Cells respond to swelling by activating anion and cation channels that allow the passive loss of inorganic ions and organic solutes. Net solute efflux accompanied by osmotically obliged water functions to return cell volume towards its original value, a process termed regulatory volume decrease. An apparently ubiquitous response to swelling in vertebrate cells is activation of an outwardly rect...

BACKGROUND In recent years commercial motorcyclists (Okada riders) have come to bridge the huge public transport gap in most cities across the country. However, this is not without the dangers they pose to themselves, passengers and to other road users. It is claimed that some of these Okada riders operate under the influence of drugs and other substances. But there are few community-based stud...

I Acknowledgement This dissertation is about the roles of Rural Credit Cooperatives, informal financial sectors and communities in disaster risk management in agricultural sectors of China, which reflects the study and research I have done in the last three years at Kyoto University (KU), Japan. During the past years, many people offered me support, either face-to-face or electronically. By the...

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T raining for functional fitness has become an increasingly popular approach for personal trainers and strength coaches alike. According to Okada et al. (15), functional movement can be defined as the ability to produce and maintain a balance between mobility and stability along a kinetic chain while carrying out fundamental patterns with accuracy and efficiency. Given this definition, the prim...