BACKGROUND Increased body mass index (BMI) and abdominal adiposity increase the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in persons free of these diseases, but their independent prognostic impact in persons with CVD has not been well defined. METHODS BMI, waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), and waist circumference (WC) were measured in 6620 men and 2182 women with a mean age of 66 and stable CVD without co...

Within a confining quark matter model which considers phenomenologically the confinement and asymptotic freedom as well chiral symmetry restoration deconfinement at high baryon density, we find that if up-down ($ud$QM) is more stable than nuclear strange (SQM), maximum mass of static stars with $ud$QM $2.87M_{\odot}$ under agreement both constraints on star tidal deformability from gravitationa...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Estimation of the stability of fusiform aneurysms of the basilar artery requires precise monitoring of the luminal and outer wall volumes. In this report we describe the use of MR imaging and 3D postprocessing methods to study the evolution of those aneurysms. MATERIALS AND METHODS Nine patients with fusiform basilar artery aneurysms underwent MR imaging studies coverin...

This work extends our previous study of isospin symmetric quarkyonic matter to neutron which might be relevant the inner cores stars. The vector-isovector $\rho$ mesons are introduced model mainly account for density interactions, just like $\omega$ meson baryon interactions. modified Lagrangian still preserves approximate chiral symmetry could significantly broken at lower density. And new fre...

In an early work, we applied a QCD-based equation of state to the study stellar structure self-bound strange stars, obtaining sequences with maximum masses larger than two solar and radii ranging from 8 12 Km. this update previous calculations compare them most recent data, including very determination mass radius massive pulsar PSR J0740+6620 performed by NICER XMM-Newton Collaborations. Our i...

By inverting the observational data of several neutron star observables in three dimensional parameter space constant speed sound (CSS) model while fixing all hadronic Equation State parameters at their currently known most probable values, we constrain CSS and correlations. Using two lower radius limits $R_{2.01}=11.41$ km $R_{2.01}=12.2$ for PSR J0740+6620 obtained from independent analyses u...

We construct new effective interactions using the relativistic mean-field models with isoscalar- and isovector-meson mixing, σ2δ2 ωμωμρνρν. Taking into account particle flow data in heavy-ion collisions, observed mass of PSR J0740+6620, tidal deformability a neutron star from binary merger event, GW170817, we study ground-state properties finite, closed-shell nuclei, try to explain recent resul...

Although many of the everyday distractions that we encounter are auditory, most research on distractor processing to date has focused on the visual domain. A common measure of everyday distractibility is the Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (CFQ; Broadbent, Cooper, FitzGerald, & Parkes British Journal of Clinical Psychology 21: 1-16, 1982), which has previously been successfully linked with per...

We study the strategic behavior of two countries facing transboundary pollution under a differential game setting. In our model, the reduction of both pollution and CO2 concentration occur through the creation of pollution sinks, rather than through the adoption of cleaner technologies. To our knowledge, this is the first formal attempt to model carbon capture and storage. Furthermore, we provi...