... Huntley Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK Reviews Editor C Boshoff (London, UK) Editorial Board Chairman A Horwich (Sutton, UK) F Balkwill (London, UK) R Brown (London, UK) RM Bukowski (Cleveland, USA) J ... dietary factors in the UK in 2010: IV Salt DM Parkin 16 The fraction of cancer attributable to lifestyle andenvironmentalfactors in the UK in 2010: Summary and conclusions DM Parkin, L Boyd and ... international experts to ensure the highest standards of selectionand review All relevant papers are carefully considered Once accepted, papers are published rapidly and, at the editor’s discretion,...
... polarized along the length of the QR, which reduces the confinement of the exciton, and thus, the coulomb interaction of the electron and hole for a given bound exciton is reduced and exciton−exciton interactions ... coherent acoustic phonons Upon pump photon excitation, a coherent phonon is generated within the NCs This coherent acoustic phonon is coupled via a piezoelectric and deformation potential; thus, ... CONCLUSION Time-resolved ultrafast TA spectroscopy was used to explore the intraband relaxation and coherent acoustic phonons in QDs and QRs of various sizes We found that intraband relaxation...
... polarized along the length of the QR, which reduces the confinement of the exciton, and thus, the coulomb interaction of the electron and hole for a given bound exciton is reduced and exciton−exciton interactions ... coherent acoustic phonons Upon pump photon excitation, a coherent phonon is generated within the NCs This coherent acoustic phonon is coupled via a piezoelectric and deformation potential; thus, ... CONCLUSION Time-resolved ultrafast TA spectroscopy was used to explore the intraband relaxation and coherent acoustic phonons in QDs and QRs of various sizes We found that intraband relaxation...
... substantial rise in environmental consciousness among consumers For some, environmental concern has become a way of life guiding their consumption on a daily basis For others, environmental concerns are ... Environmental consciousness Today, environmental consciousness is not only a political cause pursued by environmental organizations and activists but also an issue bearing significant impact on ... because of their concern for environmental conservation but also out of concern for their own health (Wandel and Bugge, 1997; Padel and Foster, 2005) Individuals’ concern for food safetyand health...
... [1.41 - 7.66] and OR = 2.09 [1.02 4.29], respectively) (table 3.15 - 3.18) These two risk factors complemented one another and could confirm the relation between contact behaviour and risk of getting ... association between health status of people and risk of getting pH1N1/2009 infection as all cases and controls had no underlying chronic disease A further study may be in requirement CONCLUSIONS Epidemiology ... Definition of cases: cases were those who were confirmed as being infected with pH1N1/2009 by HI technique Definition of controls: controls were those who were confirmed as free of infection with...
... with the PRECON program (H.C Fritts, Dendro-Power, Tucson, Arizona, 1996) [15] Sim- ple correlation was also calculated to confirm the results of response functions since response functions are sensitive ... widths and wood densities provide records of the effects of both climatic and nonclimatic factorson the radial growth of trees It is possible to evaluate the effects of nonclimatic factorson the ... by response function analysis [2, 14, 17] Response function analysis is a multiple-regression technique that uses principal components of monthly climatic data as predictors of ring-width and maximum-density...
... arid environmental conditions of Arizona (Monty, 1984) and Israel (Heimann, 1982; Ron et al, 1984) Many studies have been conducted in order to study the role of heat stress in the summer on the ... was z obtained for SG and the lowest for CR i i The solutions for month effects on heifer, first, second and third calving conception status (CS are shown in figure Although only CS is presented, ... Relationship among production and reproduction in nulliparous and first lactation Holstein cattle 82th Meet ADSA, June 21-24, 1987, Columbia Wazdauskas FC, Whittier WD, Vinson WE, Pearson RE...
... comprised the strong negative links among the pH and other biochemical traits and strong positive links among physicochemical and biochemical parameters The second group included the connections (some ... component pair combinations from the seven principal components In Figure all samples are represented as a function of factors PC1 and PC2, and PC1 and PC3 Figure 4A shows the two-dimensional ... derived from (A) PC-1 and PC-2, (B) PC-1 and PC-3 These factors were chosen for the best visualization of field and genotype separation and include 50% of the total information content Plotted points...
... three latent, or unmeasured, factors: additive genetic factors (a2), shared environmentalfactors (c2) or dominant genetic factors (d2), and non-shared environmentalfactors (e2), which also include ... definition there is no correlation for the non-shared environment The additive genetic, shared, and non-shared environmental variance components are noted as am, cm , em, af , cf, and ef, for men and ... environmentalfactors (C) and nonshared environmentalfactors (E) was used for VC and FEV The comparisons of variance models indicated that the importance of genetic andenvironmental effects...
... leaving CF cultures only partially able to adjust ASL volume [9,10] Bacterial colonization, infection, and chronic pulmonary inflammation develop subsequently Pulmonary complications account for ... group Relationship between lung function and different combinations of infection The impact of different types of infection on progression of lung function is shown in Figure Age and the most ... infection types (p < 0.0001) when the group free of any colonization or infection was taken as baseline Discussion This study demonstrates that progression of pulmonary hyperinflation and the...
