perinatal and infant determinants of obesity

... profitability is usually expressed as a function of internal and external determinants The internal determinants originate from bank accounts (balance sheets and/ or profit and loss accounts) and ... Concentration and other determinants of bank profitability in Europe, North America and Australia Journal of Banking and Finance 13, 6579 De Bandt, O., Davis, E.P., 2000 Competition, contestability and ... bank-specific determinants of profitability involves operating efficiency and financial risk Size is also included to account for the effect of economies of scale The second group of determinants...

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... http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/3/1/5 expand profits and markets), even as it contributes to the "global production of diet" [38] and resulting rapid increases in obesity and its health ... organizes the provision and distribution of economic resources is informative Both for this reason and because of the preceding discussion of how global patterns of illness and death are related ... definition of globalization and describes key strategic and methodological issues, emphasizing how and why the special characteristics of globalization as a focus of research on health equity and SDH...

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... Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 1997, 551:222-234 150 Warf B, Holly B: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Cleveland Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social ... Bank and IMF loans, and to the associated rescheduling of loan payments, emphasized reduction of subsidies for basic items of consumption such as food; rapid removal of barriers to imports and ... reconfiguration of urban space in pursuit of profitable commercial development and tourism revenues, similarly leading to displacement of residents and sometimes the literal enclosure of public spaces...

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... "provision for the reduction of the stillbirth-rate and of infant mortality and for the healthy development of the child; the improvement of all aspects of environmental and industrial hygiene; the ... relief than has been on offer" [13](p 207–208) Thus, expanding both the availability of debt relief and its value must be a priority from the standpoint of health equity and SDH At the 2005 Summit, ... Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights proclaims "the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health," and obligates States Parties...

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... time as the left-hand panel (error bars are standard error) The right-hand plots are from a repeated measures analysis of the effects of treatment over the years of the study and are pair-wise ... CJ, JCY and JV contributed to the initiation, design, and conduct of the study, the interpretation of data, and manuscript development; MDS contributed to the interpretation of data and manuscript ... effect of therapy on the SGRQ domains, and an analysis of demographic and diseaserelated factors that may influence long-term changes in health status Methods Details of the TORCH study design and...

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... load, replacement of animals, and procedures for prevention, treatment and recording of disease This questionnaire included a total of 94 (18 continuous and 76 discrete) management and production ... Collecting reliable information on management factors and herd-specific rates of CM can be difficult and expensive, and has limited the size of many previous studies Another difficulty is that ... management in dairy herds The number of factors to extract is subjective; guidelines exist and are based on the scree-plot (find the elbow of the plot) and the amount of variance that the factors explain...

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... activation Assessment of the effect of HCV and HCMV on monocyte activation and differentiation as a means of estimating viral persistence was the subject of two talks, by P Balard and S Gredmark HCV ... cells (iDCs) and may mediate the internalization of HIV and its transfer to CD4+ cells in a lipid raft-dependent manner, independently of DC-SIGN The role of DC-SIGN in viral retention and enhancement ... structural and functional changes favoring viral entry and replication, and may affect the trafficking and functional responses of unstimulated CD4+ T cells The interactions between CD4 and CCR5...

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... measuring social determinants of health 200 Prospective assessment of social determinants on eye disease and visual impairment 200 Evaluation of cost-effectiveness of interventions ... range of direct and indirect benefits at individual level (e.g., improvement in quality of life and reduction in risk of fall and co-morbidities), economic level (e.g., increasing rate of employment ... evidence of the effectiveness of health policies and programs.61 Although there is a paucity of understanding as to how and where the inequalities arise, there are plausible conceptual framework and...

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... 95% value for Poland and Portugal and assumed 100% for Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom (the median value for Australia, and Western European and North American ... Socioeconomic Determinants of Infant Mortality: A world-wide study of 152 low-, middle-, and high-income countries Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 2007, 35:288-297 12 UNICEF: The State of the ... with infant, child and maternal survival at the national aggregate level and after controlling for other health system determinants and demographic factors The strength of a health system offers...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... an overview of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Vietnam and attempt to review of the current status of economic research on the determinants of FDI and its impacts on the economy of Vietnam ... inception of economic reform in 1986 The inflow of FDI has contributed significantly to the economic development of Vietnam Still, the determinants of FDI inflow and its impacts on the economy of Vietnam ... systematic study on the determinants of FDI and its potential impacts on the economy of Vietnam The main purpose of this paper is to collect and review FDI related papers on Vietnam and to provide an...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 01:28

... user of long-chain fatty acids making a brain-specific isoform intriguing CPT1c was identified and cloned from in silico sequences as a highly homologous member of the CPT1 class of enzymes and ... carbohydrate and lipid nutrient sensing in the brain and is an example of an enzyme that can sense and respond to the nutritional environment The major challenge to understanding the role of CPT1c ... mediators in the treatment of obesity M J Wolfgang and M D Lane One of the biggest challenges to the field is the lack of experimental tools to investigate intermediary metabolites and lipids in general...

