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http://www.n3kl.org/sun/noaa.html http://umtof.umd.edu/pm/flare/ http://spaceweather.com/glossary/flareclasses.html http://umtof.umd.edu/sem/ http://sec.noaa.gov/pmap/ http://sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/xray_5m.html http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/features/html/space_weather.html Following in the footsteps of the Dulls (1933) and Friedman et al (1963), three Israeli scientists have also found surprisingly high correlations between solar activity and psychiatric illnesses. "Numbers of first admissions per month for a single psychiatric unit, from 1977 to 1987, were examined for 1829 psychiatric inpatients to assess whether this measure was correlated with 10 parameters of geophysical activity. Four statistically significant values were 0.197 with level of solar radioflux at 2800 MHz in the corresponding month, -0.274 with sudden magnetic disturbances of the ionosphere, -0.216 with the index of geomagnetic activity, and -0.262 with the number of hours of positive ionization of the ionosphere in the corresponding month. Percentages of variance accounted for were very small." Quite understandably, these investigators concluded: "How to interpret properly associations of solar activity with human behaviors is yet impossible. The relative indifference of behavioral scientists to this question may reflect lack of an adequate theoretical framework relating to the question and the phenomenon." (Raps, Avi, et al; "Geophysical Variables and Behavior: LXIX. Solar Activity and Admission of Psychiatric Inpatients," Perceptual and Motor Skills, 74:449, 1992.) Eliyahu Stoupel, M.D., Ph.D. (This article is reproduced from the Bio-Electro-Magnetics Institute, vol1, no.1, (Spring 1989) with permission). The earth's natural magnetic field is variable. With suitably sensitive equipment, called magnetometers, it is possible to detect very small variations in the intensity of the earth's magnetic field. The intensity variations occur both over time, ie. temporal fluctuations, and over space, that is spatial gradients. The amplitude of these variations is about .35-10 trillionths of a Tesla. The temporal intensity variations, or pulsations, occur over a wide frequency range from DC levels changes; to frequencies much below one cycle per second (micropulsations); to brain wave frequencies (1-30 cycles per second); and higher frequencies. These temporal variations in the earth's magnetic field strength are called geomagnetic activity or GMA. As a result of energetic changes from events on the sun (and other objects in space), the geomagnetic activity of the earth is substantially influenced. Recent studies indicate that changes in geomagnetic activity can affect one's cardiovascular health. The GMA is measured according to the 6 most active hours of the 24 hour period. The level of those fluctuations can be broken down into 4 categories of gradation of each day: quiet (I), unsettled (II), active (III), and stormy (IV). The following links can be found between the level of the GMA and some physiological parameters and the natural history of diseases. I have identified: Higher hospital cardiovascular and cerebrovascular accident mortality on active and stormy days of GMA (III-IV); Higher number of deaths of outpatients from acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) on days with higher GMA; Higher diastolic blood pressure on days of higher GMA in healthy blood donors and hypertensive patients on both active and stormy GMA days; Higher number of blood platelets, prothrombin index, and platelet aggregation on days with higher GMA; Greater human blood plasma viscosity on unsettled (II) and active (III) GMA compared to quiet (I) days; Higher levels on human prolactin and 17-ketosteroid levels on higher GMA days; Higher levels of human growth hormone and 11(?)