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Two Unpublished Whitman Family Letters
Transcribes two previously unpublished Whitman-family letters, one by George Whitman to his sister Mary in 1862 recounting his battle experiences, and one by Jeff Whitman to his sister Hannah in 1864 about family matters
Performing Valor, Redeeming Virtue
John Milton dedicated his life to forming a path to virtue for men to follow that included education, contemplation, divine illumination, and right reason. Milton promises that his path will lead others to a life of reason and a paradise within. Eighteenth-century women responded to Miltonâs formula for virtue and appropriated his path for their own enlightenment. This project examines the way in which three eighteenth-century women, Mary Astell, Lady Mary Chudleigh, and Elizabeth Carter, incorporated Miltonâs path to virtue into their writing and into their lives to redefine virtue for women
Role-playing as a technique for developing self-awareness and social growth in the elementary school
Call number: LD2668 .R4 1967 D5
Saturn Forms by Core Accretion in 3.4 Myr
We present two new in situ core accretion simulations of Saturn with planet
formation timescales of 3.37 Myr (model S0) and 3.48 Myr (model S1), consistent
with observed protostellar disk lifetimes. In model S0, we assume rapid grain
settling reduces opacity due to grains from full interstellar values (Podolak
2003). In model S1, we do not invoke grain settling, instead assigning full
interstellar opacities to grains in the envelope. Surprisingly, the two models
produce nearly identical formation timescales and core/atmosphere mass ratios.
We therefore observe a new manifestation of core accretion theory: at large
heliocentric distances, the solid core growth rate (limited by Keplerian
orbital velocity) controls the planet formation timescale. We argue that this
paradigm should apply to Uranus and Neptune as well.Comment: 4 pages, including 1 figure, submitted to ApJ Letter
Deformation of continental crust along a transform boundary, Coast Mountains, British Columbia
New structural, paleomagnetic, and apatite (U-Th)/He results from the continental margin inboard of the Queen Charlotte fault (~54°N) delineate patterns of brittle faulting linked to transform development since ~50 Ma. In the core of the orogen, ~250 km from the transform, north striking, dip-slip brittle faults and vertical axis rotation of large crustal domains occurred after ~50 Ma and before intrusion of mafic dikes at 20 Ma. By 20 Ma, dextral faulting was active in the core of the orogen, but extension had migrated toward the transform, continuing there until <9 Ma. Local tilting in the core of the orogen is associated with glacially driven, post-4 Ma exhumation. Integration with previous results shows that post-50 Ma dextral and normal faulting affected a region ~250 km inboard of the transform and ~300 km along strike. Initially widespread, the zone of active extension narrowed and migrated toward the transform ~25 Ma after initiation of the transform, while dextral faulting continued throughout the region. Differential amounts of post-50 Ma extension created oroclines at the southern and northern boundaries of the deformed region. This region approximately corresponds to continental crust that was highly extended just prior to transform initiation. Variation in Neogene crustal tilts weakens interpretations relying on uniform tilting to explain anomalous paleomagnetic inclinations of mid-Cretaceous plutons. Similarities to the Gulf of California suggest that development of a transform in continental crust is aided by previous crustal extension and that initially widespread extension narrows and moves toward the transform as the margin develops
Slow gait speed and cardiac rehabilitation participation in older adults after acute myocardial infarction
Background
Lack of participation in cardiac rehabilitation (
CR
) and slow gait speed have both been associated with poor longâterm outcomes in older adults after acute myocardial infarction (
AMI
). Whether the effect of
CR
participation on outcomes after
AMI
differs by gait speed is unknown.
Methods and Results
We examined the association between gait speed and
CR
participation at 1Â month after discharge after
AMI
, and death and disability at 1Â year, in 329 patients aged â„65Â years enrolled in the
TRIUMPH
(Translational Research Investigating Underlying Disparities in Recovery From Acute Myocardial Infarction: Patients' Health Status) registry. Among these patients, 177 (53.7%) had slow gait speed (<0.8Â m/s) and 109 (33.1%) participated in
CR
. Patients with slow gait speed were less likely to participate in
CR
compared with patients with normal gait speed (27.1% versus 40.1%;
P
=0.012). In unadjusted analysis,
CR
participants with normal gait speed had the lowest rate of death or disability at 1Â year (9.3%), compared with those with slow gait speed and no
CR
participation (43.2%). After adjustment for cardiovascular risk factors and cognitive impairment, both slow gait speed (odds ratio, 2.30; 95% confidence interval, 1.30â4.06) and nonâ
CR
participation (odds ratio, 2.34; 95 confidence interval, 1.22â4.48) were independently associated with death or disability at 1Â year. The effect of
CR
on the primary outcome did not differ by gait speed (
P
=0.70).
Conclusions
CR
participation is associated with reduced risk for death or disability after
AMI
. The beneficial effect of
CR
participation does not differ by gait speed, suggesting that slow gait speed alone should not preclude referral to
CR
for older adults after
AMI
.
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