The Impact of Alcohol Consumption on Occupational Attainment in England In this study we provide evidence on the effect of alcohol consumption on occupational attainment in England. To do this we use samples of employees from the Health Survey for England between 1992 and 1996. We find that due to the endogenous nature of alcohol consumption, OLS estimates may provide a biased picture of the im...

1Department of Biology and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, China 2College of Chinese Medicine Materials, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, China 3Eco-friendly New Materials Research Group, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon 305-343, Korea 4Korean Lichen Research Institute, Sunchon National University, Sun...

This study aimed to evaluate the repellent effect of tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia) and andiroba (Carapa guianensis) essential oils on two species of flies (Haemotobia irritans and Chrysomya megacephala). For the in vitro studies, free-living adult flies were captured and reared in the laboratory. To verify the repellency effect, an apparatus was constructed where H. irritans and C. megaceph...

Although the ecological dynamics of the alpine treeline ecotone are influenced by climate, it is an imperfect indicator of climate change. Mechanistic processes that shape the ecotone-seed rain, seed germination, seedling establishment and subsequent tree growth form, or, conversely tree dieback-depend on microsite patterns. Growth forms affect wind and snow, and so develop positive and negativ...

S.T. Kee et al. (eds.), Clinical Aspects of Electroporation, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-8363-3_3, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 T. Kotnik () Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Trzaska 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia e-mail: [email protected] Abstract An exposure of a cell to an external electric field results in the induced transmembrane voltage (DY m...

A fundamental task within the framework of a project searching for new radiopharmaceuticals for systemic therapy was the evaluation of the capabilities of the Portuguese Research Reactor (RPI) for the production of several important radionuclides. The feasibility of producing 64Cu, 77As, 153Sm, 165Dy, 166Ho, 170Tm, 177Lu, 186Re, 199Au and 111Ag in useful quantities was evaluated for the present...

Amidoximated algal/polyethyleneimine beads are successfully applied for the sorption of two rare earths elements (REEs, Ln(III)): La (light) and Dy (heavy). The properties characterized by FTIR SEM-EDX analyses. pH effect on metal is investigated with a double objective: optimizing recovery separation. In binary solutions, Dy(III) shows slightly higher affinity sorbent than La(III); without sig...

Using a heart ischemia/reperfusion model in rats, we recently demonstrated that 3-[2-[4-(3-chloro-2-methylphenyl)-1-piperazinyl]ethyl]-5,6-dimethoxy-1-(4-imidazolylmethyl)-1H-indazole dihydrochloride 3.5 hydrate (DY-9760e), a calmodulin inhibitor, is a cardioprotective drug. Here, we examined cardioprotective mechanisms of DY-9760e in hypertrophy and heart failure using a mouse transverse aorti...