261 research outputs found
Racial Differences in Neighborhood Perceptions and their Influences on Physical Activity among Urban Older Women
Background: Proper levels of physical activity (PA) are important to healthy aging. Little is known about racial differences in influences of neighborhood perceptions (NP) on PA and use of neighborhood resources among community-dwelling older women.
Materials and methods: In 2014 and 2015, 49 white and 44 black women of age 65 and older living in Washington, DC were queried about their PA, NP, use of neighborhood resources and sociodemographic characteristics. They wore an accelerometer and a Global Positioning System device concurrently for 7 consecutive days. Data were analyzed by race.
Results: Compared to Whites, Blacks had lower NP scores (71% positive vs. 77%, p = 0.01), lower mean daily step counts (mean (SD): 3256 (1918) vs. 5457 (2989), p \u3c 0.001), and lower frequencies of all exercise activities combined (19.7 (8.7) vs. 25.2 (11.8) per week, p = 0.01). For both Whites and Blacks, better NPs were associated with more frequent PA both at (p = 0.05) and away from home (p = 0.01). However, better NPs were associated with higher frequencies of exercise activities, moderate-to-high intensity activities, and utilitarian walking for Whites but not Blacks (p \u3c 0.05 for race-perception interaction terms).
Conclusions: In an urban setting, older Black women were more likely than older White women to have poor NPs, less PA, and weaker or no association of positive NPs with higher levels of certain PAs. Such substantial racial differences warrant further investigation and consideration in health promotion programs
Effects of antiplatelet therapy on stroke risk by brain imaging features of intracerebral haemorrhage and cerebral small vessel diseases: subgroup analyses of the RESTART randomised, open-label trial
Background
Findings from the RESTART trial suggest that starting antiplatelet therapy might reduce the risk of recurrent symptomatic intracerebral haemorrhage compared with avoiding antiplatelet therapy. Brain imaging features of intracerebral haemorrhage and cerebral small vessel diseases (such as cerebral microbleeds) are associated with greater risks of recurrent intracerebral haemorrhage. We did subgroup analyses of the RESTART trial to explore whether these brain imaging features modify the effects of antiplatelet therapy
Measurement of atmospheric neutrino mixing with improved IceCube DeepCore calibration and data processing
We describe a new data sample of IceCube DeepCore and report on the latest measurement of atmospheric neutrino oscillations obtained with data recorded between 2011–2019. The sample includes significant improvements in data calibration, detector simulation, and data processing, and the analysis benefits from a sophisticated treatment of systematic uncertainties, with significantly greater level of detail since our last study. By measuring the relative fluxes of neutrino flavors as a function of their reconstructed energies and arrival directions we constrain the atmospheric neutrino mixing parameters to be sin2θ23=0.51±0.05 and Δm232=2.41±0.07×10−3 eV2, assuming a normal mass ordering. The errors include both statistical and systematic uncertainties. The resulting 40% reduction in the error of both parameters with respect to our previous result makes this the most precise measurement of oscillation parameters using atmospheric neutrinos. Our results are also compatible and complementary to those obtained using neutrino beams from accelerators, which are obtained at lower neutrino energies and are subject to different sources of uncertainties
IceCat-1: The IceCube Event Catalog of Alert Tracks
We present a catalog of likely astrophysical neutrino track-like events from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. IceCube began reporting likely astrophysical neutrinos in 2016, and this system was updated in 2019. The catalog presented here includes events that were reported in real time since 2019, as well as events identified in archival data samples starting from 2011. We report 275 neutrino events from two selection channels as the first entries in the catalog, the IceCube Event Catalog of Alert Tracks, which will see ongoing extensions with additional alerts. The Gold and Bronze alert channels respectively provide neutrino candidates with a 50% and 30% probability of being astrophysical, on average assuming an astrophysical neutrino power-law energy spectral index of 2.19. For each neutrino alert, we provide the reconstructed energy, direction, false-alarm rate, probability of being astrophysical in origin, and likelihood contours describing the spatial uncertainty in the alert\u27s reconstructed location. We also investigate a directional correlation of these neutrino events with gamma-ray and X-ray catalogs, including 4FGL, 3HWC, TeVCat, and Swift-BAT
