The first is to actually store the goods and services themselves, like a squirrel hiding its nuts. The young could put aside goods and, where possible, invest in the capital goods that will directly yield needed services, and then consume them in old age. This is a very inefficient strategy, indeed for many goods and most services it is impossible. Apart from the excessive costs of storage (esp...

I t has been more than 30 yr since Brown et al. (1968) reported at the 52nd Annual FASEB Meeting in Atlantic City that squirrel monkeys have high circulating levels of the adrenal steroid cortisol compared with humans. This work was subsequently published in full (Brown et al. 1970) and confirmed by other laboratories (for example, Chrousos et al. 1982; Coe et al. 1978; Klosterman et al. 1986; ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the health status of Gulf War veterans who reported receipt of anthrax vaccination and a small group of Gulf War veterans for whom documentation of anthrax vaccination exists. METHODS Among the 11,441 Gulf War veterans who completed a health survey, 4601 reported receiving the anthrax vaccine during the war; 2979 veterans reported not receiving it; 3861 were uncertain. Als...

Objectives: This paper studies the effect of Persian Cued Speech on the perception of Persian language phonemes and monosyllabic words with and without sound in hearing impaired children. Cued Speech is a sound based mode of communication for hearing impaired people that is comprised of a limited series of hand complements and the normal pattern of speech. And it is shown that it effectively ca...

Parallel corpora are one of the key resources in natural language processing. In spite of their importance in many multi-lingual applications, no large-scale English-Persian corpus has been made available so far, given the difficulties in its creation and the intensive labors required. In this paper, the construction process of Tehran English-Persian parallel corpus (TEP) using movie subtitles,...