Human life expectancy has increased >2-fold in the developed world during the past 2 centuries, resulting in a dramatic increase in elderly population. Advanced age is associated with physiological declines that ultimately lead to incapacitation of the individual and increased predisposition to diseases. Among these, cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. At first gla...

A fundamental question in aging research is whether humans and other species possess an immutable life-span limit. We examined the maximum age at death in Sweden, which rose from about 101 years during the 1860s to about 108 years during the 1990s. The pace of increase was 0.44 years per decade before 1969 but accelerated to 1. 11 years per decade after that date. More than 70 percent of the ri...

While the application of optical and photonic technologies in the communications, computing, medicine and industrial manufacturing has been growing rapidly, the miniaturization of these technologies has been slow due to the limitation on the diffraction. However, the developments of nanoscale components and guiding methods are continuing with a rapid pace. Since waveguiding is a fundamental iss...

2022 saw a slight increase in the willingness of unions to use or prepare industrial action as part collective bargaining. However, pay rises for employees covered by enterprise agreements generally lagged those received broader workforce. Employees on average significant cut their real wages. Towards end 2022, recently elected Albanese government made several changes bargaining provisions cont...

Positive emotional engagement develops in the context of face-to-face interactions during the first 6 months of life. Deficits in emotional engagement are characteristic of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and may characterize the younger siblings of children with ASD (high-risk siblings). High-risk siblings are likely to exhibit a broad range of positive emotional engagement that may or may not ...