• Some IGFBPs may also have intrinsic bioactivity that is independent of their ability to bind IGF proteins. (rndsystems.com)
  • The rate constant k is a measure of the intrinsic reactivity of the reactant and is independent of the initial concentration of the reactant. (javatpoint.com)
  • Terminology for reporting PCB half-lives was inconsistent, so we have attempted to consolidate this and recommend using either "apparent half-life" or "intrinsic half-life" in future studies. (bvsalud.org)
  • On any given day, more than half the world's population sees news from AP. (ap.org)
  • HONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach - 10 September 2023 - Recent findings from a comprehensive survey conducted in Hong Kong have revealed an alarming lack of awareness about the pneumococcal vaccine, leaving more than half of the city's middle-aged and elderly population unprotected against this potentially deadly infection. (yahoo.com)
  • In that piece, I show that in terms of life expectancy, child mortality, the global income distribution, and some other important indicators, the world has made meaningful progress in recent decades. (lu.se)
  • and has led to the shortening of population life expectancy and healthy life expectancy. (who.int)
  • Deftly interweaving myth, psychology and memoir, Sharon Blackie argues that menopause ushers in a rich and vibrant new phase of life, and explores the many different ways in which women can flourish during what is so often portrayed as a time of decline. (jung.org)
  • My current novel-in-progress explores such things as active imagination, dreams, synchronicity and numinous experience in the lives of three women finding their way to their own "hagitude" so I'm excited to facilitate our upcoming discussion of Sharon Blackie's book. (jung.org)
  • This thesis explores the works and personas of Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift and analyses the popular conflations of their real lives and their works. (lu.se)
  • Yes, the second half of adult life can be happier than the first. (nhpr.org)
  • People who take responsibility for the choices that they make, by default, live happier lives. (huffpost.com)
  • However, the half-life values of 176 Lu measured with various experiments differ significantly. (nature.com)
  • We also identified significantly shorter half-lives for some PCBs in occupationally exposed individuals compared to results reported from the general population. (bvsalud.org)
  • Solution: The Commission calls for the establishment of an independent oceans agency to streamline federal management, the creation of regional ecosystem councils to bring fishermen, scientists, citizens, and government officials together to develop ocean management plans, and a national network of marine reserves to protect and restore fragile ocean habitats. (aquafeed.com)
  • Be thankful for the good and the bad in every situation because all of it helps guide us to live brilliant lives. (huffpost.com)
  • He wanted to explore why some people were happy in the second half of life and how he could make sure he - and others - could enjoy those decades. (nhpr.org)
  • Brooks' new book is From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life . (nhpr.org)
  • And I found that there are people who have cracked the code but, more importantly, that we don't have to leave happiness in the second half of life up to chance. (nhpr.org)
  • Tracey Ormerod will lead us in a discussion of Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life by Sharon Blackie. (jung.org)
  • When people can no longer be independent, either because of disease or age, we decided that medicine could solve the problem. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • We did it to solve other problems, like the hospitals were filling up with people who couldn't be fixed, and so we started creating old-age homes as a place for their recovery and calling them nursing homes and applying medical ideas about health and safety rather than the goal of people being able to live as good a life as possible and make choices they wanted to make. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Politicians and people in public life dominate the list, accounting for over half (25) of the awardees. (rediff.com)
  • An increasing number of scientific studies and independent research has shown that optimistic people have better mental and physical health. (huffpost.com)
  • Optimistic people tend to live longer, overcome difficulties faster, manage stress better, have lower rates of depression, and focus more on their true purpose in life. (huffpost.com)
  • Appreciate the good things and good people that come into your life. (huffpost.com)
  • At the same time, we should also be grateful for the bad things in life, and even for the difficult people that come into our lives. (huffpost.com)
  • When we know what we know and at the same time are willing to listen to what other people know, we attract more of the good stuff that we desire in life. (huffpost.com)
  • Although the majority of people know that vaccination is an effective way to prevent pneumococcal infection, about half of the respondents have not been vaccinated. (yahoo.com)
  • On the hand, about half of the people do not know where to get the pneumococcal vaccination, and they are unaware that individuals aged 65 or above are eligible to receive subsided or even free government vaccination services. (yahoo.com)
  • People typically lose almost one-half inch (about 1 centimeter) every 10 years after age 40. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Hundreds of million of people were lifted out of poverty in developing countries and for the first time in history, half of the world population can be considered global middle class. (lu.se)
