Aim. The present study aims to investigate the effects of nourishing "Yin" removing "Fire" (NYRF) Chinese herbal mixture on puberty onset and hypothalamic mTOR expression in female rats. Materials and Methods. Forty female 20-day-old Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into Chinese herbal mixture (CHM) and normal saline (NS) groups. Rats in CHM and NS were treated with NYRF mixture and no...

This paper describes a newly devised autosomal short tandem repeat (STR) multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) systems for 17 autosomal loci (D1S1656, D2S441, D3S1358, D3S3045, D6S477, D7S3048, D8S1132, D10S1435, D10S1248, D11S2368, D13S325, D14S608, D15S659, D17S1290, D18S535, D19S253 and D22-GATA198B05) and Amelogenin. Primers for the loci were designed and optimized so that all of the am...

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This paper explores the development of Cote d’Ivoire’s formal private sector in the years preceding and immediately following the political crises in 1999-2000 and the Civil War that began in 2002. Notably, during the conflict politicians exploited and ex­ acerbated anti-foreigner sentiments, tolerating increasing number of attacks targeting foreigners. We use a unique database from the Registr...

What drives women out of entrepreneurship? The joint role of testosterone and culture* The ratio of second to fourth digit (2D4D) has been shown to correlate negatively with entrepreneurial skills and financial success. We document that in a sample of entrepreneurs women have a lower 2D4D ratio than men, in sharp contrast with the features of the distribution in random samples. Exploiting varia...

Septa can be demonstrated in sections of Escherichia coli strains B and B/r after fixation with acrolein and glutaraldehyde. The septum consists of an ingrowth of the cytoplasmic membrane and the mucopeptide layer; the outer membrane is excluded from the septum until the cells begin to separate. Mesosomes have also been observed. The septum is highly labile and, except in the chain-forming stra...

In this note, a wide range of innovation indicators are analysed in order to describe the innovation behaviour of manufacturing firms in LAC using the recently released Enterprise Surveys 2010. The Enterprise Surveys define innovation rates as the share of firms introducing product and process innovations. The survey also measures the proportion of firms investing in research and development (R...

Setiap proyek konstruksi akan selalu memunculkan dampak yang positif dan negatif, satu negatif muncul akibat pembangunan adalah munculnya sisa material atau disebut dengan construction Waste dapat memicu permasalahan baru. Terjadinya ini tidak dibiarkan begitu saja karena mengganggu proses pelaksanaan secara keseluruhan merugikan bagi pemilik kontraktor sendiri. Hal memakan banyak tempat di dal...

ord Hompland atharina de Lange Davies ikael Lindgren orwegian University of Science and Technology epartment of Physics øgskoleringen 5 491 Trondheim, Norway Abstract. Characteristic changes in the organization of fibrillar collagen can potentially serve as an early diagnostic marker in various pathological processes. Tissue types containing collagen I can be probed by pulsed high-intensity las...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: F13 D22 F14 L25 Keywords: Antidumping investigations Difference-indifferences estimation Extensive and intensive margins Trade intermediaries Single-versus multi-product exporters Using monthly transaction data covering all Chinese exporters over the 2000–2006 period, we investigate how Chinese exporters respond to U.S. antidumping investigations. We fi...