Using longitudinal data on 82 White, California women from the Berkeley Guidance Study, this study examines the relationship between wisdom (defined as a combination of cognitive, reflective, and affective personality qualities) and aging well and explores the early antecedents of wisdom. In structural equation models with latent variables, the social environment of early adulthood has a signif...

Moyamoya disease is a rare neurovascular disorder that involves constriction of certain arteries in the brain. In patients with moyamoya disease, it is very important to prevent cerebral ischemic attacks and intracerebral bleeding caused by fluctuating blood pressure and increased respiration. A 40-year-old woman with moyamoya disease was scheduled for extraction of her right upper and lower im...

© www.sarawickham.com This article first published 2005 Practising Midwife 8(6):33. Republished with permission for personal use only. Page numbers do not correspond to the original. Please do not reproduce/reprint without prior permission, thank you. The stork is well loved as an image associated with birth and midwives; a good number of midwifery practices in the English-speaking world featur...

This paper studies a market for new projects with endogenous information acquisition by experts (venture capitalists). It nds that the crowd-like behavior of experts is characteristic of investments in new elds where prospects of new projects are unknown but correlated and experts independently collect small bits of information: each expert acquires a signal about a project and invests when the...

COMPARED WITH MOST NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL phenomena, muscle contraction is a slow process. After an action potential has arrived at the muscle fiber membrane, it takes some 30 ms to fully start up the contractile machinery, and it takes even longer to stop it, i.e., to relax force. The contractile muscle properties differ between fast and slow muscle fibers, and they also change during contraction:...