Some findings from these data were presented as a poster at the 6th International Symposium on Diabetes and Pregnancy conference in Salzburg, Austria in March 2011. ABSTRACT Objectives: This paper reports secular trends in diabetes in pregnancy in Victoria, Australia and examines the effect of including or excluding women with pre-existing diabetes on gestational diabetes (GDM) prevalence estim...

Aims. We show a possible explanation for the recently reported secular increase of the Astronomical Unit (AU) by Krasinsky and Brumberg (2004). Methods. The mechanism proposed is analogous to the tidal acceleration in the Earth-Moon system, which is based on the conservation of the total angular momentum and we apply this scenario to the Sun-planets system. Results. Assuming the existence of so...

The motion of a particle about a non-rotating 2nd degree and order-gravity field is investigated. Averaging conditions are applied to the particle motion and a qualitative analysis which reveals the general character of motion in this system is given. It is shown that the orbit plane will either be stationary or precess about the body’s axis of minimum or maximum moment of inertia. It is also s...

New analyses of extended data records collected with the Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) technique performed with improved tidal models were not able to resolve the issue of the anomalous rate ė of the eccentricity e of the orbit of the Moon, which is still in place with a magnitude of ė = (5 ± 2) × 10 yr. Some possible cosmological explanations are offered in terms of the post-Newtonian effects of t...

In this paper we use the latest corrections of the secular perihelion rates of some planets of the Solar System, phenomenologically estimated with the EPM2004 ephemerides, to put severe constraints on the range parameter λ characterizing the Yukawa-like modifications of the Newtonian inverse-square law of gravitation. It turns out that the range cannot exceed about one tenth of an Astronomical ...

"Freethinkers," including both atheists and secular humanists, have always been a minority in American society--and not a very popular one. There are still laws in several states preventing non-theists from holding office. Just as evangelical Protestants up until one hundred years ago held a largely optimistic view of the future and the end times (known as postmillennialism), secular humanists ...

We study a series of N−body simulations representing elliptical galaxies with central masses. Starting from two different systems with smooth centres, which have initially a triaxial configuration and are in equilibrium, we insert to them central masses of various values. Immediately after such an insertion a system presents a high fraction of particles moving in chaotic orbits, a fact causing ...

BACKGROUND The stepped wedge cluster randomised trial (SW-CRT) is increasingly being used to evaluate policy or service delivery interventions. However, there is a dearth of trials literature addressing analytical approaches to the SW-CRT. Perhaps as a result, a significant number of published trials have major methodological shortcomings, including failure to adjust for secular trends at the a...

abstract background: secular trends in stature, weight and mid upper arm circumference (muac) of 2397 school children (1268 boys and 1129 girls) of the same age (6.5-11.5 years) and sex in representative samples from primary schools of shiraz (southern iran) at an interval of 15 years (1988 vs 2003) are reported. methods: cross-sectional weight, height and mid upper arm circumference (muac) cur...

In this paper we explicitly work out the secular perturbations induced on all the Keplerian orbital elements of a test body to order O(e2) in the eccentricity e by the weak-field long-range modifications of the usual Newton-Einstein gravity due to the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati (DGP) braneworld model. Both the Gauss and the Lagrange perturbative schemes are used. It turns out that the argument of ...