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The Cumulative Index is designed to assist the reader in quickly finding current and comprehensive information related to medical cell biology, an integrative discipline which encompasses evolutionary biology, structural biology, cell chemistry and physiology, developmental biology, and cell ageing.

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This digital document is a journal article from Economics and Human Biology, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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In many Western countries, the relative weight of people - measured by the body mass index (BMI) - has increased substantially in recent years, leading to an increasing incidence of overweight and related health problems. As with many forms of risky behavior, it is plausible that overweight is related to the individual discount rate. Increases in credit card debts, the rise in gambling and the development of a more hedonic life style, suggest that the average discount rate has increased over time. An increase in time discounting may be a contributing factor in the rise in BMI. Applying a large set of indicators for the individual discount rate from a Dutch survey, this paper analyzes whether changes in time discounting can account for differences in body mass between individuals at a given point in time and whether changes in the average individual discount rate can explain the remarkable increase in BMI experienced in recent years in the Netherlands. We find some evidence for a link between time discounting and differences in BMI between people, but this relationship depends strongly on the choice of the proxy for the discount rate. Giving our hypothesis the best chance, we analyze the development of the time discounting proxies that are most strongly related to BMI. We find no evidence for a change of these proxies over time. Our main conclusion therefore is that overweight might be related to the way people discount future health benefits, but the increase in BMI is more likely explained by shifts in other parameters that determine the intertemporal decisions regarding the trade-off of current and future health and satisfaction. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Human Biology, published by Wayne State University Press on February 1, 2003. The length of the article is 3974 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: KEY WORDS: SERUM CHOLINESTERASE, BCHE LOCUS, BCHE ACTIVITY, HUMAN WEIGHT

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Title: The variable expression of the [C.sub.4/5] complex of human butyryicholinesterase and body mass index.(Abstract)
Author: Vania M. Alcantara
Publication: Human Biology (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 2003
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Volume: 75Issue: 1Page: 47(9)

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This digital document is an article from Human Biology, published by Wayne State University Press on August 1, 2001. The length of the article is 4258 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Association of the CHE2 Locus with Body Mass Index and Butyrylcholinesterase Activity.
Author: Vania M. Alcantara
Publication: Human Biology (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 2001
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Volume: 73Issue: 4Page: 587

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This digital document is a journal article from Economics and Human Biology, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The prevalence of obesity among both adults and children in the U.S. has risen to all time highs in the past two decades. We propose that an increase in the marginal rate of time preference has contributed to increasing obesity. More people are consuming more calories than they expend because they have become less willing to trade current pleasure for potential future health benefits. Accordingly, this paper explores the association between body mass index (BMI) and time preference. We use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) to test our hypothesis that time preference and BMI are positively related. We find some evidence that there is such a positive association among black and Hispanic men and black women. ... Read more

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Three numerical indexes, based on soil enzyme activities, which can discriminate between altered and unaltered soils, are presented and validated. Seven enzymes were measured at three different agricultural sites subjected to contamination by municipal and industrial wastes (site 1), intensive cultivation without either crop rotation or organic fertilization (site 2), and irrigation with brackish water (site 3). At each site neighbouring, unaltered soils were sampled and analysed as control soils. The three indexes were developed by means of canonical discriminant analysis (CDA) using data from two sites, while the third site was kept aside as an independent test. The first index is built up using all of the enzyme activities studied; the second, using the most discriminating enzyme activities only; and the third was developed for testing against data in published papers that deal with enzyme measurements in soils under different management regimes. The three indexes were able to discriminate between altered and control soils when applied to the data set from the third site, i.e., that not used for index development. When tested against published data, the third index was usually able to discriminate altered soils from controls by higher index scores. This index was successful in most cases: it was consistently able to classify soils according to their reported degree of alteration. Our results confirm that enzyme activities are suitable indicators of soil alteration and may be usefully integrated to develop soil alteration indexes suitable for monitoring soil status under different conditions. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more