The British Bangladeshi community is one of the youngest and fastest growing ethnic minority groups in the UK. Many report poor socio-economic and health profiles with the existence of substantial health inequalities, particularly in relation to type 2 diabetes. Although there is compelling evidence for the effectiveness of lifestyle interventions in the prevention of type 2 diabetes, there is ...

Inflammation and infection downregulate the activity and expression of cytochrome P450s (P450s) and other drug metabolizing enzymes (DMEs) involved in hepatic drug clearance. Schistosoma mansoni infection was reported to cause a downregulation of hepatic P450-dependent activities in mouse liver, but little is known about the specific enzymes affected or whether phase II DMEs are also affected. ...

Acinar cell tumors of the pancreas are uncommon and they include acinar cell carcinomas, acinar cell cystadenocarcinomas and acinar cell cystadenomas (ACCs) (1-5). These tumors are composed of typical round or cylindrical cells with eosinophilic periodic acid stain (PAS)positive cytoplasmic granules. On immunohistochemical analysis, they express pancreatic enzymes, and electron microscopy demon...

Hiring and Firing Costs, Adverse Selection and Long-Term Unemployment * In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment are much lower in Europe compared to North America, while employment-to-employment flows are similar in the two continents. In the model, firms use discretion in terms of whom to fire and, thus, low quality...

The decay of Pr produced in a nuclear fusion evaporation reaction was observed using the GAMMASPHERE array of over 100 Compton suppressed high-purity germanium γ-ray detectors. Selected γ-rays from bands 1, 5, and 6 were studied through a method of angular correlation to determine their multipolarities. The parity of band 6 could then be determined through analysis of these γ-rays’ multipolarit...