receptors—implications for human health

... EXPOSURE TO PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR HUMAN HEALTH TAN JING (B.Eng., Wuhan University, China) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ... monitored for quantification Other mass fragments are also used, such as m/z 484.7 and 486.7 for PBDE 209 and m/z 498.7 and 500.7 for 13 carbon-PBDE 209 (Dirtu et al., 2008) Alternative methods for ... Health risks of exposure to POPs in Singapore 152 8.4 CONCLUSIONS 155 CHAPTER CONCLUSION AND FUTURE EFFORTS 156 9.1 CONCLUSIONS OF THE STUDY 156 9.2 SUGGESTIONS FOR...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:06

... the human population for the presence of hPPARα6/29 revealed that this form is rare An alteration of the PPRE sequence in the human acyl-CoA oxidase gene might also explain the relative human ... useful information, for some classes of compounds, the rodent models are poor predictors of human response, in some cases due to marked species differences in expression of the target receptors For ... responsible for ligand-binding and converting PPARs to an active form that binds DNA and modulates gene expression The interaction of PPARs with their ligands, because of the conformational changes...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... whether these efforts would necessarily lead to agricultural products with better functional properties for human health benefits, they have exposed regulation mechanisms important for increasing ... of current knowledge to modulate levels of these important phytonutrients for the benefit of human health and will, therefore, be separately discussed in a later part of this chapter 12.3 Flavonoids ... of plaque formation Dietary antioxidants such as vitamin E and β-carotene have been shown to prevent the formation of LDLox and their uptake by microphages in vitro (Rao, 2002) Healthy human subjects...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 05:20

... reduction of cadmium emissions for human health Some efforts in this direction have been made, especially within in the European Union Cadmium, on the one hand, is example for an industrially used ... gives a scheme on the handling of Cadmium in human body Hazards to human health Inhalativly resorbed cadmium reaches blood circulation usually in form of cadmium-cysteine complexes [12] Dermal ... long-time effects on human health On the other hand, it is an example for the beneficial potential of the international cooperation of laboratories, universities and local authorities Efforts to research...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... mmol—L-1; obesity, BMI ≥30.0 kg·m-1 [19, 20] The short form (SF-36) was used to assess the physical health and mental health aspects of health related quality of life [21] SF-36 consists of eight ... compared to VO2peak in healthy individuals from the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT) We hypothesized that patients with schizophrenia had reduced VO2peak compared to normative healthy individuals ... calculated the odds ratio for having one or more risk factors in the patients below threshold The analysis was adjusted for age and sex In multiadjusted analysis we also adjusted for the potential cofounding...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... impacts on human and ecological health are largely unknown, but are potentially severe Issues in Environmental Science and Technology, No 24 Nanotechnology: Consequences for Human Health and ... and human health effects of nanoparticles In the former chapter, Ken Donaldson and Vicki Stone give a toxicological perspective on the properties of nanoparticles and consider why nanoparticle form ... and Technology, No 24 Nanotechnology: Consequences for Human Health and the Environment r The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2007 Barry Park The Oxford English Dictionary defines nanotechnology as...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2016, 20:27

... addition, a policy for the economy restructuring needs to be adopted to raise the effectiveness of in - depth growth factors Keywords: Education, economic growth, human development, Human Development ... framework 1.1 Summary of human development issues It was not until the term HDI was first used by United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in its Human Development Report (HDR) that human development ... as labor, human capital, social capital, etc Human development covers a large scope of research Thereby, the component indices of HDI themselves not express the various aspects of human development...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2016, 11:24

... dimensions of perceived health status (i.e., overall health at present time, health now as compared to five years ago, health 180 troubles interfering with activities, and health other people of ... Physical Health Assessment scale 115 was used to measure physical health status This physical health assessment scale obtains a subjective health rating of an individual’s perceived health status ... IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH EDUCATION PRACTICE are increasingly involved in building networks of people-both for purposes of personal support and for purposes of social action towards a more humane world...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20

... manner such that threatening information was critically evaluated but reassuring information was not For high-relevance participants (those at risk for harm by the health threat), the defensive ... fear in health promotion campaigns Am J Public Health 78:163-167, 1988 18 Prentice-Dunn S, Rogers RW: Protection motivation theory and preventive health: Beyond the health belief model Health ... messages Ninety-eight studies met the criteria for inclusion in the meta-analysis (All coding information for the main effects and the interaction effects for each study are available from the authors...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 22:21

... Model 1: hGK super-open conformation (including coordinates for the Glu157–Asn179 loop) Model 2: hGK super-open conformation with inserted Glc Model 3: hGK super-open conformation with inserted ... oxygen atoms forming hydrogen bonds with Thr228 and Ser411 in the L-domain (data not shown) For comparison, when the MD simulations were performed with Glc in the super-open conformation (Fig ... obtained for (B) the modelled super-open conformation, including the Glu157–Asn179 loop, and (C) the modelled open conformation ˚ with inserted ATP (GK–ATP) The Ca rmsd values were 4.01 A for ˚...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 00:20

