BACKGROUND The substrates for the increased incidence of atrial fibrillation (AF) in hearts with chronic left ventricular myocardial infarction (MI) remain poorly defined. We hypothesized that chronic MI is associated with atrial electrical and neural remodeling that enhances AF vulnerability. METHODS AND RESULTS We created MI in 8 dogs by permanent occlusion of the left anterior descending (...

The rapidly accelerating AIDS epidemic of the 90s and its current state of " hyperendemicity " in southern Africa have affected the levels, intensity and nature of vulnerability. Not only does HIV co‐exist with widespread food insecurity and economic inequality in time and space, it interacts with these conditions. HIV incidence rates are fuelled by food insecurity while subsequent AIDS‐related...

Developing countries in the global south that contribute less to climate change have suffered greater from its impacts, such as extreme climatic events and disasters compared developed countries, causing justice concerns globally. Ho Chi Minh City has experienced increased intensity frequency of change-induced urban floods, socio-economic damage disturbs their livelihoods while populations cont...

We derive inequalities between the matrix, chordal, hyperbolic, three-point, and unitary norms of a Möbius map. These extend inequalities proved earlier by Gehring and Martin.

MADAM is a CMB map-making code, designed to make temperature and polarization maps of time-ordered data of total power experiments like Planck. The algorithm is based on the destriping technique, but it also makes use of known noise properties in the form of a noise prior. The method in its early form was presented in an earlier work by Keihänen et al. (2005). In this paper we present an update...

Going beyond the medical model, The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics maps the neurobiological development of maltreated children. Assessment identifies developmental challenges and relationships which contribute to risk or resiliency. Formal therapy is combined with rich relationships with trustworthy peers, teachers, and caregivers. T he developing child is a miracle of complexity. Billio...

The Chinese event-driven observations and disaster assessment system is established so as to make information related to environmental risk and vulnerability easily accessible to decision-makers through this centralized platform. At 7:49 AM on April 14, 2010, an earthquake of 7.1 magnitude collapsed buildings in Yushu County, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province. For emergenc...

We study the impact of 1/f noise on the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) observations (Mandolesi et al. 1998) and describe a simple method for removing striping effects from the maps for a number of different scanning strategies. A configuration with an angle between telescope optical axis and spin-axis just less than 90 (namely ≃ 85) shows good destriping efficiency for all receivers in t...