Polak i jego rodzina w Unii Europejskiej

Rola szlaku Hippo w kontroli proliferacji komórkowej i wielkości narządów oraz jego zaburzenia w chorobach nowotworowych* Role of the Hippo pathway in cell proliferation and organ size control. Disorders of the pathway in cancer diseases

The Hippo pathway (also known as SWH – Salvador/Warts/Hippo), discovered for the first time in Drosophila melanogaster, is responsible for cell proliferation and organ size control in mammalian systems. The components of the pathway are two kinases and their adaptor proteins which inhibit the transcription co-activator YAP by phosphorylation. When the pathway is inactive (as an effect of upstre...

Ritual hot baths (wankan-jego) in Zaria, Nigeria.

Among the Hausa-Fulani women of Zaria, Nigeria, "cold" or "sanyi" is thought to be a common cause of illnesses, and especially edema (swelling) during pregnancy. The traditional treatment for these illnesses is a hot bath. The new mother or mother-to-be sleeps in an overheated room and must take baths in very hot water, called "wankan- jego," to keep out the cold. The birth attendant uses a ...

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his study was carried out to determine the importance of type 2 Diabetes mellitus as a risk factor for osteoporosis in postmenopausal women. Materials and Methods: This study was conducted in 2004 on 40 diabetic and 40 healthy postmenopausal women attending the endocrine clinics in Zanjan. These two groups were matched in terms of age, length of their menopausal period and body mass index. Seru...

and Ben Polak Introduction to judgment aggregation

This introduces the symposium on judgment aggregation. The theory of judgment aggregation asks how several individuals’judgments on some logically connected propositions can be aggregated into consistent collective judgments. The aim of this introduction is to show how ideas from the familiar theory of preference aggregation can be extended to this more general case. We …rst translate a proof o...