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Jane Eyre and Education
Charlotte Brontë created the first female Bildungsroman in the English language when she wrote Jane Eyre in the mid-nineteenth century. Brontë’s novel explores the development of a young girl through her educational experiences. The main character, Jane Eyre, receives a formal education as a young orphan and eventually becomes both a teacher and a governess. Jane’s life never strays far from formal education, regardless of whether she is teaching or being taught. In each of Jane’s experiences, she learns invaluable lessons, both in and out of the classroom environment. Jane excels in the sphere of formal education, which allows her to become a graceful and accomplished woman. However Jane learns the most important lessons of her life during crises. The moral and spiritual lessons Jane acquires in times of difficulty are the most important educational experiences she receives, and they allow her to progress from a lonely orphan to a happily married woman
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Associations between physical activity and BMI, body fatness, and visceral adiposity in overweight or obese Latino and non-Latino adults.
Background/objectivesAlthough several studies have reported associations between moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA), body fatness and visceral adipose tissue (VAT), the extent to which associations differ among Latinos and non-Latinos remains unclear. This study evaluated the associations between body composition and MVPA in Latino and non-Latino adults.Subjects/methodsAn exploratory, cross-sectional analysis was conducted using baseline data collected from 298 overweight adults enrolled in a 12-month randomized controlled trial that tested the efficacy of text messaging to improve weight loss. MVPA, body fatness and VAT were assessed by waist-worn accelerometry, dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA), and DXA-derived software (GE CoreScan GE, Madison, WI, USA), respectively. Participants with <5 days of accelerometry data or missing DXA data were excluded; 236 participants had complete data. Multivariable linear regression assessed associations between body composition and MVPA per day, defined as time in MVPA, bouts of MVPA (time per bout ⩾10 min), non-bouts of MVPA (time per bout <10 min) and meeting the 150-min MVPA guideline. The modifying influence of ethnicity was modeled with a multiplicative interaction term.ResultsThe interaction between ethnicity and MVPA in predicting percent body fat was significant (P=0.01, 95% confidence interval (CI) (0.58, 4.43)) such that a given increase in MVPA was associated with a greater decline in total body fat in non-Latinos compared with Latinos (adjusted for age, sex and accelerometer wear time). There was no interaction between ethnicity and MVPA in predicting VAT (g) (P=0.78, 95% CI (-205.74, 273.17)) and body mass index (BMI) (P=0.18, 95% CI (-0.49, 2.26)).ConclusionsAn increase in MVPA was associated with a larger decrease in body fat, but neither BMI nor VAT, in non-Latinos compared with Latinos. This suggests that changes in VAT and BMI in response to MVPA may be less influenced by ethnicity than is total body fatness
No evidence for intense, cold accretion onto YSOs from measurements of Li in T-Tauri stars
We have used medium resolution spectra to search for evidence that
proto-stellar objects accrete at high rates during their early 'assembly
phase'. Models predict that depleted lithium and reduced luminosity in T-Tauri
stars are key signatures of 'cold' high-rate accretion occurring early in a
star's evolution.
We found no evidence in 168 stars in NGC 2264 and the Orion Nebula Cluster
for strong lithium depletion through analysis of veiling corrected 6708
angstrom lithium spectral line strengths. This suggests that 'cold' accretion
at high rates (M_dot > 5 x 10-4 M_sol yr-1) occurs in the assembly phase of
fewer than 0.5 per cent of 0.3 < M < 1.9 M_sol stars.
We also find that the dispersion in the strength of the 6708 angstrom lithium
line might imply an age spread that is similar in magnitude to the apparent age
spread implied by the luminosity dispersion seen in colour magnitude diagrams.
Evidence for weak lithium depletion (< 10 per cent in equivalent width) that is
correlated with luminosity is also apparent, but we are unable to determine
whether age spreads or accretion at rates less than 5 x 10-4 M_sol yr-1 are
responsible.Comment: 13 pages, 10 figures; Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of
the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013 June 0
Pre-main-sequence isochrones -- II. Revising star and planet formation timescales
We have derived ages for 13 young (<30 Myr) star-forming regions and find
they are up to a factor two older than the ages typically adopted in the
literature. This result has wide-ranging implications, including that
circumstellar discs survive longer (~10-12 Myr) and that the average Class I
lifetime is greater (~1 Myr) than currently believed.
For each star-forming region we derived two ages from colour-magnitude
diagrams. First we fitted models of the evolution between the zero-age
main-sequence and terminal-age main-sequence to derive a homogeneous set of
main-sequence ages, distances and reddenings with statistically meaningful
uncertainties. Our second age for each star-forming region was derived by
fitting pre-main-sequence stars to new semi-empirical model isochrones. For the
first time (for a set of clusters younger than 50 Myr) we find broad agreement
between these two ages, and since these are derived from two distinct mass
regimes that rely on different aspects of stellar physics, it gives us
confidence in the new age scale. This agreement is largely due to our adoption
of empirical colour-Teff relations and bolometric corrections for
pre-main-sequence stars cooler than 4000 K.
