While this unprecedented time of COVID-19 has resulted in financial loss for many companies, it’s also produced new leadership opportunities. Remote work, at-home schooling, and socially-distancing are a few examples the norm business possibilities. As crisis proverbially breeds innovation, businesses have already sprung up around world support growing demands. History shows growth entrepreneur...

Staying Active—Staying Safe is an initiative of the Northern Sydney Health Promotion unit and the Safe Communities project in Ryde. The aim of the initiative is to develop a resource that promotes exercises that can be completed at home by the more frail members of the older population. The resource consists of an audiotape and a booklet, which facilitate exercise at a pace and at a level of si...

A total of 486 Malaysian women electronics workers participated in a study of reproductive health knowledge and cancer screening. The practice of Breast Self Examination (BSE) was found to be related to educational attainment; while ever having had a Pap smear was found to be related to being older than 30 years old, being ever married, living with family or relatives, and not staying in hostel...

Collective behavior of protein molecules in solutions is critically important for understanding their biological functions, as well as for efficient control of various technological processes. A number of recent experimental studies have observed the formation of various clusters in protein solutions in different systems (1–5). While the existence of small molecular complexes in solutions is a ...

A n overwhelming majority of the global burden of morbidity and mortality caused by sexually transmitted infections (STI) and HIV is borne by the world’s poorest countries (fig 1). In a world increasingly ‘‘shrunk’’ by modern communications, what are the common issues preoccupying the international community of researchers in our field? In planning this themed issue, published on World AIDS Day...

Aging is fundamental to life and reflects functional declines in different tissues at the organismal level. As a systematic process, aging can be influenced by the interplay between genetic and environmental factors, and the nervous system plays a crucial role in this regulation. Environmental inputs can be sensed by the nervous system, which consequently triggers signaling outputs toward perip...

This paper is concernedwith the derivation of infinite schedules for timed automata that are in some sense optimal. To cover a wide class of optimality criteria we start out by introducing an extension of the (priced) timed automata model that includes both costs and rewards as separate modelling features. A precise definition is then given of what constitutes optimal infinite behaviours for th...

The AARP Public Policy Institute, formed in 1985, is part of the Policy and Strategy group at AARP. One of the missions of the Institute is to foster research and strategy on public policy issues of importance to mid-life and older Americans. This publication represents part of that effort. The views expressed herein are for information, debate, and discussion and do not necessarily represent o...

Raynaud phenomenon is an overactive vascular response to cold and emotional stress that results in cutaneous color changes and sensory symptoms in the digits. It can be idiopathic (primary) or secondary to another condition; the latter can be more severe and more apt to lead to ischemic complications such as digital ulceration and even loss of digits. If nonpharmacologic interventions prove ina...

Suicide remains one of the major causes of death among the fastest growing segment of the US population--the elderly aged 65 and over. Individuals 65 and over comprised 12.4% of the population in 1988, but accounted for 20.9% of all reported suicides (McIntosh, 1992). The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the meaning of suicide to the elderly and how suicide becomes an alternativ...