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for the development, maintenance and promotion of employees’ health behaviours. Health behaviours of employees include habits or actions related to their physical activity, eating habits, drug use or cigarette and alcohol consumption. Programs aimed at improving the health behaviours of employees are important not only because they benefit employees’ health, but also because they benefit organi...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a complex neurodegenerative visual disorder that causes profound physical and psychosocial effects.Visual impairment inAMD is causedby the lossof retinal pigmented epithelium (RPE) cells and the light-sensitive photoreceptor cells that they support. There is currently no effective treatment for the most common form of this disease (dry AMD). A new appro...

54 ELECTROLESS PLATING OF NICKELONTO 4,059,710 1 1/1977 Nishiyama .......................... 427/438 SURFACES SUCH AS COPPER OR FUSED 4,136,216 1/1979 Feldstein ....... ... 427/306 TUNGSTON 4,167,416 9/1979 Zola ......... ... 427/438 4,220,678 9/1980 Feldstein ... ... 427/305 75) Inventor: Jon E. Bengston, Newington, Conn. 4,239,813 12/1980 Murakami. ... 427A306 s 4,276,323 6/1981 Oka ............

The Effect of Child Care and Part Time Opportunities on Participation and Fertility Decisions in Italy Economic models of household behavior typically yield the prediction that increases in schooling levels and wage rates of married women lead to increases in their labor supply and reductions in fertility. In Italy, as well as in other Southern European countries, low labor market participation...

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DEADSouth mRNA encoding the RNA helicase DDX25 is a component of the germ plasm in Xenopus laevis. We investigated the mechanisms underlying its specific mRNA expression in primordial germ cells (PGCs). Based on our previous findings of several microRNA miR-427 recognition elements (MREs) in the 3' untranslated region of the mRNA, we first examined whether DEADSouth mRNA was degraded by miR-427...

The K-ras mutation in pancreatic cancer can inhibit drug delivery and increase drug resistance. This is exemplified by the therapeutic effect of PH-427, a small molecule inhibitor of AKT/PDK1, which has shown a good therapeutic effect against a BxPC3 pancreatic cancer model that has K-ras, but has a poor therapeutic effect against a MiaPaCa-2 pancreatic cancer model with mutant K-ras. To increa...