Caribbean youth comprise about 30 percent of the English-speaking Caribbean population, and about 81,000 Caribbean and Latin American youth are HIV infected. AIDS is the leading cause of death for 15- to 24-year-old English-speaking Caribbean youth. This article relies on intersectionality theory in the assessment of the macro-level, or structural variables, and micro-level, or individual level...

Strong gravitational lensing and stellar dynamics provide two complementary and orthogonal constraints on the density profiles of galaxies. Based on spherically symmetric, scale-free, mass models, it is shown that the combination of both techniques is powerful in breaking the mass-sheet and mass-anisotropy degeneracies. Second, observational results are presented from the Lenses Structure & Dyn...

The accelerating expansion of the universe suggests that an unknown component with strongly negative pressure, called dark energy, currently dominates the dynamics of the universe. Such a component makes up ∼ 70% of the energy density of the universe yet has not been predicted by the standard model of particle physics. The best method for exploring the nature of this dark energy is to map the r...

We extract, from a quark model potential that reproduces the number and ordering of nonstrange baryonic resonances up to 2.3 GeV, the quantum numbers for the dominant configurations in the ground and first non-radial excited states. From the pattern of quantum numbers we identify, from data, spectral regularities that allow us to predict the expected high spin low-lying spectrum from 2.3 to 3.0...

ecently, water regulatory agencies and providers have shown considerable interest in determining the lowest quantifiable level that is suitable for regulatory purposes.1–8 Allowable concentration levels for a contaminant in a particular environmental medium (e.g., soil, air, or water) are often based on health-related risk assessments and are sometimes lower than levels that can be quantitated ...

OBJECTIVE Hepatic triglyceride is closely associated with hepatic insulin resistance and is known to be decreased by thiazolididinediones. We studied the effect of pioglitazone on hepatic triglyceride content and the consequent effect on postprandial endogenous glucose production (EGP) in type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Ten subjects with type 2 diabetes on sulfonylurea therapy we...

The article argues that the effective and coherent functioning of financial sector requires public trust at all levels. In this regard, it is important to provide a thorough methodological basis will be cornerstone an element-by-element integrated assessment level in economy. Much previous research on calculating has been qualitative. Examining existing approaches economy, qualitative quantitat...

To determine the mechanism(s) by which insulin inhibits endogenous glucose production (EGP) in nondiabetic humans, insulin was infused at rates of 0.25, 0.375, or 0.5 mU. kg(-1). min(-1) and glucose was clamped at approximately 5.5 mmol/l. EGP, gluconeogenesis, and uridine-diphosphoglucose (UDP)-glucose flux were measured using [3-(3)H]glucose, deuterated water, and the acetaminophen glucuronid...

LINGFANG ZENG, CHAO JIN, BHARADWAJ VEERAVALLI AND DAN FENG Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics School of Computer Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan, 430074 P.R. China Data Storage Institute 117608 Singapore Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering National University of Singapore 117576 Singapore E-mail: {lfzeng; dfeng}@hust.edu.cn; [email protected]...