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Increasing Global Terrestrial Diurnal Temperature Range for 1980–2021
The 2021 IPCC report found that most studies show declining trends for the global diurnal temperature range (DTR) since the 1950s, decreasing mainly during 1960–1980. This issue is revisited here using an up‐to‐date in‐situ data set, Hadley Center Integrated Surface Database, constrained by rigorous station selection conditions. The global observed DTR trend was found to reverse during 1980–2021, increasing significantly at a rate of 0.091 ± 0.008°C decade−1. The trend was dominated by a faster rate of increasing daily maximum air temperature. This increasing observed trend in the past four decades was not fully captured in raw CMIP6 models, as models only partially capture the spatial patterns. With global CMIP6 outputs and regionally‐available observations, the global land DTR was then estimated, through emergent constraints, to be 0.063 ± 0.012°C decade−1. The study raises concern for risks of increasing DTR globally and provides new insights into global DTR assessment. Plain Language Summary In 2021, the IPCC reported a decrease in the near‐surface diurnal air temperature range (DTR) since the 1950s. However, using the in‐situ surface air temperature observations, the global DTR trend was found to reverse after the 1980s, as daily maximum air temperature increased faster than the daily minimum air temperature did between 1980 and 2021. The observed results for 1980–2014 were used to assess the historical simulations within CMIP6. Models generally depicted similar spatial variability as observed results but high variation existed between models. Most of the models did not capture the reversal of the global DTR trend and underestimated regional results. To narrow down the uncertainty and produce a complete global land DTR estimation, we applied the emergent constraint approach by combining observation data and model results. The global DTR trend from 1980 to 2014 was 0.063 ± 0.012°C decade−1. The constraining data was also used at a regional scale. It was shown that DTR trends for North America retained high uncertainty (−0.011 ± 0.026°C decade−1), while Europe and Asia showed reduced uncertainty with increasing DTR. Key Points The up‐to‐date Hadley Center Integrated Surface Database (HadISD) in‐situ data reveals a reversed global diurnal air temperature range (DTR) trend, increasing for 1980–2021 The observed spatial patterns are partially captured but the reversal trends are not shown by CMIP6 models The emergent constraint for CMIP6 models with HadISD estimates increasing DTR at the global scale
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Just breathe : meditation, mindfulness, movement, and more
A meditation guide for teens offers specific mindfulness exercises to help deal with day-to-day challenges and includes tips to lead a happier, healthier, and more connected life.
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GSDR
Extreme short-duration rainfall can cause devastating flooding that puts lives, infrastructure, and natural ecosystems at risk. It is therefore essential to understand how this type of extreme rainfall will change in a warmer world. A significant barrier to answering this question is the lack of sub-daily rainfall data available at the global scale. To this end, a global sub-daily rainfall dataset based on gauged observations has been collated. The dataset is highly variable in its spatial coverage, record length, completeness and, in its raw form, quality. This presents significant difficulties for many types of analyses. The dataset currently comprises 23 687 gauges with an average record length of 13 years. Apart from a few exceptions, the earliest records begin in the 1950s. The Global Sub-Daily Rainfall Dataset (GSDR) has wide applications, including improving our understanding of the nature and drivers of sub-daily rainfall extremes, improving and validating of high-resolution climate models, and developing a high-resolution gridded sub-daily rainfall dataset of indices.
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Meditation is an open sky : mindfulness for kids
\"Feeling mindful is feeling good! You know when you're having a bad day, you have that wobbly feeling inside and nothing seems to go right? Find a quiet place, sit down, and meditate! In this daily companion, kids of any age will learn simple exercises to help manage stress and emotions, find focus, and face challenges. They'll discover how to feel safe when scared, relax when anxious, spread kindness, and calm anger when frustrated. Simple, secular, and mainstream, this mindfulness book is an excellent tool for helping kids deal with the stresses of everyday life\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Peer support and reminiscence therapy for people with dementia and their family carers: a factorial pragmatic randomised trial
ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to evaluate peer support and reminiscence therapy, separately and together, in comparison with usual care for people with dementia and their family carers.DesignFactorial pragmatic randomised trial, analysed by treatment allocated, was used for this study.SettingThe trial ran in Community settings in England.ParticipantsPeople with dementia and their family carers were the participants.InterventionsTreatment as usual (TAU) plus one of the following: one-to-one peer support to family carers from experienced carers (Carer Supporter Programme; CSP), group reminiscence therapy (Remembering Yesterday, Caring Today; RYCT) for people with dementia and carers, both or neither.Main outcome measuresPrimary outcomes included health-related quality of life (SF-12) for carers and quality of life (QoL-AD) for people with dementia; secondary outcomes included quality of relationship for carers and people with dementia; both were collected by blinded assessors at baseline, 5 and 12 months (primary end point).ResultsOf 291 pairs recruited, we randomised 145 (50%) to CSP (71% uptake) and 194 (67%) to RYCT (61% uptake). CSP and RYCT, separately or together, were not effective in improving primary outcomes or most secondary outcomes. For CSP versus ‘no CSP’, adjusted difference in means was 0.52 points on the SF-12 (95% CI −1.28 to 2.32) and −0.08 points on the QoL-AD (95% CI −1.70 to 1.56). For RYCT versus ‘no RYCT’, the difference was 0.10 points on the SF-12 (95% CI −1.72 to 1.93) and 0.51 points on the QoL-AD (95% CI −1.17 to 2.08). However, carers reported better relationships with the people with dementia (difference 1.11, 95% CI 0.00 to 2.21, p=0.05). Comparison of combined intervention with TAU, and of intervention received, suggested differential impacts for carers and persons with dementia.ConclusionsThere is no evidence from the trial that either peer support or reminiscence is effective in improving the quality of life.Trial registration numberISRCTN37956201; Results.
