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'La Casa de Dora' 10-City Mall Exhibition Includes Interactive Content
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NEW YORK, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Nickelodeon, the number-one entertainment brand for kids, extends its commitment to diversity with the traveling exhibit "La Casa de Dora," a 10-city mall tour allowing kids to experience first-hand the interactive, bilingual home of Dora the Explorer, the number-one preschool show on commercial television. "La Casa de Dora" kicks off Saturday, Feb. 19 in Denver and will travel to 10 markets around the country, including Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Phoenix, Albuquerque and San Francisco. "La Casa de Dora," a free, interactive exhibit, will stop at a mall in each city on the weekends from February to May (full schedule and dates below). "Preschoolers have embraced Dora's adventurous, helpful spirit and pride in her Latin culture, and we are thrilled to have created a world where they can experience it firsthand," said Cyma Zarghami, President, Nickelodeon Television. "We designed Dora's casa with full attention to detail. Families can spend hours being explorers themselves," she said. Created to embrace Latin culture and allow preschoolers to experience Dora's home, "La Casa de Dora" is a 2,000 square-foot, Latin American-inspired exhibit with a terracotta tiled roof house with several rooms and a courtyard. Each section of "La Casa de Dora" contains play and problem-solving activities with bilingual elements. Dora fans can enjoy lenticular family portraits and photo albums with bilingual elements. In the backyard, preschoolers can enjoy Latin music, computer games from NickJr.com, an interactive dance mat and the Dora costumed character. Dora's popularity with parents and preschoolers and the property's commitment to the Latin community has attracted the attention of many blue- chip marketers that have chosen to partner with Nickelodeon on "La Casa de Dora," including The Dodge Grand Caravan, General Mills' Kix and Procter & Gamble's Pampers and Bounty. Each "La Casa de Dora" location will have The Dodge Grand Caravan on-site. Additionally, NickJr.com will launch a special "La Casa de Dora" website for preschoolers and parents later this month, including games with bilingual elements that reflect the cultural and educational activities of the exhibit. The site extends the experience of the exhibit for both those who toured the house and for those who could not see it in person. Nick Jr. Family Magazine will produce a custom publication titled La Casita, which will be distributed to families at each "La Casa de Dora" location. Dora the Explorer, which airs at 9 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. weekdays on Nick Jr. and weekends on CBS (check local listings), is a play-along, animated adventure series starring Dora, a seven-year-old Latina heroine whose adventures take place in an imaginative, tropical world filled with jungles, beaches and rainforests. Dora explores her world just as preschoolers do every day, and the show is designed to actively engage its audience in an interactive quest using a variety of learning techniques. Dora the Explorer was created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh and Eric Weiner. Gifford serves as executive producer, with Walsh as co-executive producer and Weiner as producer and head writer. Dora the Explorer is watched by 22.6 million people each month and is the number-one preschool show for Hispanic kids. Tour Schedule (all malls are General Growth Properties, NYSE: GGP) * February 19 & 20 Denver, CO Southwest Plaza (Littleton) * February 26 & 27 San Francisco, CA Southland Mall (Hayward) * March 5 & 6 Los Angeles, CA Galleria at Tyler (Riverside) * March 12 & 13 Phoenix, AZ Arrowhead Towne Center (Glendale) * March 19 & 20 Houston, TX Willowbrook Mall (Houston) * April 2 & 3 Dallas, TX The Parks at Arlington (Arlington) * April 9 & 10 New York, NY Willowbrook Mall (Wayne, NJ) * April 16 & 17 Albuquerque, NM Coronado Center (Albuquerque) * April 23 & 24 Miami, FL Pembroke Lakes Mall (Pembroke Pines) * April 30 & May 1 Chicago, IL Spring Hill Mall (West Dundee) Nickelodeon, now in its 26th year, is the number-one entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in everything it does. The company includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, online, recreation, books, magazines and feature films. Nickelodeon's U.S. television network is seen in more than 88 million households and has been the number- one-rated basic cable network for more than nine consecutive years. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom International Inc.
