CONTEXT There have been many reports confirming the association between lower childhood socioeconomic circumstance and cardiovascular disease but evidence for links with cerebrovascular disease is contradictory. Hyperintensities on brain magnetic resonance imaging are associated with vascular risk factors, cognitive decline, dementia and death. However, the relationship between childhood socioe...

one of the most controversial problems in western epistemology is the division of propositions into analytic and synthetic. this division drew the attention of many proponents and opponents and faced many objections. one the most important objections which if valid enough, can destroy the basis of this division and resulting epistemological consequences is the of relativity of both analytic as ...

Top quarks are produced in pairs via the strong interaction. At the Tevatron, operating at 1.96 TeV in Run II, the expected production rate of tt pairs is 6.8±0.6 pb @ mt=175 GeV/c . Roughly 85% arise from qq interactions, while the remaining 15% are created by gluon fusion. As of February 4, 2007, 2.05 fb of data have been recorded by the D0 experiment. To study the properties of the top quark...

Robert Boyle's experimental programme had as its end-product the generation of indisputable matters of fact. In this paper 1analyze the resources used to produce these matters of fact, paying particular attention to linguistic practices. Experimental reports rich in circumstantial detail were designed to enable readers of the text to create a mental image of an experimental scene they did not d...