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Social Bots for Online Public Health Interventions

, 2018
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in the United States hundreds of thousands initiate smoking each year, and millions live with smoking-related dis- eases. Many tobacco users discuss their habits and preferences on social media.
Allem, Jon-Patrick, Deb, Ashok, Ferrara, Emilio, Majmundar, Anuja, Matsui, Akira, Seo, Sungyong, Tandon, Rajat, Yan, Shen   +7 more
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Computational Modeling of Reticular Materials: The Past, the Present, and the Future

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Reticular materials are advanced materials with applications in emerging technologies. A thorough understanding of material properties at operating conditions is critical to accelerate the deployment at an industrial scale. Herein, the status of computational modeling of reticular materials is reviewed, supplemented with topical examples highlighting ...
Wim Temmerman, Ruben Goeminne, Kuber Singh Rawat, Veronique Van Speybroeck   +3 more
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Prevalence and patterns of use of smokeless tobacco in Mumbai schools

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background Smokeless tobacco use among children is a serious problem in India. Smokeless tobacco products like gutkha, khaini, mawa and misheri and surrogate products like 'supari', 'pan masala' are commonly used by children in Mumbai. Maharashtra state
Rajashree Kadam, Abhiram Mehendale, Deepak Patil   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Short-Interval Cortical Inhibition and Rhetoric and the Law, Or the Law of Rhetoric: How Countries Oppose Novel Tobacco Control Measures at The World Trade Organization [PDF]

, 2016
The tobacco industry has developed an extensive array of strategies and arguments to prevent or weaken government regulation. These strategies and arguments are well documented at the domestic level.
Drope, Jeffrey, Labonte, Ronald, Lencucha, Raphael   +2 more
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Measuring Armenia's progress on the Tobacco Control Scale: an evaluation of tobacco control in an economy in transition, 2005–2009 [PDF]

, 2014
Objectives: This study aimed to measure the 5-year progress in the implementation of WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in Armenia by applying the Tobacco Control Scale, a rapid assessment tool developed to assess the strength of tobacco ...
Connolly, Gregory N, Movsisyan, Narine K
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Tobacco control in India

Indian Journal of Dental Research, 2007
Portuguese introduced tobacco to India 400 years ago. Ever since, Indians have used tobacco in various forms. Sixty five per cent of all men and 33% of all women use tobacco in some form. Tobacco causes over 20 categories of fatal and disabling diseases including oral cancer.
openaire   +3 more sources

Implications for Tobacco Control of the Multistate Tobacco Settlement

American Journal of Public Health, 2001
The 1998 master settlement agreement between major tobacco manufacturers and the US states will have a profound effect on many tobacco industry practices and will significantly influence future settlements with the tobacco industry. This article analyzes the settlement's key provisions pertaining to youth sales, advertising, marketing, and lobbying ...
R A, Daynard, W, Parmet, G, Kelder, P, Davidson   +3 more
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Engineered Protein‐Based Ionic Conductors for Sustainable Energy Storage Applications

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Rational incorporation of charged residues into an engineered, self‐assembling protein scaffold yields solid‐state protein films with outstanding ionic conductivity. Salt‐doping further enhances conductivity, an effect amplified in the engineered variants. These properties enable the material integration into an efficient supercapacitor.
Juan David Cortés‐Ossa, Paolo Blesio, Marcial Fernandez‐Castro, Lisa Almonte, Maxence Fernandez, Mantas Liutkus, Perumal Pandurangan, Carlos Sabater, Aitor Villaverde, Manuel Melle‐Franco, Nurit Ashkenasy, Felipe Jiménez‐Ángeles, M. Carmen Morant‐Miñana, M. Reyes Calvo, Aitziber L. Cortajarena   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Capacity building for female community health workers - an effective tool for tobacco control and empowerment

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background and challenges to implementation Tobacco is a significant public health concern in rural India. In Maharashtra, India's second largest state, 31.4% of adults report tobacco use (Global Adult Tobacco Survey India, 2009).
Rajashree Kadam, Deepak Patil, Ajay Pilankar   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Heated tobacco products: another tobacco industry global strategy to slow progress in tobacco control. [PDF]

, 2018
There has been a global decline in tobacco consumption that, if continued, will negatively impact the tobacco industry's profits. This decline led the industry to invent and market new products, including heated tobacco products (HTP).
Bialous, Stella A, Glantz, Stanton A
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