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Older but Not Wiser- Smokers and Passive Smoking Belief [PDF]

In recent years the proportion of people who smoke in developed countries has reached a plateau, even though countries like the UK continue to run anti-smoking campaigns.
Grace Lordan
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Effects of Italian smoking regulation on rates of hospital admission for acute coronary events: a country-wide study. [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND: Several studies have reported a reduction in acute coronary events (ACEs) in the general population after the enforcement of smoking regulations, although there is uncertainty concerning the magnitude of the effect of such interventions.
Vizzini, Loredana, Richiardi L., Gasparrini, Antonio, Merletti F, Barone-Adesi, F, Gasparrini Antonio, Richiardi, Lorenzo, Antonio Gasparrini, Barone-Adesi, Francesco, Merletti Franco, Loredana Vizzini, Barone-Adesi Francesco, Franco Merletti, Merletti, Franco, Richiardi Lorenzo, Vizzini L, Merletti, F, BARONE ADESI, Francesco, Gasparrini A, Richiardi, L, Francesco Barone-Adesi, Vizzini Loredana, Vizzini, L, Gasparrini, A, Lorenzo Richiardi   +24 more
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Safety of Sodium‐Ion Batteries: Evaluation and Perspective from Component Materials to Cells, Modules, and Packs

Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
This review provides a bottom‐up evaluation of sodium‐ion battery safety, linking material degradation mechanisms, cell engineering parameters, and module/pack assembly. It emphasizes that understanding intrinsic material stability and establishing coordinated engineering control across hierarchical levels are vital for preventing degradation coupling ...
Won‐Gwang Lim, Seoa Kim, Erik A. Wu, Darren H. S. Tan, Shawn Peng, Xiaolin Li   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparison of knowledge about smoking and passive smoking and urinary cotinine levels in pregnant women and their partners in Mongolia: A cross-sectional study

Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal, 2019
This study aimed to compare knowledge about smoking, including passive smoking, and urinary cotinine (UC) levels in pregnant women and their partners in Mongolia.
Naoko Hikita, Megumi Haruna, Masayo Matsuzaki, Emi Sasagawa, Minoru Murata, Ariunaa Yura, Otgontogoo Oidovsuren   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

LLM‐Based Multimodal Robotic Endoscope Control Framework for Enhancing Human–Robot Interaction in Minimally Invasive Surgery

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
An large language model‐powered multimodal framework is developed for robotic endoscope control. It integrates speech recognition and real‐time instrument tracking, achieving 89.47% command accuracy with ~1s latency for natural human–robot interaction in minimally invasive surgery.
Yisen Huang, Wing Yin Ng, Qi Dou, Xixin Wu, Shannon Melissa Chan, Yunhui Liu, Philip Wai Yan Chiu, Zheng Li   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Passive smoking as a risk factor of anemia in young children aged 0–35 months in Jordan

BMC Pediatrics, 2007
Background Passive smoking unfavorably affects pregnancy, child birth and child health. Passive smoking associates with still-birth, premature birth as well as acute respiratory infection, asthma, disorder in red blood cell metabolism in children.
Ruiz-Beltran Martin, Betancourt Jose A, Hong Rathavuth   +2 more
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Passive smoking and type 2 diabetes among never‐smoking women: The Japan Public Health Center‐based Prospective Study

Journal of Diabetes Investigation, 2020
Aims/Introduction The aim of the current study was to prospectively evaluate the association between passive smoking from a spouse and the risk of diabetes among never‐smoking Japanese women.
Shino Oba, Atsushi Goto, Tetsuya Mizoue, Manami Inoue, Norie Sawada, Mitsuhiko Noda, Shoichiro Tsugane   +6 more
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HeaTrace: A Parametric Design‐to‐Fabrication Workflow for Thermally Programmable Soft Robots

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A programmable thermal actuation workflow enables soft robots to be designed and fabricated with embedded heaters that drive multiple responses. By combining performance‐driven heater design with multimaterial fabrication, the system supports thermally triggered shape change, stiffness tuning, and thermochromic visual response, as demonstrated through ...
Naresh Kumar Thanigaivel, Thileepan Stalin, Elgar Kanhere, Aby Raj Plamootil Mathai, Konstantin Sakharov, Yong Lin, Hirusha Madhuwantha Loku Hettige, Gumawang Hiramandala, Shlomo Magdassi, Pablo Valdivia Y Alvarado   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of Bans and Taxes on Passive Smoking [PDF]

This paper evaluates the effect of smoking bans in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke of non-smokers and contrasts it with the effect of excise taxes.
Jérôme Adda, Francesca Cornaglia
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The effect of a smoking ban on exposure and cardio-respiratory health of non-smoking hospitality workers in Switzerland [PDF]

, 2014
Summary: Background The first scientific studies on negative health effects of passive smoking published in the 1980s instigated an intense battle between the tobacco industry, who fear the loss of social acceptance of smoking and resultant financial ...
Rajkumar, Sarah Priya
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