the effects of alcohol on reproductive and fetal health

... improve Another potential explanation of the increase in measured profit efficiency from megamergers may be the specification of the profit finction The standard profit function takes prices and fixed ... efficiency effects of mergers and very little research on the market power effects of bank mergers Studies of the effects of mergers on profitability ratios or equity values may confound changes in profit ... we control for any industry-wide changes in profits or efficiency that may occur and keep the data consistent and comparable over time The specification of the profit finction and estimation of...

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... strong and two exchange curves intersects However, if there is a monopolistic condition on one side of the market, the monopolist will try to get the maximum profit from the other side So the ... forms of corruption Shared experience "there the patron and client have usually worked together in the past and are on good terms and the patron promotes or has promoted the client on the basis of ... decisions and government contract The use of these kinds of connections for personal gain is usually described as influence peddling." Patronage is another form of corruption The assignment of government...

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... at the beginning of root regeneration (day 13), and on days 27 and 41 The significance of the effects of lifting and time and their interaction are indicated for the different variables; ns, non ... seedling The different sampling dates were: at transplanting (day 0), at the beginning of root regeneration (day 13), and on days 27 and 41 The significance of the effects of lifting and time and their ... increase strongly risks of degradation of water potential and C and N acquisition on the site of installation, and compromise successful plantation establishment in the field REFERENCES [1] Andersen...

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... Questionnaire The questionnaire consists of 28 questions on a five-point scale This indicated that the whole spectrum of the five-point scales was utilized in the reflection of quality of life of the ... allocated into the intervention and control groups respectively The mean age was 72.9 (SD ¼ 9.5) for the intervention group and 76.3 (SD ¼ 8.4) for the control group The Chinese version of the Geriatric ... definition to qigong, but it is possible to identify the common features of qigong (Brown and Knoferl, 2001) There are three main features of qigong: postures and movement, state of mind, and breathing...

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... parents and other adults, the microcontext of interactions between parents and children, the macrocontext of the neighborhood one lives in and the availability of basic educational and health ... incidences of LBW among the population There should be reason to anticipate similar effects on the level of the household with respect to cognitive and mental health outcomes Despite the importance of ... controlling for chronic health conditions However, the level of chronic health conditions in children living in poverty may be part of the causal pathway, considering that their rate for acute...

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... ii Abstract The Effects of Land Use on the Mobility of Elderly and Disabled and Their Homecare Workers, and the Effects of Care on Client Mobility: Findings from Contra Costa, California ... who have low incomes and are female and of color They have examined the relationship between land use and transportation They have begun to take seriously the contributions of and problems faced ... identify the relationship between residential location, the transportation habits and needs of consumers and providers, and the extent of care consumers received The six interrelated hypotheses...

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... The Effects of Early Social-Emotional and Relationship Experience on the Development of Young Orphanage Children St Petersburg © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd ISBN: 978-1-405-19599-7 The Effects ... Effects of Early Social-Emotional and Relationship Experience on the Development of Young Orphanage Children St Petersburg © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd ISBN: 978-1-405-19599-7 The Effects of ... Social-Emotional and Relationship Experience on the Development of Young Orphanage Children St Petersburg © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd ISBN: 978-1-405-19599-7 The Effects of Early Social-Emotional...

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... smoke, and cools off Just so, when the cells of the body not burn as they should, they produce the wrong kind of smoke and ashes This poisons the body and makes men sick The most of the poisoning of ... for only one kind of work =142 The senses.= The cells of the body send word to the brain over the nerves The eye tells of sight, the ear of sounds, the nose of odors, the mouth of tastes, and the ... action by any amount of thinking [Illustration: =Regions of the head and action of the different parts of the brain.=] =140 The brain.= The nerves of the body go to the brain as well as to the...

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... predevaluation behavior of the accounts Furthermore, an attempt will be made to isolate the effects of devaluation alone by standardizing for the effects of other exogenous variables 11 The Equations The ... devaluations, the residuals of the balance of - payments equation in the year of devaluation are positive and at least one standard error in size None of the negative residuals are that large In contrast, ... equations (1) and (2) ~ ~ i t h othe t exchange-rate variable Excluding the exchange rate in the estimated equation means that the residuals of the equation represent the effects of devaluation and...

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... proportional to acrylamide concentrations of 5-50 mM Micronucleus The result of the micronucleus test in peripheral blood cells of acrylamide-administered mice is shown in Table The number of naturally-occurred ... isolated from the vehicle control rat (A) and the acrylamide (60 mg/kg/day)treated rat (B) Thickening and multiple layering of the tubular endothelium (arrow), and the formation of many multinucleated ... causes dominant lethality of gonadal cells and morphological abnormalities of sperms One of the histopathological lesions observed in the present study was the formation of many multinucleated giant...

