Rebound eff ects measure the behaviorally induced off set in the reduction of energy consumption following effi ciency improvements. Using both panel estimation and quantile-regression methods on household travel diary data collected in Germany between 1997 and 2009, this study investigates the heterogeneity of the rebound eff ect in private transport. With the average rebound eff ect being in ...

This paper estimates the eff ect of informal care provision on female caregiver’s health. We use data from the German Socio-economic Panel and assess eff ects up to seven years after care provision. A simulation-based sensitivity analysis scrutinizes the sensitivity of the results with respect to potential deviations from the conditional independence assumption in the regression adjusted matchi...

We read with great interest in a recent issue of CHEST (January 2015) the well-written article by Küpeli et al, 1 who reviewed the literature regarding the eff ects of common medications (particularly pills) on the air passages. Th ey stated that pills can aff ect the airways via local infl ammatory, obstructive, or systemic eff ects. Th ey noted that radiopaque pills can be visualized on plain...

issue of Arthritis Research & Th erapy [1]. Using proteomic analysis, the authors were able to show that plasma proteins present in osteoarthritic synovial fl uid are able to induce infl am-matory cytokine production via inter action with Toll-like receptor 4, thus contributing to the low-grade infl am ma-tion associated with osteoarthritis. We would like to add some observations concerning our...

Decreased plant diversity is expected to reduce ecosystem function. Although many studies have examined eff ects of plant species on trophic interactions, information regarding eff ects of native or non-native plant diversity on performance of individuals of higher trophic levels is limited. We reared larval American toad Anaxyrus americanus tadpoles in outdoor mesocosms containing litter of 1,...

This paper addresses the question of whether the eff ect of parental drinking on children’s later consumption of alcohol – which is frequently found to be of positive sign – exhibits a certain pattern of heterogeneity. In particular, if this eff ect is more prominent in the upper tail than elsewhere in the distribution of children’s alcohol consumption, conventional regression analyses that foc...

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Th e aim of study was to investigate diff erent models for the evaluation of dairy bulls for male fertility. A dataset containing single insemination records performed on Brown Swiss cows and heifers reared in Eastern Italian Alps was used. Th e outcome variable (successful/ unsuccessful) was analyzed as binary trait. In the fi rst step raw conception rate was computed for each service sire, as...

Sleep problems are pervasive in people with schizophrenia. There is a strong documented link between insomnia and psychosis symptoms, and longitudinal studies suggest that insomnia predicts new episodes of paranoia. We cannot assume that standard interventions for insomnia will be successful in psychosis and no trial of such interventions in psychosis has been done. On this basis, Daniel Freema...

While well-recognized as an important kind of ecological interaction, physical ecosystem engineering by organisms is diverse with varied consequences, presenting challenges for developing and using general understanding. Th ere is also still some uncertainty as to what it is, and some skepticism that the diversity of engineering and its eff ects is amenable to conceptual integration and general...