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... inflammation of adipose tissue in obesity and related insulin resistance [15] Here, we focus on the roles of ANGPTL2 and ANGPTL6 ⁄ AGF in obesity and related metabolic diseases, and discuss whether these ... Induction Fig Schematic diagram showing the roles of ANGPTL2 and ANGPTL6 ⁄ AGF in obesity and related metabolic diseases The expression of ANGPTL2 and ANGPTL6 ⁄ AGF is induced in obese conditions ... inflammation and systemic insulin resistance through the induction of vascular inflammation and monocyte migration ANGPTL6 ⁄ AGF antagonizes obesity and insulin resistance through the enhancement of systemic...

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... personnel must also handle large amounts of paperwork and complete other administrative tasks The result of all of these demands on personnel time is that senior members of the force are often in short ... of excellent landings by 2.5 percentage points and increasing the number of unsatisfactory landings by 2.6 percentage points On the other hand, a career decrease of 10 percent in the number of ... decrease of five percentage points in the number of excellent landings, from 33 percent to 28 percent of the total landings, and a ten percentage point increase in the number of unsatisfactory landings,...

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... dysfunction and ED [130,131], the concept of androgen deficiency reinforces the important role of androgens in vascular health and erectile function Summary and conclusions Visceral obesity, in ... the link between obesity and ED by focusing on the potential pathophysiological links including obesity- related androgen deficiency and obesity- induced endothelial dysfunction Obesity promotes ... and hypogonadism-induced obesity remain the subject of intense investigation Several hypotheses have discussed the relationship of androgen deficiency and obesity That obesity is commonly associated...

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... molecular determinants of ligand specificity of CtCBM11 By means of NMR studies, we have analyzed various cello-oligosaccharides of different sizes This approach enabled us to identify a range of cello-oligosaccharides ... about the binding pocket of CtCBM11 and identify which atoms of the ligand and of CtCBM11 interact preferentially Calculations were performed with cellobiose, cellotetraose and cellohexaose carbohydrates ... the ligands are equal among themselves, this change in orientation is of no great importance for the establishment of the binding interactions between the ligand and CtCBM11, and this kind of behaviour...

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... weakness of bands of fragments I and IV and the appearance of fragment II in the degradation of the Tyr146 !His/Asn147 !Ser mutant (panel d) indicated a significant decrease in the rate of cleavage of ... amount of trypsin DISCUSSION The structural determinants of autolysis and autolytic inactivation of rat D-chymotrypsin (a propeptide deficient variant of the wild-type enzyme, see Materials and methods) ... the slope of initial rates of succinyl-Ala-Ala-Pro-Phe-NHMec hydrolysis as described previously [13] Detection and identification of cleavage intermediates The zymogens of D-chymotrypsin and the...

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... development and subsequent clinical course of some types of obesity In this minireview, we focus on adipocyte hyperplasia as a novel therapeutic target for the treatment of obesity and discuss ... clinical use of this approach in obesity therapy RMI1 and obesity Using a random mutagenesis approach based on the exchangeable gene trap method, we recently identified RMI1 as a novel regulator of energy ... present, and therefore more detailed understanding of adipocyte hyperplasia in humans is essential for the development of efficacious and safe treatments As emphasized here, RMI1 is one of the most...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 01:20

... structures of TM-3 in the absence and presence of pENW, respectively, are shown Positions of the Metturn (magenta) and disulfide-linkages (blue) of TM-3 are also indicated (C), superimposition of the ... potencies of pEWN and pEWK (Table 3) Structural comparison of pENW-(TM-3) with the peptidic inhibitor-complexes of atrolysin C, TACE and HNC Fig Diagram of the active-site structure of TM-3 complexed ... pockets (A) and (B), the S)1 pockets of TM-3 (gray) and its pENW-bound form (red), respectively (C) and (D), the S)1 pockets of adamalysin II (cyan) and atrolysin C (blue) after the binding of a phosphonate...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 23:20

... relationship between capitalization and profitability, and a negative relationship between reserves and profitability Other important determinants of bank margins and profitability, such as ownership, ... characteristics and the macro environment, we provide an economic analysis of the determinants of the interest and profitability variables, net interest margin, and before tax profit/ta This empirical ... of determinants of interest spreads is offered by Hanson and Rocha (1986) That paper summarizes the role that implicit and explicit taxes play in raising spreads and goes on to discuss some of...

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... teams change and adapt with the project tasks at hand Expanding and shrinking team boundaries are at the core of the definition of virtual R&D teams Conclusions and future trends The use of virtual ... importance of transnational virtual R&D teams goes hand in hand with the availability of talented engineers and scientists in an increasing number of centres -of- excellence around the globe and our ... development and production of the combustion chamber and turbine blades as well as final assembly of the turbine ABB Mannheim was responsible for R&D and production of rotors, requiring profound technological...

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