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Hi Haroon, the change in the status worker display that you noticed is not directly related to your problem, only so far, as we changed a couple of things around the mount tables. The good: more information in the status worker. The ugly: stricter handling of JkMount/JkMountFile etc. with respect to virtual hosts. It should have behaved for a long time in the way, that mounts are not inherited between virtual hosts and also not from the global server to any virtual host. The debug log statement you cite indicates, that there is no mount known in a virtal host you are using. So first question: Do you have an VirualHost in your apache httpd configuration? If so: first find out, which VirtualHost handles your requests. This might be trivial, in some cases it is not trivial. If you are not sure, you can configure a different CustomLog in the global server and for wach VirtualHost and then check, in which CustomLog your request got logged. Once you know, which VirtualHost handles your request, you can either: - define all relevant JkMount/JkUnMount/JkMountfile in the VirtualHost or - define them globally and copy all of them into the VirtualHost by setting "JkMountCopy On" inside the virtual host. In case you have lots of VirtualHost and you want them all to share several JkMounts, put them into the global server and add "JkMountCopy all" to the global server. I hope that is understandable? Regards, Rainer Haroon Rafique schrieb: > On Dec 24 at 4:36pm, RJ=>Rainer Jung <email@example.com> wrote: > > RJ> The Apache Tomcat team is pleased to announce the immediate availability > RJ> of version 1.2.26 of the Apache Tomcat Connectors. > RJ> > RJ> [..snip..] > > So, JK 1.2.26 has been out for over a month and I finally got around to > upgrading from 1.2.25 and without changing my mod_jk.conf or > workers.properties the connector seems to stop working. In debug mode, I > get the following with 1.2.26: > > jk_translate::mod_jk.c (3033): missing uri map for haroon.sis.utoronto.ca:/rxp/ > > With 1.2.26 the Jk Status Manager reports: > > Server URI Match Type Source > haroon.sis.utoronto.ca /rxp/* Wildchar JkMount > > With 1.2.25: > > Match Type Uri Source > Wildchar /rxp/* JkMount > > Obviously the difference is due to this: > > * JKStatus: Enhance URI to worker map listing for Apache httpd. We > now list maps for all virtual servers and not only the one, in > which JKStatus itself was called. (rjung) > > Anyone care to share their war stories with 1.2.26? > > Here's my configuration files: > > workers.properties > ================== > # basic worker list > worker.list=local,status > > # Define a worker using ajp13 > worker.local.port=8009 > worker.local.host=localhost > worker.local.type=ajp13 > > worker.status.type=status > > mod_jk.conf > =========== > # Load mod_jk module > LoadModule jk_module modules/mod_jk.so > > # Where to find workers.properties > JkWorkersFile conf/workers.properties > > # Where to put jk logs > JkLogFile logs/mod_jk.log > > # Set the jk log level > JkLogLevel error > > JkShmFile logs/mod_jk.shm > > JkMount /rxp/* local > JkMount /jkstatus status > > > The same setup works flawlessly with 1.2.25. Spent the last few hours on > this and was getting no where. > > Thanks in advance, > -- > Haroon Rafique > <email@example.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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|Dried chickpeas
|1 Pound
|1 Teaspoon
|Fresh rosemary sprig
|3 (Tied In A Cheesecloth Bag)
|Olive oil
|3 Tablespoon
|2 Clove (10 gm), peeled and chopped fine
|Anchovy fillets
|4 , drained and chopped coarsely
|2 Medium, peeled, seeded, and cubed
|Chicken broth
|2 Quart
|Pasta shells
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs) (Small Pasta)
1. Soak the chick peas in water for several hours or overnight. Rinse and put in a large saucepan, cover with fresh water, add the salt and the rosemary, and cook covered for almost 1 hour or until tender.
2. Drain the chick peas, discard the rosemary, and put the chick peas and liquid through a food mill or process in a food processor in batches. When pureed, set aside.
3. In a large saucepan, heat the oil and saute the garlic and anchovies until they are well blended. Add the tomatoes and chicken broth and bring to the boil. Lower the heat, then simmer for 30 minutes.
4. In another saucepan, cook the small shells until al dente. Drain well and add them to the soup along with the chick peas. Simmer for just 2 minutes and serve in individual bowls or 1 large soup tureen.
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Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 2443 Calories from Fat 675
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 77 g118.9%
Saturated Fat 9.3 g46.5%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 24.6 mg8.2%
Sodium 8618.7 mg359.1%
Total Carbohydrates 335 g111.7%
Dietary Fiber 84.8 g339.1%
Sugars 65.3 g
Protein 111 g222.9%
Vitamin A 50.6% Vitamin C 89.7%
Calcium 62.2% Iron 170.7%
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Game Wardens from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement (DNR LE) Division recovered the body of Amelia Whitlock,9, of Jackson, in the ...
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We report the results of several randomized survey experiments designed to evaluate two intended improvements to anchoring vignettes, an increasingly common technique used to achieve interpersonal comparability in survey research. This technique asks for respondent self-assessments followed by assessments of hypothetical people described in vignettes. Variation in assessments of the vignettes across respondents reveals interpersonal incomparability and allows researchers to make responses more comparable by rescaling them. Our experiments show, first, that switching the question order so that self-assessments follow the vignettes primes respondents to define the response scale in a common way. In this case, priming is not a bias to avoid but a means of better communicating the question's meaning. We then demonstrate that combining vignettes and self-assessments in a single direct comparison induces inconsistent and less informative responses. Since similar combined strategies are widely employed for related purposes, our results indicate that anchoring vignettes could reduce measurement error in many applications where they are not currently used. Data for our experiments come from a national telephone survey and a separate on-line survey.
Survey Research
"Anchoring Vignette" methods for when different respondents (perhaps from different cultures, countries, or ethnic groups) understand survey questions in different ways; an approach to developing theoretical definitions of complicated concepts apparently definable only by example (i.e., "you know it when you see it"); how surveys work.
Anchoring Vignettes
Methods for when different respondents (perhaps from different cultures, countries, or ethnic groups), or respondents and investigators, understand survey questions in different ways. Also includes an approach to developing theoretical definitions of complicated concepts apparently definable only by example (i.e., "you know it when you see it").
