Millions of parents, most of them mothers, are abused by an intimate partner each year in the United States. Intimate partner violence is all too common in homes with children; it's estimated that 15 million children are exposed each year. The short- and long-term impacts to child health and well-being are profound. Pediatric clinical practice represents an underutilized venue for assessment an...

Shocks to bank lending, risk-taking and securitization activities that are orthogonal to real economy and monetary policy innovations account for more than 30 percent of U.S. output variation. The dynamic effects, however, depend on the type of shock. Expansionary securitization shocks lead to a permanent rise in real GDP and a fall in inflation. Bank lending and risk-taking shocks, in contrast...

This study contributes to the literature on energy market risk management and portfolio by examining co-movements between several commodities in a context light of impact types uncertainty over time under high, medium, low frequencies. Using wavelet decomposition analysis, we first investigate lead-lag relationship together with power correlation major renewable non-renewable indexes indexes. S...

We established five monoclonal antibodies that reacted with human LCAT and recognized different epitopes on LCAT. These are mouse anti-human LCAT monoclonal antibodies designated 36487, 36454, 36442, 36405, and 36486, which react with the peptides corresponding to human LCAT amino acid residues R159-E179, M258-S273, S274-S294, D352-S376, and N415-E440, respectively. We also successfully used tw...

Yamada Y, Muraki A, Oie M, Kanegawa N, Oda A, Sawashi Y, Kaneko K, Yoshikawa M, Goto T, Takahashi N, Kawada T, Ohinata K. Soymorphin-5, a soy-derived -opioid peptide, decreases glucose and triglyceride levels through activating adiponectin and PPAR systems in diabetic KKA mice. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 302: E433–E440, 2012. First published November 29, 2011; doi:10.1152/ajpendo.00161.2011....

In a recently published letter [1], it was noticed that in volume 1181 of The Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (2009), dedicated to the Chernobyl accident, references to non-professional publications (mass media, websites of unclear affiliation, etc.) were used to back up scientific views. Another theme which was commented on in the letter [1] was the reduction of radiocesium levels i...

Abstract T his study aimed to examine the Islamic stock market integration between Indonesia and Malaysia, and the effect of foreign interest rates on both stock markets. This study used the monthly time series of Jakarta Islamic Index, Hijrah Syariah Index, and foreign interest rates within a period from August 2000 to January 2016. Result of cointegration test demonstrat...