introduction: anxiety is one of the most common mental disorders of community that affects the quality of life. hospitals are associated with human’s life and death and their environment is very stressful. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of anxiety among medical students of hormozgan university of medical sciences. methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out in hor...

Rotavirus gastroenteritis is one of the main causes of acute diarrhea in young humans and animals worldwide. The colostrum-deprived, artificially-reared, neonatal pig has been extensively used in our laboratory as a model animal for studying an experimentally-induced rotaviral gastroenteritis. Details on procurement of newborn pigs, immunological characteristics and artificial rearing condition...

SCY-635: A Novel Non-Immunosuppressive Analog of Cyclosporin A that Exhibits 1 Potent Inhibition of Hepatitis C Virus RNA Replication in vitro 2 3 4 Running Title: 5 SCY-635 Inhibits HCV RNA Replication in vitro 6 7 8 Sam Hopkins, 1* Bernard Scorneaux, 1 Zhuhui Huang, 3 Michael G. Murray, 3 Stephen 9 Wring, 1 Craig Smitley, 1 Richard Harris, 1 Frank Erdmann, 2 Gunter Fisher, 2 Yves Ribeill 1 10...

Character displacement (Brown & Wilson, 1956), or what Darwin (1859) called divergence of character, is a commonly observed pattern in plants and animals (reviewed in Howard, 1993; Schluter, 2000; Dayan & Simberloff, 2005). Populations of two closely related species are often different phenotypically where the species occur together (‘sympatry’) but are indistinguishable where each species occu...

A recent study by Hong and Kazperczyk (2005) finds that sin stocks – publicly-traded stocks in the gaming, tobacco, and alcohol industries are neglected by the stock market despite generating abnormal stock returns. We examine a rational explanation for their findings. Are the excess returns and investor neglect of sin stocks attributable to higher levels of information risk arising from poor f...

1 VISSIM Microsimulation 2 3 4 5 6 Bastian J. Schroeder, Ph.D., P.E.* 7 Assistant Director, Highway Systems, ITRE1 8 Tel.: (919) 515-8565; Email: [email protected] 9 10 Katayoun Salamati, Ph.D. 11 Post-Doctoral Research Scholar, ITRE1 12 Tel.: (919) 515-9349; Email: [email protected] 13 14 Joseph Hummer, Ph.D., P.E. 15 Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering, WSU2 16 Tel.: (313...

This paper develops a theory of the emergence of modern innovation-driven Schumpeterian growth. It uses a tractable model that yields a closed-form solution, consisting of an S-shaped (i.e., logistic-like) time path of …rm size and a set of equations that express the relevant endogenous variables — GDP, product variety and product quality, consumption, the shares of GDP earned by the factors of...

From a field experiment to estimate consumer preferences for reduced-nicotine cigarettes, our results suggest younger adult smokers who want to quit smoking are most likely to purchase low-nicotine cigarettes. Hard core smokers, however, revealed no demand for these cigarettes. * Corresponding author. Address: RTI International, 3040 Cornwallis Rd., Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. mrousu@rti....