Improving Anchoring Vignettes: Designing Surveys to Correct Interpersonal Incomparability." Public Opinion Quarterly, 1-22.Abstract. 2010. "
The original article that lays out the idea, develops the basic models, and gives examples. . 2004. "Enhancing the Validity and Cross-cultural Comparability of Measurement in Survey Research." American Political Science Review, 98: 191–207, February.Abstract
We address two long-standing survey research problems: measuring complicated concepts, such as political freedom or efficacy, that researchers define best with reference to examples and and what to do when respondents interpret identical questions in different ways. Scholars have long addressed these problems with approaches to reduce incomparability, such as writing more concrete questions – with uneven success. Our alternative is to measure directly response category incomparability and to correct for it. We measure incomparability via respondents' assessments, on the same scale as the self-assessments to be corrected, of hypothetical individuals described in short vignettes. Since actual levels of the vignettes are invariant over respondents, variability in vignette answers reveals incomparability. Our corrections require either simple recodes or a statistical model designed to save survey administration costs. With analysis, simulations, and cross-national surveys, we show how response incomparability can drastically mislead survey researchers and how our approach can fix them.
Develops methods for selecting vignettes and new, simpler, nonparametric methods requiring fewer assumptions for analyzing anchoring vignettes data. . 2007. "Comparing Incomparable Survey Responses: New Tools for Anchoring Vignettes." Political Analysis, 15: 46-66, Winter.Abstract
When respondents use the ordinal response categories of standard survey questions in different ways, the validity of analyses based on the resulting data can be biased. Anchoring vignettes is a survey design technique, introduced by King, Murray, Salomon, and Tandon (2004), intended to correct for some of these problems. We develop new methods both for evaluating and choosing anchoring vignettes, and for analyzing the resulting data. With surveys on a diverse range of topics in a range of countries, we illustrate how our proposed methods can improve the ability of anchoring vignettes to extract information from survey data, as well as saving in survey administration costs.
How Surveys Work
Resolution of a paradox in the study of American voting behavior. . 1993. "Why are American Presidential Election Campaign Polls so Variable when Votes are so Predictable?." British Journal of Political Science, 23: 409–451, October.Abstract
As most political scientists know, the outcome of the U.S. Presidential election can be predicted within a few percentage points (in the popular vote), based on information available months before the election. Thus, the general election campaign for president seems irrelevant to the outcome (except in very close elections), despite all the media coverage of campaign strategy. However, it is also well known that the pre-election opinion polls can vary wildly over the campaign, and this variation is generally attributed to events in the campaign. How can campaign events affect people's opinions on whom they plan to vote for, and yet not affect the outcome of the election? For that matter, why do voters consistently increase their support for a candidate during his nominating convention, even though the conventions are almost entirely predictable events whose effects can be rationally forecast? In this exploratory study, we consider several intuitively appealing, but ultimately wrong, resolutions to this puzzle, and discuss our current understanding of what causes opinion polls to fluctuate and yet reach a predictable outcome. Our evidence is based on graphical presentation and analysis of over 67,000 individual-level responses from forty-nine commercial polls during the 1988 campaign and many other aggregate poll results from the 1952–1992 campaigns. We show that responses to pollsters during the campaign are not generally informed or even, in a sense we describe, "rational." In contrast, voters decide which candidate to eventually support based on their enlightened preferences, as formed by the information they have learned during the campaign, as well as basic political cues such as ideology and party identification. We cannot prove this conclusion, but we do show that it is consistent with the aggregate forecasts and individual-level opinion poll responses. Based on the enlightened preferences hypothesis, we conclude that the news media have an important effect on the outcome of Presidential elections–-not due to misleading advertisements, sound bites, or spin doctors, but rather by conveying candidates' positions on important issues.
Pre-Election Survey Methodology: Details From Nine Polling Organizations, 1988 and 1992." Public Opinion Quarterly, 59: 98–132, Spring.Abstract. 1995. "
Before every presidential election, journalists, pollsters, and politicians commission dozens of public opinion polls. Although the primary function of these surveys is to forecast the election winners, they also generate a wealth of political data valuable even after the election. These preelection polls are useful because they are conducted with such frequency that they allow researchers to study change in estimates of voter opinion within very narrow time increments (Gelman and King 1993). Additionally, so many are conducted that the cumulative sample size of these polls is large enough to construct aggregate measures of public opinion within small demographic or geographical groupings (Wright, Erikson, and McIver 1985).
Anchors: Software for Anchoring Vignettes Data." Journal of Statistical Software, 3, 42: 1--25. Publisher's VersionAbstract. 2011. "
When respondents use the ordinal response categories of standard survey questions in different ways, the validity of analyses based on the resulting data can be biased. Anchoring vignettes is a survey design technique intended to correct for some of these problems. The anchors package in R includes methods for evaluating and choosing anchoring vignettes, and for analyzing the resulting data.


