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CEZ unveils plan for new 3400 MW nuclear plant
guardian.co.uk, UK - Jul 14, 2008
Shares in CEZ closed up 0.3 percent at 1343 crowns, outperforming the main PX index which shed 0.26 percent. (Reporting by Jana Mlcochova)
ČEZ unveils plan for new 3400MW nuclear plant Budapest Business Journal
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Aging through cascaded caches: performance issues in the distribution of web content -
E Cohen, H Kaplan - Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Applications, …, 2001 - portal.acm.org
Page 1. Aging Through Cascaded Caches: Performance Issues in the Distribution
of Web Content Edith Cohen AT&T Labs?Research 180 ...

Evidence for Genetic Linkage of Alzheimer's Disease to Chromosome 10q -
L Bertram, D Blacker, K Mullin, D Keeney, J Jones, … - Science, 2000 - sciencemag.org
... should be addressed at Genetics and Aging Unit, Massachusetts ... markers with the strongest
two-point signals [Web table 4 ... D10S1225 (80.8), 0.4 (0.32), 0.9 (0.26). ...

Elder Abuse Revisited -
JJ Callahan Jr - Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, 2000 - haworthpress.com
... others in any way, and only 0.26% is physically ... Jr., is Director, Policy Center on
Aging, Brandeis University ... the National Center for Elder Abuse web site (Fact ...

Potentially predictive and manipulable blood serum correlates of aging in the healthy human male: … -
JE Morley, F Kaiser, WJ Raum, HM Perry III, JF … - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1997 - National Acad Sciences
... of Serum Steroids, IGF-1, and GH to Chronological and Functional Aging. ... DHEA, 3.36 ?
0.37, 2.25 ? 0.58 *, 0.93 ? 0.26 *, 0.66 ? 0.25 *, 0.05 ? 0.02 *, 0.0001. ...

Web caching framework: analytical models and beyond -
J Zhang, R Izmailov, D Reininger, M Ott - Internet Applications, 1999. IEEE Workshop on, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... it becomes crucial when we discuss aging algorithms in a later section. 3.2 Cache
working image One of the problems with the design of web caching algorithms ...

DLB fluctuations Specific features that reliably differentiate DLB from AD and normal aging -
TJ Ferman, GE Smith, BF Boeve, RJ Ivnik, RC … - Neurology, 2004 - AAN Enterprises
... of features reliably distinguishes DLB from AD and normal aging. ... good (see table
E-1 on the Neurology Web site ... p = 0.03) and DRS total score (r = -0.26, p < 0.01 ...

Similar gene expression patterns characterize aging and oxidative stress in Drosophila melanogaster -
GN Landis, D Abdueva, D Skvortsov, J Yang, BE … - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
... a reexamination of the relationship between aging and oxidative ... in the 25? experiment
was in [0.26, 1.39], leading ... supporting information on the PNAS web site ...

[PDF] Wire chamber aging -
JA Kadyk - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section …, 1991 - ab-div-bdi-bl-blm.web.cern.ch
Page 1. 436 Wire chamber aging John ... experiments. The purpose of this article is
to summarize the current experience with wire chamber aging. ...

Atrial Fibrillation Is Associated With Accumulation of Aging-Related Common Type Mitochondrial DNA … -
LP Lai, CC Tsai, MJ Su, JL Lin, YS Chen, YZ Tseng, … - Chest, 2003 - Am Coll Chest Phys
... articles found in: Chest Online ISI Web of Science ... AF than in patients without AF
(0.55 ? 0.26 vs 0.35 ... multivariate analysis showed that both aging and AF ...

A 32-Year Prospective Study of Change in Body Weight and Incident Dementia The Honolulu-Asia Aging … -
R Stewart, K Masaki, QL Xue, R Peila, H Petrovitch … - Archives of Neurology, 2005 - Am Med Assoc
... your Web browser does not support basic Web standards ... Design and Setting The
Honolulu-Asia Aging Study, a ... 0.22 kg/y (95% confidence intervals, ?0.26 to ?0.18 ...

