OBJECTIVE To identify potentially confounding variables for the interpretation of plasma N-terminal pro brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP). DESIGN Randomly selected subjects filled in a heart failure questionnaire and underwent pulse and blood pressure measurements, ECG, echocardiography, and blood sampling. SETTING Subjects were recruited from four Copenhagen general practices located i...

In the 2009 Copenhagen Accord, China agreed to slash its carbon intensity (carbon dioxide emissions/GDP) by 40% to 45% from the 2005 level by 2020. We assess whether China can achieve the target under the business-as-usual scenario by forecasting its emissions from energy consumption. Our preferred model shows that China’s carbon intensity is projected to decline by only 33%. The results imply ...

According to what has become a standard history of quantum mechanics, von Neumann in 1932 succeeded in convincing the physics community that he had proved that hidden variables were impossible as a matter of principle. Subsequently, leading proponents of the Copenhagen interpretation emphatically confirmed that von Neumann’s proof showed the completeness of quantum mechanics. Then, the story co...

Chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, and cancer are problems that we associate with rich countries, while infectious diseases such as malaria and HIV/AIDS are more commonly seen as the problems afflicting the poor. But 80 percent of global deaths from chronic diseases occur in low-income and middle-income countries. Cardiovascular disease in lowand middle-income countries killed more...

A framework for a physical interpretation of quantum cosmology appropriate to a nonperturbative hamiltonian formulation is proposed. It is based on the use of matter fields to define a physical reference frame. In the case of the loop representation it is convenient to use a spatial reference frame that picks out the faces of a fixed simplicial complex and a clock built with a free scalar field...

Address: 1Department of Paediatrics, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Denmark, 2Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Koge Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 3Department of Paediatrics, Rigshospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 4Parker Institut, Frederiksberg Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark and 5Department of Paediatrics, University of...

Villum Kann Rasmussen Research Centre Pro-Active Plants, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, DK-1871 Frederiksberg C, Copenhagen, Denmark, Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Aarhus, Thorvaldsensvej 40, DK-1871 Frederiksberg C, Copenhagen, Denmark, Quality & Technology, Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen, Roligheds...

This lecture covers two approaches to the measurement problem. Recall that in Bell’s taxonomy of ‘six possible worlds of quantum mechanics’, there were three pairs of views: each with a romantic element, and an unromantic element. Our first approach is the romantic element in the pair one might call Endorsing the orthodox formalism. The corresponding unromantic view is instrumentalism: what Bel...

A solution to the preferred basis problem of Everett’s relative state formalism is presented. The solution does not rely on detailed properties of the observer, apart from the necessity of having at least one distinct state for each possible measurement result, and an initial state. It is argued that our concept that one entity is distinct from another arises from an approximation that the Hilb...

Postnatal amniotic fluid intake reduces gut inflammatory responses and 1 necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm neonates 2 3 Jayda Siggers, Mette V. Østergaard, Richard H. Siggers, Kerstin Skovgaard, Lars Mølbak, 4 Thomas Thymann, Mette Schmidt, Hanne K. Møller, Stig Purup, Lisbeth N. Fink, Hanne 5 Frøkiær, Mette Boye, Per T. Sangild, Stine B. Bering 6 7 1 Department of Human Nutrition, Faculty S...