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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]
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
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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
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Face masks reduce emotion-recognition accuracy and perceived closeness.
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
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Infants’ Selective Visual Attention Is Dependent on Maternal Affect and Emotional Context
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
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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
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A Markov partition that reflects the geometry of a hyperbolic toral automorphism [PDF]
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
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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
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Face Recognition Based on Wavelet Kernel Non-Negative Matrix Factorization
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
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Culture Shock, Positive Face, and Negative Face: Being Polite in Tlaxcala [PDF]
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.
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Negative Cortical Potentials When Classifying Familiar and Unfamiliar Faces
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
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