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PDF Ebook Exercise & Sport Nutrition: A Balanced Perspective for Exercise Physiologists

... physiologists who conduct research on exercise and nutrition and or recommend that their clients/athletes consume special diets ... perspective; 2.) it is unethical and/or unprofessional for exercise physiologists to conduct performance enhancement research ...

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Ebook Carbohydrates and fat for training and recovery

... sources of exercise fuel; whereas fat sources (plasma free fatty acids derived from adipose tissue and intramuscular triglycerides) ... of brief high-intensity work. As a result, sports nutrition guidelines have focused on strategies to enhance body carbohydrate ...

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Ebook Information Contagion and Inter-Bank Correlation in a Theory of Systemic Risk

Submitted by puput on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 03:36

The past two decades have been punctuated by a high incidence of financial crises in the world. In the period 1980–1996 itself, 133 out of 181 IMF member countries experienced significant banking problems, as documented by Lindgren, Garcia, and Saal (1996). Developed countries and emerging countries have been equally affected. These crises have been empirically shown to be associated with high real costs for the affected economies. Hoggarth, Reis, and Saporta (2001) document that the cumulative output losses have amounted to a whopping 15–20% of annual GDP in the banking crises of the past 25 years. The restructuring and output losses have been as high as 50–60% of annual GDP in some emerging-market banking crises.

Understanding bank failure risk, and especially systemic failure risk the risk that most or all banks in an economy will collapse together is considered the key to predicting and managing such financial crises. Indeed, the issue of systemic risk amongst banks has long been attributed as the raison d’etre for many aspects of bank regulation. Its causes, manifestations, and effects are however not yet fully understood. In this paper, we lay down a foundation that we hope will lead to an enhanced understanding of different forms of systemic risk.

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Ebook Proteomic Analysis Of The Effects Of Diet In Zebrafish Liver

Submitted by puput on Fri, 12/04/2009 - 02:59

Calorie availability pivotally affects metabolic rate, reproductive fitness, growth, and survival in fish (Tocher, 2003). Calories in the form of fatty acids are the most significant source of ATP for many species of fish. Accordingly, fish manipulate storage and mobilization of fatty acids as part of their natural history resulting in a variety of outcomes. Striped bass increase intracellular lipid droplets 13-fold in red muscle during cold acclimation (Egginton and Sidell, 1989) and salmon increase serum cholesterol without eating during spawning migrations (Farrell and Munt, 1983).

The expression of fat metabolism genes is regulated by free long chain fatty acids and their metabolic by-products, however the definitive mechanism by which they do so remains elusive (Duplus et al., 2000). Characterizing the molecular signaling behind these changes in fat metabolism has traditionally been approached by looking at candidate proteins, (e.g. fatty acid binding proteins (FABPs) (Londraville and Sidell, 1995)) organelle function (peroxisomes (Crockett and Sidell, 1993)), and enzymatic indicators of fatty acid flux (Sidell et al., 1995). However, these are specific indicators, not an integrated global mechanism. One family of transcription factors, the peroxisome proliferated-activated receptors (PPARs), has the potential to attach a mechanism to the metabolic changes detailed above.

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Ebook Sticky Prices, Sticky Wages, And Also Unemployment

Submitted by wulan on Wed, 05/05/2010 - 06:39

The introduction of nominal rigidities in microfounded models (so called New Keynesian models) brought enormous consequences for Macroeconomics, in general, and Monetary Economics, in particular. At first, nominal frictions lead to short run real effects from demand side shocks breaking down the classical dichotomy between nominal and real variables that was present in Neoclassical models (Fischer, 1977; Taylor, 1979; and Blanchard and Fischer, 1989, chapter 8).

A second wave of papers (Hairault and Portier, 1993; Yun, 1996) showed how incorporating price stickiness is key to replicate, in a realistic fashion, the business cycle responses of inflation and output to technology and monetary shocks. Moreover, New Keynesian models predict that the level of employment (total hours) falls after an expansionary technology shock as empirically supported by Galí (1999) and Francis and Ramey (2005). Last but not least, New Keynesian models have become the working instrument for much of the latest monetary policy analysis due to both its theoretical appeal, as they overcome the Lucas (1976) critique, and its empirical plausibility. Two widely used books on Monetary Economics, recently published, that rely the analysis upon the New Keynesian framework are Walsh (2003), and Woodford (2003).

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