... with the inhibition of bone formation (confirmed by bone histomorphometry) and lower concentrations of bone for-mation markers (especially OC) [60, 61]. By contrast, data on bone resorption markers ... hormones are major determinants of bone turnover in older men. Low concentration ofthe bioavailable fraction of 17-estradiol is strongly associated with higher levels ofthe markers of bone ... Organization ofthe Skeleton, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1986. 5. R. Baron, Importance ofthe intermediate phases between resorption and formation in the measurement and under-standing ofthe bone...
... additional contextual information to the students, confirming the value of DCT. Furthermore, Hall, Bailey, and Tillman [31] conducted a study to examine theeffectsof illustrations on reading ... study. The translation task would evaluate theeffectsof pictures on students’ understanding ofthe texts and the questionnaire was used to assess student viewpoints ontheeffectsof pictures ... texts with the help of graphic classification trees reflecting the organization ofthe text; another group of students read the text without the graphic trees. The results showed that the students...
... time-consuming for firms to change the size of their asset portfolio because ofthe size of their markets and/or because of regulatory restrictions on their expansion.In this event, the ... ofthe model. The level of profit efficiency the ratio of predicted profits to maximum or optimal profits on the frontier (7r/7r0) was measured for all large banks over 1980-1990, whether ... precipitated by the removal of many intrastate and interstate gwgraphic restrictions on bank branching and holding companyaffiliation has continued into the 1990s. At the outset ofthe 1980s, only...
... Hartman 7 on the Domestic Capital Stock 43 of Capital 95 123 vii Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research 1. The ... motivation. Within multinational firms, the higher the share of overseas operations in the total production ofthe multinational, the higher the ratio of home employ- ment to home production, ... associate ofthe National Bureau of Economic Research. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London 0 1995 by the National Bureau of Economic...
... between parents and other adults, the microcontext of interactions between parents and children, the macrocontext ofthe 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 effectsonthe level of the household with respect to cognitive and mental health outcomes.Despitethe importanceofhouseholdclimateandparentingbehavioron ... was the job ofthe schools). Laosa (50) found that Chicano mothers praised theirchildren less often and used more nonverbal cues than white mothers.One limitation of these studies was that they...
... Based on Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) data i The Effectsof Land Use onthe Mobility of Elderly and Disabled and Their Homecare Workers, and theEffectsof Care on Client ... providers, and the extent of care consumers received. The six interrelated hypotheses predicted that, given the income constraints of both populations and the disability constraints ofthe consumer ... 40In terms of language, about 5% of consumer and provider respondents used the Spanish version ofthe survey, while 7.4% of Contra Costa IHSS consumers consider Spanish to be their primary...
... dimensions of institutional structure that he considers most critical in bearing onthe opportunities for corruption. "1 .The monopoly power of officials. 2 .The degree of discretion that officials ... societies. They Have discretion over the creation, proliferation, and interpretation of conterproductive regulations. Thus instead of corruption being the grease for the squeaky wheels of a rigid ... Khachaturyan (1997) the president of Armenia is the central person for the judiciary system. According to article 55 ofthe Constitution of Republic of Armenia the President of RA not only can appoint...
... cortical areas ofthe long bones (Donaldson et al., 1985; Rodriguez et al., 1988). A similar pattern of reduced bone mass with immobilization has been seen at the mid-diaphysis of long bones in ... both men and women, the cross-sectional dimensions of the long bones in the appendicular skeleton continue to grow throughout x Contents B. IGF-I and Maintenance of Bone Density IV. Summary ... community controls. Second is the use ofthe SF-36 as the QOL instrument. Comparing SF-36 scores ofthe hip- fractured men at the time of admission to nursing and residential care, there were...
... discourse theory of human- machine communication, and the few studies comparing human-machine with human-human communication have focused onthe keyboard modality, with the exception of Hauptmann ... interactive communi- cation: If. Theeffectsof four communication modes onthe linguistic performance of teams 133 THEEFFECTSOF INTERACTION ON SPOKEN DISCOURSE Sharon L. Oviatt Philip It. ... description: "So the first thing to do is to take the metal rod with the red thing on one end and the green cap onthe other end. Take that and then look in the other parts there are...
... M2. Rather, it represents changes in the level ofthe domestic portion of high-powered money, the portion of high-powered money directly under the control ofthe monetary authorities. The effect ... a further attempt to test the importance ofthe variables. the coefficients ofthe variables are constrained to be the same in all TheEffectsof Devaluation onthe Trade Balance and the Balance ... countries. In five ofthe 16 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 ofthe negative...
... affect channel function, there is another possible mechanism for theeffectsof anionic lipid that needs to be considered. Large changes in the chemical composition of a bilayer will result ... spontaneous curvature of lipids could affect channel function. The hydrophobic thickness ofthe lipid bilayer matches that ofthe channel in the closed state, but the hydrophobic thickness of ... not sponta neous curvature but the ability to hydrogen bond [4,10].What conclusions can be drawn from these studies? It is clear that the presence of anionic lipids, generally at high concentrations,...