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... al, 1993; Tyree and Alexander, 1993) Under drought conditions, osmotic adjustment on the one hand and growth and Quercus robur In the present study, we investigated the responses of pedunculate ... carbon dioxide exchange was separately measured on the below-ground and the aboveground compartments of the plant-soil system The diurnal course of net CO assimilation rates At the end of the ... limitation was applied late in the growing season However, an original result of this study is that 40 h after the end of the labelling period, the proportion of new carbon in both leaves and roots of...

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... macrophages via the complement receptor (CR)-3 The immune response will then be turned on, one of the actions is the phagocytosis of the monoclonal antibody tagged tumor cells Page of 11 (page number ... impact on the elimination half-life, volume of distribution and clearance [27] The low systemic blood level of β-glucans after ingestion does not reflect the full picture of the pharmacodynamics of ... caution as most of the proposed mechanisms are based on in vitro The uptake and subsequent actions of β-glucan on immune cells Figure The uptake and subsequent actions of β-glucan on immune cells...

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... pressure and host translation selection exists in the processes of HBV evolution The synonymous codon usage pattern of HBV is a mixture of coincidence and antagonism to that of host cell But the difference ... a the synonymous codon usage pattern of human cell was calculated based on the data of the synonymous codon usage frequencies of human cell The codon usage bias of HBV suggests that some synonymous ... reflect the characteristic of HBV evolution to some degree In this case, the codon usage variation might be one of factors to drive HBV evolution The effect of mutation pressure on codon usage of...

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... major healthcare and economic burden in the United States and worldwide with an estimated total annual cost of $174 billion in the United States in 2007 As one of the world’s fastest growing chronic ... regulation of postprandial glucose homeostasis In the post-prandial state, an elevation of blood glucose triggers release of insulin from β-cells Once released into the bloodstream, insulin acts on the ... signaling at the level of Akt phosphorylation appear to involve the protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A), inhibition of Akt translocation to the PM and activation of Ser/Thr kinases including JNK and IKK...

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... Roberts 1987 The informational content of bond ratings The Journal of Financial Research 10: 211-226 - 30 - Ghosh, A., and D Moon 2005 Auditor tenure and perceptions of audit quality The Accounting ... discretionary accruals, and the coefficient on FT is insignificant In addition, the sum of the coefficients on PT and FT is insignificant when the dependent variable is negative discretionary accruals ... hypothesis Journal of Accounting and Economics 15(23): 203-227 Ashbaugh-Skaife, H D Collins, and R LaFond 2006 The effects of corporate governance on firms’ credit ratings Journal of Accounting and...

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... average penetration depth for reaction pile driving EFFECTS OF TIME ON CAPACITY OF PILES DRIVEN IN SAND 233 around ten months of their installation The make-up and test histories of the CLAROM piles ... 14 and 20 m depth: these are more extensive in the region of the jet-grouted pile (section AA) than around the control pile (section BB) The CPT programme allowed these variations in ground conditions ... by the test on R6 236 JARDINE, STANDING AND CHOW INTERPRETATION Factors that were addressed in the interpretation of the pile load tests include the potential variations in ground conditions and...

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... and measurement of Sculotured Surface”, The newest achievement in electrical discharge machining, Krakow, 1997 [7] Erle, Shobert, Electrical discharge machining Tooling, method and application, ... School of advanced Technology, 1995 [9] E.C.Jameson, Electrical Discharge Machining – Tooling, Methods And Application, Dearborn Michigan, USA (1983) [10] Indrajit Basak, Amitabha, Jounal of Materials ... DAO GIA CÔNG BÁNH RANG CÔN CONG Vât liêu: 40Cr SL: 16 Ty lê: 4:1 Hình 2.1 Bản vẽ chi tiết đệm dao gia công bánh côn cong Bề mặt gia công là hai mặt song song, độ nhám Ra = 2,5µm, chiều...

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... substitution of foreign ions and vacancies into the crystal lattice and to the absorption of these ions on the surface of the crystals The substituted ions also have been reported to differ when male and ... age at the beginning of the study, duration of TRT before the study, doses of TRT and way of administration, degree of normalization of the testosterone level, duration of TRT during the study) ... remodeling is the result of two opposite activities, the production of new bone matrix by osteoblasts and the destruction of old bone by osteoclasts The rate of bone production and destruction can be...

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... explain, and predict the effects of visuals on reading comprehension, among them, the theory of mental models (Johnson-Laird [20]), the transmediation theory (Siegel [21]), the repetition hypothesis ... The translation task would evaluate the effects of pictures on students’ understanding of the texts and the questionnaire was used to assess student viewpoints on the effects of pictures on their ... speed on to the main road directly in front of the other car The third picture showed that one car, although it braked hard, hit the motorcycle, and the other car hit the corner of the T-junction...

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