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Managing diabetes in people with dementia: a realist review
(2017-12-31)
Background: Dementia and diabetes mellitus are common long-term conditions that coexist in a large number of older people. People living with dementia and diabetes may be at increased risk of complications such as hypoglycaemic ...
Morphometric Characterization of Rat and Human Alveolar Macrophage Cell Models and their Response to Amiodarone using High Content Image Analysis
(2017-12-31)
Purpose. Progress to the clinic may be delayed or prevented when vacuolated or “foamy” alveolar macrophages are observed during non-clinical inhalation toxicology assessment. The first step in developing methods to study ...
An Investigation of the Degree of Market Power in the Greek Manufacturing and Service Industries
(2017-12-31)
This paper investigates the degree of market power in the Greek manufacturing and service industries over the period 1970–2007. The markup model developed by Hall (1988) and Roeger (1995) is taken into consideration where ...
Liberal Individualism and Deleuzean Relationality in Intellectual Disability
(2017-12-31)
Successful critiques of health policies for people with impaired cognition identify a need for alternatives that go beyond individualism. ‘Choice’ policy was examined as young people with severe intellectual disabilities ...
MIMO-OFDM Based Energy Harvesting Cooperative Communications Using Coalitional Game Algorithm
(2017-12-31)
In this paper, we consider the problem of cooperative communication between relays and base station in an advanced MIMO-OFDM framework, under the assumption that the relays are supplied by electric power drawn from energy ...
Evolutionary Considerations on the Emerging Subculture of the E-psychonauts and the Novel Psychoactive Substances : A Comeback to the Shamanism?
(2017-12-31)
BACKGROUND: Evolutionary research on drug abuse has hitherto been restricted to proximate studies, considering aetiology, mechanism, and ontogeny. However, in order to explain the recent emergency of a new behavioral pattern ...
Profiling fluency: an analysis of individual variation in disfluencies in adult males
(2017-12-31)
Individual variation in non-fluency behaviour in normally fluent (NF) adults, is investigated. Differences among speakers in the usage of a range of features such as filled and silent pauses, sound prolongations, repetition ...
The Nuclear Astrophysics program at n-TOF (CERN)
(EDP Sciences, 2017-12-30)
An important experimental program on Nuclear Astrophysics is being carried out at the n-TOF since several years, in order to address the still open issues in stellar and primordial nucleosynthesis. Several neutron capture ...
Faith, Belief and Fictionalism
(2017-12-27)
Is propositional religious faith constituted by belief? Recent debate hasfocussed on whether faith may be constituted by a positive non-doxastic cognitivestate, which can stand in place of belief. This article sets out and ...
Increased supraspinatus tendon thickness following fatigue loading in rotator cuff tendinopathy: : potential implications for exercise therapy.
(2017-12-26)
Background/aim Exercise imparts a load on tendon tissue that leads to changes in tendon properties. Studies suggest that loading immediately reduces tendon thickness, with a loss of this response in symptomatic tendinopathy. ...