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- Association Fee: $600
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- Baths: 4 (Full: 3 3/4: 0 1/2: 1 Other: 0)
- Parking Type Description: Attached 2 cars
- Total Square Footage: 4,058 ($104.73 per sq. foot)
- Lot Size: 133 x 124 x 66 x 161 x 210
- County: Kent
- School District: Forest Hills
- Year Built: 1998
- Status: Active
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- Estimated Annual Taxes: $6,259
- High School: Central
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Appliances Built in Oven, Cook Top, Dishwasher, Garbage Disposal, Microwave, Refrigerator
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The bear hunting season opened August 15th in Northern Ontario, Natural Resources Minister David Ramsay announced.
"I know how important hunting is to Ontario's culture and recognize its contribution to the economy, particularly in the north," said Ramsay. "That's why we have expanded the bear hunt and provided increased hunting opportunities."
As part of a sustainable wildlife management program, in 2004, the government extended the bear hunt by a little over two weeks by setting a consistent closing date of October 31 in the north. In addition, since 2004 resident hunters have been allowed to buy a second bear seal in areas where healthy bear populations can be maintained.
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Bentley, in conjunction with Al-Habtoor Motors, the sole United Arab Emirates (UAE)'s Bentley Dealer, is to showcase three of its thoroughbred cars on the lawns of Dubai International Marine Club during the upcoming Lifestyles event.
Bentley will have on show its four-door saloon, the Bentley Arnage T, with its hand-built, 6.75-litre twin-turbocharged V8, as well as two Bentley Arnage Rs which will be used as test drives for serious buyers at the event. Bentley Motors, now owned by the Volkswagen Group, is benefiting from very substantial investment and is developing new models to extend still further the breadth of customers' choice.
The company's decision to participate in Lifestyles, which takes place from October 17-18th, reflects the optimism the company has in the audience that will be enjoying the two-day event. — (menareport.com)
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Low HDL-cholesterol is common among patients with cardiovascular disease. Well-designed epidemiological studies carried out over the previous three decades have defined the prognostic significance of low HDL-cholesterol. Indeed, a recent evaluation of patients undergoing coronary angiography showed that factors related to HDL-cholesterol, but not to LDL-cholesterol, were primarily responsible for driving the elevated risk of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular events associated with dysglycaemia within this population. Randomized intervention studies have demonstrated significant inhibition of atherosclerosis and/or improvement in cardiovascular event rates with treatments that increase HDL-cholesterol (nicotinic acid or a fibrate). Nicotinic acid is the most powerful HDL-cholesterol raising agent currently available, and a combination of this agent with a statin facilitates simultaneous control of both HDL-cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol. Indeed, the HDL Atherosclerosis Treatment Study demonstrated a reduction in major cardiovascular events of 90% vs. placebo in patients randomized to nicotinic acid+simvastatin. In addition, patients randomized to nicotinic acid in the Coronary Drug Project benefited from a significant reduction in mortality after 15 years, 9 years after the trial ended. A new prolonged-release formulation of nicotinic acid, Niaspan®, has superior tolerability compared with immediate-release nicotinic acid and facilitates the delivery of this therapy. The evidence base supporting intervention to correct low HDL-cholesterol in addition to reducing LDL-cholesterol is now sufficiently strong to support the introduction of this strategy into routine clinical practice.
Current guidelines for the management of cardiovascular risk regard establishing control of LDL-cholesterol as the primary goal of lipid modification. Guidelines relevant to the European practice have been proposed jointly by leading European expert societies.1 These recommend that total cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol should be reduced to below 5 (193 mg/dL) and 3 mmol/L (116 mg/dL), respectively, with more stringent goals of total cholesterol <4.5 mmol/L (174 mg/dL) and LDL-cholesterol <2.5 mmol/L (97 mg/dL) for patients with pre-existing cardiovascular disease or diabetes. Similarly, the US guidelines specify goals for LDL-cholesterol of <160 mg/dL (4.1 mmol/L) for patients with not more than a single cardiovascular risk factor, <130 mg/dL (3.4 mmol/L) for patients with two or more cardiovascular risk factors and a 10-year (Framingham) risk of major cardiovascular events of ≤20%, and <100 mg/dL (2.6 mmol/L) for patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) or diabetes and 10-year Framingham risk >20%, respectively.2
Thus, guidance for the management of LDL-cholesterol is both detailed and explicit and takes into account the important comorbidities. Moreover, the demonstration of additional protection for cardiovascular events from reduction of LDL-cholesterol to levels below those recommended by these guidelines in trials, such as A to Z,3 Treating to New Targets (TNT),4 Pravastatin or Atorvastatin Evaluation and Infection Therapy (PROVE-IT),5 and more recently, Incremental Decrease in Endpoints through Aggressive Lipid Lowering (IDEAL),6 has raised expectations of even lower goal values being set for LDL-cholesterol in the future.7 In contrast, HDL-cholesterol is only regarded a marker of risk in these guidelines, despite the inclusion of a cut-off value for HDL-cholesterol [<1.03 mmol/L (40 mg/dL) in men and <1.29 mmol/L (50 mg/dL) in women] in the most widely used diagnostic criteria for the metabolic syndrome.2,8 Although a level of HDL-cholesterol above this cut-off value is regarded as 'normal', there is little emphasis on management of levels of HDL-cholesterol independently or in addition to other cardiovascular risk factors.
