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Building up the Body of Christ through intergenerational Bible study: a qualitative theological study
No full textAortic-Femoral Stiffness Gradient and Cardiovascular Risk in Older Adults
Get PDFBACKGROUND: The aortic-femoral arterial stiffness gradient, calculated as the ratio of lower-limb pulse-wave velocity (PWV) to central (aortic) PWV, is a promising tool for assessing cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, but whether it predicts incident CVD is unknown. METHODS: We examined the association of the aortic-femoral arterial stiffness gradient measures carotid-femoral stiffness gradient (femoral-Ankle PWV divided by carotid-femoral PWV) and the heart-femoral stiffness gradient (femoral-Ankle PWV divided by heart-femoral PWV), as well as PWV, with incident CVD (coronary disease, stroke, and heart failure) and all-cause mortality among 3109 participants of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study cohort (age, 75±5 years; carotid-femoral PWV, 11.5±3.0 m/s), free of CVD. Cox regression was used to estimate hazard ratios (HR) and 95% CIs. RESULTS: Over a median 7.4-year follow-up, there were 322 cases of incident CVD and 410 deaths. In fully adjusted models, only top quartiles of carotid-femoral stiffness gradient (quartile 4: HR, 1.43 [95% CI, 1.03-1.97]; and quartile 3: HR, 1.49 [95% CI, 1.08-2.05]) and heart-femoral stiffness gradient (quartile 4: HR, 1.77 [95% CI, 1.27-2.48]; and quartile 3: HR, 1.41 [95% CI, 1.00-2.00]) were significantly associated with a greater risk of incident CVD. Only high aortic stiffness in combination with low lower-limb stiffness was significantly associated with incident CVD (HR, 1.46 [95% CI, 1.06-2.02]) compared with the referent low aortic stiffness and high lower-limb stiffness. No PWVs were significantly associated with incident CVD. No exposures were associated with all-cause mortality. CONCLUSIONS: The aortic-femoral arterial stiffness gradient may enhance CVD risk assessment in older adults in whom the predictive capacity of traditional risk factors and PWV are attenuated
Birdeye
No full textOne chilly April morning a stranger shows up at a commune in the Catskill Mountains, upstate New York. Conor is greeted by Liv, sixty-seven years old, mother, cancer survivor and founder of the once pilgrimage-worthy Birdeye Colony, now well past its heyday. Liv lets him stay, unaware that her two oldest friends are about to make a devastating announcement. Conor seems to offer a lifeline, but who is he really? As truths masked by free spirit push their way into the open, Liv must reassess what she asks of those she loves most
Position uncertainty in a sequential public goods game: an experiment
Get PDFGallice and Monzón (Econ J 129(621):2137–2154, 2019) present present a natural environment that sustains full co-operation in one-shot social dilemmas among a finite number of self-interested agents. They demonstrate that in a sequential public goods game, where agents lack knowledge of their position in the sequence but can observe some predecessors’ actions, full contribution emerges in equilibrium due to agents’ incentive to induce potential successors to follow suit. In this study, we aim to test the theoretical predictions of this model through an economic experiment. We conducted three treatments, varying the amount of information about past actions that a subject can observe, as well as their positional awareness. Through rigorous structural econometric analysis, we found that approximately 25% of the subjects behaved in line with the theoretical predictions. However, we also observed the presence of alternative behavioural types among the remaining subjects. The majority were classified as conditional co-operators, showing a willingness to cooperate based on others’ actions. Some subjects exhibited altruistic tendencies, while only a small minority engaged in free-riding behaviour
Conspiracy – Soluzione Finale (2001) e la Conferenza di Wannsee tra verità storica e invenzione cinematografica
No full textLa Conferenza di Wannsee è uno snodo centrale nella storia della Shoah. Il 20 gennaio 1942, 15 uomini in rappresentanza di diverse agenzie del Terzo Reich si riunirono per circa 90 minuti per decidere come meglio coordinare lo sterminio degli ebrei d’Europa. Della riunione rimane solo un verbale illuminante ma al tempo stesso pieno di eufemismi e omissioni che restituiscono solo in parte il tono della discussione. Come rappresentare questo evento in forma cinematografica? Quali opportunità e sfide presenta l’idea di una rappresentazione in cui compaiono solo i carnefici? In che modo si possono usare i film su questo evento come strumento didattico? Questo saggio risponde a queste domande attraverso l’analisi del film per la televisione Conspiracy – Soluzione Finale, coprodotto da Hbo e Bbc e andato in onda nel 2001. Traendo spunto dal lavoro dello storico Robert Rosenstone, il saggio sostiene la tesi che il film offra un apprezzabile esempio di divulgazione storica anche quando la rappresentazione non aderisce del tutto al dato storico in senso stretto. In virtù di queste qualità, e sulla base di esperienza diretta dell’autore, il saggio sostiene inoltre che il film può essere usato con profitto a fini educativi
