New land and old sorrow: war widows and fatherless families in Bosnian...
This paper is based on an anthropological study exploring the effects of forced displacement, genocide and politically motivated violence on social identities of women survivors and their families and...
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In 1962, Charles Winick proposed that addiction was a self-limiting process, whereby individuals stopped using substances once the stresses of life transitions ceased. The notion of maturing out, as...
View ArticleInvestigating size effects of complex nanostructures through Young-Laplace...
Analytical studies on the size effects of a simply-shaped beam fixed at both ends have successfully explained the sudden changes of effective Young's modulus as its diameter decreases below 100 nm. Yet...
View ArticleTowards an interoperable field spectroscopy metadata standard with extended...
This paper presents an approach to developing robust metadata standards for specific applications that serves to ensure a high level of reliability and interoperability for a spectroscopy dataset. The...
View ArticleImpact of daily high-dose caffeine exposure on developing white matter of the...
Background:Caffeine is widely used to treat apnea of prematurity, but the standard dosing regimen is not always sufficient to prevent apnea. Before higher doses of caffeine can be used, their effects...
View ArticleRestoration of tropical peat soils: The application of soil microbiology for...
In South East Asia, increased population and agricultural demands, especially for oil palm cultivation, have led to peatland conversion, resulting in environmental degradation. To conserve peatland's...
View ArticleProphylactic erythropoietin exacerbates ventilation-induced lung inflammation...
Ventilation-induced lung injury (VILI) of preterm neonates probably contributes to the pathogenesis of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). Erythropoietin (EPO) has been suggested as a therapy for BPD....
View ArticleOn an extended interpretation of linkage disequilibrium in genetic...
We are concerned with statistical inference for 2xCxK contingency tables in the context of genetic case-control association studies. Multivariate methods based on asymptotic Gaussianity of vectors of...
View ArticleWeighted estimation in cox regression: an application to breast cancer data
Cox regression is a well-known approach for modeling censored survival data. However, the model has an assumption of proportional hazards which requires an attention. In this study, we examine weighted...
View ArticleStatistical comparison of global solar radiation estimation models over Turkey
Production of energy from clean and renewable resources is an appealing subject nowadays. Solar energy has an important place among the renewable energy resources. METEONORM, TEKNOLOGIS and GEPA are...
View ArticlePlasmon-enhanced sensing: current status and prospects
By combining different plasmonic nanostructures with conventional sensing configurations, chemical/biosensors with significantly enhanced device performance can be achieved. The fast development of...
View ArticleBayesian estimation of order-restricted and unrestricted association models
Association models include score parameters to multiplicatively represent the hierarchy between the levels of the considered ordinal factor. If order restrictions are placed on the scores, an...
View ArticlePower comparisons for group sequential tests with nonparametric statistics in...
In clinical trials, it is important to set up a design to reach a decision on effectiveness of a drug in treating a disease with the loss of the minimum number of patients. Group sequential designs are...
View ArticleUse of generalized maximum entropy estimation for freight flows modelling and...
In this paper, freight transportation is taken into account. One of the models used for modelling "Origin-Destination" freight flows is logregression model obtained by applying a log-transformation to...
View ArticleMixing characteristics of inclined fuel injection via various geometries for...
Efficient fuel/air mixing plays a crucial role in successful operation of hypersonic airbreathing engines, particularly scramjets, where fuel must be injected into high-speed crossflow and mixed with...
View ArticleGlucose uptake during contraction in isolated skeletal muscles from neuronal...
Inhibition of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) significantly attenuates the increase in skeletal muscle glucose uptake during contraction/exercise, and a greater attenuation is observed in individuals with...
View ArticleImpact of coagulation as a pre-treatment for UVC/H2O2-biological activated...
After coagulation of high salinity reverse osmosis concentrate (ROC) with either alum or ferric chloride followed by UVC/H2O2 treatment, biological activated carbon (BAC) was investigated for the...
View ArticleFull converter based wind turbine generator system generic modelling:...
Wind energy system integration can lead to adverse effects on modern electric grid so it is imperative to assess their dynamic performance before actual plant startup. Transmission system operators all...
View ArticlePsychosocial interventions for people with diabetes and co-morbid depression....
Aims and objectives: To examine the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions on depressive symptoms and glycaemic control of adults with Type 1 or 2 diabetes and co-morbid depression. Background:...
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