Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A. Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A. Cognitive Ethology Laboratory, German Primate Center, University of Gottingen,...

Inhalational insulin was withdrawn from the market due to its potential to produce airway hyper-reactivity and bronchoconstriction. So the present study was designed to explore the acute effects of insulin on airway reactivity of guinea pigs and protective effects of salbutamol and ipratropium against insulin induced airway hyper-responsiveness on isolated tracheal smooth muscle of guinea pig. ...

The IGF-1 gene has been implicated as a candidate gene for the regulation of pig growth traits. We analyzed exons 3 and 4 of IGF-1 gene polymorphisms of the Banna mini-pig (28), the Tibetan mini-pig (30), the Junmu pig (55), and L. Yorkshire species (50) using PCR-SSCP. Three genotypes in exon 3 and 6 genotypes in exon 4 were observed, among which, one single nucleotide polymorphism, G201A, on ...

This paper considers current medical and legal perspectives on patients' right to assistance in dying. In highlighting the competing policy objectives that must be resolved, it examines failed legislative initiatives in Washington and California. It also considers a pending New Hampshire proposal. The last shows the difficulty of simultaneously alleviating physician's objections and achieving p...

Although empirical research has investigated what we ideally seek in a romantic partner for decades, the crucial question of whether ideal partner preferences actually guide our mating decisions in real life has remained largely unanswered. One reason for this is the lack of designs that assess individuals' ideal partner preferences before entering a relationship and then follow up on them over...

A first survey of the Southampton and South West Hampshire Health Authority showed an overall prevalence of multiple sclerosis of 99/100,000 in a population of 417,000 on 1 January 1987. This finding is similar to other recent first surveys in the South of the United Kingdom and only repeat surveys will show if case only repeat surveys will show if case ascertainment has been more complete in t...

The paper investigates a seeming paradox. Formal theories of meaning standardly assume that sentencesin real communication or in fictionare evaluated relative to utterance contexts. Therefore, such theories lead us to expect that texts in fiction always refer to speakers, which come as part of these utterance contexts. Intuition, on the contrary, tells us that many stories do not create the imp...

1 The John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA, 2 Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, CA, USA, 3 High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA, 4 The Astrophysical Observatory of Turin, National Institute for Astrophysics, Turin, Italy, 5 Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Göttingen, Germany, 6 School of Space Resear...

This paper argues that time-series econometrics provides valuable tools and opens exciting research opportunities to marketing researchers. It allows marketing researchers to advance traditional modeling and estimation approaches by incorporating dynamic processes to answer new important research questions. The authors discuss the challenges facing time-series modelers in marketing, provide an ...

the neil and louise Tillotson Fund of the new Hampshire charitable Foundation. Family Demographer The carsey institute university of new Hampshire