Reducing salt intake is one of the most cost-effective interventions to improve population health due to the subsequent reductions in blood pressure. Countries are introducing programs to lower salt consumption. Such ...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the osseointegration of implants placed in areas grafted with different osteoconductive bone substitutes irradiated with infrared low-level laser therapy (LLLT). Fifty-six rats were ...

We assess the effects of the imperfect substitution between skilled and unskilled labor on economic growth in a model in which physical capital and skilled labor can be accumulated. It is shown that economies with higher ...

Two α-actin genes of the fish Leporinus macrocephalus, referring to white and red muscle tissues, were isolated. Actin isoforms, that mainly differed by a Ser/Ala155 substitution, can have a functional significance related ...

Fat intake has been associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, obesity, and diabetes. The aim of this study was to reformulate meat products using amorphous cellulose fiber (Z-trim(R)) as a fat substitute. ...

We study an intertemporal asset pricing model in which a representative consumer maximizes expected utility derived from both the ratio of his consumption to some reference level and this level itself. If the reference ...

The Brazilian economy suffered major changes in the second half of the 1990s, when price stabilization, trade liberalization with an overvalued exchange rate and privatizations altered productive processes in various sectors ...

Searching for a behavioural explanation of the empirical occurrence of Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) the literature has usually assumed additive preferences, i.e. that the marginal utility of consumption does not ...