OBJECTIVE To compare cardiovascular risk among women with high normal blood pressure (130-9/85-9 mm Hg) against those with normal blood pressure (120-9/75-84 mm Hg) and those with baseline hypertension. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Women's health study, United States. PARTICIPANTS 39 322 initially healthy women classified into four categories according to self reported baselin...

Meaghan Duetsch The United States has experienced many changes over the past two decades in the way health care is managed, such as the shift from primarily fee-for-service type health insurance coverage to coverage through health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and preferred provider organizations (PPOs). Health care expenditures, as a proportion of all expenditures, have increased over the l...

The National Archives of Singapore (NAS) is a Singapore government organization tasked with the preservation of national records. The NAS offers a reference service where NAS staff respond to public enquiries on archival resource matters. Over time, it was noticed that certain enquiries were being asked more frequently than others. Hence, physical folders were maintained to hold information on ...

The frames of reference used by 4-, 6-, and 8-year-old children were studied in a spatial direction-giving task. Children were asked to specify verbally the location of a toy hidden under one of several identical cups. The child and listener sat facing each other at opposite ends of a room that had distinctive or nondistinctive landmarks proximal and distal to the hiding location. Location need...

Chronic indwelling urinary catheters (CIDCs) are known as a risk factor for bladder cancer in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI). This study examined the potential risk of bladder cancer from CIDCs in patients without SCI.The National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan was used to identify SCI patients (N = 1816). This group was compared against a control CIDC cohort without SCI (...

In this paper we propose to use the technology of multiple correlation filters to address the issues involved in still-reference-to-video-sequence face verification. In particular, we assume that the gallery consists of one or a few digital images of a person's face as reference and the probe set consists of video sequences as test data. The test data consists of a sequence of face images of a ...

The system of radiation protection has its origins in the early efforts to protect people from x rays and radium. It was at the Second International Congress of Radiology in Stockholm in 1928 where the first radiation protection recommendations were adopted. The system of protection steadily evolved as new sources of exposure arose and understanding of radiation-related health risks improved. S...

Schilbach et al. contrast second-person and third-person approaches to social neuroscience. We discuss relations between second-person and first-person approaches, arguing that they cannot be studied in isolation. Contingency is central for converging first- and second-person approaches. Studies of embodiment show how contingencies scaffold first-person perspective and how the transition from a...

As people change from face-to-face communication to mediated communication the form of representation changes. Distortion of the message in face-to-face communication is something we have learned to live with and control to some extent by the way we represent ourselves, and our message, to the outside world. When the message is being mediated and represented to the recipient by a communications...

An increased risk of suicide ideation and death has been reported in patients with fibromyalgia. This study aimed to evaluate the risk of a suicide event in patients with primary fibromyalgia and in fibromyalgia patients with comorbidities. We used the Longitudinal Health Insurance Database, a subset of the national insurance claim dataset, which enrolled 1 million Taiwanese people from 2000 to...