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Milk, coronary heart disease and mortality
<b>STUDY OBJECTIVE</b> To study the association between reported milk consumption and cardiovascular and all cause mortality.
<b>DESIGN</b> A prospective study of 5765 men aged 35-64 at the time of examination.
<b>SETTING</b> Workplaces in the west of Scotland between 1970 and 1973.
<b>PARTICIPANTS</b> Men who completed a health and lifestyle questionnaire, which asked about daily milk consumption, and who attended for a medical examination.
<b>MAIN RESULTS</b> 150 (2.6%) men reported drinking more than one and a third pints a day, Some 2977 (51.6%) reported drinking between a third and one and a third pints a day and 2638 (45.8%) reported drinking less than a third of a pint a day. There were a total of 2350 deaths over the 25 year follow up period, of which 892 deaths were attributed to coronary heart disease. The relative risk, adjusted for socioeconomic position, health behaviours and health status for deaths from all causes for men who drank one third to one and a third pints a day versus those who drank less than a third of a pint was 0.90 (95% CI 0.83, 0.97). The adjusted relative risk for deaths attributed to coronary heart disease for men who drank one third to one and a third pints a day versus those who drank less than one third of a pint was 0.92 (95% CI 0.81, 1.06).
<b>CONCLUSIONS</b> No evidence was found that men who consumed milk each day, at a time when most milk consumed was full fat milk, were at increased risk of death from all causes or death from coronary heart disease
Brane tilings and supersymmetric gauge theories
In the last few years, brane tilings have proven to be an efficient and
convenient way of studying supersymmetric gauge theories living on D3-branes or
M2-branes. In these pages we present a quick and simple introduction to the
subject, hoping this could tickle the reader's curiosity to learn more on this
extremely fascinating subject.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figures, based on a presentation given by G.T. at the 2010
Cargese Summer School (June 21-July 3), to appear in the proceeding
Who's afraid of the big bad wolf: a prospective paradigm to test Rachman's indirect pathways in children
Rachman's theory [The conditioning theory of fear insition: a critical examination. Behav. Res. Ther. 15 (1977) 375ā387] of fear acquisition suggests that fears and phobias can be acquired through three pathways: direct conditioning, vicarious learning and information/instruction. Although retrospective studies have provided some evidence for these pathways in the development of phobias during childhood [see King, Gullone, & Ollendick, Etiology of childhood phobias: current status of Rachman's three pathway's theory. Behav. Res. Ther. 36 (1998) 297ā309 for a review], these studies have relied on long-term past memories of adult phobics or their parents. The current study was aimed towards developing a paradigm in which the plausibility of Rachman's indirect pathways could be investigated prospectively. In Experiment 1, children aged between 7 and 9 were presented with two types of information about novel stimuli (two monsters): video information and verbal information in the form of a story. Fear-related beliefs about the monsters changed significantly as a result of verbal information but not video information. Having established an operational paradigm, Experiment 2 looked at whether the source of verbal information had an effect on changes in fear-beliefs. Using the same paradigm, information about the monsters was provided by either a teacher, an adult stranger or a peer, or no information was given. Again, verbal information significantly changed fear-beliefs, but only when the information came from an adult. The role of information in the acquisition of fear and maintenance of avoidant behaviour is discussed with reference to modern conditioning theories of fear acquisition
On the analytical approach to the N-fold B\"acklund transformation of Davey-Stewartson equation
N-fold B\"acklund transformation for the Davey-Stewartson equation is
constructed by using the analytic structure of the Lax eigenfunction in the
complex eigenvalue plane. Explicit formulae can be obtained for a specified
value of N. Lastly it is shown how generalized soliton solutions are generated
from the trivial ones
The Coronal Analysis of SHocks and Waves (CASHeW) Framework
Coronal Bright Fronts (CBF) are large-scale wavelike disturbances in the
solar corona, related to solar eruptions. They are observed in extreme
ultraviolet (EUV) light as transient bright fronts of finite width, propagating
away from the eruption source. Recent studies of individual solar eruptive
events have used EUV observations of CBFs and metric radio type II burst
observations to show the intimate connection between low coronal waves and
coronal mass ejection (CME)-driven shocks. EUV imaging with the Atmospheric
Imaging Assembly(AIA) instrument on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has
proven particularly useful for detecting CBFs, which, combined with radio and
in situ observations, holds great promise for early CME-driven shock
characterization capability. This characterization can further be automated,
and related to models of particle acceleration to produce estimates of particle
fluxes in the corona and in the near Earth environment early in events. We
present a framework for the Coronal Analysis of SHocks and Waves (CASHeW). It
combines analysis of NASA Heliophysics System Observatory data products and
relevant data-driven models, into an automated system for the characterization
of off-limb coronal waves and shocks and the evaluation of their capability to
accelerate solar energetic particles (SEPs). The system utilizes EUV
observations and models written in the Interactive Data Language (IDL). In
addition, it leverages analysis tools from the SolarSoft package of libraries,
as well as third party libraries. We have tested the CASHeW framework on a
representative list of coronal bright front events. Here we present its
features, as well as initial results. With this framework, we hope to
contribute to the overall understanding of coronal shock waves, their
importance for energetic particle acceleration, as well as to the better
ability to forecast SEP events fluxes.Comment: Accepted for publication in the Journal of Space Weather and Space
Climate (SWSC
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