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Examining the Impacts of Technology and Trust on I-Voting Acceptance in the COVID-19 Aftermath
This article presents an empirical study of influence of the domain-specific factors of trust in the electoral system and administration, trust in technology, citizens' attitudes toward voting, and COVID-19 conditions on the...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
The influence of the physical environment on self-recovery after disasters in Nepal and the Philippines
S Sargeant, A Finlayson, T Dijkstra, B. Flinn, H Schofield, L Miranda Morel, J Twigg, E Lovell, Victoria Stephenson, B.R Adhikari
Nov 30, 2020
Following a disaster, the majority of families rebuild their homes themselves. In this paper, we consider how the physical environment influences such ‘self-recovery’ by investigating disasters in the Philippines (typhoons...
A Modified Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Rating Scale.
Marie-Therese Grötsch, Gesine Respondek, Carlo Colosimo, Yaroslau Compta, Jean Christophe Corvol, Joaquim Ferreira, Meret Koroni Huber, Martin Klietz, Lea FM Krey, Johannes Levin, Milica Jecmenica-Lukic, Daniel Macías-García, Wassilios G Meissner, Pablo Mir, Huw Morris, Christer Nilsson, James B Rowe, Klaus Seppi, Maria Stamelou, John C van Swieten, Gregor Wenning, Teodoro del Ser, Lawrence I Golbe, Günter U Höglinger, the ProPSP Study Group, and the Movement Disorder Society-Endorsed PSP Study Group Describe PSP Study Group
Jan 26, 2021
BACKGROUND: The Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Rating Scale is a prospectively validated physician-rated measure of disease severity for progressive supranuclear palsy. We hypothesized that, according to experts' opinion...
<i>Patrie, peuple, amitié</i>
Claire White
Jan 10, 2019
In his 1846 study of the People, Jules Michelet championed the peasant as the beating heart of the French nation. His libidinal attachment to a particular place, indeed to a particular soil, encapsulated the fundamental ties...
Is freedom of the press required for a liberal democracy
Joshua Barrett
Oct 07, 2014
Democracies within states have become more predominant than at any other point in history. Whether this shift is directing towards liberal democracies, however, has yet to be determined. This article focuses on freedom of the...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Exploration of New Tax System in China
Recent years have witnessed increasingly heavy pressure for China’s economy to promote the transformation and upgrading of economy. The structure of paper is as follows. First is an introduction. Second is a roundup of...
Published by: Cambridge Journal of China Studies
High-throughput characterization of the role of non-B DNA motifs on promoter function.
Ilias Georgakopoulos-Soares, Jesus Victorino, Guillermo E Parada, Vikram Agarwal, Jingjing Zhao, Hei Yuen Wong, Mubarak Ishaq Umar, Orry Elor, Allan Muhwezi, Joon-Yong An, Stephan J Sanders, Chun Kit Kwok, Fumitaka Inoue, Martin Hemberg, Nadav Ahituv
Jun 16, 2022
lternative DNA conformations, termed non-B DNA structures, can affect transcription, but the underlying mechanisms and their functional impact have not been systematically characterized. Here, we used computational genomic...
The impact of economic factors on the relationships between psychological contract breach and work outcomes
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the macro-economic factors that may moderate the psychological contract breach and work outcome relationship.
Design/methodology/ approach: This study conducted a...
Design/methodology/ approach: This study conducted a...
The sum-of-squares hierarchy on the sphere and applications in quantum information theory
Abstract: We consider the problem of maximizing a homogeneous polynomial on the unit sphere and its hierarchy of sum-of-squares relaxations. Exploiting the polynomial kernel technique, we obtain a quadratic improvement of the...
Age-specific breast cancer risk by body mass index and familial risk
John L Hopper, Gillian S Dite, Robert J Macinnis, Yuyan Liao, Nur Zeinomar, Julia A Knight, Melissa C Southey, Roger L Milne, Wendy K Chung, Graham G Giles, Jeanine M Genkinger, Sue-Anne McLachlan, Michael L Friedlander, Antonis C Antoniou, Prue C Weideman, Gord Glendon, Stephanie Nesci, kConFab Investigators, Irene L Andrulis, Saundra S Buys, Mary B Daly, Esther M John, Kelly Anne Phillips, Mary Beth Terry
Dec 04, 2018
BACKGROUND: The association between body mass index (BMI) and risk of breast cancer depends on time of life, but it is unknown whether this association depends on a woman's familial risk. METHODS: We conducted a prospective...
Body Mass Index Breast and Ovarian Analysis of Disease Incidence and Carrier Estimation Algorithm Breast Cancer familial risk Gene–environment interaction Adult Age Factors Aged Australia Body Mass Index Breast Neoplasms Canada Female Follow-Up Studies Humans Incidence Medical History Taking Middle Aged New Zealand Postmenopause Premenopause Prospective Studies Registries Risk Factors United States Young Adult
Harveian Oration 2016
Stephen O'Rahilly
May 21, 2018
The excitement of clinical science was first made apparent to me through the somewhat theatrical medium of the medical ‘grand round’. In the 1980s, at both Hammersmith Hospital and Oxford, where I undertook postgraduate...
