OBJECTIVE— Obesity and increases in body weight in adults are considered to be among the most important risk factors for type 2 diabetes. Low birth weight is also associated with a higher diabetes incidence. We aimed to examine to what extent the evolution of body shape, from childhood to adulthood is related to incident diabetes in late adulthood. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS— E3N is a cohort s...

Social science and genetic science still have fairly little engagement with one another, but the continued swift development of genetic science has certainly gained social scientists’ attention. First, some social scientists are incorporating techniques from quantitative and molecular genetics into their work. Genetic data is increasingly recognized as providing valuable leverage even for resea...

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Alcohol is one of the three leading causes of liver disease in the developed world. Patients with alcoholrelated liver disease are often cared for in general wards and hospitals, rather than specialist centres. This may be a result of the number of patients being admitted or a lack of referral to specialist services by healthcare professionals. The financial cost of caring for patients with alc...

Background: The objective of this study was to investigate whether an anti-spasticity medication can facilitate the effects of robotic locomotor treadmill training (LTT) to improve gait function in people with incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI). Methods: Individuals with chronic incomplete SCI were recruited and carried out a 4 week intervention of either locomotor treadmill training (LTT) alo...

modes of thought: abstract general-level dispositions, which indirectly guide specific behavioral intentions. Includes distinctive conceptual resources, cognitive styles, personality traits, and aspects of selfconcept. The key commonalties are that these modes of thought are reasonably consistent across the life-span and their influence reaches across multiple behavioral domains. Cultural norms...

Seven types of evidence are reviewed that indicate that high subjective well-being (such as life satisfaction, absence of negative emotions, optimism, and positive emotions) causes better health and longevity. For example, prospective longitudinal studies of normal populations provide evidence that various types of subjective well-being such as positive affect predict health and longevity, cont...

Tâ ÇÉÅ wx W|xâ Revue des Études de la Langue Française Revue semestrielle de la Faculté des Langues Étrangères de l'Université d'Ispahan Cinquième année, N° 8 Printemps-Eté 2013, ISSN 2008- 6571 ISSN électronique 2322-469X Cette revue est indexée dans: Ulrichsweb: global serials directory http://ulrichsweb.serialssolutions.com Doaj: Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org ...