Abstract Background Unemployment has been linked with a myriad of adverse health outcomes; however, its population-level impact on cardiovascular mortality (CVM), particularly amongst various demographic subgroups, remains understudied. Purpose To determine the county unemployment levels CVM rates, in overall and between different subgroups. Methods We utilized CDC WONDER database tool to retri...

Digital twins of forests (trees) are computational virtual recreations in which the entity distributions and physical processes real-world duplicated. It is expected that conventional forest science management can be undertaken a digital twin if recreation (tree) has accurate comprehensive enough information. However, due to various differences between current tree model real tree, these envisi...

A gambling or "game" phenomenon can be observed in the complex relationship between sources and receptors of ecological compensation among multiple stakeholders. This paper investigates the problem of gambling to determine payment amounts, and details a method to estimate the ecological compensation amount related to water resources in the Wuxijiang River reservoir area in China. Public statist...

Intravenous B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) enhances the bradycardia of reflexes from the heart, including the von Bezold-Jarisch reflex, but its site of action is unknown. The peptide is unlikely to penetrate the blood-brain barrier but could act on afferent or efferent reflex pathways. To investigate the latter, two types of experiment were performed on urethane-anesthetized (1.4 g/kg iv) ra...

This supplementary appendix contains proofs of the results in the main text as well as auxiliary results. Section B contains auxiliary results used in the rest of this appendix. These results are restatements or simple extensions of well known results on uniform convergence, and do not constitute part of the main novel contribution of the paper. Section C of this appendix derives critical value...

Three years of hourly COD and NH4+-N measurements for two full-scale integrated constructed wetlands (CWs) treating secondary effluents from sewage treatment plants (STPs) were used to quantify the proper sampling frequency (SF). The modified coefficient variation (CVm) average rate (VRa) calculated monitor dynamics annual performance, respectively. It was found that (1) under CVm 5%, VRa VRm i...

The interphase excess free energy a due to an interphase boundary (IPB) is calculated in the Ising model using the Scalar Product (SP) method. Different from the "sum" method calculation of a based on the boundary profile, the SP approach skips the profile and directly evaluates a from the equilibrium properties of the homogeneous phases meeting at the boundary. Using a series of Cluster Variat...