BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Smoking fewer cigarettes per day may increase the chances of stopping smoking. Capping the number of cigarettes per pack is a promising policy option, but the causal impact of such a change is unknown. This...
The COVID-19 pandemic led educators to quickly pivot to continue teaching. Negative effects include exacerbated academic achievement gaps between SES groups, less access to health services, aggravated digital divides, widened...
The theme for this second annual conference was "Soaring to Success: Reaching New Heights with our Centers, Staff, and Students." Winthrop faculty and staff members taught two of the break-out sessions: Reaching New Heights: Be...
In May 2015, Ms. Hebert & Dr. Gibson received $1,483.00 from Winthrop University's Research Council to fund the research project, Examining Assisted Living Residents' Participation in a Group-Based Art Therapy Program. The aim...
The term "cult" has various definitions in academic discourse, including religious or quasi-religious groups and small, ideologically aligned communities. This paper explores the complexity of the term, its alternative labels...
The following is a review of Peter Gøtzsche's "Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare," which focuses on the corruption that exists in the pharmaceutical industries and in the healthcare...
The allocation of scarce resources is a complex higher education decision problem, especially when it comes to budget constraints. Therefore, the authors propose a multicriteria web-based decision support system for resource...
The world is in crisis due to excess plastic waste. Each year, 400 tons are produced globally, and with no effective or safe way for their degradation, plastic waste is increasing uncontrollably. The increasing plastic waste is...
Building on a summary of how turbulence influences biological systems, we reviewed key phytoplankton-turbulence laboratory experiments (after Peters and Redondo (1997) and Peters and Marrasé (2000)) to provide a current overview...
A Trypanosoma brucei cell line is described that produces a visual readout of proteasome activity. The cell line contains an integrated transgene encoding an ubiquitin-green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusion polypeptide...
The following is a review of Peter Gøtzsche's "Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare," which focuses on the corruption that exists in the pharmaceutical industries and in the healthcare...
The reasons why cancer arises in children are not fully understood. Children with biallelic mutations in the essential DNA repair factor BRCA2 are highly predisposed to develop the most common pediatric brain cancer...
Building on a summary of how turbulence influences biological systems, we reviewed key phytoplankton-turbulence laboratory experiments (after Peters and Redondo (1997) and Peters and Marrasé (2000)) to provide a current overview...
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High-Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) is a widely applicable purification technique with uses in the biochemical, medical, and forensic disciplines. The mixture is dissolved in a mobile phase which is pumped past the...
Many meta-analysis models contain multiple parameters, for example due to multiple outcomes, multiple treatments or multiple regression coefficients. In particular, meta-regression models may contain multiple study-level...
There is much excitement around the use of advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs), including cell and gene treatments, in Parkinson's disease (PD). However, taking an ATMP to clinical trials in patients with PD is complex....