Phospholipids: “Greasing the wheels” of humoral immunity

Greasing the Wheels of Trade: Measuring the Dutch Transaction Sector with Occupational Data*

Holland is known as a nation of traders. This image was derived in the seventeenth century from successes in long distance trade, shipping and financial innovations. Despite its historical background in trading the potential to ‘truck and barter’ has never been adequately measured. In this paper we present a first attempt in measuring and describing the Dutch transaction sector. Measurement by ...

Greasing the Wheels of the Labor Market? Immigration and Worker Mobility

Greasing the wheels of managing overweight and obesity with omega-3 fatty acids.

The epidemic of overweight and obesity around the world and in the US is a major public health challenge, with 1.5 billion overweight and obese adults worldwide, and 68% of US adults and 31% of US children and adolescents overweight or obese. Obesity leads to serious health consequences, including an increased risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus and heart disease. Current preventive and medical tr...

Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce: How Services Facilitate Firms International Sourcing1

We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing …rms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolisticcompetition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous …rms. The model generates predictions about how the intensity of international sourcing of materials depe...

Humoral immunity in cardiomyopathy.

Sera from patients with heart disease were examined by single sandwich indirect immunofluorescence for the presence of antibodies to human heart muscle. Endocardial biopsy specimens were also examined by direct immunofluorescence for deposition of antibodies in vivo. No consistent or specific abnormality was found in the biopsy specimens or sera of patients with congestive cardiomyopathy. The p...