This paper is set for three modest objectives: first, to investigate the provincial distribution of government officials using data compiled by Office Civil Services; secondly, perform a causality test between Gross Provincial Product (GPP) and employment, including estimations employment elasticities with respect GPP; third, analyze economies scale in employment. A panel 77 units over 12-year ...

We used a nonintrusive field experiment carried out at six sites – Wales (UK), Denmark (DK), the Netherlands (NL), Hungary (HU), Sardinia (Italy – IT), and Catalonia (Spain – SP) – along a climatic and latitudinal gradient to examine the response of plant species richness and primary productivity to warming and drought in shrubland ecosystems. The warming treatment raised the plot daily tempera...

We study the mass assembly history (MAH) of dark matter haloes. We compare MAHs obtained using (i) merger trees constructed with the extended Press Schechter (EPS) formalism, (ii) numerical simulations, and (iii) the Lagrangian perturbation code PINOCCHIO. We show that the PINOCCHIO MAHs are in excellent agreement with those obtained using numerical simulations, while the EPS formalism predicts...

Deformable isosurfaces, implemented with level-set methods, have demonstrated a great potential in visualization and computer graphics for applications such as segmentation, surface processing, and surface reconstruction. Their usefulness has been limited, however, by two problems. First, three-dimensional level sets are relatively slow to compute. Second, their formulation usually entails free...

During the years 2006 and 2007 the phytoextraction ability of maize (Zea mays), willow-tree (Salix smithiana) and poplar (Populus nigra × P. maximowiczii) to accumulate cadmium, copper, mercury and zinc was investigated. Small scale field experiment was carried out on soil contaminated with chemicals from the waste incineration plant in Hradec Kralové (Czech republic). Screening of this allotme...

BACKGROUND Food choices influence health status, but also have a great impact on the environment. The production of animal-derived foods has a high environmental burden, whereas the burden of refined carbohydrates, vegetables and fruit is low. The aim of this study was to investigate the associations of greenhouse gas emission (GHGE) and land use of usual diet with mortality risk, and to estima...

Przyklenk, Karin, Guohu Li, Boris Z. Simkhovich, and Robert A. Kloner. Mechanisms of myocardial ischemic preconditioning are age related: PKC-ε does not play a requisite role in old rabbits. J Appl Physiol 95: 2563–2569, 2003. First published August 8, 2003; 10.1152/japplphysiol. 00404.2003.—Data obtained from adult cohorts have implicated activation/translocation of protein kinase C (PKC)-ε as...

BACKGROUND The International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups (IADPSG) recommends universal screening with a 75 g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) using stricter criteria for gestational diabetes (GDM). This may lead to important increases in the prevalence of GDM and associated costs, whereas the gain in health is unclear. The goal of 'The Belgian Diabetes in Pregnancy Stud...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether fluoridation influences bone mineral density and fractures in older women. DESIGN Multicentre prospective study on risk factors for osteoporosis and fractures. SETTING Four community based centres in the United States. PARTICIPANTS 9704 ambulatory women without bilateral hip replacements enrolled during 1986-8; 7129 provided information on exposure to fluori...