We tested the hypothesis that reductions in vascular endothelial function (endothelium-dependent dilation, EDD) with age are related to increases in sympathetic activity. Among 314 healthy men and women, age was inversely related to brachial artery flow-mediated dilation (FMD) (r = -0.30, P < 0.001), a measure of EDD, and positively related to plasma norepinephrine concentrations (PNE), a marke...

Lirio S. Covey, PhD; Maria Botello-Harbaum, EdD; Alexander H. Glassman, MD; Jenny Masmela, BA; Catherine LoDuca, BS; Victoria Salzman, BA; Jane Fried, MD Background: Evidence on how to tailor nicotine dependence treatment to specific race/ethnic groups is limited. The present study investigated responses to established smoking cessation treatments among African American, Hispanic, and White adu...

Ashwini K. Rao, EdD, OTR, FAOTA, is Associate Professor of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine (in the Sergievsky Center) Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; [email protected] Rao, A. K. (2014). From the Desk of the Associate Editor—Occupational therapy in chronic progressive disorders: Enhancing function and modifying disease. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 6...

We consider the uniform parallel machine scheduling problem with the objective of minimizing maximum lateness. We show that an extension of the EDD rule to a uniform parallel machine setting yields a maximum lateness value which does not exceed the optimal value by more than pmax, where pmax is the maximum job processing time. c © 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

The reprocessed X-ray emission from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is an important diagnostic tool to study the dynamics and geometry of matter surrounding supermassive black holes (SMBHs). We present a broadband (optical-UV hard X-ray) spectral bare Seyfert 1 galaxy, ESO~511--G030, using multi-epoch Suzaku XMM-Newton data 2012 2007 respectively. spectra ESO~511--G030 exhibit UV bump, prominent s...

The research focuses on the multi-objective single-machine static scheduling problems of motorcycle crankcase cover. To solve these problems, dispatching rules are used. Various used in this study earliest due date (EDD), shortest processing time (SPT), critical ratio (CR), longest (LPT), weightage (WSPT), cost over (COVERT), and hodgson’s algorithm. objective paper is to sequence different cov...