Entrepreneurship researchers and public policy analysts have promoted governmental programs as a means of increasing business creation activity and success rates. This review suggests that attitudes toward and by women may be the single most important factor in the propensity and sustainability of new enterprise creation by women. Rather than create programs specifically targeted to new busines...

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Several methods of assessing body composition are presented and discussed in this thesis. The assessment of body composition has been a leading area of research for many years. The increasing prevalence of obesity in recent years has done nothing but stress the importance of having accurate and reliable methods which allow us to understand better the composition of the body itself, as well as i...

The effects of acute environmental stressors on reproduction in wildlife are often difficult to measure because of the labour and disturbance involved in collecting accurate reproductive data. Stress hormones represent a promising option for assessing the effects of environmental perturbations on altricial young; however, it is necessary first to establish how stress levels are affected by envi...

BACKGROUND Retinol isotope dilution (RID) methodology provides a quantitative estimate of total body vitamin A (VA) stores and is the best method currently available for assessing VA status in adults and children. The methodology has also been used to test the efficacy of VA interventions in a number of low-income countries. Infections, micronutrient deficiencies (eg, iron and zinc), liver dise...