The U.S. nuclear industry is turning up the power on old reactors, spurring quiet debate over the safety of pushing aging equipment beyond its original specifications.
Therefore, we ran a binomial GLMM to test which variables could predict whether an action would be successful or not (1/0) and included the following fixed factors: technique used (pull or push), age (juveniles versus adults), sex and test block (1, 2 or 3).
In London, there's even a term for triathletes pushing middle age: Mamils, which stands for middle-aged men in Lycra.
He demonstrates why the critical cliché of "mixing high and low" is pushing retirement age.
Mr. Pascal and Mr. Rapp may be pushing middle age, but they still exude an embattled ingenuousness.
Generational renewal accounts for some of it: Mr Proglio, Mr Mestrallet, Mr Pringuet and Mr Hertemann are all pushing retirement age.
Now paunchy and pushing middle age, with spouses, divorces and children, they remember the friendships formed hammering rock, the soccer games in the stoneyard, the rivalry between carvers and masons, the occasional drug-taking that prompted the phrase "stoned yard".
To examine whether the persistence of the techniques used differed between conditions, we calculated a binomial GLMM with technique (push/pull) for each individual as the dependent variable and the following fixed factors: session number (1 30), condition (pull, push, free pull, free push), age (juveniles versus adults) and sex.
Surely pushing this ageing hardware to the limits, we get the dense downtown with its soaring skyscrapers and murky, rubbish-strewn back alleys.
