The “inactivity trap”

The Effects of Inactivity During The COVID-19 Pandemic on the Psychomotor Skills of Kindergarten Students

Background. Possession of motor skills from an early age by interacting with the outdoor environment has a long-term effect on physical activity. During the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a restriction to interacting directly with it especially kindergarten students when doing online learning or learning from home due to pandemic health measures. There is a series of literature that reviews ...

COMMENTARY Glucocorticoid activity, inactivity and the osteoblast

Although excess circulating glucocorticoids have detrimental effects on bone health, the processes underlying these effects are not well understood. We review what is currently known about the effects of glucocorticoids on osteoblast proliferation and differentiation, with particular emphasis on osteoblast expression of glucocorticoid metabolic enzymes as a mechanism for regulating corticostero...

The nature of the TRAP-Anti-TRAP complex.

Tryptophan biosynthesis is subject to exquisite control in species of Bacillus and has become one of the best-studied model systems in gene regulation. The protein TRAP (trp RNA-binding attenuation protein) predominantly forms a ring-shaped 11-mer, which binds cognate RNA in the presence of tryptophan to suppress expression of the trp operon. TRAP is itself regulated by the protein Anti-TRAP, w...

Location as a Poverty Trap

In this paper, we ask “Can proximity to towns reduces poverty in rural areas?” For this study we have mapped all the villages in Orissa. The study is based on small area poverty estimation methodology as well as the secondary data covering 47,395 villages and 109 towns. Our main findings are (i) there is a relationship between the distance to nearest town and rural poverty and (ii) poverty leve...

Masterly inactivity: A forgotten precept.