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People who are usually happy, enthusiastic and content are less likely to develop heart disease than those who tend not to be happy, according to a study published in Europe’s leading cardiology journal, the European Heart Journal [1]. The authors believe that the study is the first to show such an independent relationship between positive emotions and coronary heart disease. [continue reading…]
L-R: Lazy Bureaucrat Researchers "Kicking Back"; Joseph Mitchell, Steven Skiena, Michael Bender, Esther Arkin
How do you develop schedules for workers whose goal is to complete the least amount of work possible?
It’s an age-old problem and the question behind a study by four Stony Brook University professors, which was cited in a recent article of the United Kingdom newspaper The Guardian.
The study by Esther Arkin and Joseph Mitchell of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Michael Bender and Steven Skiena of the Computer Science Department was published in 2003 in the journal Information and Computation. The team characterized their study of “The Lazy Bureaucrat Scheduling Problem” as: [continue reading…]
Professor Tom Kirkwood explaining the research.
A discovery by Newcastle University experts could provide the next step in fighting age related diseases, such as diabetes and heart disease.
Scientists from the University’s Institute for Ageing and Health have used state-of-the-art laboratory techniques and sophisticated mathematical modelling to help crack the problem of why cells age.
The ageing process has its roots deep within the cells and molecules that make up our bodies and experts have identified the molecular pathway that reacts to cell damage and stems the cell’s ability to divide.
The results should help us understand not only ageing itself, but also how cancer cells escape ageing to wreak their destructive power. link to read original release
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In the Belgian study, conducted at a youth mental health unit at the University of Antwerp, mothers who had a child receiving psychiatric care (for conditions including depression and anxiety) completed an eight-week Group Triple P program, in addition to their own regular therapeutic support and the child’s usual treatment. [continue reading…]
