Introduction: Higher personal mastery is associated with better physical functioning, wellbeing, and longevity among older populations. However, few studies have focused on whether personal mastery is protective against mortality among older adults living with diabetes over time.  Methods: A total of 1,779 participants were identified from an off-year survey of the Health and Retirement Study....

The term “mid-term break” is frequently attributed to the half at schools—a short vacation season for students. However, as one of Irish poet Seamus Heaney’s poem, it represents a new period, characteristic transition from situation another. Through this autobiographical poem narrating his brother Christopher's death, Heaney presents moment which may happen anyone, far away emotions possible, w...

In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, meiosis-specific DNA breaks that initiate recombination are observed at prominent but widely separated sites. We investigated the relationship between breakage and recombination at one of these sites, the mbs1 locus on chromosome I. Breaks corresponding to 10% of chromatids were mapped to four clusters spread over a 2.1-kb region. Gene conversion of markers within ...

It has been suggested that existing estimates of the long-run impact of a surprise move in income may have a substantial upward bias due to the presence of a trend break in 1970s (1350s) and 1980s (1360s) gross domestic product (contained oil) data of Iran. This article shows that the statistical evidence does not warrant abandoning the no-trend-break null hypothesis at the 5% significance leve...

7 The relative importance of permanent (trend) versus cyclical shocks 8 to GDP has been a central issue in macroeconomics since the work 9 of Nelson and Plosser (1982). Morley et al. (2003) find large trend 10 shocks. In contrast, Perron and Wada (2009) argue that allowing for 11 a onetime change in the mean growth rate at 1973:1 nearly eliminates 12 evidence for any trend variance. We re-estim...