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Aging adults have choices when confronting perceived mental declines
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Aging adults may joke about memory lapses and “early Alzheimer’s.” They may worry when they can’t understand a drug plan or lose track of the characters in a novel.

But they have more control over their “cognitive vitality” than they may realize, says Elizabeth Stine-Morrow, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Illinois, who has spent 20 years studying learning throughout the lifespan.

Aging adults have choices in the way they allocate effort in everyday mental tasks like reading, Stine-Morrow said. They can compensate for subtle age-related changes rather than either giving in to them or giving up completely on the activity, she said. They also have choices in the way they stay mentally engaged and embrace challenges throughout their lifetimes and into older age.
It’s all part of what she has playfully named the “Dumbledore hypothesis of cognitive aging,” based on a line from the headmaster Dumbledore in the third Harry Potter novel: “It is our choices … that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

Certain “fluid abilities,” or “mental mechanics,” do tend to decline with age, Stine-Morrow said, but it matters how we respond. “Minor glitches in the cognitive system can loom larger than they perhaps need to because we’ve got these preconceived ideas about what happens with aging,” she said.

She will discuss her “Dumbledore hypothesis” on Aug. 19 at the American Psychological Association conference in San Francisco, in a presidential address for the Adult Development and Aging division. A paper on the subject has been accepted for publication in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science.

In her reading research, Stine-Morrow, also a professor in Illinois’ Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, has paid particular attention to changes we make – or fail to make – in the way we process and regulate our reading as we age.

More recently, she has initiated a program called Senior Odyssey, designed to engage older adults in team-based creative problem-solving and other brain-teasing challenges. After a pilot study, she is now at the start of a five-year, $2.8 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to develop the program and study its effectiveness.

Much of her reading research has involved measuring small split-second differences in the way people move through text, and in how and where they pause, noting how those differences affect what they gain or remember from the text.

She has found that older adults who remember more of what they’ve read tend to read differently from either younger readers or older readers who remember less. They had learned, consciously or unconsciously, that “in order to maintain the same level of comprehension and memory for text as you get older, you have to do it differently,” she said.

One thing they do is to spend more time building a “situation model” at the beginning of a story or book. They take time to get a feel for the setting, to get to know the characters, and to get grounded in important details of the story. By doing so, they find it easier to integrate new information later on, Stine-Morrow said. “Page-turners are page-turners later (in a book or story); they’re rarely page-turners early on.”

Older readers with good comprehension also spend more time at what Stine-Morrow calls the “micro level” of their reading, pausing longer and more often to integrate new concepts or to orient themselves to a change of setting in the text.

“Younger adults who have a better memory (of what they’ve read) spend more time doing that conceptual integration, or what we call ‘wrap-up,’ at the ends of sentences, whereas older adults tend to do that more in the middle of sentences,” she said.

In both cases, older readers with good comprehension have learned how to adjust their allocation of effort to compensate for losses in areas such as working memory and language-processing speed. Current research, yet to be published, is looking at how readers respond when they are coached on using these strategies.

“Effort is a good thing; effort doesn’t mean you’re deficient,” Stine-Morrow said. “It’s just the nature of cognition that it requires effort. Every time you allocate effort, it increases your capacity to do that thing in the future. And that becomes even more important as we get older.”

Aging adults can find themselves “embedded in cultural expectations about aging,” Stine-Morrow said. “They buy into cultural stereotypes of diminished cognitive capacity.”

Drawing on another reference from Harry Potter, Stine-Morrow compares those cultural expectations to the “sorting hat” that Harry dons to select which house he will live in at the Hogwarts school. The hat tries to convince him of one choice, but Harry insists on another.

In Stine-Morrow’s analogy, the “sorting hat of cultural expectations” suggests to aging adults that their abilities are in decline. If they listen, they may shy away from intellectual challenges, and in the process possibly hasten a real decline.

“Fundamentally, it’s a choice,” she said. “We make the choice to listen to those murmurings of the sorting hat, or not.”
 
 
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