Background Obesity is currently one of the major causes of ill health and it is clear that overeating is the cause of obesity. However, the actions of many endogenous factors that contribute to overeating are still not well understood. Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-ergic transmission has been shown to be of great importance for food intake regulation. The progesterone metabolite allopregnanolo...

The Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) is a research program initiated in 1992 to provide the economic research community with a global economic dataset for use in the quantitative analyses of international economic issues. The Project’s objectives include the provision of a documented, publicly available, global, general equilibrium data base, and to conduct seminars on a regular basis to in...

Juvenile hormone (JH) regulates development and reproductive maturation in insects. The corpora allata (CA) from female adult mosquitoes synthesize fluctuating levels of JH, which have been linked to the ovarian development and are influenced by nutritional signals. The rate of JH biosynthesis is controlled by the rate of flux of isoprenoids in the pathway, which is the outcome of a complex int...

Title of Document: STABILIZATION OF MHD TURBULENCE BY APPLIED STEADY AND OSCILLATING VELOCITY SHEAR Ching Pui HUNG, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Dissertation Directed By: Professor Adil B. Hassam, Department of Physics Some aspects of velocity shear stabilization of magnetized plasma instabilities are considered. In the first part, steady externally forced flow shears are considered. In the secon...

Generalized additive models represented using penalized regression splines, estimated by penalized likelihood maximisation and with smoothness selected by generalized cross validation or similar criteria, provide a computationally efficient general framework for practical smooth modelling. Various authors have proposed approximate Bayesian interval estimates for such models, based on extensions...