There is no doubt that low HDL-cholesterol is an important and independent risk factor for adverse cardiovascular outcomes.9,10 Indeed, epidemiological data from the Framingham and other studies suggest that every decrease of 1 mg/dL in HDL-cholesterol (0.03 mmol/L) may be associated with an increase of 2–3% in the risk of CHD.11 Accordingly, there is a growing view among experts in the field of cardiovascular risk management that greater emphasis should be placed on the management of HDL-cholesterol in addition to the proven benefits arising from tight control of LDL-cholesterol.12 The purpose of this review is to evaluate the strength of the evidence base that underpins intervention for correcting low HDL-cholesterol as a component of overall strategies for the management of cardiovascular risk. In doing so, this review will consider the prevalence of low HDL-cholesterol among patients with cardiovascular morbidity, the prognostic importance of low HDL-cholesterol in comparison with other lipid parameters in these patients, and the clinical implications of such interventions for the management of cardiovascular disease.
The prevalence of low HDL-cholesterol in patients with cardiovascular morbidity
The Pan-European survey of HDL-cholesterol recently measured lipid profiles in a population of 8545 patients receiving treatment for dyslipidaemia from a specialist physician across 11 countries within Europe.13 Low HDL-cholesterol was a common finding in this population and little affected by lipid-modifying treatment (almost always a statin): HDL-cholesterol <1.03 mmol/L (40 mg/dL) was found in 33 and 34% of men receiving and not receiving such treatment, respectively, with corresponding figures of 40 and 39% in women, respectively. Severely low HDL-cholesterol [<0.91 mmol/L (35 mg/dL)] was found in 14% of the survey population.
A population of >8000 men screened for potential enrolment in the Veterans Affairs HDL Intervention Trial (VA-HIT) provided an opportunity to estimate the prevalence of low HDL-C in patients with objective evidence of coronary artery disease (≥3 months after a myocardial infarction).14 Lipid abnormalities were common in this population (Figure 1). Low HDL-cholesterol was present in about two-thirds of Caucasian subjects and in about two-fifths of African-American subjects. The overall prevalence of low HDL-cholesterol was in excess of 60% in this mostly Caucasian population. Hypercholesterolaemia and hypertriglyceridaemia were also common findings in this study.
HDL-cholesterol as a determinant of clinical outcomes in patients at high cardiovascular risk
The strong associations between low HDL-cholesterol and adverse outcomes in epidemiological studies, and the high prevalence of this condition in patients at elevated coronary risk identify low HDL-cholesterol as an important clinical problem. However, classical epidemiological techniques, although useful for generating hypotheses relating to pathophysiological mechanisms, provide little evidence to substantiate a causative role for low HDL-cholesterol in the pathogenesis of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Such analyses may also be hampered by confounding due to clustering of related risk factors or inadequate adjustment in multivariate analysis.
The application of factor analysis to such data helps to overcome some of these problems. Factor analysis is a mathematical technique by which a large number of interrelated variables are reduced to a smaller number of 'factors' that represent their overall effect on the process under study. This technique was applied to data from a consecutive series of 750 patients with coronary artery disease undergoing angiography at the Vorarlberg Institute for Vascular Investigation and Treatment, Feldkirch, Austria.15 Two principal factors emerged from the analysis. One was related to HDL and incorporated HDL cholesterol, triglycerides, ApoAI, and LDL particle diameter. The other factor was related to LDL and incorporated LDL cholesterol, total cholesterol, and ApoB. The importance of each factor in predicting the presence of clinically significant coronary atherosclerotic lesions (stenosis of at least 50% of the coronary lumen) was determined after the population was stratified for glycaemic status at baseline. In addition, patients were followed prospectively for an average of 2.3 years for cardiovascular outcomes, using a composite cardiovascular endpoint including coronary death, non-fatal myocardial infarction, non-fatal stroke, and the need for coronary or peripheral revascularization.
The factor related to HDL was strongly and significantly related to a reduced risk of clinically significant coronary stenosis irrespective of glycaemic status at baseline (Figure 2).16 In contrast, the factor related to LDL did not significantly influence the risk of coronary stenosis. The presence of pre-diabetic or diabetic dysglycaemia increased the cardiovascular event rate (P=0.007), with the incidence more than twice in diabetic patients than in the normoglycaemic patients (19.2 and 9.5%, respectively). The HDL-related factor from the factor analysis was associated with a reduced risk of coronary events in the overall patient population and in the diabetic sub-population, who are at markedly increased risk of coronary disease. In the diabetic group, the odds ratio (OR) for vascular events associated with the HDL-related factor was 0.71 (95% CI 0.51–0.99; P=0.044). Once again, the LDL-related factor did not exert a significant effect on the risk of coronary events in the overall population or in the diabetic subgroup (OR 1.36, 95% CI 0.99–1.88; P=0.061).
