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Legal and illegal drug use among female sex workers in bar and club prostitution in Belgium: a quantitative and qualitative study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Aims: This study describes the amounts and effects of drug use in bar and club sex work, and the use of healthcare for the drug-related needs of sex workers (SW). Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out in Belgium.
Decorte, Tom   +4 more
core   +1 more source

A Comparative Analysis of Politeness in First Encounter Conversations in British English Film and Peninsular Spanish Film

open access: yesLexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2010
This paper aims at analysing the phenomenon of politeness in British English and Peninsular Spanish in the first encounter conversations between strangers taking into consideration power and distance, where relevant.
Valerija Sinkevičiūtė
doaj   +1 more source

Face masks reduce emotion-recognition accuracy and perceived closeness.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
Face masks became the symbol of the global fight against the coronavirus. While face masks' medical benefits are clear, little is known about their psychological consequences.
Felix Grundmann   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Infants’ Selective Visual Attention Is Dependent on Maternal Affect and Emotional Context

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Development of selective attention during the first year of life is critical to cognitive and socio-emotional skills. It is also a period that the average child’s interactions with their mother dominate their social environment.
Joshua Juvrud   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Two-dimensional structures of ferroelectric domain inversion in LiNbO3 by direct electron beam lithography

open access: yes, 2003
We report on the fabrication of domain-reversed structures in LiNbO3 by means of direct electron beam lithography at room temperature without any static bias.
C. H. Kang   +8 more
core   +1 more source

A Markov partition that reflects the geometry of a hyperbolic toral automorphism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
We show how to construct a Markov partition that reflects the geometrical action of a hyperbolic automorphism of the n-torus. The transition matrix is the transpose of the matrix induced by the automorphism in u-dimensional homology, provided this is ...
Manning, Anthony
core   +1 more source

European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline and EXPeRT Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in Children and Adolescents

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Face Recognition Based on Wavelet Kernel Non-Negative Matrix Factorization

open access: yesCybernetics and Information Technologies, 2014
In this paper a novel face recognition algorithm, based on wavelet kernel non-negative matrix factorization (WKNMF), is proposed. By utilizing features from multi-resolution analysis, the nonlinear mapping capability of kernel nonnegative matrix ...
Bai, Lin, Li Yanbo, Hui Meng
doaj   +1 more source

Culture Shock, Positive Face, and Negative Face: Being Polite in Tlaxcala [PDF]

open access: yesCentral Issues in Anthropology, 1980
Recent work on politeness by Lakoff (1973) and Brown and Levinson (1978) provides some underlying principles which allow us to provide an account of contrasting cultural styles which are often a source of major difficulties in cross‐cultural understanding.
openaire   +1 more source

Negative Cortical Potentials When Classifying Familiar and Unfamiliar Faces

open access: yesCortex, 1990
Event-related potential (ERPs) were recorded while subjects were classifying familiar faces of celebrities according to profession in one task, or unfamiliar faces according to gender in another task. Familiar faces given rise to an enhancement of the late negative ERP component confined to parieto-occipital sites.
F, Uhl, W, Lang, F, Spieth, L, Deecke
openaire   +2 more sources

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