This article addresses age-related attainment effects in second language acquisition, posing
the question of whether such effects are to be explained in terms of a Critical Period with a …

Despite its increased recognition as a major health threat, fatty liver disease associated with
metabolic dysfunction remains largely underdiagnosed and undertreated. An international …

… For a review, see eg C. Muñoz, Effective supergravity from heterotic M-theory and its
phenomenological implications, Proc. of the Corfu Conference on Elementary Particle Physics, 1998…

Background In patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome, massive alveolar
collapse and cyclic lung reopening and overdistention during mechanical ventilation may …

Background Despite the improvement in the prognosis of acute coronary syndrome (ACS),
substantial morbidity and mortality remain. We aimed to evaluate the effect of obstructive …

Six men with borderline hypertension took felodipine 5 mg with water, grapefruit juice, or
orange juice. The mean felodipine bioavailability with grapefruit juice was 284 (range 164-469)…

… was then centrifuged and kept at -30'C before cytokine content assessments. In vitro cultures.
In … Each tube was mixed vigorously for 10 min and centrifuged at 10,000 g for 10 min at 4C. …

We perform a systematic analysis of the soft supersymmetry-breaking terms arising in some
large classes of four-dimensional strings. The analysis does not assume any specific …

Background We have previously characterised functional brain abnormalities in young
adults at genetic risk for late-onset Alzheimer's disease. To gain further knowledge on the …

This book examines the various ways in which age affects the process and the product of
foreign language learning in a school setting. It presents studies that cover a wide range of …