As societal concern has increased in relation to alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harm (Rehm et al., 2009; Nutt et al., 2010), attention on factors potentially influencing drinking behaviours has grown. One such factor that has been identified is alcohol marketing (Babor et al., 2010). Numerous studies assessing the impact of alcohol marketing on youth drinking have been carried out over...

This short review will focus on how to interpret variants of uncertain significance (VUS) in the setting newborn screening (NBS) for severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). Many tenets this can be extrapolated other settings; however, NBS SCID represents a best-case scenario variant interpretation because nearly all genes are known and phenotype is easily defined, usually as T-cell count. The ...

Some epithets with the same spelling can sometimes be interpreted as falling into different grammatical categories, particularly both adjectives (including participles) and nouns, according to their traditional use in botany. Examples of these include nouns that treated (colonus, hybrida), compound which last noun may adjectival (-derma, -folium, -rhiza, -sperma, -spora), or endings are formed ...

The Canadian Centre for Substance Abuse recently estimated the annual cost of substance abuse in Canada to be nearly 40 billion dollars. The estimation does not contain comprehensive economic consequences of prenatal exposure to tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug use. Although many studies have estimated the cost attributable to prenatal substance exposure in specific populations and age groups...

-= generation and recombination kinetics of non-equilibrium charge carriers under illumination is studied in order to obtain the temperature and intensity dependence of the steady state energy distribution of photo-induced carriers in the range of energies contributing to the electrical transport. The results are applied to a model of transport in amorphous solids developed previously. Comparis...

The content description of various kinds of research data using metadata requires other than bibliographical data fields that are alone not sufficient for this purpose. To properly account for research data, other metadata fields are required, often specific to a given research data set. Consequently, metadata profiles adapted to different types of resources need to be created. These are define...

The transfer of forces from reinforcing bars to surrounding concrete in reinforced concrete (RC) is influenced by many parameters. Several efforts were made to understand the influence of bond on global behaviour of RC members. However, the information on bond strength of high strength concrete (HSC) is lacking. An attempt was made to study the influence of various parameters on bond such as ba...

We read with interest the manuscript entitled “A new definition for metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease: An international expert consensus statement”, by Mohammed Eslam, Philip N Newsome and colleagues.[1]Eslam M. P.N. Sarin S.K. Anstee Q.M. Targher G. Romero-Gomez et al.A an statement.J Hepatol. 2020; 73: 202-209Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (669) Google Scholar agree t...

A Levitate Airframe exoskeleton fits like a backpack frame with elbow cuffs that support arm weight during overhead shoulder postures. The purpose of this study was to test this passive shoulder support exoskeleton during on-site job tasks. Six experienced workers in assembly (three workers), painting, parts hanging, and welding at two John Deere manufacturing sites volunteered for this study. ...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen whose virulence dependent on quorum sensing (QS). DksA1, an RNA polymerase-binding transcriptional regulator, plays role in determining number of phenotypes, including QS-mediated virulence. We therefore envisioned that DksA1 inhibitors may help to control P. infection. Here, we screened library 6970 chemical compounds and identif...