365 days: Nature's 10

How many days are enough? A study of 365 days of pedometer monitoring.

This study was designed to determine the number of days of pedometer monitoring necessary to achieve reliable and valid estimates of a 1-year average of step counts in adults based on either consecutive days (CD) or random days (RD) of data collection. Twenty-three participants (16 women; M age = 38 years, SD = 9.9) wore a Yamax SW 200 pedometer and recorded their step counts for 365 consecutiv...

Infected hepatic hematoma 10 days after ERCP.

An 84-year-old man with severe (GOLDIV) chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and a history of pulmonary thromboembolism andwarfarin medicationwas admitted for elective endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) for choledocholithiasis. He had stopped warfarin medication a week before (international normalized ratio [INR] 1.14), and was kept on low-molecular-weight heparin. ER...

The Natures of Nonconfigurationality

Ubv Ri Photometry of Sn 1993j in M81: Days 3 to 365

We present optical photometry of SN 1993J in M81 over the period 1993 March 30 to 1994 March 28, exactly one year after its discovery, recalibrating early data we had published in a previous paper and describing new data which cover the latter six months. At late times, the supernova's luminosity declined exponentially in BV RI, at a rate much faster than that of most Type II SNe. The rate of d...

Population, development, and human natures

At the dawn of this new millennium, the human enterprise is quickly becoming a globally unified one. Yet numerous obstacles and pitfalls remain in the path of a full and fair unification. A substantial fraction of the world’s population is well-off and increasingly connected through trade and communications systems. But an even larger fraction is struggling to make ends meet and is only sketchi...