Whether words are or are not activated within the lexicon of the nonused language is an important question for accounts of bilingual word production. Prior studies have not led to conclusive results, either because alternative accounts could be proposed for their findings or because activation could have been artificially induced by the experimental paradigms. Moreover, previous data only invol...

Start-ups often post updates during equity crowdfunding campaigns. However, little is known about the effects of such updates on crowd participation. We investigate this question by using hand-collected data from 71 funding campaigns and 39,399 investment decisions on two German equity crowdfunding portals. Using a combination of different empirical research techniques, we find that posting an ...

QUESTION Many breastfeeding mothers are concerned about taking medications that might affect their babies. Are there any guidelines on which drugs are safe? ANSWER Only a few drugs pose a clinically significant risk to breastfed babies. In general, antineoplastics, drugs of abuse, some anticonvulsants, ergot alkaloids, and radiopharmaceuticals should not be taken, and levels of amiodarone, cy...

Earthquakes occur on the earth’s surface as a result of rearrangement of terrestrial cortex or higher part of the mantle. The energy released in this process propagates over long distances in the form of elastic seismic waves [1]. In order to predict earthquakes many models have been proposed [2, 3]. Dynamics of an earthquake is so complicated that it is quite difficult to predict using availab...

En este año 2009 se cumple medio siglo de la primera regulación espećıfica sobre funciones y formación necesaria para ejercer en el ambito de la enfermeŕıa del trabajo. Desde entonces hasta nuestros d́ıas el nivel de exigencia a la hora de garantizar unas adecuadas condiciones de trabajo en el que la salud de los trabajadores no se vea afectada dista mucho de la que podŕıa pedirse hace cinco d e...