Why I Teach

Thoughts about teaching by Linfield College facult

Why I Teach

Thoughts about teaching by Linfield College facult

UNH Faculty Receive $1.3 Million In Prestigious NSF CAREER Grants

Korkolis, Ruml, Wosnik awarded prestigious grant for junior facult

LLV - Lunar Logistic Vehicle Final report

Evaluation of systems design training institute for engineering facult

The Promise of Faculty Inquiry for Teaching and Learning Basic Skills

Shares insights from the Strengthening Pre-collegiate Education in Community Colleges project on how teachers' systematic and collaborative analyses of new approaches and practices foster innovation and improvement in basic English and math instruction

Recent results of quantum ergodicity on graphs and further investigation

We outline some recent proofs of quantum ergodicity on large graphs and give new applications in the context of irregular graphs. We also discuss some remaining questions.Comment: To appear in "Annales de la facult\'e des Sciences de Toulouse

Philosophy at Cambridge, Newsletter of the Faculty of Philosophy

Philosophy newsletter. Articles by: Jane Heal: From the Chair Jonathan Lear: Radical Hope. Ben Colburn: Philosophy at Cambridge through the Years Lewis Evans; Adrian Boutel: From Law to Philosophy. Jonathan Brown: Part I, Part II, Part Yonder. Barbara Kay: The Moral Sciences ClubPhilosophy at Cambridge. Newsletter of the Philosophy Facult

Adiponectin, in contrast to leptin, is not associated with body mass index, waist circumference and HOMA-IR in subjects of a west-African population

Factors associated with plasma levels of adiponectin and leptin were studied in adult subjects without diabetes from Cotonou in Benin (West‐Africa). Seventy (70) men and 45 women were included in the study. Anthropometric variables were measured and a venous blood sample was drawn from each subject, after an overnight fasting period, for measurement of plasma glucose, insulin, leptin, and adiponectin levels. HOMA‐IR was determined to assess insulin resistance. Adiponectin and leptin levels were higher in women than in men (with adiponectin 18.48 ± 12.77 vs.7.8 ± 10.39 μg/mL, P < 0.0001, and leptin 30.77 ± 19.16 vs. 8.66 ± 8.24 ng/mL, P < 0.0001). Fasting insulin level and HOMA‐IR were also higher in the females. Hyperleptinemia was observed in 66,96% of subjects and hypoadiponectinemia was present in 44.35% of subjects. In both men and women, leptin correlated with age (r = 0.2; P = 0.02), BMI (r = 0.572; P < 0.0001), waist circumference (r = 0.534; P < 0.0001), fasting insulin (r = 0.461; P < 0.001), and HOMA‐IR (r = 0.430; P < 0.0001). No significant correlation was observed for adiponectin levels with these variables. Only in women, adiponectin was inversely correlated with fasting glucose (r = −0.423; P < 0.004). These data confirm previous descriptions of leptin but suggest that variations in factors determining serum adiponectin levels observed between ethnicities could also been seen between populations from the same ethnicity

Lengthening deformations of singular hyperbolic tori

Let $S$ be a torus with a hyperbolic metric admitting one puncture or cone singularity. We describe which infinitesimal deformations of $S$ lengthen (or shrink) all closed geodesics. We also study how the answer degenerates when $S$ becomes Euclidean, i.e. very small.Comment: 17 pages, 5 figures. To appear in: Annales de la facult\'e des sciences de Toulouse (volume dedicated to Michel Boileau's sixtieth birthday