A preliminary report has described the results of a longer duration of follow-up (4 years) in this cohort.17 At this time point, a significant protective effect of the HDL-related factor was still present in the subgroup with diabetes, with an OR for vascular events of 0.70 (95% CI 0.51–0.97), whereas the LDL-factor was still without significant effect on the cardiovascular event rate in this group (OR of 1.16, 95% CI 0.90–1.50; P=0.26). Overall, these analyses showed that cardiovascular risk factors related to HDL on factor analysis appeared to exert a stronger influence of atherosclerosis-related outcomes than factors related to LDL. The particularly strong relationship between the HDL-related factor and angiographic or clinical outcomes in diabetic patients is consistent with the proposed role of atherogenic dyslipidaemia (low HDL-cholesterol, elevated triglycerides, and small, dense LDL) as a principal driver of atherosclerosis in insulin-resistant states.18
Anti-atherogenic actions of HDL-cholesterol raising: evidence from intervention studies
HDL mimetic therapy
Studies using quantitative coronary angiography or ultrasonography have demonstrated the potential of interventions that increase HDL-cholesterol to inhibit the progression of atherosclerosis. The discovery of a spontaneously arising mutation in ApoAI, termed ApoAI-Milano (ApoAIM) in a remote region of northern Italy provided an opportunity to evaluate the effects on atherosclerosis of intervening with an HDL mimetic agent.19–21 People carrying this mutation were apparently at low risk of cardiovascular disease.22 Accordingly, a study in 47 patients with acute coronary syndromes was conducted which involved randomization to weekly infusions of one or two doses of recombinant ApoAIM (15 or 45 mg/kg) in a phospholipid complex or placebo.23 There was a clear evidence of inhibition of atherosclerosis in patients randomized to receive ApoAIM, whether this was measured as the total atheroma volume, as the average maximum thickness of atheroma in the target coronary segment, as the maximum thickness of atheroma, or as the volume of atheroma in the most severely diseased section of the coronary segment under study (Figure 3). ApoAIM and a number of other synthetic HDLs are under development for the treatment of atherosclerosis.24
Oral pharmacotherapy
Several trials have evaluated the effect of interventions with oral pharmacotherapy on atherosclerosis progression. Most of these have involved regimens including nicotinic acid (niacin), the most effective agent currently available for this purpose.2 These studies include the Cholesterol-Lowering Atherosclerosis Study (CLAS),25–27 the HDL-Atherosclerosis Treatment Study (HATS),28 the Familial Atherosclerosis Treatment Study (FATS),29 and the Arterial Biology for the Investigation of the Treatment Effects of Reducing Cholesterol (ARBITER 2) study.30
CLAS evaluated a combination of nicotinic acid and the bile aid sequestrant, colestipol, in patients with previous coronary bypass surgery. At 2 years, a marked reduction in LDL-cholesterol and a marked increase in HDL-cholesterol had occurred (Table 1). These beneficial changes in lipids were accompanied by a reduction in the active treatment group relative to placebo in the average number of progressing atherosclerotic lesions (P<0.03) and the formation of new atherosclerotic lesions (P<0.03); a global test showed that these changes were highly significant (P<0.0001). At 4 years, non-progression of atherosclerosis was more common in the active treatment group (52 vs. 15% on placebo), as was atherosclerosis regression (18 vs. 6%).
The FATS study recruited patients with elevated ApoB and documented CAD and randomized them to receive a statin, nicotinic acid, or placebo, with additional colestipol as required. Once again, marked improvements in HDL-C and LDL-C were accompanied by improvements in angiographic status of coronary arteries. In this trial, 46% of the placebo group demonstrated atherosclerosis progression, compared with 21% of the lovastatin group and 25% of the nicotinic acid group. Similarly, atherosclerosis regression was less common with placebo (11%) than with lovastatin-based or nicotinic acid-based treatment (32 and 39%, respectively, P<0.005 for differences between groups).
HATS also evaluated nicotinic acid + a statin, this time in comparison with placebo. Similar improvements in the lipid profile compared with FATS in the nicotinic acid-based treatment group were observed. Atherosclerosis progressed by 3.9% in the placebo group, compared with regression of atherosclerosis by 0.4% in the nicotinic acid–simvastatin group (P<0.001 vs. placebo), and progression by 0.7% when antioxidants were added to the nicotinic acid-based regimen (P<0.004 vs. placebo).
The ARBITER 2 study set out to test the hypothesis that correcting low HDL-cholesterol with nicotinic acid-based therapy in patients with this abnormality, despite adequate control of LDL-cholesterol with a statin, would inhibit carotid atherosclerosis (a validated surrogate for coronary atherosclerosis) compared with placebo. This trial evaluated the effects of Niaspan®, a prolonged-release formulation of nicotinic acid with superior tolerability relative to the immediate-release formulation used in other studies.31 After 1 year of treatment, carotid intima-media thickness had progressed significantly on placebo [by 0.044 mm (SD 0.011 mm); P<0.011], whereas there was no significant progression with Niaspan [mean change 0.014 mm (SD 0.011 mm); P=0.23].
An open-label follow-up to this study, ARBITER 3, involved switching patients previously on placebo to Niaspan (both still combined with a statin) for a further year of treatment.32 Altogether, 104 patients completed the study. An additional effect on atherosclerosis was observed, compared with the preceding ARBITER 2 study, with significant regression of atherosclerosis observed in the Niaspan group after 2 years.
