ORIGINAL COMMUNICATION Obesity, diet, and poverty: trends in the Russian transition to market economy L Jahns1, A Baturin2 and BM Popkin1* 1Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; and 2Institute of Nutrition, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia Objective: To examine trends in macronutrient intake, overweight, and obesity. Design: Cross-sectional samplesFcollected nine times between 1992 and 2000Ffrom the Russian Longitudinal
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Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces 102 (2013) 412–419 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/colsurfb Non-cytotoxic antibacterial silver–coumarin complex doped sol–gel coatings Swarna Jaiswal a,b , Kunal Bhattacharya c , Maeve Sullivan d , Maureen Walsh d , Bernadette S. Creaven d , Fathima Laffir e , Brendan Duffy a,∗ , Patrick McHale b a Centre for Research in Engineering Surface Technology
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of March 2012[update], 31% of U.S. Internet users were reported to have a tablet, which was used mainly for viewing published content such as video and news. Among tablets available in the market in 2012, the top-selling device is Apple's iPad with 100 million sold by mid October 2012 since
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мощность и интенсивность лазерного излучения не давали в полной мере наблюдать все разнообразие нелинейно-оптических процессов. Но уже в 90-х годах двадцатого столетия появились лазеры, способные генерировать сверхкороткие импульсы длительностью порядка 100 фс и обладающие терраваттной мощностью.[1] При распространении лазерного излучения в прозрачных средах такое сочетание высокой мощности и сверхкороткой длительности позволяет наблюдать ряд интересных нелинейно-оптических эффектов, таких как самофокусировка
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Genetics of Homosexuality - Are you Born Gay Name Institution Genetics of Homosexuality - Are you Born Gay Introduction The question as to whether one is born gay or chooses to become so has been a point of debate for a very long time. The present media sources assume that the query is a solved scientific problem with the indication going towards a biological reasoning possibly genetic for a homosexual alignment (Schumm, 2010). Opposing to this idea, the query has been studied poorly, though
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Global Social Issues and Change Paper Vincent Valenzuela, Chuck Pennington, Steven Stoney SOC/100 July 19, 2011 John Gomez Global Social Issues and Change Paper Global social issues are present in all areas of the world affecting world economies, its environment, our capabilities as humans, and our processes for making decisions regarding cooperation at the global level. These issues affect a large number of people around the world, directly or indirectly. It is estimated that some 1.1 billion
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SOC 3116 B Technologies, World and Societies (Fall 2015) Professor: Stephan Larose Midterm Who Killed the Electric Car? Marissa Pandel Student Number: 7487677 1. A) What is a relevant social Group? A relevant social group is a group of people who play a role in the development of an artifact. It is a group that share common meaning to the specific artifact. (September 25th Lecture) B) What are the relevant social groups involved in the story told by the documentary? 1. Car Manufactures
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Case 5: Shouldice Hospital Limited (Abridged): Phần Uyên History of Shouldice Hospital: Dr. Earle Shouldice was interest in early ambulation stemmed, his medical license permitted him to operate anywhere, even on a kitchen table. As more and more patients requested operations, Dr Shouldice created new facilities by buying a rambling 130-acre estate with a 17.000-square foot main house in the Toronto suburb of Thornhill. After some years of planning, a large wing was added to provide a total
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Week 1 Anth 315 Notes Theory of Evolution: * Gradualism * Speciation * Exchange genes. * Common ancestry. All species go back to a common ancestry. * Natural Selection * Variation * Inherited * Selection * Population will become better adapted to a particular environment. Evolutionary Psychology - 1992 An evolutionary psychological approach: 1. Humans are part of biology. 2. There is nothing special about the
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2016 ASSESSMENT ONE Surname : Chee Given Name: Qing Hui, Alex Student ID: 700017017 / 17495787 Email: 7e2a9878.student@student.curtin.edu.my Unit Name: COMMUNICATION IN BUSINESS Unit Code: MGMT 100 Assignment Title: Environment & Human rights Company: Toyota Date Submitted: 04/04/2016 Tutorial Day: THURSDAY Tutorial Time: 1630-1830 Word Count 1526
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