Stephan Scheel is working as post-doctoral researcher on the ERC-funded project ‘ARITHMUS – How Data Make a People’ at the sociology department of Goldsmiths, University of London. Before joining the ARITHMUS project, Stephan completed his PhD at the department of Political and International Studies of the Open University in Milton Keynes (UK). His doctoral thesis has been awarded the Michael N...

In this commentary, we establish a relationship between medical sociology and the study of medical tourism and cross-border healthcare by introducing Ronald Andersen's behavioral model of healthcare use, and linking this model to the recent empirical study of Kovacs et al. on patients travelling to Hungary for orthopedic treatment. Finally, we plead for more measurement in the field of patient ...

First-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) were carried out to study the energetic stability and electronic properties of a bimetallic-doped α-Fe2O3 photoanode surface with (Zn, Ti) Zr) pairs for enhanced PEC water splitting. The doped systems showed negative formation energies under both O-rich Fe-rich conditions which make them thermodynamically stable possible be ...

BACKGROUND In the past decade the issue of patient mobility has emerged on the European health policy agenda. Although the volume of patients crossing borders to obtain healthcare is low, it is increasing continuously and, due to its legal, financial and medical implications, has generated considerable interest among health policy and other decision makers. However, there is little information ...

This report reviews the current context with regard to livestock mobility in Africa and the associated constraints. Concrete examples of transboundary animal diseases of relevance to the continent will be used to shed light on the role of cross-border movements in the persistence and spread of these diseases as well as the sanitary and non-sanitary constraints hampering their prevention and con...

A new wave of computerised therapy is under development which, rather than simulating talking therapies, uses bias modification techniques to target the core psychological process underlying anxiety. Such interventions are aimed at anxiety disorders, and are yet to be adapted for co-morbid anxiety in psychosis. The cognitive bias modification (CBM) paradigm delivers repeated exposure to stimuli...

Twelve rats with amygdaloid lesion (CBM group) and 20 sham operated (Control group) were tested. Emotional reactivity evaluated by six category scale showed transient decrease in CBM group with respect to Control one. The CBM lesion enhanced the locomotor activity in electromagnetic activity meter in the initial phase of confinement in the apparatus. Open-field ambulation was higher in CBM rats...

BACKGROUND Cognitive bias modification (CBM) protocols have been developed to help establish the causal role of biased cognitive processing in maintaining psychopathology and have demonstrated therapeutic benefits in a range of disorders. The current study evaluated a cognitive bias modification training paradigm designed to target interpretation biases (CBM-I) associated with obsessive compuls...

1. Mobility and emigration were investigated for the wolf spider Pardosa monticola in grey dune fragments from two high-density and one low-density population, where population density was related to patch quality. Pitfall trapping was applied in combination with absolute density estimates by means of quadrat sampling. Orientation behaviour was additionally observed in the highand low-density p...

A compact set of equations based on the multiple subbands quasi-ballistic transport theory is developed, and is used to investigate the channel electron effective mobility in recently reported In0 .53Ga0 .47As/Al2O3 tri-gate n-FinFET. The extracted electron effective mobility μn is around 370 cm2 /V·s at low Vg−Vth bias at room temperature and decreases with increasing Vg , and increases with i...