fasting and diabetes has been on my radar from a local perspective for years. as a dietitian many of my patients chose to fast with the goal to promote better health. most recently, my perspective on fasting became global as working with the managing diabetes during ramadan initiatives.in april 2016, international diabetes federation (idf) and the diabetes and ramadan (dar) international allian...

Trace amounts of plutonium are found worldwide, mostly due to fallout from atmospheric nuclear testing, which ended in 1980, and released several isotopes of plutonium, including Pu, Pu, Pu, and Pu (Clark et al. 2006; DOE 2005a; Eisenbud and Gesell 1997). Plutonium is not naturally occurring; however, trace amounts of Pu are found in naturally occurring uranium ores, but the amounts are in such...

Introduction Genomes have always been vulnerable to damage from intraand extracellular sources such as oxidative species generated by cell metabolism, spontaneous base loss or modification, radiation and chemicals (Friedberg et al, 2005a). As a result, mechanisms to cope with DNA damage developed early in evolution and have been conserved. Organisms need some genome stability, but must allow mu...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The completion of this thesis has involved an enormous amount of help from a number of people. First and foremost of these is Dr. Dimitrios Charalampidis, my thesis advisor, for providing the original ideas, suggestions, and motivation for the work. He freely bestowed his time, guidance, brilliance, and wisdom considerably beyond the call of duty; and was a model of professorial...

Ifirst really saw the stars when I was 10 years old and on my first camping trip, in Ontario. I remember awakening late one night, stepping outside the tent, and looking up. I was completely stunned by what I saw. Stars—millions of them it seemed—filled the entire sky. I had never imagined that there was such a vast expanse beyond Earth. Some critical aspects of my childhood clearly contributed...

Emphasis on milk yield (MY) as well as milk yield persistency (MYP) and calving interval (CI) is necessary to achieve more sustainable productionin dairy cattle. Therefore the main objective of this study was to find an optimum regression model to estimate economic values for MY, MYP and CI.Using a deterministic bio-economic model, seventyfiveproduction states differing mainly in MY, MYPand CIw...