Improved clinical outcomes associated with increasing levels of HDL-cholesterol
A strong evidence base underpins the principle of HDL-cholesterol raising as a therapeutic strategy for improving cardiovascular outcomes in high-risk populations. Several randomized, double-blind outcome studies in patients with documented coronary artery disease have evaluated the effects of HDL-cholesterol raising treatments (nicotinic acid or a fibrate), including the VA-HIT,33 the Coronary Drug Project (CDP),34–37 the HATS trial (for which the angiographic findings are discussed above) and the Stockholm Ischaemic Heart Disease (IHD) trial.38
Table 2 summarizes the treatments administered in these trials together with their key findings. Significant reductions in major cardiovascular events were observed in patients randomized to an HDL-cholesterol raising treatment in all four studies. The high-risk population of the HATS trial derived the largest benefit, with a reduction in the risk of the primary endpoint (death, myocardial infarction, stroke, or revascularization) of 90% vs. placebo when nicotinic acid+simvastatin was given without antioxidants (P=0.03) (Figure 4). The inclusion of patients who also received antioxidant vitamins attenuated the effect, although the risk reduction of 60% vs. patients who did not receive nicotinic acid–simvastatin therapy was still significant (P=0.02) (Figure 4).
In addition to these effects observed during the double-blind phase of the trials, a retrospective analysis of outcomes in the CDP population was conducted 9 years after the termination of the double-blind phase of the study, i.e. a 15-year follow-up overall.35 A significant (P=0.0012) 11% reduction in total mortality was observed in patients who had previously been randomized to treatment with nicotinic acid, compared with placebo (Table 2 and Figure 5). Importantly, these long-term benefits are preserved in the settings of increased blood glucose37 or the metabolic syndrome.36 These are remarkable findings given that no attempt had been made to maintain trial conditions or treatments after the end of the double-blind phase of the study, and attests to the durability of cardiovascular benefit arising from intervention to increase HDL-cholesterol.
Current cardiovascular management guidelines continue to focus on ever-lower levels of LDL-cholesterol in the pursuit of greater reductions in cardiovascular event rates than the 20–40% risk reductions routinely obtained with statins in intervention trials.39 We know that cardiovascular risk is multifactorial in nature, and an abundance of clinical evidence from epidemiological studies points to low HDL-cholesterol as an additional clinically important cardiovascular risk factor in its own right. Moreover, low HDL-cholesterol is a common source of excess cardiovascular risk, especially in patients with CHD and diabetes mellitus.
Statins exert relatively little effect on HDL-cholesterol in most patients,40 and we must look to the use of other agents in combination with statins if we are to make significant inroads into the residual cardiovascular risk in statin-treated patients. HDL-cholesterol raising interventions have not received the intensive evaluations in clinical trials that have established the statins as the core pharmacotherapy for the management of atherosclerotic risk. Nevertheless, the beneficial effects on cardiovascular outcomes of agents that act mainly by raising HDL-cholesterol, namely fibrates and nicotinic acid, have been demonstrated in a number of well-designed outcome trials that have produced highly significant results. We have enough clinical evidence today to incorporate strategies to increase HDL-cholesterol into our routine care of the patient at risk of an adverse cardiovascular outcome.
Low HDL-cholesterol is common among the population at risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes and is highly prognostically significant. Intervention to correct low HDL-cholesterol is well supported by randomized intervention trials, and this strategy should be introduced into routine clinical practice alongside control of LDL-cholesterol.
Conflict of interest: none declared.
|Main findings
|Prior coronary bypass graft; documented CAD; elevated cholesterol
|NA+colestipol Placebo
|↑37% HDL-C, ↓43% LDL-C Significant reductions in progression of lesions and new lesion formation in the active treatment group vs. placebo
|Documented CAD, low HDL-Ca, near-normal LDL-C
|NA+simvastatinb Antioxidants Placebob
|↑42% HDL-C, ↓26% LDL-C in NA group Atherosclerosis regression observed with NA+simvastatin
|Elevated ApoB, documented CAD, family CVD history
|Lovastatinc NAc Placeboc
|↑43% HDL-C, ↓32% LDL-C in NA group More regression and less progression of lesions in active treatment groups
|Documented CAD, statin treatment, low HDL-Cd
|Niaspan+statin Placebo+statin
|↑18% HDL-C Significantly less progression of atherosclerosis on Niaspan-based therapy
|Main findings
|Prior coronary bypass graft; documented CAD; elevated cholesterol
|NA+colestipol Placebo
|↑37% HDL-C, ↓43% LDL-C Significant reductions in progression of lesions and new lesion formation in the active treatment group vs. placebo
|Documented CAD, low HDL-Ca, near-normal LDL-C
|NA+simvastatinb Antioxidants Placebob
|↑42% HDL-C, ↓26% LDL-C in NA group Atherosclerosis regression observed with NA+simvastatin
|Elevated ApoB, documented CAD, family CVD history
|Lovastatinc NAc Placeboc
|↑43% HDL-C, ↓32% LDL-C in NA group More regression and less progression of lesions in active treatment groups
|Documented CAD, statin treatment, low HDL-Cd
|Niaspan+statin Placebo+statin
|↑18% HDL-C Significantly less progression of atherosclerosis on Niaspan-based therapy
All were randomized, double-blind trials, except CLAS, which was single-blind. See text for full names of trials. NA, immediate-release nicotinic acid; CAD, coronary artery disease; CVD, cardiovascular disease.
