Art. IX.—Lāmaist Graces before Meat

Persuasion, Social Graces, and Computer Security

Although computer users want to behave securely, they often lack the motivation and confidence to protect themselves and their computers. In this paper, we propose a framework that harnesses aspects of social interaction and the Media Equation for designing a novel approach to persuasive technology for computer security. We then apply this framework to anti-virus software, and show how this soc...

Sources of Poultry Meat Contamination with Thermophilic Campylobacter before Slaughter

The possible sources of Campylobacter spp. in poultry meat before slaughter were studied by examining samples of feathers, cloaca swabs, litter swabs, transport coops, rinse water from coop washing equipment, and chicken breast supports in the slaughter line just before stunning. The samples were collected from 8 broiler houses and from 8 different producers, from a poultry integration system i...

Meat and Meat Products

Oral health and frailty in the medieval English cemetery of St Mary Graces.

The analysis of oral pathologies is routinely a part of bioarcheological and paleopathological investigations. Oral health, while certainly interesting by itself, is also potentially informative about general or systemic health. Numerous studies within modern populations have shown associations between oral pathologies and other diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, certain types of cancer,...

Glibenclamide and metfoRmin versus stAndard care in gEstational diabeteS (GRACES): a feasibility open label randomised trial

BACKGROUND Metformin is widely used to treat gestational diabetes (GDM), but many women remain hyperglycaemic and require additional therapy. We aimed to determine recruitment rate and participant throughput in a randomised trial of glibenclamide compared with standard therapy insulin (added to maximum tolerated metformin) for treatment of GDM. METHODS We conducted an open label feasibility s...