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... Store Sources: , various issues; Bennett; Turcsik & Heller. Retail Consolidation and Produce Buying Practices: A Summary of the Evidence and Potential Industry and Policy Responses Richard J. Sexton, ... whether or not to carry a private-label brand. The data revealed no evidence of coordination among retailers in setting prices for bagged salads....

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... and behavior. When the brain perceives an experience as stressful, physiologic and behavioral responses are initiated, leading to allostasis and adaptation. Over time, allostatic load can accumulate, ... and the Health of the Public: A Summary of the February 2009 Summit http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12668.html 80 INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE AND THE HEALTH OF THE PUBL...

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... distribution and negative kurtosis indicates a relatively flat distribution. The larger the absolute value of the skewness and kurtosis, the more extreme the characteristics of the data. Table 10 ... percentage change in ROE and the percentage change in CEO compensation. In their study of “non-financial performance measures” (p. 443) in the airline industry,...

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... the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad- REVIEW OF THE OCEAN RESEARCH PRIORITIES PLAN 102 ministration (NOAA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Admin- istration (NASA). RECOMMENDATION: ... an external review that will be part of the five-year plan update and will include an evaluation of the performance-assessment mechanism and an assessment of the...

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... in bacterial populations were seen between patients who recently had a colon polyp removed, Japanese-Hawaiians, North American Caucasians, native rural Japanese, and rural native Africans. Lactobacillus ... Adventist vegetarians was found to have a higher amount of beneficial bacteria and lower amount of poten- tially pathogenic bacteria compared to non-vegetarians on a conventi...

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... for the issue of contaminant identification. The EPA should carefully consider the scope of the tasks identified here, so that the data gathering efforts (e.g., the contaminant database and the ... disease surveillance efforts already underway, the limitations of active disease surveillance, and the respective roles of the EPA and other public health agen...

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... particularly the urban poor and urban ethnic and racial minorities (Gurunathan, et al., 1998; Landrigan, 1999). Exposures For years, concerns have been raised over the impacts of agricultural and ... pregnant women are exposed can cross the placenta and bind to fetal DNA (forming DNA adducts), causing mutations (damage to genetic material, the start of the cancer p...

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... flows are only constrained by topographical features, and questioned the actual enforcement of such standards. Honaganahali added that the US National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) are ... (NAAQS) are health- based standards for criterial pollutants that apply for an airshed as a whole. These standards have the health risks factored in them, which basically means that...

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... further enhance an MBA program’s reputation. However, when analyzing the financial value of an MBA, the starting salary of the graduate is only part of the equation. The value added by the ... such as the median incomes of students by school before and after the MBA and the program’s cost (tuition and fees). A final aspect of the rankings, the perce...

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... minorities, have a shortage of funds and labour, this policy has had the effect of excluding them from a large share of the land allocation. Table 1 shows that having perennial cropland (generally ... annual cropland, although in the Central Highlands 12 percent have no annual cropland (Table 1). Of the rural Kinh population a relatively small proportion has annu...

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