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Ageing, growth hormone and physical performance
Journal of Endocrinological Investigation, 2003Human ageing is associated to a declining activity of the GH/IGF-I axis and to several changes in body composition, function and metabolism which show strict similarities with those of younger adults with pathological GH deficiency. The age-related changes of the GH/IGF-I axis activity are mainly dependent on age-related variations in the hypothalamic ...
LANFRANCO, Fabio +5 more
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Poland’s uninterrupted growth performance: new growth accounting evidence
Post-Communist Economies, 2018ABSTRACTSince 1992 Poland has experienced an exceptionally long spell of output growth that was not interrupted even by the global economic crisis. Using a growth accounting exercise based on new estimates of flows of capital and labour services in the Polish economy during the period 1996–2013, we study the structure of this growth, highlighting the ...
Michał Gradzewicz +4 more
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Cardiac performance: Growth hormone enters the race
Nature Medicine, 1996It is possible that growth hormone can offer therapeutic benefits for treating some forms of heart failure.
SACCA', LUIGI, FAZIO S.
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Performances: Growth, Productivity, Competitiveness
2009Reading what prominent economists such as Alesina, Eichengreen, Porter and Phelps write on continental Western ‘Europe’ one gets the impression of a huge economic performance gap between this part of the globe and the United States: the latter doing particularly well, the former disastrously bad — with respect to France and Germany Porter (in Snowdon ...
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Export Growth and Domestic Performance
Review of International Economics, 2000A VAR approach is used to analyze the effects of export growth on the evolution of GDP, domestic employment, and investment in 39 economies. The results strongly support the export‐led growth hypothesis. Export growth affects GDP growth positively in 30 countries. In six countries, all of them inward‐looking, the effects are negative.
Alfredo M. Pereira, Zhenhui Xu
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Industrial Growth and Performance
1996China has been active in developing a modern industrial sector. After taking power in 1949, the Chinese communist government started a comprehensive industrial reconstruction programme. However, it is argued that, while China achieved respectable growth rates in the last decades, the economic gains came at a very high cost in terms of investment and ...
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Growth performance of Indian states
Empirical Economics, 2010This article is concerned with evaluating the growth performance of states in the Indian Federation. This was sought to be done by estimating growth equations for a group of 19 states in India as well as sub-groups of these states during the period from 1981–1982 to 2004–2005.
Ajit Karnik, Mala Lalvani
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Explaining Organic Growth Performance
2018Abstract Why are some firms consistently able to grow faster than their rivals in the same industry? We employ dynamic capabilities theory to show that organic growth leaders excel because they have innovation prowess. Their prowess is gained by combining discipline in their growth-seeking activities with an organizational ability to ...
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Breathing and growth: Performing with plants
Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices, 2018Abstract In this article breathing as a practice and vegetal growth as a form of movement are discussed by first returning to some repeated performances for camera made in Helsinki in 2004–05 and a text written in 2008 describing them in relation to Luce Irigaray’s ideas on breathing.
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Openness, domestic performance and growth
Economics Letters, 2010Abstract Semiparametric estimation shows that growth is contingent on openness, domestic performance and level of development. Economies with low degree of openness can adopt more open policies and stronger measures to achieve better domestic performance and hasten their growth.
Kui-Wai Li, Xianbo Zhou
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