-ketosteroid levels in low GMA days; these changes show links between the human central nervous system, particularly hypothalamic function, and the level of GMA; More severe migraine headaches on days with high levels of GMA. This relationship is strong and significantly correlated; Significantly more frequent heart rhythm disturbances - surpraventricular and ventricular extrasystoles as detected with the electrocardiogram (ECG) on days with lowest (I) GMA; A higher number of sudden cardiovascular deaths, on these low (I) GMA days compared with the 3 higher GMA levels (II, III, IV); A greater involvement of the inferior wall of the heart than the anterior wall in acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) on quiet (I) GMA days. The anterior/inferior wall ratio increases with the level of the GMA; Changes in hospital mortality from acute myocardial infarction in the last 6 years compared with the previous 7 years. In the three higher levels of GMA (II, III, IV), the hospital mortality dropped significantly. In more than 1400 quiet (I) days, no significant change was seen. This brief summary of studies is only the beginning. More research in this area is urgently needed, if we are to understand the unique relationship between solar activity, GMA, and human health - relationships which persist from intrauterine life until death. (Editors' note: other articles of interest: Kuritzky, A., Y. Zoldan, R. Hering, E. Stoupel (1987). "Geomagnetic Activity and the Severity of the Migraine Attack", Headache February 1987, pp 87-89. Stoupel, E., et al. (1989). "Is Localization of acute myocardial infarction time-related?", Clin. Cardiol., 11, pp 45-49. Stoupel, E., M. Shimshoni (1991) "Hospital cardiovascular deaths and total distribution of deaths in 180... with different cosmic physical activity.. a correlative study (1974-1988)", Int. J. Biometeor., 35:6-9. Rapset, ?, et al. (1992). "Geophysical variables and behaviour... Solar activity and admission of psychiatric inpatients", Perceptual and Motor Skills, 74: 449-450. (Dr. E.G. Stoupel, cardiologist and Ph.D. scientist, is on the faculty at the Toor Heart Institute at the Bellinson Medical Center in Petah-Tiqva, Israel. In addition to his work in "pure" cardiology, he has published many papers related to time and geomagnetic and solar activity links with some human physiological and pathological changes. He is an international member of the Advisory Board of the Bio-Electro-Magnetics Institute). http://journals.imc.akh-wien.ac.at/kup/pdf/26.pdf Percept Mot Skills 1992 Apr;74(2):449-50 Geophysical variables and behavior: LXIX. Solar activity and admission of psychiatric patients. Raps A, Stoupel E, Shimshoni M. Numbers of first admissions per month for a single psychiatric unit, from 1977 to 1987, were examined for 1829 psychiatric inpatients to assess whether this measure was correlated with 10 parameters of geophysical activity. Four statistically significant values were 0.197 with level of solar radioflux at 2800 MHZ in the corresponding month, -0.274 with sudden magnetic disturbances of the ionosphere, -0.216 with the index of geomagnetic activity, and -0.262 with the number of hours of positive ionization of the ionosphere in the corresponding month. Percentages of variance accounted for were very small. PMID: 1594404 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] suicide rates and solar activity Parker & Walter 1982, Souetre et al. 1987, Maes et al. 1994 "The synchronization of biological circadian and circannual rhythms is broadly viewed as a result of photic solar effects. Evidence for non-photic solar effects on biota is also slowly being recognized. The ultrastructure of cardiomyocytes from rabbits, the time structure of blood pressure and heart rate of neonates, and the heart rate variability of human adults on earth and in space were examined during magnetically disturbed and quiet days, as were morbidity statistics. Alterations in both the about-daily (circadian) and about-weekly (circaseptan) components are observed during disturbed vs. quite days. The about-weekly period of neonatal blood pressure correlates with that of the local geomagnetic disturbance index K." The Biological Effects of Solar Activity. Breus TK, Pimenov KY, Cornelissen G, Halberg E, Syutkina EV, Baevsky RM, Petrov VM, Orth-Gomer K, Akerstedt T, Otsuka K, Watanabe Y, Chibisov SM. Biomed Pharmacother 2002;56 Suppl 2:273s-283s. BiblioCrono - No. 13 - 30/03/2003, Novidades em Cronobiologia e Neurociências, Laboratorio de Cronobiologia - LabCrono, Departamento de Fisiologia - UFRN Natal, RN Brasil, Prof. John Fontenele Ar.. "The influence of solar activity (SA) and geomagnetic activity (GMA) on human homeostasis has long been investigated. The aim of the present study was to analyse the relationship between monthly proton flux (>90 MeV) and other SA and GMA parameters and between proton flux and temporal (monthly) distribution of total and cardiovascular-related deaths. The data from 180 months (1974-1989) of distribution in the Beilinson Campus of the Rabin Medical Centre, Israel, and of 108 months (1983-1991) from the Kaunas Medical Academy, were analysed and compared with SA, GMA and space proton flux (>90 MeV). It was concluded: (1) monthly levels of SA, GMA and radiowave propagation (Fof2) are significantly and adversely correlated with monthly space proton flux (>90 MeV); (2) medical-biological phenomena that increase during periods of low solar and/or geomagnetic activity may be stimulated by physical processes provoked by the concomitant increase in proton flux; (3) the monthly number of deaths related (positively or negatively) to SA are significantly and adversely related to the space proton flux (>90 MeV)." Space proton flux and the temporal distribution of cardiovascular deaths, International Journal of Biometeorology, Abstract Volume 40 Issue 2 (1997) pp 113-116, E. Stoupel (1), J. Abramson (1), S. Domarkiene (2), M. Shimshoni (3), J. Sulkes (1) (1) Toor Heart Institute, Cardiology Division, Epidemiology Unit, Rabin Medical Centre, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tiqva, 49100 Israel (2) Institute of Cardiology, Kaunas Medical Academy, Lithuania (3) The Weizman Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Originally titled Macchie Solari (Sunspots), and retitled Autopsy by its American distributors, Armando Crispino's giallo has long been available on video, but little seen by the American audience. Anchor Bay's recent restoration and re-release on DVD and video has again brought this film to back into the spotlight, revealing a taught, beautiful, and grisly giallo. A wave of solar activity (hence the Italian title) is causing an outbreak of violence and suicide in Rome. This unfortunate occurrence is a boon to a young medical student, played by the lovely Mimsy Farmer. She is writing her thesis on the differences between real suicides and disguised murders. At the beginning of the film, we find her strung out, and near collapse after working tirelessly in the city morgue. Sent home after a creepy, walking-cadaver hallucination, she is confronted by an American tourist with a dark secret. When the woman turns up the next day on a slab at the morgue, Ms. Farmer is pulled into a tangled and lethal mystery. >From here, we meet a number of characters/suspects, including her boyfriend (English actor Ray Lovelock, the hippie hero of Let Sleeping Corpses Lie), her father (Carlo Cattaneo), and a violent, fast-driving priest (Barry Primus, in a terrifically whacked-out performance) who is brother (and Father) to the dead woman. Like most gialli, the plot is convoluted and contrived, and the mystery unsolvable. Much is made of Mimsy Farmer's obsession with death, sexual frigidity, and ambiguous relationship with her father, but director Crispino is little interested in subtext and motivation. Of course, one doesn't watch a film like this for the story and theme, but rather the cinematography, graphic violence, and over-the-top acting. Autopsy doesn't disappoint in any of these areas. Shot in Rome on a decent budget, Autopsy is a great film to look at. The colors are rich and vibrant. The camera work and editing, while not on par with Dario Argento, effectively conveys the lead character's paranoia and disorientation. There is little onscreen carnage after the opening suicide montage. To make up for it, director Crispino gives us good, long looks at Mimsy's research subject: cold, black-and-white photos of crime scenes, autopsies, and medical anomalies. While arguably a cheap ploy, these are real, grotesque, and sometimes strangely beautiful, and give the film an understated feeling of unease that a dozen fake splatter scenes couldn't equal. The good folks at Anchor Bay have done it again, rescuing this terrific little film from obscurity. It has a great 70's Euro atmosphere: the ancient architecture of Rome, car chases, and decadent sexuality. While it echoes some of Italian maestro Dario Argento's early film, Autopsy strikes out its own territory, a with distinct atmosphere of paranoia and creepy thrills. A Note on other Autopsies: a number of films were released in the early seventies under the title Autopsy: this film, Macchie Solari; the Spanish gore film by director Juan Logar; as well as a short documentary titled "Seeing with ones Own Eyes" (the literal translation of the Greek 'autopsy'). They are often confused. Scenes from one of these films turned up in the infamous Faces of Death 2. While it has been often attributed to Macchie Solari, the footage is, in fact, taken from the Spanish film. http://www.estec.esa.nl/wmwww/wma/spweather/workshops/SPW_W3/PROCEEDINGS_W3/babayev.pdf -- NEU FÜR ALLE - GMX MediaCenter - für Fotos, Musik, Dateien... 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