differences are between White British participants (almost all of whom rate all the topics as important) and the others, though the Chinese ... data analysis and AB was responsible for data collection and processing Both authors have read and approved the final manuscript Trang 10References: 1 Lawton, M.P., Environment and other determinants

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:22

... Because of the low number of events and the sensitivity of the default Trang 3weighting (the inverse of the variance of the logarithm ofthe odds ratio) to the definition of infection (for example, ... phagocyte function and suppress cell-mediated immunity, thereby plausibly increasing the risk of infection [5] However, the extent to which GC therapy contributes to the observed increased risk in RA ... was to perform a systematic litera-ture review and meta-analysis (where appropriate) of RCTs and observational studies to assess the association between systemic GC therapy and the risk of infection

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:22

... in the ICT sector of the developing world The partners may come to these projects with divergent motivations: profit on the one hand and the provision of public services on the other, but at the ... further concern is the sustainability of such projects: if they do not prove to be profitable for the private partners, will they abandon the projects? Alternately, do the projects provide for ... nonetheless, that the one billion for whom ICTs are not a priority (those at the bottom of the ladder) and the one billion that the industry is looking to as their next consumers, are not one and

Ngày tải lên: 21/08/2014, 15:25

... for the Cubs and for all other teams in the league If consumers (fans) consume the available information and then rate the team’s performance on par with the “experts,” does this mean that the ... Votolato and Doug Bosse for their friendship, encouragement, collaboration and support The data for Chapter 3 came from the Procter and Gamble Company through the generous efforts of Andreas Onnen and ... managerially useful brand equity measures and tools is the lack of a theoretical foundation for the concept of brand equity, as well as a clear distinction between brand equity and brand value The purpose

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... 2004) and therefore challenges our understanding of associated risks and accepted cleanup standards (Alexander, 1995) Whether or not these contaminants are truly available for uptake by plants and ... of a) the initial TNT thermogram and b) the TNT thermogram smoothed using the Gaussian smoothing function - 44 Figure 3.5 — Variation in triplicate thermogram runs for TNT spiked on sand 600990) ... reproduction is the best copy available ® UMI Trang 3THE BINDING AND AVAILABILITY OF 2,4,6-TRINITROTOLUENE (TNT) FROM SAND, CLAY MINERALS, AND SOILS — THE EFFECTS OF AGING AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR BIOTREATMENT

Ngày tải lên: 13/11/2014, 15:42

... littleunderstanding of what they are getting into, and then wonder why theiroften smaller competitors are beating them hands down Thorough preparation is essential for success Leadership and port in the form ... impossiblypressured by the contradictions in overall policy On the one hand theywere being told to increase growth (and short-term returns); on the otherhand they were being refused the resources to ... damages their companies.Managers start playing games If they see they can exceed the stretchbudget, for example, they try and delay end-of-year sales so they arebooked in the next year They fear

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... in the commissioned work The World Bank therefore does not warrant that the use of the content contained in the work will not infringe on the rights of third parties The risk of claims resulting ... Attribution—Please cite the work as follows: World Bank 2013 Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts, and the Case for Resilience A report for the World Bank by the Potsdam Institute for Climate ... Adaptation and the Climate Policy and Finance Department The Bank team, led by Kanta Kumari Rigaud and Erick Fernandes under the supervision of Jane Ebinger, worked closely with the Potsdam Institute for

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2015, 19:23

... Jaime Peraire and ProfessorLim Kian Meng for serving on my thesis committee, and for their carefulcriticism and comments regarding this thesis I am also grateful to my senior members of the “reduced ... than the standard genetic algorithm They then used that proce-dure for estimating the material properties of composite laminates [67, 69]and for detecting cracks in composite material [70, 68] Theory ... confirm the robustness of the proposed inverse strategy The two main goals of this thesis are the development of reduced basisapproximations for the second-order linear hyperbolic PDE and their

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 18:56

... on the input and the output technologies Furthermore, I compare these systems and tools based on the accessibility, usability, and controllability for end-users, and the variety of the enhanced ... algorithm for estimating the folding based on the difference between the shapes of a piece of paper before and after a Trang 36folding process is made They used the information of the edges and vertices ... Builder and then follow the layout to build up the physical model Later, the toolkit was improved by adding microcontrollers to all the hinges and polygons Therefore, the toolkit itself can sense the

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:26

... that controlling the product of the perpendicular spin component of the FM and AFM between the top layer of the perpendicular multilayers and the AFM interface, and control of the effective anisotropy ... layer and J INT the interface axis, and the applied field and the FM anisotropy axis (see Figure 2.3) The first term of this energy equation represent the effect of the applied field on the FM ... FM layer; the second and third term is the effect of the FM and AFM anisotropy respectively; and the last one takes into account the interfacial coupling effect experimentally, for the simplest

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:53

... with the beginning of the most volatile month of the European debt crisis – and received responses through the end of May This white paper is the result of the survey work conducted in the midst ... in the longer term the euro can last in the form that it is in, unless there is greater fiscal and political centralisation in Brussels,” says Theo Zemek, Global Head of Fixed Income at AXA “And ... regarding the impact of recent financial, economic and fiscal events on future financing and investing decisions of corporate and institutional leaders Some of the themes addressed in the report

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 00:22

... associated with risk for knee OA [14] Although these studies provide insight into the effect of physical activity on risk for knee OA in specific age groups, they not directly compare the risk for OA ... men and 583 women [13] also identified sex-specific differences in physical activity and risk for hip and/ or knee OA Specifically, men exhibited a reduced risk for hip or knee OA if they performed ... not for citation purposes) and other strenuous sports) were at greater risk for knee OA than those individuals in the lower tertile of BMI Similarly, increased risk for knee OA was reported in former...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:22

... integrity, and availability; and you may experience attacks against these dimensions We can think of these as the “primary colors” of information assurance By mixing and matching these and we mix and ... about them Unfortunately, the “somebody” is usually a bad guy The bad guys always seem to find out about vulnerabilities long before the good guys 1-7 Relating Risk, Threat and Vulnerability Risk ... decrypt the passwords Then, with a stolen password, the attacker can execute an integrity attack when they gain entrance to the system And they can even use an availability attack as part of their...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 17:15

... (UNDP and others) What is needed, now and later? International support, cooperation and coordination Current international support to Viet Nam on CC • Support to the mitigation of effects of CC and ... • In-depth consultation with key stakeholders and the wider public • Refine the CCA strategy • Adopt CC impact scenarios as the basis for public and private investments • Mainstream reduction ... strategies and plans for 2011 and beyond; in public investment decisions; and policy instruments such as SEA • Articulate VN policies, strategies and plans on vulnerability reduction in the context...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 00:20

... four fundamental forces One of these is the gravitational force The other three are the electromagnetic force, the weak force, and the strong Force Force particle Mass force Strong Gluon Electromagnetic ... between the two presidents and that therefore, without further ado, the light it emitted traveled the same distance to reach each of them Since the speed of the emitted light to the left and to the ... is for the president of Backwardland, and since the speed of light toward each is the same, the light will reach the president of Forwardland first This is why the citizens of Forwardland claim...

Ngày tải lên: 25/01/2014, 16:20

... to alleviate the funding risks faced by the banks It should therefore facilitate the provision of money and credit to the economy.22 Understanding the funding models of banks and the interlinkages ... borrower and on the value of collateral that the bank receives For instance, a positive shock to the value of the collateral that is pledged to banks implies a lower risk for the bank and thus the ... market interest rates and accommodating the demand for outside money Changes in these interest rates alter the opportunity costs of money holdings and thereby affect the demand for broad money however,...

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