Objectives: The physical component of tasks can be a problem because of muscle weakness; therefore, this research was performed to investigate the relationships between some physical fitness factors and muscle damage enzyme levels in people with mild Intellectual Disabilities (ID). Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 314 students with ID (Body Mass Index [BMI]: 23.42±4.84 kg/m2), after mea...

This study explores the impact of knowledge stock and knowledge centrality, which are the two main characteristics of innovative start-ups’ entry technologies in the local knowledge base, on firms’ technological innovation and diversification. It tests the hypotheses with patent and firmlevel data of innovative start-ups in Shanghai Information Communication Technology cluster from 1985 to 2009...

State hospitals were once the most prominent components of U.S. public mental health systems. But a major focus of mental health policy over the past fifty years has been to close these facilities. These efforts led to a 95 percent reduction in the country’s state hospital population. However, more than 200 state hospitals remain open, serving a declining but challenging patient population. Usi...

Mdm2 was first described 12 years ago. Interest in this oncogene has risen since its identification as a protein that binds and efficiently inactivates the p53 tumor suppressor protein. This interest was further boosted by the discovery that the mdm2 gene is actually a target for direct transcriptional activation by p53, thus defining an autoregulatory feedback loop for the intracellular modula...

Consider the following situation: MC is a complex manifold of complex dimension n, and DC is a union of smooth complex codimension-one submanifolds (i.e., DC is a smooth divisor). Examples of this situation include: (1) arrangements of projective hyperplanes in CP, as well as various blow-ups of such arrangements along intersections of hyperplanes, (2) nonsingular toric varieties (whereDC is th...

A conjecture on vanishing and non-negativity of intersection multiplicity on the blow-up of a regular local ring at its closed point has been proposed. Proofs of vanishing, several special cases of non-negativity and a sufficient condition for non-negativity of this conjecture are described. The topic on intersection multiplicity on vector bundles is also addressed. Introduction. Let X be a reg...

We extend the classical formula of Porteous for blowing-up Chern classes to the case of blow-ups of possibly singular varieties along regularly embedded centers. The proof of this generalization is perhaps conceptually simpler than the standard argument for the nonsingular case, involving Riemann-Roch without denominators. The new approach relies on the explicit computation of an ideal, and a m...

Flare ups during endodontic treatment is an undesirable occurrence for both patient and clinician. Flare up phenomena is complex and not well understood which involves number of hypotheses for its etiology. Causes are numerous which include chemical, mechanical, microbial injuries to pulp and periapical tissues. This review discuss about the various etiological aspect and the management of flar...

Secondary markets for long-term assets might be illiquid due to adverse selection. In a model in which moral hazard is confined to project initiation, I find that: (1) when agents expect a liquidity dry-up on such markets, they optimally choose to self-insure through the hoarding of non-productive but liquid assets; (2) such a response has negative externalities as it reduces ex-post market par...