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Delivering Heparin-Binding Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 with Self-Assembling Peptide Hydrogels
(Mary Ann Liebert Inc, 2015)Heparin-binding insulin-like growth factor 1 (HB-IGF-1) is a fusion protein of IGF-1 with the HB domain of heparin-binding epidermal growth factor-like growth factor. A single dose of HB-IGF-1 has been shown to bind ... -
Delivering the Lotus-Born: Historiography in the Tibetan Renaissance
(2013-02-19)Traditionally recognized as the first of the great Buddhist treasure revealers, Nyang-rel Nyima Özer (1124-1192) historiographically reconstructed the Imperium into a golden age of Tibetan Buddhism. An analysis of his two ... -
Delivery by caesarean section and risk of obesity in preschool age children: A prospective cohort study
(BMJ, 2012)Objective: To examine whether delivery by caesarean section is a risk factor for childhood obesity. Design: Prospective pre-birth cohort study (Project Viva). Setting: Eight outpatient multi-specialty practices based ... -
Delivery of Functional Anti-miR-9 by Mesenchymal Stem Cell–derived Exosomes to Glioblastoma Multiforme Cells Conferred Chemosensitivity
(Nature Publishing Group, 2013)Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most common and lethal tumor of the adult brain, generally shows chemo- and radioresistance. MicroRNAs (miRs) regulate physiological processes, such as resistance of GBM cells to temozolomide ... -
Delta C-13 Stratigraphy of the Proterozoic Bylot Supergroup, Baffin Island, Canada: Implications for Regional Lithostratigraphic Correlations
(National Research Council Canada, 1999)The Bylot Supergroup, northern Baffin Island, contains >1500 m of platform, shelf, and slope carbonates deposited between similar to 1270 and similar to 723 Ma. Limited chronostratigraphic data have led to the broad ... -
A delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALAD) polymorphism may modify the relationship of low-level lead exposure to uricemia and renal function: the normative aging study.
(2003)In this study we investigated whether a known delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALAD) exon 4 polymorphism has a modifying effect on the association of blood or bone lead level with uricemia and indices of renal function ... -
\(\Delta\)40 Isoform of p53 Controls \(\beta\)-Cell Proliferation and Glucose Homeostasis in Mice
(American Diabetes Association, 2011)Objective: Investigating the dynamics of pancreatic \(\beta\)-cell mass is critical for developing strategies to treat both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. p53, a key regulator of the cell cycle and apoptosis, has mostly been ... -
Demand and Capacity Management in Air Transportation
(Springer, 2012)This paper summarizes research trends and opportunities in the area of managing air transportation demand and capacity. Capacity constraints and resulting congestion and low schedule reliability currently impose large costs ... -
Demand for \(Zn^{2+}\) in Acid-Secreting Gastric Mucosa and Its Requirement for Intracellular \(Ca^{2+}\)
(Public Library of Science, 2011)Background and Aims: Recent work has suggested that \(Zn^{2+}\) plays a critical role in regulating acidity within the secretory compartments of isolated gastric glands. Here, we investigate the content, distribution ... -
Demand for Emergency Health Service: Factors Associated with Inappropriate Use
(BioMed Central, 2007)Background: The inappropriate use of emergency room (ER) service by patients with non-urgent health problems is a worldwide problem. Inappropriate ER use makes it difficult to guarantee access for real emergency cases, ... -
The Demand for Literature in France, 1769–1789, and the Launching of a Digital Archive
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Demand for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality
(2014-10-21)This dissertation investigates the dynamics of mass attitudes toward redistributive social policies in post-industrial democracies: How have these attitudes changed over time? What factors and mechanisms drive these changes? ... -
Demand-side interventions for maternal care: evidence of more use, not better outcomes
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background: Reducing maternal and neonatal mortality is essential to improving population health. Demand-side interventions are designed to increase uptake of critical maternal health services, but associated change in ... -
Dementia Coding, Workup, and Treatment in the VA New England Healthcare System
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014)Growing evidence suggests that Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia are underdiagnosed and poorly documented. In our study, we describe patterns of dementia coding and treatment in the Veteran's Administration ... -
Democracy and Corruption
(1996)I was asked to speak about corruption and democracy. I have a long history of concern about that relationship. The subject of corruption and democracy is best broken into three separate areas. First, there are questions ... -
Democracy Beyond Disclosure: Secrecy, Transparency, and the Logic of Self-Government
(2017-01-19)"Transparency" is the constant refrain of democratic politics, a promised aid to accountability and integrity in public life. Secrecy is stigmatized as a work of corruption, tolerable (if at all) by a compromise of democratic ... -
Democracy in Africa: A Very Short History
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)When discussing governance in Africa, one must be circumspect when applying the term "democracy." One reason for doing so is because the term is imprecise. However, while differing in the attributes they posit and the ... -
Democracy, Accountability, and Education
(SAGE, 2011)Educational standards, assessments, and accountability systems are of immense political moment around the world. But there is no developed theory exploring the role that these systems should play within a democratic polity ... -
Democracy, Technology, and Growth
(2007)We explore the question of how political institutions and particularly democracy affect economic growth. Although empirical evidence of a positive effect of democracy on economic performance in the aggregate is weak, we ...