Zoological Society London, Institute of Zoology, Regent’s Park, London, NW1 4RY, UK, Imperial College London, Department of Life Science, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7PY, UK, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, UK, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Kansas Biological Survey, Univers...

The orbit loss current is calculated for the ASDEX Upgrade geometry using the 5D (3D in configuration space and 2D in velocity space) Monte Carlo code ASCOT. The balance between the obtained current and the analytical estimate of the return current shows an L–H transition for the normalized collision frequency ν∗i ≈ 1 as expected from analytic theory. The transition in ASDEX Upgrade, however, o...

a Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK b UNEP-WCMC, 219 Huntington Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK c WWF US, 1250 24th Street, Washington, DC, USA d Eastern Arc Mountains Conservation Endowment Fund, P.O. Box 6053, Morogoro, Tanzania e Centre for Environment and Biodiversity Research, University College London, WC1E 6BT, UK f Center for Macroecology, Evolu...

A. M. C. Santos([email protected]) and D. L. J. Quicke, Dept of Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7PY, UK. DLJQ also at: Dept of Entomology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK. – P. A. V. Borges and AMCS, Dep. de Ci ê ncias Agr á rias – CITA-A (Azorean Biodiversity Group), Univ. dos A ç ores, Rua Capit ã o Jo...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to assess the cost-effectiveness of the lipid-lowering arm of the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial (ASCOT-LLA) where patients from seven countries with hypertension and no history of coronary heart disease (CHD) were randomized to receive 10 mg atorvastatin or placebo. DESIGN Economic analysis of a randomized controlled trial. METHODS Data on res...

The lipid-lowering properties of statins reduce rates of coronary artery disease (CAD) events and strokes. Findings of recently conducted, longitudinal intervention studies suggest that these benefits occur early and may be, in part, independent of the lipid-lowering properties of statin therapy. We analyzed data from the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial-Lipid-Lowering Arm (ASCOT-LLA) ...

Geographical variations in biological diversity are known to be driven by a number of biotic and abiotic factors. These include environmental gradients (climate and habitat) and the physical characteristics of each site or region (e.g. area, isolation, habitat diversity and topographic and landscape heterogeneity), in addition to regional processes and historical events, which determine the cha...

BACKGROUND Results of the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial-Blood Pressure Lowering Arm (ASCOT-BPLA) show significantly lower rates of coronary and stroke events in individuals allocated an amlodipine-based combination drug regimen than in those allocated an atenolol-based combination drug regimen (HR 0.86 and 0.77, respectively). Our aim was to assess to what extent these differences w...