Abstract Background COVID19 is a high burden for medicine and society as still no specific therapy exists. Most patients depend on symptomatic treatment, comparable to the treatment in common respiratory infection e.g., Acetaminophen or Ibuprofen. Many cases of show mild forms without need hospitalization. In this randomized, open-label, multicentre, comparative trial we analysed efficacy, safe...

We propose that self-control involves making decisions and behaving in a manner consistent with high level, as compared to low level, construals of a situation. Activation of high level construals (which capture global, superordinate, primary features of an event) should lead to greater self-control than activation of low level construals (which capture local, subordinate, secondary features). ...

Hello! It is a gorgeous day, balmy and sunny, I'm feeling great (thank you). That is, when not thinking about the massive surge in infections my country due to Delta variant of Terrible Pandemic (TP). Which doesn't want go away. Indeed, it will away unless we band together take this much more seriously than have been. So, won't away, because ‘taking seriously’ going happen. But at least no parr...

As Duckworth and Kern (2011) note, currently over 1% of the abstracts in PsycInfo are indexed by "selfcontrol" or one its synonyms. As part of this widespread interest, cognitive and neural scientists are debating the psychological mechanisms of self-control (Ainslie, 1975; Metcalfe & Mischel, 1999; Muraven & Baumeister, 2000), and the implementation of these mechanisms in the brain (Figner, et...

The potential of 3D printing has been under technical and philosophical discussion for some time, but current rapid prototyping materials can be costly and are limited in terms of functional and visual qualities. Food-based materials could provide a novel and exciting alternative which may also be affordable and accessible as 3d printing extends from industrial applications towards educational ...

Ironic utterances promise an expected meaning that never arrives, and deliver instead a meaning that exposes the failure of our expectations. Though they can appear contextually inappropriate, ironic statements succeed when they subvert their context of use, so it is the context rather than the utterance that is shown to be incongruous. Every ironic statement thus poses two related questions: t...