Dagfinn Aune*, Alvaro Ronco, Paolo Boffetta, Hugo Deneo-Pellegrini, Enrique Barrios, Giselle Acosta, Maria Mendilaharsu, Eduardo De Stefani Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo, Norway Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo, Norway Departamento de Epidemiologıa y Metodos Cientıficos, Facultad de Medicina, Centro Latinoamericano de Economıa Humana (CLAEH), Montevideo, Uruguay Int...

Gender and Ethnic Diversity in US Boardrooms: Is the Glass Ceiling Stifling Firm Financial Growth? by Dionne Roberts May 2017 Committee Chair: Dr. Subhashish Samaddar Major Academic Unit: Robinson College of Business The purpose of this research was to explore the relationship between diversity within the boards of directors of American companies and firm financial growth. Specifically, this st...

A subunit antigenoid vaccine, Ac NFU1 (S-) MRC 5, was used in patients who had had a clinical episode of herpes genitalis. The rate of recurrence was compared with that in unvaccinated patients to determine the efficacy of vaccination in preventing recurrence and spread of the virus in the community. Seven of 22 (31%) vaccinated patients had eight recurrences after the initial clinical episode;...

background: infections are one of the correctable causes of infertility with low cost and cost effective treatment. the 50% of infertile cases is related to men in some way, and 30% of them are absolutely related to them. mycoplasmas are the smallest microorganisms with capability of dna replication. present study is planned to compare the mycoplasma infection in infertile men and men with esta...

Few legal businesses can lay claim to a reputation as bad as payday lenders. This study builds on an emerging understanding of payday lending as a business and compares key metrics to traditional lenders. The payday lenders included in this study account for approximately 25% of the stores in the United States. The results seem to disprove the claim that payday loans are much riskier than more ...

We survey recent papers on the problem of backward dynamics in economics, providing along the way a glimpse at the economics perspective, a discussion of the economic models and mathematical tools involved, and a list of applicable literature in both mathematics and economics. Lı́mites inversos, Economı́a y Dinámica Regresiva Resumen. Examinamos artı́culos recientes sobre el problema de la dinámic...

background: phospholipids are distributed asymmetrically between inner and outer leaflets of the plasma membrane of live cells. early during apoptosis, this asymmetry is disrupted and phosphatidylserine becomes exposed on the outside surface of the plasma membrane. there is little information about the effects of vitrification on apoptosis. objective: the aim of the present study was to evaluat...

We consider the approximation of planar regions by pairs of lemniscates that are stitched together continuously. Lemniscates are level curves of the absolute value of an univariate complex polynomial. We approximate coastal sides or 2D meander like regions such that profiles of arteries, rivers and sinuous roads using lemniscates of two foci and use confocal lemniscates to build orthogonal grid...