Background: Zinc is an essential trace element required for the functional activity of several enzyme systems. Several studies have been carried out to assess the effect of zinc supplementation on children’s growth, but controversy exists as to the effect of zinc on growth and GH-IGF-I system. Objective:  The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of zinc supplementation on linear growth ...

We describe simple finitely generated associative conformal algebras of Gel’fand–Kirillov dimension one.

The first part is about primary decomposition. After reviewing the basic definitions, we survey the compatibility, independence, and linear growth properties that have been known. Then, we prove the linear growth property of primary decomposition for a new family of modules. In the remaining sections, we study secondary representation, which can be viewed as a dual of primary decomposition. Cor...

We propose a model consistent with two observations. First, the tax rates adopted by different countries are generally uncorrelated with their growth performance. Second, countries that drastically reduce private incentives to invest severely hurt their growth performance. In our model, the effects of taxation on growth are highly nonlinear. Low tax rates have a very small impact on long-run gr...

The linear growth of 29 patients was evaluated from two to 41/2 years after liver transplantation. All patients received cyclosporine and low-dose prednisone. Eight patients (28%) displayed acceleration of linear growth velocity and were above the fifth percentile at the end of the evaluation period. Four patients (14%) grew normally prior to transplantation and continued to grow normally after...