ABSTRACTThe aim of this study was to assess the usability of a new Internet-based Caregiver Support Service (ICSS) and evaluate its effects on health outcomes of Chinese Canadians who cared for a family member with dementia. Demographic and questionnaire data were collected from 28 participants, and in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 participants. Results showed that non-users reported ...

According to a report on industrial control system (ICS) security by ICS-CERT (2012), the number of incident reports in 2012 had multiplied to five times their 2010 level. The etiology of this rise is the integration of open and standardised technologies that are traditionally found in IT environments into ICS components, and the interconnection of ICSs to corporate networks and the internet. A...

It has been suggested that septal nuclei are important in the control of behavior during various reward and non-reward situations. In the present study, neuronal activity was recorded from rat septal nuclei during discrimination of conditioned sensory stimuli (CSs) of the medial forebrain bundle associated with or without a reward (sucrose solution or intracranial self-stimulation, ICSS). Rats ...

Drugs of abuse alter expression of AMPA-type glutamate receptor subunits (GluRs) in the nucleus accumbens (NAc), a key component of brain reward systems. The impact of this regulation on general motivational states is unclear. Here, we used herpes simplex virus vectors to examine how transient increases in the expression of GluR1 or GluR2 protein in the shell component of NAc affect the rewardi...

Today’s Industrial Control Systems (ICSs) operating in critical infrastructures (CIs) are becoming more and more complex, moreover they are extensively interconnected with corporate information systems for monitoring, management and maintenance. This increasingly exposes ICSs to modern advanced cyber threats. Existing security solutions try to prevent, detect, and react to cyber threats by empl...

In the runway model of intracranial self-stimulation (ICSS) experimentation, the experimental animal is timed in running a fixed distance to depress a lever that releases electrical stimulation to an electrode implanted along its medial forebrain bundle. This ICSS has both a reward and a motivational component. Using the runway method and priming stimulation, we designed an experimental method ...

Severe asthma is defined as asthma that requires treatment with high-dose inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) plus a second controller and/or systemic corticosteroids to prevent it from becoming uncontrolled or that remains uncontrolled despite this therapy. This definition has limitations: 1) it does not define any biological characteristic that distinguishes severe asthma from asthma in general an...

This study investigates the dark side of biomass technology innovations on households’ subjective well-being (SWB) in Uganda. The concerns households moving away from intangible cultural cooking heritages that they have preserved for a long time. These are important to understand as contribute policy decisions sustainable society transformation (sustainability transitions) clean energy sector. ...

Increasing dependence on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) especially the Internet in Industrial Control Systems (ICS) has made these systems primary target of cyber-attacks. As ICS are extensively used Critical Infrastructures (CI), this makes CI more vulnerable to cyber-attacks their protection becomes an important issue. On other hand, cyberattacks can exploit not only softwar...