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Are Electronic Cigarettes an Effective Aid to Smoking Cessation or Reduction Among Vulnerable Groups? A Systematic Review of Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence.
INTRODUCTION: Smoking prevalence remains high in some vulnerable groups, including those who misuse substances, have a mental illness, are homeless, or are involved with the criminal justice system. E-cigarette use is increasing...
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Differences in Longer-Term Smoking Abstinence After Treatment by Specialist or Nonspecialist Advisors
INTRODUCTION: Smokers receiving support in specialist centers tend to have a higher short-term quit rate, compared with those receiving support in other settings from professionals for whom smoking cessation is only a part of...
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Relapse to smoking and health-related quality of life
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have shown that smoking and smoking cessation may be associated with health-related quality of life (HRQoL). In this study, we compared changes in HRQoL in people who maintained abstinence with...
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Winthrop Student Killed in Weekend Car Accident
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Hughes, 21, of Conway, S.C., was a senior majoring in special education at Winthrop. Hughes was an active member of the Winthrop Quidditch Team. Students Christian McBee and Caitlin Livingston were also injured in the accident.
Published by: Winthrop University
The Effect of Exercise Training on Glucose Homeostasis and Insulin Signaling in Type 1 Diabetic Female Mice
Caitlin O'Neill
Jan 01, 0001
Insulin is a hormone that is critical in the maintenance of blood glucose, which is a critical source of energy for all cells. In type 1 diabetics, glucose homeostasis is impaired because of a lack of sufficient insulin...
Published by: Ursinus College
Consumed by the Broken Staccato: A Feminist Reading of Zelda Fitzgerald's <em>Save Me the Waltz</em>
Caitlin McGraw
Jan 01, 0001
Zelda Fitzgerald's Save Me the Waltz is a novel in which art, text, and body intersect to become one. Her writing techniques, though often criticized, preserve the artistic liberation and affective state for which Fitzgerald...
Published by: Winthrop University
Protein Regulators of Phosphoinositides as Promoters of Cancer Metastasis
Caitlin Anne Sengelaub
Jan 01, 0001
Metastasis, the spread of cancer cells from a primary tumor to a distal organ, represents the predominant cause of mortality in patients with solid tumors. However, the molecular mechanisms underpinning this multistep...
Published by: Rockefeller University
Bosnia: Doomed to Failure or a Rising Hope?
Caitlin V Moore
Jan 01, 0001
Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country that suffers from a lack of a national identity as it has three main ethnic groups, Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs, who are all fighting for power. After the Bosnian war, which lasted from...
Published by: Ursinus College
Determining Functional Interactions Between Ribosomal Co-translational Chaperone Complexes RAC and NAC (Btt1) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Caitlin Wrinn
Jan 01, 0001
Proteins are essential, functionally diverse macromolecules found in all living cells. Their structure is integral to their function, and they can fold in a variety of different conformations, which results in a change or loss...
Published by: Ursinus College
Digital Health Behavioural Interventions to Support Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour in Adults after Stroke
Background: As the global prevalence of stroke continues to rise, it becomes increasingly pressing to investigate digital health behaviour change interventions that promote physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour for...
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Reduced social risk-taking in depression.
Evolutionary models of depression posit that depressed mood represents an adaptive response to unacceptably low social status, motivating the inhibition of social risk-taking in favor of submissive behaviors which reduce the...
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The Role of DNA Methylation in Defining the Vocal Learning Transcriptome of the Zebra Finch
Caitlin Sun Gilbert
Jan 01, 0001
Vocal learning is a rare, complex behavior which is a critical component of human spoken language acquisition. It is convergent across several independent lineages of birds and mammals, including songbirds and humans. The...
Published by: Rockefeller University
Anxiety and the development and maintenance of anorexia nervosa

Background: Several aetiological models of anorexia nervosa (AN) hold non-eating/weight-gain-related anxiety as a factor relevant to the onset and maintenance of the disorder. Longitudinal studies that allow assessment of...

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Protocol for the Work Engagement and Well-being Study (SWELL)
INTRODUCTION: Mental ill health is a major cause of disability. Workplaces are attractive for preventative interventions since most adults work; meanwhile, employers are interested in improving employees' well-being and...
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The devil's in the detail
Models of memory propose that separate systems underpin the storage and recollection of specific events from our past (e.g., the first day at school), and of the generic structure of our experiences (e.g., how lonely I am), and...
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Fractured Pasts
We examined the organization of past and future affective autobiographical knowledge in sexual-trauma survivors compared with control participants. Participants (N = 113) divided their past (and future) life into chapters (e.g....
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