This study investigates the link between incarceration and health behavior among a sample of young adults from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (N = 1,670). The association is analyzed using propensity score methods and a strategic comparison group: respondents who have been convicted of crimes, but not incarcerated. Findings suggest that former inmates consume more fast foo...

Recognition of a transient, focal neurologic dysfunction after a seizure is important when evaluating patients with idiopathic epilepsy. Todd's palsy, a transient focal weakness after a seizure, is a highly accurate clinical sign indicative of a contralateral, cerebral epileptic focus. In contrast, a transient, lateralized hyperkinetic motor behavior from a contralateral, hemispheric ictal focu...

This paper proposes the examination of IS post-adoptive behavior from four different perspectives: 1) the traditional perspective grounded in TAM and research on habit, 2) the ecological perspective which emphasizes the interaction of users with IT without the necessity of cognition, 3) the affect-object perspective which highlights the role of emotion in determining behavior, and 4) the sensem...

In the last decades, numerical modeling has been developed as the common method to investigate solute transport in groundwater. Thereby in science, various numerical procedures have been applied for understanding complex processes of transport in highly heterogeneous aquifers. Beside this, numerical modeling of transport is also standard practice in engineering and consulting. The numerical app...

The adsorption of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrogen (N2) has been studied on potassium-exchanged (95%) binder-free beads Y zeolite through single, binary, ternary fixed bed breakthrough experiments, covering the temperature range between 313 423 K a pressure up to 350 kPa. At kPa, single-component data obtained showed that amounts adsorbed CO2, CH4, N2 are around 6.42, 1.45, 0.6...

In July 2012, Congress passed the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA). The Advancing Breakthrough Therapies for Patients Act was incorporated into a Title of FDASIA to expedite clinical development of new, potential "breakthrough" drugs or treatments that show dramatic responses in early-phase studies. Using this regulatory pathway, once a promising new drug candidat...

background hepatitis b virus (hbv) infection is a serious public health problem in china and worldwide. mother-to-child transmission is one of hbv’s main transmission routes in highly endemic regions. genome-wide association studies (gwas) identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (snps) at hla loci as associated with hbv infection. however, the mechanisms of hbv perinatal transmission and break...

Cash-crop diffusion in colonial Africa was uneven and defied colonizers’ expectations efforts, especially for cotton. This study investigates how agricultural seasonality affected African farmers’ cotton adoption, circa 1900–1960. A contrast between British Uganda the interior of French West demonstrates that a short rainy season resulting farming cycles generated seasonal labor bottlenecks foo...