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Yoga kids
Meet the Yoga Kids and have fun, relax, and learn a thing or two! Colorful pages are filled with simple stretches and lots of fun examples of yoga poses that anybody can do. This book isn't meant to be a \"how-to\" guide.
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Mindfulness Fills in the Blank Spaces Left by Affective Uncertainty Uplifting Adaptive Behaviors
Drawing on the integrative model of uncertainty tolerance, we aimed to investigate whether uncertainty relates to adaptive performance, at the within-person level. We argue that daily uncertainty at work will trigger negative affective reactions that, in turn, will minimize adaptive performance. Moreover, we focus on socio-cognitive mindfulness as a cross-level moderator of the indirect relationship of uncertainty on adaptive performance via negative affect. To capture changes in daily life and test our model, we conducted two diary studies across 5-working days: One with a sample of telecommuters (n = 101*5 = 505), and the other with a sample of non-telecommuters (n = 253*5 = 1,265). Study 1 took place between February and March of 2021 (during the mandatory confinement), and Study 2 occurred between April and May 2021 (out of the mandatory confinement). Both studies were conducted in Portugal. The multilevel results showed that at the day-level of analysis, uncertainty decreased adaptive performance through the enhanced negative affect. Moreover, at the person-level of analysis mindfulness moderated (a) the direct relationship of uncertainty to adaptive performance, and (b) the indirect relationship of uncertainty to adaptive performance via negative affect, in such a way that it became weaker when mindfulness was higher (multilevel-mediated moderation effect). This relation was different between Studies 1 and 2; that is, in Study 1, teleworkers who were high on mindfulness engaged in more adaptive performance when negative affect was high. In Study 2, adaptive performance significantly decreased, when negative affect was higher, even though this effect was weaker for mindful of individuals. The findings show that mindfulness helps to fill in the spaces of the affective uncertainty attenuating its detrimental effects.
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Rescue & Jessica : a life-changing friendship
\"Rescue thought he'd grow up to be a Seeing Eye dog - it's the family business, after all. But when he gets the news that he's better suited to being a service dog, he's worried that he's not up to the task. Then he meets Jessica, a girl whose life turned out differently from the way she'd imagined it, too. Now Jessica needs Rescue by her side to help her accomplish everyday things. And it turns out that Rescue can help Jessica see after all: a way forward, together- one step at a time.\"--Provided by publisher.
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The contribution of frailty, cognition, activity of daily life and comorbidities on outcome in acutely admitted patients over 80 years in European ICUs: the VIP2 study
PurposePremorbid conditions affect prognosis of acutely-ill aged patients. Several lines of evidence suggest geriatric syndromes need to be assessed but little is known on their relative effect on the 30-day survival after ICU admission. The primary aim of this study was to describe the prevalence of frailty, cognition decline and activity of daily life in addition to the presence of comorbidity and polypharmacy and to assess their influence on 30-day survival.MethodsProspective cohort study with 242 ICUs from 22 countries. Patients 80 years or above acutely admitted over a six months period to an ICU between May 2018 and May 2019 were included. In addition to common patients’ characteristics and disease severity, we collected information on specific geriatric syndromes as potential predictive factors for 30-day survival, frailty (Clinical Frailty scale) with a CFS > 4 defining frail patients, cognitive impairment (informant questionnaire on cognitive decline in the elderly (IQCODE) with IQCODE ≥ 3.5 defining cognitive decline, and disability (measured the activity of daily life with the Katz index) with ADL ≤ 4 defining disability. A Principal Component Analysis to identify co-linearity between geriatric syndromes was performed and from this a multivariable model was built with all geriatric information or only one: CFS, IQCODE or ADL. Akaike’s information criterion across imputations was used to evaluate the goodness of fit of our models.ResultsWe included 3920 patients with a median age of 84 years (IQR: 81–87), 53.3% males). 80% received at least one organ support. The median ICU length of stay was 3.88 days (IQR: 1.83–8). The ICU and 30-day survival were 72.5% and 61.2% respectively. The geriatric conditions were median (IQR): CFS: 4 (3–6); IQCODE: 3.19 (3–3.69); ADL: 6 (4–6); Comorbidity and Polypharmacy score (CPS): 10 (7–14). CFS, ADL and IQCODE were closely correlated. The multivariable analysis identified predictors of 1-month mortality (HR; 95% CI): Age (per 1 year increase): 1.02 (1.–1.03, p = 0.01), ICU admission diagnosis, sequential organ failure assessment score (SOFA) (per point): 1.15 (1.14–1.17, p < 0.0001) and CFS (per point): 1.1 (1.05–1.15, p < 0.001). CFS remained an independent factor after inclusion of life-sustaining treatment limitation in the model.ConclusionWe confirm that frailty assessment using the CFS is able to predict short-term mortality in elderly patients admitted to ICU. Other geriatric syndromes do not add improvement to the prediction model. Since CFS is easy to measure, it should be routinely collected for all elderly ICU patients in particular in connection to advance care plans, and should be used in decision making.
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