This study has identified all persons in the population of Rochester, Minnesota, who had a diagnosis of cerebral infarction during the period Jan. 1, 1970, through Dec. 31, 1974, and has confirmed the continuing decline in the incidence rate previously reported. The decline in the rate has been accelerating, with a relatively greater reduction occurring in women and in the more elderly age grou...

Legislation establishing the SSI program and subsequent amendments provide for State payments to supplement the basic Federal SSI payment. For former public assistance recipients, State payments are required, if necessary, to maintain prior income levels. For those newly eligible, additional State payments are optional. At the beginning of SSI, most States elected to provide supplementary payme...

Membership lists of the Royal College of Pathologists from 1974 to 1980 were used to establish a population of 2307 men and 413 women. During the period of study 126 of these pathologists died and death certificates were obtained for 121. The standardised mortality ratios (SMR) for all causes in men were 56 and in women 99. Deaths from accidents, poisoning, violence, and especially suicide, wer...

This article reviews the life and death of a scientific theory 1. The MACHO Ideology 1.1. The Dawn of Dark Matter The hypothesis of dark matter is often ascribed to Fritz Zwicky. Certainly, Zwicky 1 in his book " Morphological Astronomy " noted the discrepancy between masses of clusters inferred from the virial theorem and masses inferred from the visible constituent galaxies. He suggests five ...

A brief sketch is given of the development of the understanding of the respiratory mechanism in plants over the past 50 years. Against this background the following aspects of control are discussed: (a) nonreversibility of catabolic sequences; (b) compartmentation of reactions and reactants; (c) control by amount of enzyme; (d) control by NAD and NADP; (e) control by ADP supply; (f) pacemaker r...

Weyl’s theorem for an operator says that the complement in the spectrum of the Weyl spectrum coincides with the isolated points of the spectrum which are eigenvalues of finite multiplicity. H. Weyl ([22]) discovered that this property holds for hermitian operators and it has been extended from hermitian operators to hyponormal operators and to Toeplitz operators by L. Coburn ([5]), and to sever...

Since 1974, the Cyprus issue has occupied agenda of Turkey and international community. It been recently argued that criminal proceedings regarding can be brought before International Criminal Court (ICC) in relation to 1974 intervention. Regarding this issue, a complaint against Turkish government officials was filed at ICC on 14 July 2014. The bill requested initiation an investigation into c...

N. A. Krivova, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Max-Planck-Str. 2, 37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany ([email protected]) S. K. Solanki, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Max-Planck-Str. 2, 37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany T. Wenzler, Hochschule für Technik Zürich, CH-8004 Zürich, Switzerland B. Podlipnik, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Max-Planck-Str. ...