aBelow 0.91 mmol/L (35 mg/dL) in men and below 1.03 mmol/L (40 mg/dL) in women.
bWith or without antioxidants.
cPlus colestipol as required.
dLess than 1.2 mmol/L (45 mg/dL).
|Treatments (n)
|Duration (years)
|Main results
|Gemfibrozil (1264) Placebo (1267)
|Non-fatal MI or CHD death ↓22% (P=0.006) Non-fatal MI ↓23% (P=0.02)
|NA (1119) Clofibrate (1103) d-thyroxine (1110) Oestrogens (2220)a Placebo (2789)
|6 (double-blind) 15 (double-blind+retrospective follow-up)
|5-year outcomes Non-fatal MI or CHD death ↓14% (P<0.05) Non-fatal MI ↓27% (P<0.05) Stroke/TIA ↓26% (P<0.05)15-year outcomes Total mortality ↓11% (P=0.0004)
|NA+simvastatin (33) NA+simvastatin+antioxidants (33) Antioxidants (39)Placebo (34)
|Composite endpoint (CHD mortality, non-fatal MI, revascularization) ↓90% (simvastatin-NA) (P=0.03)↓60% (simvastatin-NA-antioxidants) (P=0.02)
|Nicotinic acid+clofibrate (279) Controls (usual care) (276)
|Total mortality ↓26% (P<0.05) CHD mortality ↓36% (P<0.01)
|Treatments (n)
|Duration (years)
|Main results
|Gemfibrozil (1264) Placebo (1267)
|Non-fatal MI or CHD death ↓22% (P=0.006) Non-fatal MI ↓23% (P=0.02)
|NA (1119) Clofibrate (1103) d-thyroxine (1110) Oestrogens (2220)a Placebo (2789)
|6 (double-blind) 15 (double-blind+retrospective follow-up)
|5-year outcomes Non-fatal MI or CHD death ↓14% (P<0.05) Non-fatal MI ↓27% (P<0.05) Stroke/TIA ↓26% (P<0.05)15-year outcomes Total mortality ↓11% (P=0.0004)
|NA+simvastatin (33) NA+simvastatin+antioxidants (33) Antioxidants (39)Placebo (34)
|Composite endpoint (CHD mortality, non-fatal MI, revascularization) ↓90% (simvastatin-NA) (P=0.03)↓60% (simvastatin-NA-antioxidants) (P=0.02)
|Nicotinic acid+clofibrate (279) Controls (usual care) (276)
|Total mortality ↓26% (P<0.05) CHD mortality ↓36% (P<0.01)
Clinical CHD in HATS was defined as previous MI, coronary interventions, or confirmed angina. TIA, transient ischaemic attack; NA, nicotinic acid.
aThe low HDL-C definition in HATS.


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2011/3/23 Tiago Espinha <firstname.lastname@example.com> > Hi everyone, > > This e-mail is intended to all students who are planning on applying for > Google Summer of Code 2011, having Derby as their organization. > > It would seem that this year, contrary to the trend experienced in the last > couple of years, I will be the only person who will be mentoring for Apache > Derby. With that said, and considering I have limited free time, there will > also only be one GSoC project that students can apply to. > > Thanks for your work on this GSOC. As you said, there is just one Derby project idea this year? However, I have seen another two issues labelled with GSOC2011, they are "Add compatibility tests to explore behavior differences between Derby and other DBMS implementations"[1] and "Support for FULL OUTER JOIN"[2.]. What happened to these two issues? Anyway, as a student interested in "Derby Test and Fix 2011 GSoC Project", I will still focus on my work on testing and fixing. I have set up my build and test environment, furthermore, you can see my work on "convert ijConnName.sql to a ScriptTest junit test"[3] and ""[4]. It seems I have met some difficulty, but I will carry on. To try, to challenge and to make progress, I think that's what I can harvest in this GSOC. Besides, as my heavy school work recently, I will do my contribution primarily in weekends. Wish for your reply! [1.]https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4586 [2.]https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4832 [3.]https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-5084 [4.]https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4443 -- Houx Zhang
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Emotion and reason in everyday risk perception
Although research has documented the importance of emotion in risk perception, little is known about its prevalence in everyday life. Using the Experience Sampling Method, 94 part-time students were prompted at random – via cellular telephones – to report on mood state and three emotions and to assess risk on thirty occasions during their working hours. The emotions – valence, arousal, and dominance – were measured using self-assessment manikins (Bradley & Lang, 1994). Hierarchical linear models (HLM) revealed that mood state and emotions explained significant variance in risk perception. In addition, valence and arousal accounted for variance over and above "reason" (measured by severity and possibility of risks). Six risks were reassessed in a post-experimental session and found to be lower than their real-time counterparts. The study demonstrates the feasibility and value of collecting representative samples of data with simple technology. Evidence for the statistical consistency of the HLM estimates is provided in an Appendix.
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