BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Impaired cerebral autoregulation (CA) from high-altitude hypoxia may cause high-altitude cerebral edema in newcomers to a higher altitude. Furthermore, it is assumed that high-altitude natives have preserved CA. However, cerebral autoregulation has not been studied at altitude. METHODS We studied CA in 10 subjects at sea level and in 9 Sherpas and 10 newcomers at an alt...

Recent critiques of integration and superdiversity scholarship pointed out a need to pay more attention the positioning established residents, also referred as 'the mainstream', develop novel understandings urban residents’ reactions contestations presence newcomers. Drawing on ethnographic insights from 2015 in large German city, this article identifies spectrum installation reception centre f...

The extent to which the latitudinal gradient in species richness may be paralleled by a similar gradient of increasing functional or phylogenetic diversity is a matter of controversy. We evaluated whether taxonomic richness (TR) is informative in terms of ecological diversity (ED, an approximation to functional diversity) and phylogenetic diversity (AvPD) using data on 531 mammal species repres...

Al-Anon Family Groups (Al-Anon), a 12-step mutual-help program for people concerned about another's drinking, is the most widely used form of help for concerned others (COs) in the US. This study assessed the prevalence of dropout, and predictors of dropout, in the six months following newcomers' initial attendance at Al-Anon meetings. Al-Anon's World Service Office mailed a random sample of gr...

One of the problems newcomers to the annotation area face is which tool to choose. In order to compare available tools one must evaluate them according to an evaluation framework. In this paper we propose an evaluation framework, that introduces general tool-focused criteria – interface and general – and annotation-focused criteria metadata and procedure. We describe how the evaluation of a set...