The revised ages for the star-forming regions in our sample are: ~2 Myr for
NGC 6611 (Eagle Nebula; M 16), IC 5146 (Cocoon Nebula), NGC 6530 (Lagoon
Nebula; M 8), and NGC 2244 (Rosette Nebula); ~6 Myr for {\sigma} Ori, Cep OB3b,
and IC 348; ~10 Myr for {\lambda} Ori (Collinder 69); ~11 Myr for NGC 2169; ~12
Myr for NGC 2362; ~13 Myr for NGC 7160; ~14 Myr for {\chi} Per (NGC 884); and
~20 Myr for NGC 1960 (M 36).Comment: 28 pages, 18 figures, 34 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS.
All photometric catalogues presented in this paper are available online at
the Cluster Collaboration homepage
http://www.astro.ex.ac.uk/people/timn/Catalogues
Quantitative Tools for Examining the Vocalizations of Juvenile Songbirds
The singing of juvenile songbirds is highly variable and not well stereotyped, a feature that makes it difficult to analyze with existing computational techniques. We present here a method suitable for analyzing such vocalizations, windowed spectral pattern recognition (WSPR). Rather than performing pairwise sample comparisons, WSPR measures the typicality of a sample against a large sample set. We also illustrate how WSPR can be used to perform a variety of tasks, such as sample classification, song ontogeny measurement, and song variability measurement. Finally, we present a novel measure, based on WSPR, for quantifying the apparent complexity of a bird's singing
A lithium depletion boundary age of 22 Myr for NGC 1960
We present a deep Cousins RI photometric survey of the open cluster NGC 1960,
complete to R_C \simeq 22, I_C \simeq 21, that is used to select a sample of
very low-mass cluster candidates. Gemini spectroscopy of a subset of these is
used to confirm membership and locate the age-dependent "lithium depletion
boundary" (LDB) --the luminosity at which lithium remains unburned in its
low-mass stars. The LDB implies a cluster age of 22 +/-4 Myr and is quite
insensitive to choice of evolutionary model. NGC 1960 is the youngest cluster
for which a LDB age has been estimated and possesses a well populated upper
main sequence and a rich low-mass pre-main sequence. The LDB age determined
here agrees well with precise age estimates made for the same cluster based on
isochrone fits to its high- and low-mass populations. The concordance between
these three age estimation techniques, that rely on different facets of stellar
astrophysics at very different masses, is an important step towards calibrating
the absolute ages of young open clusters and lends confidence to ages
determined using any one of them.Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRA
RR Lyrae Stars In The GCVS Observed By The Qatar Exoplanet Survey
We used the light curve archive of the Qatar Exoplanet Survey (QES) to
investigate the RR Lyrae variable stars listed in the General Catalogue of
Variable Stars (GCVS). Of 588 variables studied, we reclassify 14 as eclipsing
binaries, one as an RS Canum Venaticorum-type variable, one as an irregular
variable, four as classical Cepheids, and one as a type II Cepheid, while also
improving their periods. We also report new RR Lyrae sub-type classifications
for 65 variables and improve on the GCVS period estimates for 135 RR Lyrae
variables. There are seven double-mode RR Lyrae stars in the sample for which
we measured their fundamental and first overtone periods. Finally, we detect
the Blazhko effect in 38 of the RR Lyrae stars for the first time and we
successfully measured the Blazhko period for 26 of them.Comment: Accepted IBV
Cumulative live birth rates following blastocyst- versus cleavage-stage embryo transfer in the first complete cycle of IVF : a population-based retrospective cohort study
Acknowledgements: We thank the Human Fertilisation and Embryological Authority for permission to analyse their database, extracting the requested information and assisting with our queries in an efficient manner. We acknowledge the data management support of the Grampian Data Safe Haven (DaSH) and the associated financial support of NHS Research Scotland, through NHS Grampian investment in the Grampian DaSH. For more information, visit the DaSH website http://www.abdn.ac.uk/iahs/facilities/grampian-data-safe-haven.php. Funding: N.J.C. received a Wolfson Foundation Intercalated Degree Research Fellowship funded by the Wolfson Foundation, through the Royal College of Physicians. This work was supported by a Chief Scientist Office postdoctoral training fellowship in health services research and health of the public research (ref PDF/12/06). The views expressed here are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Chief Scientist Office. The funders had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis and interpretation of the data; preparation, review or approval of the manuscript; or decision to submit the manuscript for publication.Peer reviewedPostprin
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