. The uncertainty in the published estimates for BC emissions is a factor of two to five on regional scales and at least 50% on global scales. High BC emissions ( Regional hotspots Until about the 1950s, North America and Western Europe were the major sources of soot emissions, but now developing nations

on an earlier version of this article and Pierre Provencher for his help in collecting the data. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Robert J. Vallerand, Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Comportement Social, Departement de Psychologie, University du Quebec a Montreal, C.P. 8888, Station

Abstract Questions have been raised as to whether Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) provide social and economic security to AIDS affected households by improving their income. It is feared that MF leads to welfare loss. It has become a micro-debt trap that impoverishes rather than improves income

this weight within a few years of treatment . Obesity treatments for children and adolescents have yielded similar effects, though behavioral family-based interventions have produced more persistent weight loss effects Studies have evaluated four major types of interventions that were expected to produce

Abstract: The two-proton transfer eaction (3He, n) has been measured on four gas targets, leO, 1sO, 2°Ne, and 22Ne, with an incident SHe energy of 18.3 MeV. The data were taken with a neutron time-of-flight spectrometer in the angular ange 0 ° to 40 ° c.m. The results for selected transitions

prior pelvic evaluation by ultrasound is a predisposing factor for unsuitable place-ment. We present a patient with a didelphic uterus in which IUD was placed without adequate pelvic examina-tion before insertion. A 25-year-old woman who had a history of three preg-nancy losses in weeks 6, 8, and 12

is to explore two related hypotheses: (i) that real exchange rate flexibility and adjustment is critical to maintaining external stability and (ii) that a flexible nominal exchange rate facilitates real exchange rate adjustment and the maintenance of external stability, if domestic wages and prices are sticky

) and S100A4 positive cells (fibroblasts) in the renal interstitium. The I/R rats treated with MMF exhibited a significant reduction in infiltrating macrophages and fibroblasts and decreased histological damage. The present data indicate that infiltrating immune cells mediate or participate

in the form of health insurance, income support, and other subsidies was measured. Survey data and data from several secondary sources was used to measure costs incurred by comparable persons without MS. Based on the 1994 data, the annual cost of MS was estimated at over $34 000 per person, translating into a

deviations from the mean) on sleep quality measures, their data was excluded from the final data analysis, which left a total of 44 participants (22 with PPD, 22 without PPD). Most of the participants were highly educated Caucasian women who lived with their partners Psychiatric Variables-Using the MINI