Nowadays, university students suffer from a broad range of problems, such as educational underachievement or the inability to control themselves, that lead to procrastination as a consequence. The present research aimed at analyzing the determinants of decisional procrastination among undergraduate students and at assessing a path model in which self regulated learning strategies mediated the r...

The World Health Organization estimated that more than 60% of the 14 million new cancer cases worldwide in 2012 were reported in the developing part of the world, including Asia, Africa, Central and South America. Cancer survival rate is poorer in developing countries due to diagnosis at late stage and limited access to timely treatment. Since the disease per se cannot be treated even with the ...

Digital photogrammetric methods have made their way also into architectural applications which is traditionally a rather conservative branch. Beside the programs and techniques that have been adopted from aerial photogrammetry mainly low-cost systems are used for architectural and archaeological applications. New strategies for data acquisition, restitution and presentation of the digital data ...

Carbohydrates are compounds rich in hydroxyl groups, being a monosaccharide a building block for complex carbohydrates. Beside the large amounts of hydroxyl groups, two chemical functions define the organic class, and even the simplest carbohydrate must contain either an aldehyde (polyhydroxyaldehyde) or ketone (polyhydroxyketone) functions (Fig. 1). Mass spectrometry strategies for structural ...

Paediatric and adult resuscitation is often performed with family present. Current guidelines recommend deferred umbilical cord clamping as part of immediate neonatal care, requiring neonatal assessment next to the mother. This paper describes strategies for providing care beside the mother using both standard resuscitation equipment and a trolley designed for this purpose.