... implications for the future 1.Mental health services – statistics 2.Child health services – statistics 3.Adolescent health services – statistics 4 .Health resources – statistics Health care surveys ... implementing a new mental health plan they have realized a 30% supplement for child mental health care! F aced with the evidence for the need for child and adolescent mental health services, there ... World Health Organization, 2003 World Health Organization Assessment Instrument for Mental Health Systems Geneva World Health Organization, 2005 APPEND I X I Atlas publications ATLAS: Mental Health...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:20

... her call for a framework for women’s health within health education, gender itself is “a key determinant of health (p 189); therefore, “a broader understanding of the meaning of women’s health ... determinant of health (Paper prepared for the Canada-USA Forum on Women’s Health) Ottawa: Health Canada Kawachi, I., & Berkman, L F (2001) Social ties and mental health Journal of Urban Health, 78, ... and a health outcome For example, biological sex might moderate or interact with health service access in the prediction of cardiac disease diagnosis That is, access of health services for cardiac...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 21:20

... estimates for children and adults in the literature Likewise, information is not available to estimate the third health effect, indirect health improvement for children generated from improved adult health ... needed for monitoring and evaluation, including exposure assessment, indicators and systems for data collection at national level and for poor rural and urban communities where the need for information ... patients ETS not significant for either 9.9 (1.8 to 31.4) for charcoal heat for in-patients 1.6 (1.3 to 2.0) for any heating fuel in in-patients 2.2 (1.2 to 3.9) for gas cooking in out-patients...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

... level nor for our study region; hence we use baseline morbidity rates for Shanghai which is nearby (Table 2) For restricted activity days no baseline rates are available for China; we therefore use ... pollutants for 2000 and three scenarios for 2020, (3) simulate ambient air pollution concentrations and distributions, (4) estimate human exposure to air pollutants, (5) estimate health impacts ... accounts for 29% of the total health damages Health damages caused by coal use can be compared with the market price of coal The current coal price does not include the external cost to health...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 20:20

... 3JHNHa, and u vs w plots, Fig S2) imply a conformational preference for an extended structure The unambiguous conformational preference for helical structure for the C-terminal 10-peptide is manifested ... analysis was performed according to the approach established by Wishart et al [28,29] and shift differences between the Ha-protons of the human/ rat CRH analogue and their values for coil conformation ... values for a-helix structure, while w angles for Leu14 and Arg16 are considerably close to the range of values for 310 helix Additionally, Leu14 possess a u torsion angle almost typical for the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

... al Reproductive Health 2012, 9:13 http://www.reproductive -health- journal.com/content/9/1/13 focal point for investing in young people, is one of the many layers of environments for socialization ... The mean age was 18.59 (SD2.84) for males and 18.34 (SD 2.73) years for females (Table 1) Tesso et al Reproductive Health 2012, 9:13 http://www.reproductive -health- journal.com/content/9/1/13 ... Ministry of Health: National Reproductive Health Strategy, (2007 – 2015) Addis Ababa: FMOH; 2006 20 Family Health International: Tools and guides in adolescent sexual and reproductive health programs...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... expenditures Estimates of future health expenditures for an individual of a given age are full of uncertainty Individual health spending is a function of many factors: age, sex, health status, diseases ... effects of changes in health status and disease treatment on future health care costs The model answers the following types of questions: • What are the future health expenditures for Medicare likely ... the next year Health Status Transition Model The FEM then predicts the health conditions and functional status of the baseline sample for the next year (reweighting to match the health status...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 13:20

... analysis of total sample total scores of total physical health, total mental (N=220) on total physical health, total mental health and SF-36 score health, and total SF-36 were calculated using scoring ... and strengthen formal care in the nursing home and reorienting health services both in the community and homes for the elderly From limitation of our study was we neither detect health- related ... Babu BV (2010) Healthrelated quality of life of elderly living in the rural community and homes for the elderly in a district of India: Application of the short form 36 (SF-36) health survey questionnaire...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... fracturing for tanks / pits for water / other materials required for fracturing process (New York State 2011 PR 18 Support to the identification of potential risks for the environment and human health ... moderatehigh for individual sites, and high for development of multiple sites Ref: AEA/ED57281/Issue Number 17 ix Support to the identification of potential risks for the environment and human health ... more accuracy for placing the perforations Perforation is not required for open hole completions Ref: AEA/ED57281/Issue Number 17 12 Support to the identification of potential risks for the environment...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

... principles Outcomes for communication Outcomes for clinical skills Outcomes for health promotion & disease prevention Outcomes for medical informatics U.S Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical ... 2010;85:453-6 10 Smith JD, al e Rural and Remote Health. 606:6 11 Murphy C Focusing on the essentials: learning for performance Human Resources for Health 2008;6:26 12 United Nations Development ... largest efforts to define shared public health goals, with quantifiable targets for health set among several clinical domains, drawn from a large international community of public health providers,...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 21:20