The potency index of developing cancer of the liver, lung, bladder and kidney due to an intake of 10 micrograms kg day of arsenic was estimated as 4.3 x 10 -3), 1.2 x 10 -2), 1.2 x 10 -2), and 4.2 x 10 -3), respectively, for males; as well as 3.6 x 10 -3), 1.3 x 10 -2), 1.7 x 10 -2), and 4.8 x 10 -3), respectively, for females in the study area.
That beats the 15% advance clocked by Morgan Stanley International's EAFE stock index of developed economies and the 2% rise in the S&P 500 during those 12 months.
In that year, the S&P 500 index fell 37%, the MSCI EAFE index (the index of developed markets outside North America) fell by 43%, the MSCI Emerging Market index fell by 53%, the Dow Jones Commodities Index fell by 35%, and the Lehman High Yield Bond Index fell by 26%.
The performance fell short of the 19% return clocked by the Morgan Stanley Capital International EAFE index of developed economies, as well as Vanguards Total International Stock Index Fund (VGTSX), which also had a 19% price gain.
Jonathan Bell, co-manager of the Forward Emerging Markets fund, pointed out that commodity producers and related companies accounted for about a third of benchmark indexes of developing markets when the year began.
For example, the IEF index scores of developing countries such as China (52.78), India (54.11), Indonesia (52.95) and Philippines (56.24) are far below the overall IEF score average of 68.57; whereas the scores of developed countries such as the.
Women with polycystic ovary syndrome are, regardless of body mass index, at increased risk of developing gestational diabetes, 8 20 supported by our finding.
The results demonstrated that the index gage method is capable of developing a representative FDC using short-term records.
For example, in 2009 the Sustainable Apparel Coalition was formed with the goal of developing an index to assess the environmental impact of apparel products (Gunther, 2012).
In the conduct of developing the Index of Rural Access, several alternatives were tested [ 45], the results of which showed that our choices were robust and realistic for rural and remote regions in geographically large countries such as Australia and Canada.
It was designed with a purpose of developing drought indices, whereby precipitation, temperature and vegetation data are transformed into drought indices.
