Lower childhood cognitive ability may be a risk factor for greater cognitive decline in late life and progression to dementia. To assess variation in age-related cognitive change, it is helpful to have valid measures of cognitive ability from early life. Here, we examine the relation between childhood intelligence and cognitive change in later life in two samples, one born in 1921 and the other...

Earth's magnetic field, one of the most enigmatic physical phenomena of the planet, is constantly changing on various time scales, from decades to millennia and longer. The reconstruction of geomagnetic field behavior in periods predating direct observations with modern instrumentation is based on geological and archaeological materials and has the twin challenges of (i) the accuracy of ancient...

The ionospheric sounding data at two southern hemisphere stations, the Argentine Islands and Port Stanley, are analyzed using a method previously developed by the authors. Negative trends of the critical frequency foF2 are found for both stations. The magnitudes of the trends are close to those at the corresponding (close geomagnetic latitude) stations of the northern hemisphere, as considered ...

Some reports have suggested that epileptic seizures might occur more frequently at times of enhanced disturbance of the geomagnetic field. This study examines this putative association using 4101 seizures from 22 epileptic patients where the seizure times were known to within a day or better. A measure of the geomagnet-ic fluctuation level for the seizure day, and the days preceding the seizure...

The proposed system exploits Wi-Fi and GeoMagnetic fingerprintings aided by Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU). Basically, the system only consists of the off-the-self Wi-Fi Access Points (APs) and low-cost IMU, while no extra equipment is required. Since the accuracy of Wi-Fi fingerprinting heavily depends on the number of APs deployments, spatial differentiability, and the fluctuation of Receive...

The cosmogenic radionuclide 10Be is produced by cosmic-ray spallation in Earth’s atmosphere. Its production rate is regulated by the geomagnetic field intensity, so that its accumulation rate in aeolian sediments can, in principle, be used to derive high-resolution records of geomagnetic field changes. However, 10Be atmospheric fallout rate also varies locally depending on rainfall rate. The ac...

Digital health interventions (DHIs) are designed to help individuals manage their disease, such as asthma, diabetes, or major depression. While there is a broad body of literature on how to design evidence-based DHIs with respect to behavioral theories, behavior change techniques or various design features, targeting personality traits has been neglected so far in DHI designs, although there is...

ABSTRACT The Fermi-LAT DR1 and DR2 4FGL catalogues feature more than 5000 gamma-ray sources of which about one fourth are not associated with already known objects, approximately third blazars uncertain nature. We perform a three-category classification the independently, using an ensemble Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) to characterize them based on likelihood being Pulsar (PSR), BL Lac type...

Geomagnetic indices are basic data in Solar-Terrestrial physics, and for operational Space Weather activities. The International Service of Geomagnetic Indices (ISGI) is in charge of the derivation and dissemination of geomagnetic indices that are acknowledged by the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA, an IUGG association). Institutes which are not part of ISGI started...