Global composites (e.g., IQs) calculated in intelligence tests are interpreted as indexes of the general factor of intelligence, or psychometric g. It is therefore important to understand the proportion of variance in those global composites that is explained by g. In this study, we calculated this value, referred to as hierarchical omega, using large-scale, nationally representative norming sa...

OBJECTIVES The goal of this study was to assess long-term global left ventricular (LV) function in patients paced from the right ventricular (RV) apex at a young age. BACKGROUND Ventricular contraction asynchrony with short-term RV apical pacing has been associated with reduced LV pump function and relaxation. The long-term effect of RV apical pacing on global LV function in the young remains...

Chung CS, Shmuylovich L, Kovács SJ. What global diastolic function is, what it is not, and how to measure it. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 309: H1392–H1406, 2015. First published August 28, 2015; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00436.2015.—Despite Leonardo da Vinci’s observation (circa 1511) that “the atria or filling chambers contract together while the pumping chambers or ventricles are relaxing and ...

The global city thesis and the migration thesis concern two important dimensions of the impacts of contemporary globalization on cities. The two theses are intrinsically linked. The central question is how we should approach migration in the new context of the global city, and how we should articulate their interrelationships. To address this question, we construct an integrative analytical fra...

To efficiently fuse multi-spectral (MS) and panchromatic (PAN) images acquired from THEOS satellite, the authors offer proper parameters to improve IHS fusion technique based on its spectral responsivity. This concept was originally contributed by Tu et al., applied to IKONOS image fusion. Red and NIR bands of THEOS imagery with lower response were adjusted to be higher and close to the respons...

Many previous studies of international markets have attempted to measure integration by correlations among broad stock market indexes. Yet such correlations have been found to poorly mimic other measures of integration. We show that a simple correlation between two stock markets is likely to be a poor indicator of integration for a very simple reason: when there are multiple factors driving ret...