  • In the new normal after COVID, employees are focusing on quality of life, new emotional priorities, and achieving a work-life balance. (consolidatedcredit.org)
  • Presence of drug side-effects independently predicted a lower quality of life in the physical and emotional domains but not on aspects of daily living. (who.int)
  • According to researchers, no animals can survive here due to the growth of plankton.While normal amounts of the organisms can be beneficial, the overwhelming bloom has reached harmful levels, depriving marine life of food and oxygen and turning the seawater green for as far as the eye can see. (yahoo.com)
  • Weight loss later in life occurs partly because fat replaces lean muscle tissue, and fat weighs less than muscle. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Consistent with this concept, immunoprecipitation experiments showed that the heterodimers are abundant only in RR cells, in which the half-life of Myc is substantially longer than the bulk cells. (bvsalud.org)
  • ABSTRACT Using the Hypertension Health Status Inventory and multivariate analysis, predictors of quality of life were determined for a random selection of 316 hypertensive patients. (who.int)
  • Controlling for the effects of demographic and socioeconomic factors and existing co-morbidity, a better quality of life was independently predicted by achieving a controlled blood pressure and absence of target organ complications. (who.int)
  • Neither the number of antihypertensive drugs received nor the dose frequency affected patients' quality of life. (who.int)
  • The independent predictors explained 25%-30% of the variation in the quality of life of hypertensive patients. (who.int)
  • The study highlights the role of achieving blood pressure control to ensure a better quality of life for hypertensive patients. (who.int)
  • These are way that minimizes adverse effects on pa- unlikely ever to be cured, and so new indi- tients' quality of life [ 9,10 ]. (who.int)
  • edge is available about other factors that clinicians place the emphasis on biomedical could contribute to the improvement of hy- outcome or improvement in physiological pertensive patients' quality of life. (who.int)
  • come interested in the same outcome for chronic disorders: quality of life [ 1 ]. (who.int)
  • select 1 health insurance polyclinic from Regardless of the type of condition, pa- each zone and 1 internal medicine clinic tients' quality of life is adversely affected from each polyclinic. (who.int)
  • Reeves and colleagues conducted a prespecified secondary analysis of the previously published Therapy in Older Acute Heart Failure Patients (REHAB-HF) trial, a multicenter, randomized controlled trial that showed that a 3-month early, transitional, tailored, multidomain physical rehabilitation intervention improved physical function and quality of life (QoL) in comparison with usual care. (medscape.com)
  • We can find a new kind of success if we're willing to make some jumps and some changes and show some humility and have an adventure that's better than the first half. (nhpr.org)
  • School officials say life-cycle and maintenance projects make up more than half of the overall bond total. (southlakecarroll.edu)
  • This is not intended as an argument against the precept that one ought not to make assumptions about an artist's life based on the supposed evidence of their work, or vice versa. (lu.se)
  • The time it takes for the reactant concentration to drop to half its initial value can be used to determine the reaction's half-life from this plot. (javatpoint.com)
  • The reaction's half-life is constant and unaffected by the reactant's starting concentration. (javatpoint.com)
  • The rate constant is independent of the initial concentration of the reactant. (javatpoint.com)
  • This equation shows that the concentration of the reactant decreases exponentially with time and that the half-life of the reaction is constant and independent of the initial concentration of the reactant. (javatpoint.com)
  • there are methodological challenges associated with studying the development of independent standing, as infants under the age of 9 months per se are not expected to be able to stand independently. (frontiersin.org)
  • In order to explore independent standing, 3-5 months old infants participating in a baby swimming course were recruited to participate in the study. (frontiersin.org)
  • Choosing this kind of context was mainly based on anecdotal evidence and observations of the instructor that emphasized independent standing as a central task in the water-based program (Figure 1 ) in which infants appeared to demonstrate early signs of motor learning/postural readiness. (frontiersin.org)
  • In other words, the study of infants engaging in these tasks enables investigation of task-specific independent standing among putative non-standing infants. (frontiersin.org)
  • Subsequently, the aim of this explorative study on a specific independent standing tasks, conducted as a part of a baby swimming routine over a period of 12 weeks (24 sessions), was to examine whether young infants improved their performance as measured by prolonged time-to-stand. (frontiersin.org)
  • ABSTRACT Exclusive breastfeeding is the best form of nutrition for infants in the first 6 months of life. (who.int)
  • When she passed in 2012 of sepsis, he began a grueling work on his first non fiction offering, chronicling the last brutal months of her life in a soon to be released work, yet untitled. (cdc.gov)
  • The aim of tors (mother's age, education level, months of life as breast milk protects this population-based study was to ethnicity, employment, work status the child against respiratory infections, determine the prevalence of exclusive before delivery, marital status, par- diarrhoea, asthma and allergy [1]. (who.int)
