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Social Skills Amongst MMORPG-Gamers: Empirical Study
SHS Web of Conferences, 2018 The research paper addresses the issue of the impact of MMORPGs on social culture and communication skills of individuals. The mainstream discourse about computer games which take individuals away from reality and substitute the real life by the ...
Sergeyeva Olga +3 more
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Мониторинг общественного мнения: экономические и социальные перемены, 2018 The inter-marriage market should be viewed not only as a demographic category but also as a socio-cultural phenomenon determined by international migration.
Sergey V. RYAZANTSEV +1 more
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Insights into the pathogenesis of nicotine addiction. Could a salivary biosensor be useful in Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT)? [PDF]
, 2019 Nicotine has gained the attention of the medical community due to its insidious addictive mechanisms which lead to chronic consumption. The multitude of compounds derived from tobacco smoke have local and systemic negative impacts, resulting in a large ...
Alexescu, Teodora G +13 more
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IT-based Patient Interventions for Opioid Abuse: Evaluation using Analytical Model [PDF]
, 2019 The number of people in the US with opioid abuse exceeds 2 million and the total cost is approximately $100B per year. In this study, we focus on patient-level interventions and present three IT-based interventions: (a) mobile reminders, (b) electronic ...
Singh, Neetu, Varshney, Upkar
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background PIK3CA‐related overgrowth spectrum (PROS) includes several rare overgrowth disorders resulting from somatic gain‐of‐function mutations in PIK3CA. Despite treatment advances, including the recent approval of alpelisib for PROS in the United States, literature detailing the patient experience with PROS is limited.
Vamsi Bollu +8 more
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Fast Food, Addiction, and Market Power
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2007 Many attribute the rise in obesity since the early 1980's to the overconsumption of fast food. A dynamic model of a different-product industry equilibrium shows that a firm with market power will price below marginal cost in a steady-state equilibrium. A
Timothy J. Richards +2 more
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The effectiveness, safety and cost-effectiveness of cytisine versus varenicline for smoking cessation in an Australian population: a study protocol for a randomized controlled non-inferiority trial [PDF]
, 2019 Smoking cessation medications are effective but often underutilised because of costs and side effects. Cytisine is a plant-based smoking cessation medication with over 50 years of use in Central and Eastern Europe.
Boland, Veronica C. +19 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee +9 more
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The Lancet Public Health, 2018 Summary: Background: Financial incentives are potentially useful tools to aid smoking cessation, but robust evidence to support their efficacy, particularly in combination with other interventions (eg, group counselling), has not been reported. We aimed
Floor A van den Brand, MSc +4 more
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Business Models for e-Health: Evidence from Ten Case Studies [PDF]
, 2015 An increasingly aging population and spiraling healthcare costs have made the search for financially viable healthcare models an imperative of this century.
Kimble, Chris
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