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About: Pennsylvania State University is a education organization based out in State College, Pennsylvania, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 79763 authors who have published 196876 publications receiving 8318601 citations. The organization is also known as: Penn State & PSU.
Topics: Population, Poison control, Dielectric, Context (language use), Galaxy
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01 Apr 2004TL;DR: For example, the authors studied nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities and found that the best teachers know their subjects inside and out, but they also know how to engage and challenge students and to provoke impassioned responses.
Abstract: What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators.
The short answer is—it’s not what teachers do, it’s what they understand. Lesson plans and lecture notes matter less than the special way teachers comprehend the subject and value human learning. Whether historians or physicists, in El Paso or St. Paul, the best teachers know their subjects inside and out—but they also know how to engage and challenge students and to provoke impassioned responses. Most of all, they believe two things fervently: that teaching matters and that students can learn.
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TL;DR: Reduced sodium intake and weight loss constitute a feasible, effective, and safe nonpharmacologic therapy of hypertension in older persons.
Abstract: Context.—Nonpharmacologic interventions are frequently recommended for treatment
of hypertension in the elderly, but there is a paucity of evidence from randomized
controlled trials in support of this recommendation.Objective.—To determine whether weight loss or reduced sodium intake is effective
in the treatment of older persons with hypertension.Design.—Randomized controlled trial.Participants.—A total of 875 men and women aged 60 to 80 years with systolic blood
pressure lower than 145 mm Hg and diastolic blood pressure lower than 85 mm
Hg while receiving treatment with a single antihypertensive medication.Setting.—Four academic health centers.Intervention.—The 585 obese participants were randomized to reduced sodium intake,
weight loss, both, or usual care, and the 390 nonobese participants were randomized
to reduced sodium intake or usual care. Withdrawal of antihypertensive medication
was attempted after 3 months of intervention.Main Outcome Measure.—Diagnosis of high blood pressure at 1 or more follow-up visits, or treatment
with antihypertensive medication, or a cardiovascular event during follow-up
(range, 15-36 months; median, 29 months).Results.—The combined outcome measure was less frequent among those assigned
vs not assigned to reduced sodium intake (relative hazard ratio, 0.69; 95%
confidence interval [CI], 0.59-0.81; P<.001) and,
in obese participants, among those assigned vs not assigned to weight loss
(relative hazard ratio, 0.70; 95% CI, 0.57-0.87; P<.001).
Relative to usual care, hazard ratios among the obese participants were 0.60
(95% CI, 0.45-0.80; P<.001) for reduced sodium
intake alone, 0.64 (95% CI, 0.49-0.85; P=.002) for
weight loss alone, and 0.47 (95% CI, 0.35-0.64; P<.001)
for reduced sodium intake and weight loss combined. The frequency of cardiovascular
events during follow-up was similar in each of the 6 treatment groups.Conclusion.—Reduced sodium intake and weight loss constitute a feasible, effective,
and safe nonpharmacologic therapy of hypertension in older persons.
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TL;DR: In this article, an integrative model where leader behaviors mediate the relationship between leader traits and effectiveness is proposed, and the results indicate that leader behaviors tend to explain more variance in leadership effectiveness than leader traits.
Abstract: The leadership literature suffers from a lack of theoretical integration (Avolio, 2007, American Psychologist, 62, 25–33). This article addresses that lack of integration by developing an integrative trait-behavioral model of leadership effectiveness and then examining the relative validity of leader traits (gender, intelligence, personality) and behaviors (transformational-transactional, initiating structure-consideration) across 4 leadership effectiveness criteria (leader effectiveness, group performance, follower job satisfaction, satisfaction with leader). Combined, leader traits and behaviors explain a minimum of 31% of the variance in leadership effectiveness criteria. Leader behaviors tend to explain more variance in leadership effectiveness than leader traits, but results indicate that an integrative model where leader behaviors mediate the relationship between leader traits and effectiveness is warranted.
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TL;DR: The fifth edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar catalog as discussed by the authors contains 105,783 spectroscopically confirmed quasars, which is based upon the SDSS Seventh Data Release.
Abstract: We present the fifth edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog, which is based upon the SDSS Seventh Data Release. The catalog, which contains 105,783 spectroscopically confirmed quasars, represents the conclusion of the SDSS-I and SDSS-II quasar survey. The catalog consists of the SDSS objects that have luminosities larger than Mi = –22.0 (in a cosmology with H 0 = 70 km s–1 Mpc–1, Ω M = 0.3, and ΩΛ = 0.7), have at least one emission line with FWHM larger than 1000 km s–1 or have interesting/complex absorption features, are fainter than i 15.0, and have highly reliable redshifts. The catalog covers an area of 9380 deg2. The quasar redshifts range from 0.065 to 5.46, with a median value of 1.49; the catalog includes 1248 quasars at redshifts greater than 4, of which 56 are at redshifts greater than 5. The catalog contains 9210 quasars with i < 18; slightly over half of the entries have i < 19. For each object the catalog presents positions accurate to better than 01 rms per coordinate, five-band (ugriz) CCD-based photometry with typical accuracy of 0.03 mag, and information on the morphology and selection method. The catalog also contains radio, near-infrared, and X-ray emission properties of the quasars, when available, from other large-area surveys. The calibrated digital spectra cover the wavelength region 3800-9200 A at a spectral resolution of 2000; the spectra can be retrieved from the SDSS public database using the information provided in the catalog. Over 96% of the objects in the catalog were discovered by the SDSS. We also include a supplemental list of an additional 207 quasars with SDSS spectra whose archive photometric information is incomplete.
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TL;DR: The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) as discussed by the authors includes all survey-quality data taken through 2004 June, including five-band photometric data for 180 million objects selected over 6670 deg2 and 673,280 spectra of galaxies, quasars and stars selected from 4783 deg2 of those imaging data using the standard SDSS target selection algorithms.
Abstract: This paper describes the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through 2004 June. The data release includes five-band photometric data for 180 million objects selected over 6670 deg2 and 673,280 spectra of galaxies, quasars, and stars selected from 4783 deg2 of those imaging data using the standard SDSS target selection algorithms. These numbers represent a roughly 27% increment over those of the Third Data Release; all the data from previous data releases are included in the present release. The Fourth Data Release also includes an additional 131,840 spectra of objects selected using a variety of alternative algorithms, to address scientific issues ranging from the kinematics of stars in the Milky Way thick disk to populations of faint galaxies and quasars.
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Robert Langer | 281 | 2324 | 326306 |
Zhong Lin Wang | 245 | 2529 | 259003 |
Donald P. Schneider | 242 | 1622 | 263641 |
David J. Hunter | 213 | 1836 | 207050 |
Robert M. Califf | 196 | 1561 | 167961 |
Martin White | 196 | 2038 | 232387 |
Eric J. Topol | 193 | 1373 | 151025 |
Charles A. Dinarello | 190 | 1058 | 139668 |
Jing Wang | 184 | 4046 | 202769 |
Dennis S. Charney | 179 | 802 | 122408 |
David Haussler | 172 | 488 | 224960 |
Chad A. Mirkin | 164 | 1078 | 134254 |
Ian A. Wilson | 158 | 971 | 98221 |
David Cella | 156 | 1258 | 106402 |
Jay Hauser | 155 | 2145 | 132683 |