located at the base of the brain from where it releases hormones that regulate several functions of the body – one being growth. Pituitary tumours can cause tissues to grow abnormally resulting in certain changes in facial appearance‚ enlarged hands and feet‚ headache and sweating – eyesight too can be affected; this condition is called acromegaly. If someone has excess growth hormone‚ they become excessively tall and become an acromegalic giant. About one in 20 people will have an abnormality in
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specific sector in the sphere of insurance. A complex business‚ it allows insurers to cover their risks by ceding them to a reinsurer. In this context‚ the reinsurer is obliged to indemnify the "ceding company" in the event of a claim. Reinsurance industries are maintaining upward surge all round growth‚ both in the domestic and global fronts in the last few years The untapped‚ both in life and non -life insurance‚ particularly in growing economies like India and chin a‚ is the center of attraction
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twentieth century‚ the population growth of Mexico has been characterized as rapid growth. It is the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world. The estimated population of the country is 114‚975‚406. A majority of which are aged 15-64 years old. People residing in Mexico are an amalgamation of Spanish descendants‚ immigrants who are predominantly Europeans‚ those who settled in the country since the 16th century. Mixed indigenous groups are also in the country‚ an example is the mestizos. There
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with optimal growth temperatures between 60 and 108 degrees Celsius‚ isolated from a number of marine and terrestrial geothermally-heated habitats including shallow terrestrial hot springs‚ hydrothermal vent systems‚ sediment from volcanic islands‚ and deep sea hydrothermal vents. -Encyclopedia of Environmental Microbiology‚ 2002. vol.3. Temperature and bacteria The lowest temperature at which a particular species will grow is the minimum growth temperature‚ while the maximum growth temperature
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Africa to Record Largest Population Growth Over Next 40 Years * Print * Comment * Share: A woman poses for a photograph with her children in front of house in the slum of Makoko in Lagos‚ Nigeria‚ January 22‚ 2013 * ------------------------------------------------- * ------------------------------------------------- * ------------------------------------------------- * ------------------------------------------------- Related Articles * World Bank
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIA BY Sheriffdeen A. TELLA‚ Ph.D Department of Economics‚ Faculty of Management Science‚ Olabisi Onabanjo University‚ PMB 2002‚ Ago-Iwoye Ogun State‚ Nigeria satellang@yahoo.com and Lloyd Ahamefule AMAGHIONYEODIWE‚ Ph.D* Department of Economics Faculty of the Social sciences University of the West Indies‚ Mona Kingston 7‚ Jamaica. lamaghionyeodiwe@yahoo.co.uk and Bolaji Adesola ADESOYE Department of Economics‚ Faculty of
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FIIS AND ITS GROWTH IN INDIA ABSTRACT The developing countries especially the emerging market economies opened up by unleashing capital controls to attract foreign capital from more than a decade in addition to domestic capital to stimulate economic growth and output. Since then‚ portfolio flows from foreign institutional investors (FII) have emerged as a major source of capital for emerging market economies (EMEs) such as Brazil‚ Russia‚ India‚ China and South Africa. This had increased the
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The service sector‚ also called the tertiary sector‚ is one of the three parts of the economy in the Three-sector hypothesis. This hypothesis breaks the economy into three main areas so it can be better understood. The other two are the primary sector‚ which covers areas such as farming‚ mining and fishing; and the secondary sector which covers manufacturing and making things. The service sector provides a service‚ not an actual product that could be held in your hand. Activities in the service
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Growth Growth and development are the most fundamental characteristics of all living organisms. The physiological definition of growth is “An irreversible change in the organism‚ organ or cell is called growth”‚ which includes increase in mass weight or volume of living organism‚ it leads to development in plants. REGION OF GROWTH: Growth region is located at extreme apices of root‚ stem‚ leaf where we make out meristematic tissue. In addition to above‚ the region where intercalary and lateral
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