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Effects of a mutual recovery intervention on mental health in depressed elderly community-dwelling adults: a pilot study (2017)
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Background The prevalence of depression in the elderly is growing worldwide, and the population aging in China makes depression a major health problem for the elderly adults and a tremendous burden to the society. Effective interventions should be... Read More about Effects of a mutual recovery intervention on mental health in depressed elderly community-dwelling adults: a pilot study.

Development and implementation of rapid metabolic engineering tools for chemical and fuel production in Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius NCIMB 11955 (2017)
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Background The thermophile Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius has considerable attraction as a chassis for the production of chemicals and fuels. It utilises a wide range of sugars and oligosaccharides typical of those derived from lignocellulose and... Read More about Development and implementation of rapid metabolic engineering tools for chemical and fuel production in Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius NCIMB 11955.

Identification of host proteins interacting with Toxoplasma gondii GRA15 (TgGRA15) by yeast two-hybrid system (2017)
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Background Toxoplasma gondii, an obligate intracellular protozoan parasite, possesses the remarkable ability to co-opt host cell machinery in order to maintain its intracellular survival. This parasite can modulate signaling pathways of its host t... Read More about Identification of host proteins interacting with Toxoplasma gondii GRA15 (TgGRA15) by yeast two-hybrid system.

Tracking HCV protease population diversity during transmission and susceptibility of founder populations to antiviral therapy (2017)
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Due to the highly restricted species-tropism of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) a limited number of animal models exist for pre-clinical evaluation of vaccines and antiviral compounds. The human-liver chimeric mouse model allows heterologous challenge with c... Read More about Tracking HCV protease population diversity during transmission and susceptibility of founder populations to antiviral therapy.

Recent progress in translational research on neurovascular and neurodegenerative disorders (2017)
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The already established and widely used intravenous application of recombinant tissue plasminogen activator as a re-opening strategy for acute vessel occlusion in ischemic stroke was recently added by mechanical thrombectomy, representing a fundament... Read More about Recent progress in translational research on neurovascular and neurodegenerative disorders.

“We are a United Humanity”: Death, Emotion and Digital Media in the Church of Sweden (2017)
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© 2017 Broadcast Education Association. This article seeks to bring together the study of death, digital media, emotion and religion, using a Christian organization as a case study. The Swedish national church (Svenska kyrkan) has a large but declini... Read More about “We are a United Humanity”: Death, Emotion and Digital Media in the Church of Sweden.

The impact of community expectations on corporate community involvement disclosures in the UK (2017)
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Despite increase mistrust between corporations and societies in the aftermath of the global corporate misbehaviours, the literature examining the impact of community concerns on corporate communications is undeveloped. Our paper is timely; it contrib... Read More about The impact of community expectations on corporate community involvement disclosures in the UK.

National survey of training of psychiatrists on advance directives to refuse treatment in relation to bipolar disorder (2017)
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Aims and Methods: To determine features associated with better perceived quality of training for psychiatrists on advance decision-making in the Mental Capacity Act (MCA), and whether the quality or amount of training were associated with positive at... Read More about National survey of training of psychiatrists on advance directives to refuse treatment in relation to bipolar disorder.

Early recognition and detection of juvenile psoriatic arthritis: a call for a standardized approach to screening (2017)
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Background: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines recommend annual screening for psoriatic arthritis (PsA) in all patients with psoriasis. Currently, no validated assessment tools have been recommended for screening for... Read More about Early recognition and detection of juvenile psoriatic arthritis: a call for a standardized approach to screening.

Big change, little change?: punctuation increments and multi-layer institutional change for English local authorities under austerity (2017)
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This paper draws on new institutionalist theories to consider how we might characterise the process and outcomes of change occurring in English local government as a result of the UK’s austerity policies. It uses national and local empirical data to... Read More about Big change, little change?: punctuation increments and multi-layer institutional change for English local authorities under austerity.

Functional consequences of pre- and postsynaptic expression of synaptic plasticity (2017)
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Growing experimental evidence shows that both homeostatic and Hebbian synaptic plasticity can be expressed presynaptically as well as postsynaptically. In this review, we start by discussing this evidence and methods used to determine expression loci... Read More about Functional consequences of pre- and postsynaptic expression of synaptic plasticity.

Virtual Instrumentation for Electrochemical Biosensor Applications (2017)
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Virtual instrumentation (VI) is defined as an instrument whose general function and capabilities are determined in software. Especially, graphical user interface (GUI) software LabVIEW (Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench) is ide... Read More about Virtual Instrumentation for Electrochemical Biosensor Applications.

Attempts to Improve the Energy Capacity of Capacitive Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices (2017)
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This article reviews selected literatures from the authors' research group on the development of capacitive electrochemical energy storage (EES) devices, focusing on supercapacitors and supercapatteries at both the electrode material level and device... Read More about Attempts to Improve the Energy Capacity of Capacitive Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices.

Dissolved redox species for the improvement of the performance of supercapacitors (2017)
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© 2019, Research Trend. All rights reserved. The recent surging investigations into the applications of redox active electrolytes for the improvement of charge storage in supercapacitors and other related hybrid devices have shown a lot of promise bu... Read More about Dissolved redox species for the improvement of the performance of supercapacitors.

Production of N-acyl homoserine lactones by the sponge-associated marine actinobacteria Salinispora arenicol and Salinispora pacifica (2017)
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“It doesn’t take much evidence to convict a Negro”: Capital punishment, race, and rape in mid-20th-century Florida (2017)
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Thirty men were executed for rape in Florida between 1940 and 1964, in a state undergoing rapid population growth, Sunbelt economic change, and black freedom struggle protest and activism. No white man was sentenced to death for the rape of a “Negro”... Read More about “It doesn’t take much evidence to convict a Negro”: Capital punishment, race, and rape in mid-20th-century Florida.

Vulnerability to climate change in riparian char and river-bank households in Bangladesh: implication for policy, livelihoods and social development (2017)
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Bangladesh is vulnerable to climate-driven hazards, including river-bank erosion causing the loss of land and associated natural resources of riparian households, which threatens the livelihood, health and food security of these vulnerable communitie... Read More about Vulnerability to climate change in riparian char and river-bank households in Bangladesh: implication for policy, livelihoods and social development.

Writing Disability into Modern Chinese Fiction (2017)
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A “pantheon of deformity” emerged in Chinese literature in the 1980s, when writers consciously began exploiting the metaphorical potential of disability to produce subversive literary works. Shi Tiesheng, by contrast, continued to write about disabil... Read More about Writing Disability into Modern Chinese Fiction.

Truth and dependence (2017)
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Leveraging social network sites for new product launch (2017)
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Purpose – The ability to make use of social network sites (SNSs) to promote new products and facilitate positive word of mouth around new product launch (NPL) presents an important opportunity. However, the mechanisms and motivations of SNS users are... Read More about Leveraging social network sites for new product launch.