... asthma Steroid-dependent asthma None Drug response Drug response Drug response None Total IgE FEV1 None None None Total IgE None Total IgE None Aspirin-induced asthma None [S33] [S33] American Hutterites ... affected and unaffected subjects carefully characterized (longitudinally) for both the environmental setting and disease expression may be required to test for interactions between genetic variants and ... (in addition to environmental factors) may also underlie the significant worldwide differences in the prevalence of asthma, allergic rhinitis, and AD [46] 10 11 12 Conclusion 13 Asthma and atopy...
... CA-MRSA and may play an important role in cavitary pneumonia and necrotizing skin and soft tissue infections, as discussed in the following section Expression of virulence factors is largely controlled ... upregulation of secreted factorsand downregulation of cell surface virulence factors This pattern of expression has been noted to occur during the stationary growth phase when studied in vitro and ... During an exponential growth phase, upregulation of cell surface factors is increased and production of secreted factors is decreased A recent study Available online http://ccforum.com/content/13/5/222...
... genetic andenvironmentalfactorson proactive personality Second, I probe the relative merits of genetic andenvironmentalfactors in explaining bivariate relationships between proactive personality ... decomposition (Neale & Cardon, 1992) to examine common genetic andenvironmentalfactors related to proactive personality and outcomes in bivariate (H1 and H2, Appendix C) and mediated (H3 and H4) ... relationships Genetic andEnvironmental Effects on Proactive Personality and in Bivariate Relationships between Proactive Personality and Career Success The genetic basis of proactive personality...
... there (a reduction in nonmonetary costs such the time and effort needed to acquire and assess information on destinations and the cost of planning or a sense of emotional attachment and loyalty to ... understanding destination loyalty by examining the theoretical and empirical evidence on the causal relationships among destination image, tourist attribute and overall satisfaction, and destination ... Stay, Travel Motivations, Destination Satisfaction and Tourists Loyalty CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW Push and Pull Travel Motivations 1.1 Definition and Concept Motivation is one of the main driving...
... the higher Destination satisfaction and Return intention B Factors Affecting Destination Satisfaction and Return Intention Pearson’s Correlation Analysis and Liner Regression Analysis were applied ... disconfirmation and high satisfaction; on the other hand, if the actual performance is worse than their expectations, this leads to negative disconfirmation and dissatisfaction In the tourism destination ... role of push and pull factorsand their positive influences on tourist’s satisfaction and intention to re-visit Vietnam They should pay attention on both intrinsic and extrinsic reasons why people...
... the populations with internet continue to grow Other limitations of an online daily survey include survey fatigue, self -selection bias, and self-report While our response rate was strong over 16-weeks, ... of the 82 falls (16%); these injuries included five contusions (38%), four abrasions (31%), two concussions (15%), one fracture (8%), and one self-report of general soreness (8%) Participants ... Hollands, 2009) andenvironmental modifications to improve stair safety (Foster, Hotchkiss, Buckley, & Elliott, 2014) In older adults, falls are believed to result from the interaction of environmental...
... credit the Program on Breast Cancer andEnvironmental Risk Factors in New York State Printed on recycled paper with soy-based ink Program on Breast Cancer andEnvironmental Risk Factors (BCERF) ... Agriculture/Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, The New York State Departments of Health andEnvironmental Conservation, and Cornell University We hope you find this Fact ... Program on Breast Cancer andEnvironmental Risk Factors in New York State Smoking has effects that can both increase and decrease breast cancer risk On one hand, tobacco smoke contains chemicals that...
... and operation of not more 15 than six centers whose purpose is conducting multidisci16 plinary research onenvironmentalfactors that may be re17 lated to the development of women’s health conditions ... ‘‘(D) develop model continuing education programs for such professionals; and ‘‘(E) disseminate information to such pro- 10 fessionals and the public 11 ‘‘(2) PRIORITY FOR PREVENTION ACTIVITIES.— ... from environmentalfactors ‘‘(d) COORDINATION OF CENTERS; REPORTS.—The Director of the Institute shall, as appropriate, provide for the coordination of information among centers under sub6 section...
... precipitation conditions in the high elevation spruce stands of the Drahanska vrchovina upland Ekológia, 21: 69–87 I J., L P (1973): Some observations on the cambial zone in cottonwood International ... early phloem, longitudinal parenchyma and late phloem Subsequent evaluation and further processing of results consisted of these steps: description of the phloem formation in relation to temperatures; ... from the young and the old stands was studied so that the influence of age could be analyzed Biotic environmentalfactors are measured on these plots regularly, and temperature and humidity aspects...
... obtain conductance information diurnally [13, 30] Extrapolation from maximum diurnal values of leaf or canopy conductance to averaged daily conductance estimates based onenvironmental relationships ... continuously mea- flux andenvironmental driving forces for use in conductance calculations has presented a new challenge: resolving diurnal non-steady state canopy and stem characteristics and ... effects on calculations of instantaneous and daily average conductance sure stem Leaf and canopy conductances have been demonstrated to exhibit time lags with respect to changes in environmental...