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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 ...
Antibody Complementarity-Determining Regions (CDRs) Can Display Differential Antimicrobial, Antiviral and Antitumor Activities
(Public Library of Science, 2008-06-11)
Background: Complementarity-determining regions (CDRs) are immunoglobulin (Ig) hypervariable domains that determine specific antibody (Ab) binding. We have shown that synthetic CDR-related peptides and many decapeptides ...
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 ...
The influence of cultural identity on the WTP to protect natural resources: some empirical evidence
(2008)
This paper shows that cultural identity may have considerable influence on the WTP to protect natural resources. The Basque Country, the region with the highest ethnic homogeneity in Europe, serves as an example to illustrate ...
Family strategies and farming changes: the case of family farming in the Basque Country
(Ashgate (Aldershot), 2004)
Productive changes introduced by family dairy farms in the Basque Country seem to depend on a number of conditions, such as the farm's capacity for generating an adequate level of income, the possibility of finding an ...
Output dynamics in an endogenous growth model
(2003-07)
The aim of this paper is to analyze whether endogenous growth RBC models are consistent with two stylized facts about U.S. output dynamics. First, GNP growth is positively correlated in the short run and it has a weak ...
Spanish Customer Satisfaction Indices by Cumulative Panel Data
(2003-07)
In this paper, we present a new theoretical representation of the Consumer Satisfaction Index (CSI) based on Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). We use panel data collected by an automotive magazine to apply our approach ...
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 ...