It is well documented that the ability of human muscles to develop tension is dependent on the angular velocity. In concentric actions, the decline of maximal voluntary torque, consequential to a velocity increase, has been extensively studied. The underlying mechanisms may be attributed to either or both chemical and mechanical muscle properties and/or motor unit activation by the central nerv...

1. Paw BH, Davidson AJ, Zhou Y, et al. Cell-specific mitotic defect and dyserythropoiesis associated with erythroid band 3 deficiency. Nat Genet. 2003;34: 59-64. 2. Gasparini P, Miraglia del Giudice E, Delaunay J, et al. Localization of the congenital dyserythropoietic anemia II locus to chromosome 20q11.2 by genomewide search. Am J Hum Genet. 1997;61:1112-1116. 3. Southgate CD, Chishti AH, Mit...

OBJECTIVES To describe the morphological features of atherosclerosis in the aortas of autopsied patients (ranging from young adults to the elderly), thus providing new tools for a more sensitive morphological evaluation. METHOD We collected 141 aorta samples. We assessed the macroscopic degree of atherosclerosis, thickness of the intima and media, lipid and collagen depositions in the intima,...

One of the most critical problems that hospitality firms face in selecting employees is that the use of cognitive ability tests and other valid predictors of job performance lead to subgroup differences between majority and minority group members. The recent Ricci v. DeStefano U.S. Supreme Court case provides new implications for the adverse diversity-validity dilemma. This paper seeks to bridg...

The Formosan subterranean termite, Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki is currently one of the most destructive pests in the USA. It is estimated to cost consumers over US dollars 1 billion annually for preventative and remedial treatment and to repair damage caused by this insect. The mission of the Formosan Subterranean Termite Research Unit of the Agricultural Research Service is to demonstrate t...

This article is a review of the PhD Thesis of Malin Eriksson, entitled 'Social capital, health and community action - implications for health promotion.' The article presents a theoretical overview of social capital and its relation to health, reviews empirical findings of the links between social capital and (self-rated) health, and discusses the usefulness of social capital in health promotio...

It has long been recognized that the media play an essential role in democracy. However, even in the absence of censorship, the government may in‡uence news content by maintaining a “cozy”relationship with the media. This paper develops a simple model of democratic politics in which the actual freedom of the press is endogenous. In equilibrium, the features of the media market determine the abi...

In a remarkable empirical study of 168 U.S. manufacturing plants, James Medoff and Jon Fay (1985) have examined the magnitude of labor hoarding during economic contractions. They found that during its most recent trough quarter, the typical plant paid for about 8 percent more blue-co&t hours than were needed for regular production work. Some of these hours were used for other worthwhile work, a...

Disorder in the 1D spinless Holstein model. Abstract: We investigate a spinless fermion system on a one dimensional lattice interacting locally with the optical modes of a quantized phonon field: the Holstein model. The system is shown to have a disordered ground state, for small enough coupling, at any density. This is in contrast to the non quantized phonon case, the static Holstein model, wh...

Y. Fernandez-jalvoa,., T, Kingb, P, Andrews c, L. Yepiskoposyan d,e, N, Moloneya,b, j, Murrayf, P, Dominguez-Alonso g, L. Asryan h, P, Ditchfield i, ]. van der Made a, T, Torresj, P, Sevilla g, M, Nieto Diaz a,k, I. Caceres', E, Allue', M,D, Marin Monfort a, 1. Sanz Martin a a Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC),jose Gutierrez Abascal, 2. 28006 Madrid, Spain h Institute of MaIL 25 Davit...