This interpretive study explored older people's understanding of loneliness and what they considered appropriate and effective ways of dealing with it. Thirty elderly people were interviewed in-depth; 12 described themselves as "lonely" and 18 as "not lonely." We found a striking difference in the way "lonely" and "not lonely" people talked about loneliness. The "not lonely" participants descri...

We introduce a sharpened version of the well-known Lonely Runner Conjecture Wills and Cusick. Given real number \(x\), let \(\Vert x \Vert\) denote distance from \(x\) to nearest integer. For each set positive integer speeds \(v_1, \dots, v_n\), we define associated maximum loneliness be $$\operatorname{ML}(v_1, v_n)=\max_{t \in \mathbb{R}}\min_{1 \leq i n} \Vert tv_i \Vert.$$The asserts that \...

A lthough the dinosaurs are gone, extant vertebrates provide clues to the development of photorecep-tion among the clades that probably preceded and then radiated into the dinosaurs. The ancient order Rhyncho-cephalia, which includes Sphenodon as its only family, with two surviving species, had its heyday between 200 million and 100 million years ago. While this order is reptilian, these creatu...

high-cholesterol diet can be the fast track to a heart attack. But scientists are only now discovering that one of cholesterol’s most damaging effects might stem from its ability to make blood cells self-destruct. The findings appear in a pair of recent studies directed by Ira Tabas (Columbia University, New York, NY). Cholesterol is abundant in atherosclerotic lesions, which become most danger...

The Solitary Reaper is one of William Wordsworth’s representatives which portrays an Irish girl working and singing solitarily in a field. This poem fully reflects the loneliness of the poet. He uses varying wording and phrasing, the lonely image of the reaper, the expanding of the lonely music, and the way of expressing his loneliness to set the lonely atmosphere. Therefore, it is necessary to...

Studies of the psychological well-being of elderly living alone have yielded inconsistent results. Few investigators have distinguished living alone from loneliness in the same study. Thus, the present study examined the independent and interactive effects of living alone and loneliness on depressive symptoms (GDS score) and quality of life (SF-12 MCS score) in a prospective 2-year follow-up co...

Background. The harmful associates of suffering from loneliness are still in dispute. Objective. To examine the association of feelings of loneliness with all-cause mortality in a general aged population. Methods. A postal questionnaire was sent to randomly selected community-dwelling of elderly people (>74 years) from the Finnish National Population Register. The questionnaire included demogra...