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The COMT Val158 Met polymorphism as an associated risk factor for Alzheimer disease and mild cognitive impairment in APOE 4 carriers
(BioMed Central, 2009-09)
Background: The aim of this study is to examine the influence of the catechol-O-methyltranferase (COMT) gene (polymorphism Val158 Met) as a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment of amnesic ...
Choice experiment study on the willingness to pay to improve
(2009-06)
Modern forms of energy are an important vehicle towards poverty alleviation in rural areas of developing countries. Most developing countries’ households heavily rely on wood fuel which impact their health and social–economic ...
Flexible Strain-Tension Calculation Method for Gap-type Overhead Conductors
(IEEE, 2009-07)
Commercially available sag-tension programs give good results for most practical applications. However, they have some limitations concerning gap-type conductors. A separate aluminum and core creep calculation is needed ...
Personal identity. A theoretical and experimental analysis
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2009)
This paper aims to analize the role of personal identity in altruism. To this end, it starts by reviewing critically the growing literature on economics and identity. Considering the ambiguities that the concept of social ...
Early bilingualism as a source of morphonological rules for the adaptation of loanwords: Spanish loanwords in Basque
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009)
[EN] The present socio-cultural situation in the Basque speaking area of Spain offers a privileged field for the study of Spanish loanwords in Basque, due to the more expanded use of Basque, together with a better knowledge ...
Identification of Horse Chestnut Coat Color Genotype Using SNaPshot
(Biomed Central, 2009-12-16)
BACKGROUND: The Cantabrian Coast horse breeds of the Iberian Peninsula have mainly black or bay colored coats, but alleles responsible for a chestnut coat color run in these breeds and occasionally, chestnut horses are ...
Thin Magnetically Soft Wires for Magnetic Microsensors
(MDPI, 2009-11)
Recent advances in technology involving magnetic materials require development of novel advanced magnetic materials with improved magnetic and magneto-transport properties and with reduced dimensionality. Therefore magnetic ...
Influence of maternal weight on the new onset of stress urinary incontinence in pregnant women
(Springer, 2009-06-05)
Esta publicación detalla los trabajos realizados para investigar la incidencia y la gravedad de la incontinencia urinaria de esfuerzo (IUE) en mujeres primigrávidas a término y su asociación con diferentes factores de ...
Factors involved in stress urinary incontinence 1 year after first delivery
(Springer, 2009-11-26)
En esta publicación de gran impacto se investigan los factores de riesgo implicados en la incontinencia urinaria de esfuerzo (IUE) un año después del primer parto. La hipótesis del estudio fue que el embarazo por sí mismo ...
Is Basque an Agglutinative Language? A Proposal for the Diachrony of Nominal Morphology
(University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009)
The title of this paper is reminiscent of de Rijk’s (1969) “Is Basque an SOV language?”. This SOV pattern, together with agglutination and ergativity are maybe the most characteristic features of Basque, or at least the ...