Impact of climate change on volcanic processes
Abstract The impacts of volcanic eruptions on climate are increasingly well understood, but the mirror question of how climate changes affect volcanic systems and processes, which we term...
TJ Aubry, JI Farquharson, CR Rowell, SFL Watt, V Pinel, F Beckett, J Fasullo, PO Hopcroft, DM Pyle, A Schmidt, JS Sykes
Jun 09, 2022
Twiplomacy in the age of Donald Trump
This study employs digital methods in conjunction with traditional content and discourse analyses to explore how the US President Donald Trump conducts diplomacy on Twitter and how, if at all, diplomatic entities around the...
Using the ELM to Explore the Impact of Fake News on Panic Vaccination Intention
The study explores the effects of COVID-19 vaccine fake news on social media from the perspective of the elaboration likelihood model (ELM). The research model theorizes that factors of the central route and factors of the...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Twiplomacy in the age of Donald Trump
This study employs digital methods in conjunction with traditional content and discourse analyses to explore how the US President Donald Trump conducts diplomacy on Twitter and how, if at all, diplomatic entities around the...
Retention of Regional French Vocabulary
Anne Violin-Wigent
Sep 30, 2014
With the development of mass media and compulsory state education, standardFrench has extended its scope, at the detriment of regional languages and dialects. In this study, I investigate the extent to which regional vocabulary...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
Functional Analysis and Fine Mapping of the 9p22.2 Ovarian Cancer Susceptibility Locus.
Melissa A Buckley, Nicholas T Woods, Jonathan P Tyrer, Gustavo Mendoza-Fandiño, Kate Lawrenson, Dennis J Hazelett, Hamed S Najafabadi, Anxhela Gjyshi, Renato S Carvalho, Paulo C Lyra, Simon G Coetzee, Howard C Shen, Ally W Yang, Madalene A Earp, Sean J Yoder, Harvey Risch, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Susan J Ramus, Catherine M Phelan, Gerhard A Coetzee, Houtan Noushmehr, Timothy R Hughes, Thomas A Sellers, Ellen L Goode, Paul D Pharoah, Simon A Gayther, Alvaro NA Monteiro, Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium
Dec 18, 2018
Genome-wide association studies have identified 40 ovarian cancer risk loci. However, the mechanisms underlying these associations remain elusive. In this study, we conducted a two-pronged approach to identify candidate causal...
Base Sequence Carcinoma Ovarian Epithelial Cell Cycle Proteins Cell Line Tumor Chromosome Mapping Chromosomes Human Pair 9 Cystadenocarcinoma Serous DNA Neoplasm DNA-Binding Proteins Female Genetic Predisposition to Disease Genome-Wide Association Study HEK293 Cells Humans Linkage Disequilibrium Ovarian Neoplasms Polymorphism Single Nucleotide
F.W.J. Schelling - On the Relationship of the Plastic Arts to Nature
Jason M. Wirth
Apr 05, 2022
This is Schelling’s most notable public address. Its length and difficulty prompt one to wonder how many of his audience were able to follow it, but it remains a seminal text to read and study, one that brings together in...
Published by: Memorial University Libraries
The differential effects of oil demand and supply shocks on the global economy
We employ a set of sign restrictions on the impulse responses of a Global VAR model, estimated for 38 countries/regions over the period 1979Q2-2011Q2, as well as bounds on impact price elasticities of oil supply and oil demand...
Clinical trials (and tribulations)
There have been immediate and profound impacts of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 on healthcare services worldwide with major consequences for non-COVID-19 related healthcare. Alongside efforts to reconfigure services and enable...
Getting the most out of maths
Ciara E Dangerfield, I David Abrahams, Chris Budd, Matt Butchers, Michael E Cates, Alan R Champneys, Christine SM Currie, Jessica Enright, Julia R Gog, Alain Goriely, T Déirdre Hollingsworth, Rebecca B Hoyle, Ini Professional Services, Valerie Isham, Joanna Jordan, Maha H Kaouri, Kostas Kavoussanakis, Jane Leeks, Philip K Maini, Christie Marr, Clare Merritt, Denis Mollison, Surajit Ray, Robin N Thompson, Alexandra Wakefield, Dawn Wasley
Dec 08, 2022
In March 2020 mathematics became a key part of the scientific advice to the UK government on the pandemic response to COVID-19. Mathematical and statistical modelling provided critical information on the spread of the virus and...
Effect of rounded corners on the magnetic properties of pyramidal-shaped shell structures
In recent years, the advance of novel chemical growth techniques has led to the fabrication of complex, three-dimensional magnetic nanostructures. The corners and edges of such realistic geometries are generally not sharp but...
Understanding the impact of the built environment mosaic on rainfall-runoff behaviour
Despite the importance of urban flooding, there are surprisingly few experimental studies of observed flood events from high-resolution hydrological data in urban systems to inform model development and parameterisation. The...
Understanding the impact of the built environment mosaic on rainfall-runoff behaviour
Despite the importance of urban flooding, there are surprisingly few experimental studies of observed flood events from high-resolution hydrological data in urban systems to inform model development and parameterisation. The...
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