diabetes and cardiovascular disease original insights from the framingham heart study

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... CKD progression and the development of growth abnormalities and neurologic and cardiovascular comor- bidities. Understanding the epidemiology and evolution of kidney disease and its sequelae ... 2049 Insights from the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD) Study Lawrence Copelovitch, * Bradley A. Warady, † and Susan L. Furth * Summary Over the last 5 years, the Chronic Kidney Disease ... cross-sectional data and conclusions derived from the clini- cal studies conducted within CKiD in the context of findings from other pediatric CKD and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) registry and cohort...

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... announcements on the banks themselves. By first studying the stock price reaction of the troubled banks to the distress announcements, we can jointly gauge the informativeness of the chosen event dates and the ... surrounding the Norwegian banking crisis. Section 3 discusses the data and introduces the event study methodology used in our paper and Section 4 contains the event study results. Section 5 compares the ... one when a manager of the distressed bank sits on the firm’s board and zero otherwise. EQUITY ISSUE is the ratio of equity issued, publicly and privately, by the firm in the two years prior to...

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... evaluation, since the nature of the data is different from that of the QA dataset. Most of the questions asked over the Web target named entities like specific car brands, places and actors. There is usually ... value. The goal now is to select an attribute value for the given object. During the first stage it is possible that we directly extract from the text a set of values for the requested object. The ... retrieved during the value acquisition stage. If there are several values with the same frequency we select the median of these values. Approximating the attribute value. In the case when we...

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... and Method The MacArthur Successful Aging Study (MSAS) The current study uses data from the MSAS, a longitudinal study of relatively high functioning men and women aged 70–79. The study was originally ... AG-17056 and AG-17265 and by the MacArthur Research Net- works on Successful Aging and on Socio-Economic Status and Health through grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The ... women in the sample said they received the most emotional support from their children and from their friends and relatives, at both time points. Both men and women received the highest levels of...

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... their marketing and communication strategies, initiatives, and campaigns?  What are their goals for social media?  Which social media sites and tools are in use in the education sector and ... with input from us 12% We handle our own social media activities, with some input from others 59% We handle our own social media activities, without any input from other units 22% C ... from the Second Comprehensive Study of Social Media Use by Schools, Colleges and Universities April 13, 2011 In collaboration with the Council for Advancement and...

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... study in depth. The second and third activities in the module, Cancer and the Cell Cycle and Cancer as a Multistep Process, serve in a broad sense as the Explore and Explain phases of the ... students see they can extend and apply their understanding of cancer to the real world. It also is important that they receive feedback on the adequacy of their explanations and understandings. ... become. Ask students to read the descriptions on the envelopes they receive and share who they are with the other members of their teams. Ask students not to open their envelopes at this time....

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... name”) The value of the :cs feature is the constituent struc- ture of the subcategorisation frame, which lists the syntactic CF-PSG constituents in sequence. The value of the :gs feature is the ... using examples from the San Jose Mercury News, the Brown Corpus, several literary works from the Library of America, scientific ab- stracts from the U.S. Department of Energy, and the WSJ. For this ... large and grow with the size of the treebank. We were interested in discovering whether the acquisition of lexical mate- rial on the same data displays a similar propensity. Figure 3 displays the...

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... taken from the literature [43]. The K m and V max values for different substrates were obtained from the Hanes–Woolf equation. Extraction of RNA and first strand cDNA preparation All DNA and RNA ... hemocyanins and tyrosinases were also well conserved in ST94. On the other hand, molluscan hemocyanins revealed that one of the ligands in the Cu(A) site is involved in the cysteine-histidine thioether ... molluscan hemocyanins and tyrosinases genetically diverged from their common ancestor, sepa- rately from the evolutional line of hemocyanins and phenoloxidases in arthropods, and that the divergence...

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... proteins, and an Ile in the 15R- COX [22,31] To determine the role of residue 349 in the specificities of the two P. homomalla variants, a Val349Ile mutant of the 15S-COX and an Ile349Val mutant of the 15R-COX ... prepared and e xpressed in the b aculovirus system. The mutants were incubated with [ 1- 14 C]arachido- nic acid in the presence of SnCl 2 and the products were analysed by TLC (Figs 2 and 3, and ... lie outside of the active site and mostly on the surface of the catalytic globular domain of the COX protein. Protein expression and product analysis The cDNA was cloned into the pFASTBAC1 vector...

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... these chemicals and poisons, which then cause damage to the body’s cells and systems, including the heart and circulatory system. Smoking thereby causes serious CVD, including coronary heart ... 2004. The atlas of heart disease and stroke: The global burden of coronary heart disease. [pdf] Geneva: World Health Organization. Available at: <http://www.who.int /cardiovascular_ diseases/en/cvd_atlas_13_coronaryHD.pdf> ... with the country seeing a rapid rise in the prevalence of coronary heart disease [Ajay and Prabhakaran, 2010]. Between the years 1960–2000 the estimated prevalence of coronary heart disease...

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... catastrophe ended the efforts of the brigands to free their unhappy leader. CHAPTER XI. MR. MOLE VISITS THE WIZARD THE MAGIC MIRROR AND THE LIFE-LIKE VISION THE INCANTATION THE CHARMED WIG. ... approached the chimney, and lowering the light they carried, one of them discovered a dark ominous pool upon the hearth. "Call the doctor; there is something more than meets the eye in ... who used their fists in the lights of savages. Gradually they retreated before the fierce onslaught of the Britishers and their gallant Yankee ally. This was no small triumph. The brigands mustered...

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... after the 1994 elections. Thus the distance of the upstream station B to the nearest exiting border decreased from BD to BC, and the number of border crossings for the segment BF increased from ... of local programs. Insights from the environmental “race to the bottom” literature are also relevant for evaluating the merits of decentralization. Cumberland (1981) and others have argued that ... as the unit of observation, and the dependent variable measures the change in BOD from the upstream to the downstream station: BOD∆ =(BOD d – BOD u ). Our primary estimating equation is the...

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... estimates from the random effects model and 2SLS estimation are similar to the OLS estimates, and the F-test cannot reject the hypothesis of no fixed effects and Hausman test cannot reject random ... 1991, and Koller and Weiss 1989) and notwithstanding that there has been an active pattern of consolidation in the industry, to our knowledge, there is no existing study that examines the effect ... discusses the characteristics and changes in the U.S. pulp and paper industry. Section III discusses the structure-conduct-performance model and the empirical specification. Data and empirical...

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