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Age at Menarche: 50-Year Socioeconomic Trends Among US-Born Black and White Women
(American Public Health Association, 2015-02)Objectives. We investigated 50-year US trends in age at menarche by socioeconomic position (SEP) and race/ethnicity because data are scant and contradictory.Methods. We analyzed data by income and education for US-born ... -
The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions over the Life-Cycle with Implications for Regulation
(Brookings Institution Press, 2009)Many consumers make poor financial choices and older adults are particularly vulnerable to such errors. About half of the population between ages 80 and 89 either has dementia or a medical diagnosis of “cognitive impairment ... -
Age Trends in Recognition Memory for Pictures: The Effects of Delay and Testing Procedure
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Age- and Pregnancy-Associated DNA Methylation Changes in Mammary Epithelial Cells
(Elsevier, 2015)Summary Postnatal mammary gland development and differentiation occur during puberty and pregnancy. To explore the role of DNA methylation in these processes, we determined the genome-wide DNA methylation and gene expression ... -
Age-associated NF-κB signaling in myofibers alters the satellite cell niche and re-strains muscle stem cell function
(Impact Journals LLC, 2016)Skeletal muscle is a highly regenerative tissue, but muscle repair potential is increasingly compromised with advancing age. In this study, we demonstrate that increased NF-κB activity in aged muscle fibers contributes to ... -
Age-related transcriptional changes in gene expression in different organs of mice support the metabolic stability theory of aging
(Springer Netherlands, 2008)Individual differences in the rate of aging are determined by the efficiency with which an organism transforms resources into metabolic energy thus maintaining the homeostatic condition of its cells and tissues. This ... -
Aged-Related Neural Changes During Memory Conjunction Errors
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2010)Human behavioral studies demonstrate that healthy aging is often accompanied by increases in memory distortions or errors. Here we used event-related functional MRI to examine the neural basis of age-related memory ... -
Ageing: Generations of longevity
(Nature Publishing Group, 2011)The lifespan of some organisms can be extended by mutations that alter how DNA is packaged in their cells. A study reveals that this effect can last for generations, even in descendants that are genetically normal. -
Agency and morality
(Routledge, 2021-12-07)The traditional categorization of ethical theories into consequentialist, deontological, and virtue-ethical theories ignores the significance of the fact that philosophers supposedly representing these categories are working ... -
Agency Problems and Dividend Policies around the World
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2000)This paper outlines and tests two agency models of dividends. According to the “outcome” model, dividends are the result of effective pressure by minority shareholders to force corporate insiders to disgorge cash. According ... -
Agency, Sex Trafficking, and Transnational Law: Applying Feminist Theory to the Palermo Protocol
(2015)This paper examines the possibility of incorporating the notion of ‘agency’ in a legal framework in regard to the trafficking of humans, and especially women, for the purpose of sexual exploitation. In arguing that the ... -
Agent Decision-Making in Open Mixed Networks
(Elsevier, 2010)Computer systems increasingly carry out tasks in mixed networks, that is in group settings in which they interact both with other computer systems and with people. Participants in these heterogeneous human-computer groups ... -
Agglutinated tests in post-Sturtian cap carbonates of Namibia and Mongolia
(Elsevier BV, 2011)Paleomagnetic data suggest that the early Cryogenian (Sturtian) glaciation extended to sea level at low latitude. The impact of this dramatic environmental change on biota, and the composition of ecosystems in the immediate ... -
Aggregation Among Binary, Count, and Duration Models: Estimating the Same Quantities from Different Levels of Data
(Oxford University Press, 2001)Binary, count, and duration data all code discrete events occurring at points in time. Although a single data generation process can produce all of these three data types, the statistical literature is not very helpful in ... -
Aggressive Parental Leave Incentivizing: A Statutory Proposal Toward Gender Equalization in the Workplace
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The Aging of Wolff’s “Law”: Ontogeny and Responses to Mechanical Loading in Cortical Bone
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2004)The premise that bones grow and remodel throughout life to adapt to their mechanical environment is often called Wolff’s law. Wolff’s law, however, is not always true, and in fact comprises a variety of different processes ... -
Agnihotra Rituals in Nepal
(Oxford University Press, 2015)This chapter examines the history of the agnihotra in the Kathmandu valley. This ritual is Vedic, but is considered to be an antecedent to the tantric homa. The ritual is known to have been performed in Nepal by the fifteenth ... -
Agnogene Deletion in a Novel Pathogenic JC Virus Isolate Impairs VP1 Expression and Virion Production
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Infection of glial cells by the human polyomavirus JC (JCV) causes progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). JCV Encephalopathy (JCVE) is a newly identified disease characterized by JCV infection of cortical pyramidal ... -
The Agrarian Origins of Mau Mau: A Structural Account
(Published for the Agricultural History Society by the University of California Press, 1987) -
Agreement and Clitic Restrictions in Basque
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2008)