Search for Extended Sources of Neutrino Emission in the Galactic Plane with IceCube
The Galactic plane, harboring a diffuse neutrino flux, is a particularly
interesting target to study potential cosmic-ray acceleration sites. Recent
gamma-ray observations by HAWC and LHAASO have presented evidence for multiple
Galactic sources that exhibit a spatially extended morphology and have energy
spectra continuing beyond 100 TeV. A fraction of such emission could be
produced by interactions of accelerated hadronic cosmic rays, resulting in an
excess of high-energy neutrinos clustered near these regions. Using 10 years of
IceCube data comprising track-like events that originate from charged-current
muon neutrino interactions, we perform a dedicated search for extended neutrino
sources in the Galaxy. We find no evidence for time-integrated neutrino
emission from the potential extended sources studied in the Galactic plane. The
most significant location, at 2.6 post-trials, is a 1.7 sized
region coincident with the unidentified TeV gamma-ray source 3HWC J1951+266. We
provide strong constraints on hadronic emission from several regions in the
Galaxy.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures, 5 tables including an appendix. Accepted for
publication in Astrophysical Journa
Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Mixing with Improved IceCube DeepCore Calibration and Data Processing
We describe a new data sample of IceCube DeepCore and report on the latest
measurement of atmospheric neutrino oscillations obtained with data recorded
between 2011-2019. The sample includes significant improvements in data
calibration, detector simulation, and data processing, and the analysis
benefits from a detailed treatment of systematic uncertainties, with
significantly higher level of detail since our last study. By measuring the
relative fluxes of neutrino flavors as a function of their reconstructed
energies and arrival directions we constrain the atmospheric neutrino mixing
parameters to be and , assuming a normal mass ordering. The
resulting 40\% reduction in the error of both parameters with respect to our
previous result makes this the most precise measurement of oscillation
parameters using atmospheric neutrinos. Our results are also compatible and
complementary to those obtained using neutrino beams from accelerators, which
are obtained at lower neutrino energies and are subject to different sources of
uncertainties
Searches for Neutrinos from LHAASO ultra-high-energy {\gamma}-ray sources using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
Galactic PeVatrons are Galactic sources theorized to accelerate cosmic rays
up to PeV in energy. The accelerated cosmic rays are expected to interact
hadronically with nearby ambient gas or the interstellar medium, resulting in
{\gamma}-rays and neutrinos. Recently, the Large High Altitude Air Shower
Observatory (LHAASO) identified 12 {\gamma}-ray sources with emissions above
100 TeV, making them candidates for PeV cosmic-ray accelerators (PeVatrons).
While at these high energies the Klein-Nishina effect suppresses exponentially
leptonic emission from Galactic sources, evidence for neutrino emission would
unequivocally confirm hadronic acceleration. Here, we present the results of a
search for neutrinos from these {\gamma}-ray sources and stacking searches
testing for excess neutrino emission from all 12 sources as well as their
subcatalogs of supernova remnants and pulsar wind nebulae with 11 years of
track events from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. No significant emissions
were found. Based on the resulting limits, we place constraints on the fraction
of {\gamma}-ray flux originating from the hadronic processes in the Crab Nebula
and LHAASOJ2226+6057
A Search for Coincident Neutrino Emission from Fast Radio Bursts with Seven Years of IceCube Cascade Events
This paper presents the results of a search for neutrinos that are spatially
and temporally coincident with 22 unique, non-repeating Fast Radio Bursts
(FRBs) and one repeating FRB (FRB121102). FRBs are a rapidly growing class of
Galactic and extragalactic astrophysical objects that are considered a
potential source of high-energy neutrinos. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory's
previous FRB analyses have solely used track events. This search utilizes seven
years of IceCube's cascade events which are statistically independent of the
track events. This event selection allows probing of a longer range of extended
timescales due to the low background rate. No statistically significant
clustering of neutrinos was observed. Upper limits are set on the
time-integrated neutrino flux emitted by FRBs for a range of extended
time-windows
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