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- What caused the Viking Age?
- Introduction The Scandinavian diaspora of the late eighth to mid-eleventh centuries AD known as the Viking Age was both widespread in scale and profound in impact. Long-range maritime expeditions facilitated a florescence of piracy, trade, migration, conquest and exploration across much of Europe--ultimately extending to western Asia and the...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- Kurarinol, tyrosinase inhibitor isolated from the root of Sophora flavescens
- Abstract It is well known that flavanones, sophoraflavanone G 1, kurarinone 2, and kurarinol 3, from the root of Sophora flavescens, have extremely strong tyrosinase inhibitory activity. This study delineates the principal pharmacological features of kurarinol 3 that lead to inhibition of the oxidation of L-tyrosine to melanin by...
- Research articles 2008-08-01
- Dyslexia speed problems in a transparent orthography
- Abstract This study was intended to help clarify the nature of dyslexia in Spanish. A sample of 30 children, 8 to 16 years old, participated in this study. Dyslexic children were compared to two control groups, a chronological age-matched control group and a reading level-matched control group. Measures included nonword...
- Research articles 2008-06-01
- Nutrition Education Aimed at Toddlers: an intervention study
- Weight problems in children are increasing at an alarming rate, especially among low-income groups (Deckelbaum & Williams, 2001; Park, Menard, & Schoolfield, 2001; Strauss & Pollack, 2001; US Department of Health and Human Services [USDHHS], 2001). Current US figures indicate the prevalence of overweight children has increased 50% in the...
- Research articles 2005-09-01
- Active Surveillance of Leprosy Contacts in Country with Low Prevalence Rate2
- ABSTRACTFor advanced control of leprosy in Pakistan where the World Health Organization leprosy elimination goal was achieved in 1996, we conducted surveillance of Mycobacterium leprae-seropositive patients and their contacts and drug resistant strains of M. leprae.We measured anti-PGL-I antibody level in sera from leprosy patients and their contacts for early...
- Research articles 2004-03-01
- Rhetorics of environmental routinisation in one Australian company's annual reports
- After the effervescence of the late 1980s and early 1990s, environmentalism in Australia has been routinised in political expectations and institutionalised in political structures (Jensen-Lee 2001). A demand for and corporate acceptance of 'environmental responsibility' is one element in these shifts. Although corporate environmental disclosure was not mandatory in Australia...
- Research articles 2003-11-01
- Dietary fish oil suppresses experimental immunoglobulin A nephropathy in mice
- Dietary Fish Oil Suppresses Experimental Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy in Mice1 ABSTRACT Dietary fish oil FO supplementation reportedly retards the progression of renal disease in patients with immunoglobulin IgA nephropathy IgAN, the most common glomerulonephritis worldwide. Using an experimental mouse model in which early immunopathological hallmarks of IgAN are induced by...
- Research articles 2002-02-01
- Glutamine supplementation in cancer patients receiving bone marrow transplantation and high dose chemotherapy
- Glutamine Supplementation in Cancer Patients Receiving Bone Marrow Transplantation and High Dose Chemotherapy1,2 ABSTRACT Glutamine supplementation of enteral and parenteral nutrition support has received increased attention in the research community over the past decade. Glutamine may become a conditionally essential nutrient during certain catabolic states, including after bone marrow transplantation...
- Research articles 2001-09-01
- Relationship between measures of adaptive functioning and community adjustment for adults with mental retardation
- * The construct of adaptive functioning is relatively old; its contemporary roots can be found in the early social competency research and definitions of mental retardation (Doll, 1934, 1953; Kanner 1964; Scheerenberger, 1983). During the past two decades, however, adaptive functioning has been the object of considerable activity. This activity...
- Research articles 1992-05-01
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- Review: Pentax K-x
- Pentax has been a strong name in the burgeoning budget DSLR market for a long time. The Pentax K-m , for instance, is a surprisingly good 10.2MP camera that can be had for as little as £330. The £700 Pentax K-x continues in a similar vein. Indeed,...
- News items 2009-10-14
- 401(k) Mistakes to Avoid
- You?re counting on your 401k to provide a cushy retirement. Or at least food, shelter, and a broadband connection. But many investors undermine their savings plans without even knowing it. We?ve compiled a list of the most common mistakes, and explained how to avoid them. Here are the...
- Articles 2009-10-26
- What to Do with Your 401(k) Now
- The list of mutual funds in your company retirement plan was overwhelming enough ? and that was before the stock market plummeted, and then rallied. Now it may seem as if any move you make could be the wrong one. Snap out of it with this four-step...
- Articles 2009-10-21
- Actually, the Times Got it Right on 401(k)s
- The New York Times editorial page added its two cents to the retirement reform debate with a piece on Sunday. The editorial focused on the 401k, as well it should. You can't head off the looming retirement crisis until you acknowledge that the 401k is part of the problem. ...
- Blog posts 2009-08-25
- Check out the Best 401(k)s
- Does your 401k suck? (Or is it just you?) Find out by stacking up yours against three outstanding plans, each with particular strengths, offered by three very different companies: IBM, M. A. Mortenson, and Nationwide. ...
- Articles 2009-03-09
- Is DVR the Difference Between U.S. and U.K. TV Markets?
- I was lucky enough to get another perspective on my post from yesterday, looking at why online ad spending is likely to outpace TV ad spending in the U.K. within a year, but will take longer for the same shift to happen in the U.S. I emailed Jeni Chapman, Executive...
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- The Decline of the U.K. Auto Industry
- Though it was a blow to national pride, the U.K. has learned to live without a British-owned motor industry. The U.S. could probably do the same. Protecting the National Psyche Jaguar was acquired by...
- Articles 2009-05-13
- The 401(k) Has Failed. Let's Admit It
- Why don't we just admit that the 401k is a failure and get on to designing something better? I say this as the writer of an admiring book about every employee's favorite saving plan (Take Charge of Your Future, Warner Books, 2003), and I still think that...
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- 401(k)s: The Great American Risk Transfer
- Last night's "60 Minutes" segment on 401k plans see following video highlighted the high fees in 401k and other employer-sponsored retirement accounts. While helping participants understand the fees they pay is laudable, there's a bigger problem with 401ks: the switch from pension plans to 401ks was the largest risk transfer...
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Fidelity Makes the Case Against the 401(k)
- Fidelity just released its quarterly analysis of accounts in the 17,500 401k plans it administers. The nation's number one administrator and manager of 401k assets reports that the balance in its average account rose 13.5% to $53,900--a nice jump. Then, in an odd follow-up feature, it listed what its analysts...
- Blog posts 2009-08-14
- Time to Replace the 401(k)
- A couple weeks ago, I blogged that the 401k had failed. My point was that we had taken a perfectly decent supplementary savings plan and, without any real discussion, allowed it to become the sole source of most workers' non-Social Security retirement income. The 401k was not designed for that...
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
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