There is transition relief that allows an employer to choose a 12 month Measurement Period for future years, but a one-time six month Measurement Period from July 1, 2013 through December 31, 2013. This will be particularly handy for plans utilizing a calendar year.
There are two major chemical classes of hormones, peptides (proteins) and steroid hormones. Protein based hormones can be divided into three categories: proteins, peptides and amines. Their differences are essential with their size and what they are synthesized from. Peptides are compounds that consist of two or more amino acids; proteins are compounds that consist of 50 or more amino acids; amines are synthesized from the amino acid tyrosine.
1 Among these are the three major sex hormones groups: estrogens, androgens and progesterones. 2  Males and females make all three, just in different amounts. 3  Steroids pass into a cell's nucleus, bind to specific receptors and genes and trigger the cell to make proteins.at-soluble hormones, like the sex hormone steroids estrogens and androgens, are fat soluble and water repellent. That is, they like lipid or fatty structures such as those surrounding cells but are generally repelled by watery areas.