BACKGROUND The use of ecstasy is a public health problem and is associated with a range of social costs and harms. In recent years, there has been growing concern about the availability and misuse of new and emerging drugs designed to mimic the effects of illicit drugs, including ecstasy. This, coupled with the fact that the age of use and the risk factors for using ecstasy and emerging drugs a...

Post-translational modifications, such as acetylation and ubiquitination, can greatly expand the functionality of a particular protein. The promyelocytic leukemia (PML) protein is a functionally promiscuous protein with proposed roles in many cellular processes. Its cellular headquarters are the macromolecular structures termed PML nuclear bodies. Post-translational modification of PML is emerg...

Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD), or Data Mining is used to discover interesting or useful patterns and relationships in data, with an emphasis on large volume of observational databases. Among many other types of information (knowledge) that can be discovered in data, patterns that are expressed in terms of features are popular because they can be understood and used directly by people. ...

This paper is a partial report of a research effort on evaluating the effect of crowdsourced post-editing. We first discuss the emerging trend of crowd-sourced postediting of machine translation output, along with its benefits and drawbacks. Second, we describe the pilot study we have conducted on a platform that facilitates crowd-sourced post-editing. Finally, we provide our plans for further ...

aim and background: there are various methods for treatment of depression. this study was aimed to examine and compare the efficacy of three therapeutic techniques namely group cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, drug therapy with fluoxetin and drug- therapy with the herbal medicine named hypiran in treatment of depression in women. method and materials: in an experimental study, a total number...

Introduction: Emerging countries have increased their presence in international travel (46.8% of travels). Pre- and post-travel consultations may provide insights about travelers’ health. Methods: A retrospective descriptive analysis of the medical data of all travelers assisted at Ambulatório dos Viajantes, a free public health clinic for travelers in Sã...

24 As many emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases are associated with food 25 animals, the relationship between available healthy food sources and population 26 health and social stability has become evident. A recent example of the importance of 27 this relationship was observed during the current flu pandemic. This recent pandemic 28 brought attention to novel target groups of susceptib...

Infectious diseases spreading in a human population occasionally exhibit sudden transitions in their qualitative dynamics. Previous work has successfully predicted such transitions in New York City's historical measles incidence using the seasonally forced susceptible-infectious-recovered (SIR) model. This work relied on a dataset spanning 45 years (1928-1973), which we have extended to 93 year...