BACKGROUND The aim of this report was to estimate the prevalence of meldonium use in athletes competing in the Baku 2015 European Games to contribute to the surveillance of substances on the 2015 World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Monitoring Program. Meldonium is reported to be used by athletes to potentially enhance personal performance and shorten the recovery period after physical activity. M...

this study aims to understand certain linguistic and semantic resources for the text construction, namely the constructs of cohesion, coherence. the analysis of cohesive ties was conducted on the writing samples of 40 subjects (20 most coherent and 20 least coherent) iranian undergraduates of english. this prompted us to identify the dominant types of cohesive devices used in most coherent writ...

Weak ties play a significant role in the structures and the dynamics of community networks. Based on the contact process, we study numerically how weak ties influence the predictability of epidemic dynamics. We first investigate the effects of the degree of bridge nodes on the variabilities of both the arrival time and the prevalence of disease, and find out that the bridge node with a small de...

This paper examines whether the information sources used by knowledge workers have an impact on individual performance and creativity. Although it is widely recognized that new knowledge is created through the combination and exchange of existing knowledge, there is a large variety of knowledge sources available to individuals. In this study, we examine whether individual performance varies as ...

This article studies police reports in Baku province 1915–16 housed the State Historical Archive of Republic Azerbaijan. The written by detectives province’s gendarmerie reflect larger trends Baku’s changing socio-economic and political dynamics during First World War. expressed concern that rising cost living was hurting population, especially working-class Baku. warn economic troubles could m...

column Free AccessTHINKING ISSUESLoosening ties: permanently virtual teams and the melting iceberg of relationship Share on Author: Tony Clear Auckland University Technology TechnologyView Profile Authors Info & Claims ACM InroadsVolume 12Issue 3September 2021 pp 6–8https://doi.org/10.1145/3479419Online:14 August 2021Publication History 0citation156DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations0Total Download...

Are people who remain active as webloggers more socially connected to other users? How are the number and nature of social ties related to people's willingness to continue contributing content to a weblog? This study uses longitudinal data taken from Wallop, a weblogging system developed by Microsoft Research, to explore patterns of user activity. In its year long operation Wallop hosted a natu...