BACKGROUND: Observational studies have shown that attentional bias for smoking-related cues is associated with increased craving and relapse. Laboratory experiments have shown that manipulating attentional bias may change...
BACKGROUND: Ambulatory and/or home monitoring are recommended in the UK and the US for the diagnosis of hypertension but little is known about their acceptability. AIM: To determine the acceptability of different methods of...
BACKGROUND: Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and prevalence varies by ethnic group. The diagnosis and management of blood pressure are informed by guidelines largely based on data from white...
Pt(II) di-ynes and poly-ynes incorporating 5,5’- and 6,6’-disubstituted 2,2’-bipyridines were prepared following conventional Sonogashira and Hagihara dehydrohalogenation reaction protocols. Using Pt(II) dimers and polymers as a...
Pt(II) di-ynes and poly-ynes incorporating 5,5’- and 6,6’-disubstituted 2,2’-bipyridines were prepared following conventional Sonogashira and Hagihara dehydrohalogenation reaction protocols. Using Pt(II) dimers and polymers as a...
Molecular imaging of cardiovascular disease is a powerful clinical and experimental approach that can inform our understanding of atherosclerosis biology. Complementing cross-sectional imaging techniques that provide detailed...
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type-1 (HIV-1) is the causative agent of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Combination antiviral therapy has proven to be particularly effective at suppressing viral replication...
Ubiquitous environments are not fixed in time. Entities are constantly evolving; they are dynamic. Ubiquitous applications therefore have a strong need to adapt during their execution and react to the context changes, and...
Delivering in water has recently become popular, and more hospitals now offer water birth. However, water birth is still considered an alternative birthing method. Water birth refers to childbirth, usually human, that occurs in...
Hetero-aryl incorporated acetylide-functionalized pyridinyl ligands (L1-6) with the general formula Py-C≡C-Ar (Py = pyridine and Ar = thiophene-2-yl, 2,2'-bithiophene]-5-yl, 2,2':5',2''-terthiophene]-5-yl...
Searching for the best sense for a polysemous word remains one of the greatest challenges in the representation of biomedical text. To this end, Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) algorithms mostly rely on an External Source of...
Bismuth Hall effect sensors with active sizes in the range of 0.1-2 μm have been fabricated by electron beam lithography and lift-off techniques for applications in scanning Hall probe microscopy. The Hall coefficients, offset...
Recently, Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) consider one of the major fields of study in educational institutions, caused by the necessity to identify their knowledge value and success. Hence, based on the updated DeLone and...
This article argues that Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater subverts the colonial representation of foreign places by providing a counter geographical narrative of English imperialism. De Quincey’s...
This paper analyzes tax competition between countries, which differ in their country-specific risks. We show that the outcome of asymmetric tax competition crucially depends on the ability of multinational firms to shift...
This work presents a novel learning architecture for the recognition and prediction of walking activity and gait period, respectively, using wearable sensors. This approach is composed of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), a...