  • CONCLUSIONS: These findings support an independent effect for cadmium in risk of lung cancer mortality. (cdc.gov)
  • In the last century we have added over 30 years to people's lives. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Half My Life proves an excellent way to celebrate 20 years as a comedian. (theseriouscomedysite.com)
  • Lung cancer mortality was somewhat better predicted using a cadmium burden metric with a half-life of about 20-25 years. (cdc.gov)
  • For example, the reported half-life for PCB 180 varied by nearly 3 orders of magnitude (0.34 years-300 years). (bvsalud.org)
  • Comic Chris Gethard (pronounced Geth-erd) comes up with an original take on the comedy video with Half My Life. (theseriouscomedysite.com)
  • While most stand-up comedy downloads feature the same old same-o, Half My Life by Chris Gethard stands out from the crowd. (theseriouscomedysite.com)
  • This book review is a web exclusive for the Summer 2022 issue of The Independent Review . (independent.org)
  • This manuscript presents a systematic review of PCB half-lives reported in the scientific literature. (bvsalud.org)
  • Our review identified that the half-lives estimated were largely dependent on the studied cohort. (bvsalud.org)
  • When the interval since discontinuing lamotrigine exceeds five half-lives (see section 5.2), Lamotrigine should generally be escalated to the maintenance dose according to the appropriate schedule. (medicines.org.uk)
  • We didn't build our systems of taking care of the elderly with the idea of what a good life for them would be. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Solution: The Commission urges the adoption of ecosystem-based management that restricts destructive fishing gear, eliminates the wasteful practice of discarding unintended catch, and places a priority on the long-term health of marine life and marine ecosystems. (aquafeed.com)
  • It wasn't long before she was fighting for her life in a city hospital. (cdc.gov)
  • The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran in the first 6 months of life, and the factors that influence it. (who.int)
  • Here we report half-life measurements using a method that is almost independent of various uncertainties. (nature.com)
  • In total, 26 articles were found to report half-lives in humans, with the majority of data coming from studies performed in North America on individuals suspected to have been exposed to PCBs. (bvsalud.org)
  • Because of the possibility of adverse effects and the question of whether the triglyceride level is an independent risk factor for atherosclerosis, many physicians use drugs to reduce the triglyceride level only when the level exceeds 500 mg/dL. (medscape.com)
  • Featuring an uncluttered 24-hour analog clock display, push notifications from hundreds of your favorite apps, Amazon Alexa integration, turn-by-turn navigation, and much more, the Martian is more than just a pretty (watch)face - it's a device that actually makes your life easier. (salon.com)
  • Smiling makes you feel better about yourself and your life on the inside. (huffpost.com)
  • It makes difficult situations more difficult and our lives harder to manage. (huffpost.com)
  • The evidence is clear that this is no longer true," said Leon Panetta, chair of the independent, bipartisan commission. (aquafeed.com)
  • Only 46.5% of mothers exclusively breastfed their infant in the first 6 months of life. (who.int)
  • The exhibit will give visitors a unique view of everyday life around the globe, and in turn it will contribute to broadening Japan's international perspective in the buildup to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. (ap.org)
  • The effect compartment half-life of SNP was 13.4 min. (frontiersin.org)
  • The results demonstrate (1) a statistically significant effect of Cd independent of As (SMR=3.2 for 10 mg-year/m(3) Cd, p=0.012), (2) a substantial healthy worker effect for lung cancer (for unexposed workers, SMR=0.69) and (3) a large deficit in lung cancer mortality among Hispanic workers (SMR=0.27, p=0.009), known to have low lung cancer rates. (cdc.gov)
  • easier to quantify the concept of quality of The target population was patients with hy- life [ 2 ]. (who.int)
  • Au cours d'une étude transversale en population, 538 mères d'enfants âgés de 6 à 24 mois ont rempli un questionnaire en entretien. (who.int)
  • Their lives revolve around the good things that they do, the good thoughts that they think, and the good things that they choose to see. (huffpost.com)
  • Founded in 2009, The Axel Project aims to recreate the original Half Life 2 beta leak story line as envisioned by VALVe circa 2003. (unseen64.net)
  • LONDON - An exhibit of Associated Press news photography depicting daily life around the world will be showcased at the Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery in Tokyo beginning Jan. 2, 2014. (ap.org)
  • The film was loosely inspired by real-life murderer Ed Gein who wore human skin, but didn't use a chainsaw. (independent.co.uk)
  • We generated an Fc-engineered version of IF3, termed IF3δ, with amino acid substitutions known to enhance antibody half-life in human serum. (bvsalud.org)
  • You can get through the tough times of life much easier if you learn to laugh. (huffpost.com)
  • A new survey finds that only half of teens see achieving financial independence from parents as a key financial goal for the future. (consolidatedcredit.org)
  • Independent standing is required for vital goal-directed motor behavior like reaching in upright position and walking ( Adolph, 2008 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Less chlorinated PCBs generally have shorter half-lives than more chlorinated PCBs. (bvsalud.org)