Extended abstract for the XXVII International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) International Population Conference, submitted to session 03-02 " Life-course influences on health and mortality " Short abstract This study investigates how the psychological health of British men and women living alone in mid-life is related to partnership history and parenthood status. Although...

Functional neuroimaging in human subjects and studies of monkeys with lesions limited to the mid-dorsolateral (MDL) prefrontal cortex have shown that this specific region of the prefrontal cortex is involved in visual working memory, although its precise role remains a matter of debate. The present study compared the effect on visual working memory of lesions restricted to the mid-dorsolateral ...

This paper describes the hitherto unreported occurrence of mid-Holocene mangrove deposits in the Richmond River estuary, southeastern Australia, thereby providing evidence for changes in the distribution and composition of mangrove communities within a subtropical estuarine system during the Holocene. Stratigraphic, radiocarbon and palynological evidence indicates that widespread development of...

[1] We present new isotopic and micropaleontological data from a depth transect on Shatsky Rise that record the response of the tropical Pacific to global biotic and oceanographic shifts during the mid-Maastrichtian. Results reveal a coupling between the upper ocean, characterized by a weak thermocline and low to intermediate productivity, and intermediate waters. During the earliest Maastricht...

The current profile along the 126 ns, multi-bunch beam pulse in the Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator (NLCTA) is monitored with fast toroids (rise time ~1 ns). Inserted at several positions along the beam line, they allow us to track current transmission as a function of position along the bunch train. Various measurements, such as rise time, current, width, and slope, are made on the digit...

The mol-ecule of the title compound, C(8)H(12)O(4), lies on a twofold rotation axis that passes through the mid-points of two opposite C-C bonds of the ring. Carboxyl groups of adjacent mol-ecules are linked by pairs of hydrogen bonds around a centre of inversion; this inter-action gives rise to a chain that runs along [101].

*Thanks are due to Hans Rott and Maurice Pagnucco who have commented on the July draft of this essay and who subsequently sent me a draft of their ideas on contraction. I have sought here to explain how I came to change my mind and favor mild contractions (or severe withdrawals as Rott and Pagnucco call such contractions) and to indicate some of the relations between the approach of Rott and Pa...

We report the genome sequence of Thermococcus superprofundus strain CDGS(T), a new piezophilic and hyperthermophilic member of the order Thermococcales isolated from the world's deepest hydrothermal vents, at the Mid-Cayman Rise. The genome is consistent with a heterotrophic, anaerobic, and piezophilic lifestyle.

To test a hypothesized faster-than-global sea-level acceleration along the mid-Atlantic United States, I construct a Gaussian process model that decomposes tide gauge data into short-term variability and longer-term trends, and into globally-coherent, regionally-coherent and local components. While tide gauge records indicate a faster-than-global increase in the rate of mid-Atlantic U.S. sea-le...

Serial studies on coagulation factors were performed on 12 patients having termination of mid-trimester pregnancy by extra-amniotic prostaglandin F(2)alpha and 11 patients terminated by vacuum aspiration during the first trimester. A significant change in the activity of factors V, VII and X, VIII, and X, and a decrease of the prothrombin time and platelet count were found with prostaglandin te...