of body weight by inhibiting food intake and stimulating energy expenditure. Defects in leptin production cause severe hereditary obesity in rodents and humans. In addition to its effects on body weight, leptin has a variety of other functions, including the regulation of hematopoiesis, angiogenesis, wound healing, and the immune and inflammatory response. Leptin acts through the leptin receptor
of the crucial necessities, market is around 175 billion . The main firms in the Korean sanitary market are Yuhan-Kimberly, Korean P&G, Daehan Pulp, and CJ.
Tempo is a brand of tampons. A tampon is a plug of cotton or other absorbent material inserted into a body cavity or wound to absorb bodily fluid. The most common type in daily use (and the topic of the remainder of this article) is a usu
of the retrovirus family) that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive. Infection with HIV occurs by the transfer of blood, semen, vaginal fluid, pre-ejaculate, or breast milk. Within these bodily fluids, HIV is present as both free virus particl
- virtual disaster *his almost death
[verb]
- It virtually evaporated. He almost died.
[adjective]
- It was virtually impossible. He was almost dead.
[adverb]
- He spoke virtually inaudibly.
He was wounded almost fatally.
[Determinative]
- I have almost no money left.
[PP]
- It lasted almost until midnight.
[NP]
- I bought almost the last copy.
of our most important responsibilities.
Exercise 2
One sentence in each of the following numbers (1-5) is the broader, less specific and more general statement, and the other is an example. Write a "G" next to the general statement and an "E" next to the example.
(1) ___ (a) The bone structure of men is larger, on average, than that of women.
___ (b) Men's and women's bodies develop in