Changes in levels of the stress-sensitive hormone cortisol from morning to evening are referred to as diurnal cortisol slopes. Flatter diurnal cortisol slopes have been proposed as a mediator between chronic psychosocial stress and poor mental and physical health outcomes in past theory and research. Surprisingly, neither a systematic nor a meta-analytic review of associations between diurnal c...

Three experiments investigated whether 14- and 15-month-old infants use information for both friction and slant for prospective control of locomotion down slopes. In Experiment 1, high- and low-friction conditions were interleaved on a range of shallow and steep slopes. In Experiment 2, friction conditions were blocked. In Experiment 3, the low-friction surface was visually distinct from the su...

The phenomenon of toppling deformation and failure is common in slopes with anti-dip structures, especially soft metamorphic rock slopes. This paper aims to explore the instability mechanism layered landslides. Taking slope a mining area southern Qinling Mountains China as geological prototype, large-scale centrifuge model test numerical simulation based on combined finite discrete element meth...

IN TR O D U C TIO N The fact that the compressive strength of a soil is a function of the time required to reach the failure load has long been recognized. How­ ever, this area of soil mechanics has not been extensively explored and much work remains to be done, in order that the effects of this phenome­ non can be properly evaluated. The specific areas where this information would be of the gr...

Using high-resolution N-body simulations, we examine whether a major dry merger mitigate the different radial density distributions of red and blue globular clusters (GCs), since in nearby elliptical galaxies the red GCs have a steeper radial profile than the blue GCs. To this end, we study the relation between the density slope of the GCs in merger progenitors and that in a merger remnant, whe...

OBJECTIVES To improve the diagnostic criteria of the congenital long QT syndrome in borderline cases we examined rate adaptation of ventricular repolarization phases during exercise and subsequent recovery in children with the long QT syndrome and controls. METHODS Nineteen children with definite long QT syndrome and 19 healthy controls underwent exercise testing. QT intervals were measured t...

Pneurnonectomy has recently made a rernarkable development on account of the discovery of penicillin and streptomycin. When compared with it open drainage treatment has much fallen behind in its development, although it belongs to the same category as pneumonectomy, both being direct rnethods of treatment. This may due to various reasons, but the most basic one rnay be that the technique of cav...

Using the Hatcher–Oertel algorithm for finding boundary slopes of Montesinos knots, we prove the Slope Conjecture and the Strong Slope Conjecture for a family of 3-tangle pretzel knots. More precisely, we prove that the maximal degrees of the colored Jones polynomial of such a knot determine a boundary slope as predicted by the Slope Conjecture, and that the linear terms in the degrees correspo...