Publications by authors named "J W Head"
Background/objectives: This study examined the association between adherence to the Mediterranean dietary approaches to stop hypertension Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay (MIND) diet, its components, and recurrent depressive symptoms (DepSs).
Methods: The analyses included 4824 participants (73% men, mean age = 61; SD = 5.9) from the British Whitehall II cohort study.
Many European countries have increased retirement ages to address the challenge of population ageing. However, job strain which is the combination of high job demands and low job control may be an obstacle to extending the working lives of older workers. Job strain is associated with poor health and early work exit among older workers, but less is known about whether job strain impacts working life expectancy (WLE)-an increasingly employed summary measure capturing the length of working lives.
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- Coccidioidomycosis is a fungal infection mainly transmitted through inhaling spores, but studying its airborne aspects has been difficult due to low recovery rates from air samples.
- Researchers used uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) with air samplers to capture and analyze spores in eastern San Luis Obispo County, California, where the fungus is present in soil.
- During September 2023, they conducted 41 flights and found fungal DNA in 2 out of 41 air samples, marking the highest airborne detection known, which could advance knowledge of fungal dispersal in challenging environments like dust storms and wildfires.
Remote sensing observations have shown that the far side of the Moon (lunar farside) has different geology and rock composition to those of the nearside, including the abundances of potassium, rare earth elements, and phosphorus (collectively known as KREEP). The Chang'e-6 (CE-6) spacecraft collected samples from the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin on the farside and brought them to Earth. We used lead-lead and rubidium-strontium isotope systems to date low-titanium basalt in a CE-6 sample, finding a consistent age of 2830 (±5) million years.
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- The study investigates how elementary school eligibility affects COVID-19 incidence among children, highlighting its potential implications for future epidemic responses.
- Data was collected from California's pediatric COVID-19 cases between May 2020 and December 2022, focusing on children near the age threshold for school attendance.
- Results showed that kindergarten-eligible children had significantly higher COVID-19 incidence rates compared to those just over the eligibility age, even after accounting for testing biases.