Cite as: Felton, A. 2009. Do tree plantations support higher species richness and abundance than pasture lands? CEE protocol 09-012 (SR73) Collaboration for Environmental Evidence:

This paper aims to assess the economic development and development policies in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries in 199

What are the farm-level economic impacts of the global cultivation of GM crops? CEE protocol 11-002. Collaboration for Environmental Evidence: www.environmentalevidence.org/SR11002.html.

PURPOSE Studies have shown that diabetes mellitus (DM) is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, including atrial fibrillation (AF); however, the clinical characteristics and prognostic impact of DM in patients with nonvalvular AF have not been well understood in China. MATERIALS AND METHODS Included were 1644 consecutive patients with nonvalvular AF. Endpoints included all-cause mortality...

BACKGROUND Estrogen increases endothelium-dependent vasodilation in postmenopausal women. However, use of progestins in combination with estrogen may counter beneficial effects of estrogen on endothelium. We investigated the effect of medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) on estrogen-induced increase in endothelium-dependent vasodilation in postmenopausal women. METHODS AND RESULTS Postmenopausal...

OBJECTIVES After the release of the results of the Women's Health Initiative, an emerging consensus suggests that continuous-combined hormone therapy (CCHT) should be limited to short-term management of moderate-to-severe vasomotor symptoms. This, in turn, raises the important question of the economic value, if any, of short-term CCHT for this indication. We conducted a cost-effectiveness analy...

OBJECTIVE This study determined whether two different formulations of hormone therapy (HT): oral conjugated equine estrogens (o-CEE; 0.45 mg/d, n = 209), transdermal 17β-estradiol (t-E2; 50 μg/d, n = 201) plus cyclic progesterone (Prometrium, 200 mg) or placebo (PBO, n = 243) affected sleep domains in participants of the Kronos Early Estrogen Prevention Study. METHODS Participants completed t...

CEE (conjugated equine estrogens) is the most widely prescribed estrogen-only menopausal hormone therapy in the United States, and is comprised of over 50% estrone (E1) sulfate. Following CEE administration, E1 is the principal circulating estrogen. However, the cognitive and neurobiological effects of E1 in a middle-aged rodent model have not yet been evaluated. We assessed cognitive effects o...

Using techniques of data collection and mapping as overlays to Google Maps—on the basis of patent information available online at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)—we point at two major and interconnected challenges that policy-makers face in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) when combating the lagging innovation performance. First, we address the spatial concentration by using a dist...

The neural crest arises from the neuro-ectoderm during embryogenesis and persists only temporarily. Early experiments already proofed pluripotent progenitor cells to be an integral part of the neural crest(1). Phenotypically, neural crest stem cells (NCSC) are defined by simultaneously expressing p75 (low-affine nerve growth factor receptor, LNGFR) and SOX10 during their migration from the neur...