Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: Extant research suggests that processing information in a second language (L2) affects decision-making, possibly by affecting metacognition. We hypothesized L2 will reduce the bias blind spot effect, whereby people (on average) erroneously think they are less susceptible to biases than others. Design/methodology/approach: In Experiment 1, particip...

Early life stages are very susceptible to environmental agents; among adverse effects, teratogenesis is usually reported as the major sub lethal end point. In this contribution I will focus on the stage dependent susceptibility to physico chemical stressors evaluated by means of physical and chemical agents (e.g. UV-B irradiation, H2O2, lead, cadmium, nickel, naringenin, 2,4-D an organometalic ...

We study the q-dependent susceptibility χ(q) of a Z-invariant ferromagnetic Ising model on a Penrose tiling, as first introduced by Korepin using de Bruijn’s pentagrid for the rapidity lines. The pair-correlation function for this model can be calculated exactly using the quadratic difference equations from our previous papers. Its Fourier transform χ(q) is studied using a novel way to calculat...

PURPOSE We aimed to test our primary hypothesis that the effects of methylprednisolone on bone marrow in chickens are age-sensitive and increase with prolonged treatment and our secondary hypothesis that the effects of methylprednisolone on bone marrow can have individual effects. METHODS Sixteen control (group A) and 29 methylprednisolone-treated (group B) chickens were categorised by age: p...

The temperature dependent complex AC susceptibilities of high temperature superconducting disks in perpendicular AC magnetic fields (in absence of DC magnetic field) have been calculated from first principles. The temperature dependent AC susceptibilities for different AC field amplitudes, AC field frequencies, reduced pinning potential, and sample thickness have been derived, which demonstrate...

Phishing has become a major attack vector for hackers and cost victims $687 million in the first half of 2012 alone. Additionally, despite technical solutions to defend against this threat, reports show that phishing attacks are increasing. There is therefore a pressing need to understand why users continue to fall victim to phishing, and how such attacks can be prevented. In this researchin-pr...

In this paper, we consider global asymptotic properties for an age-structured model of heroin use based on the principles of mathematical epidemiology where the incidence rate depends on the age of susceptible individuals. The basic reproduction number of the heroin spread is obtained. It completely determines the stability of equilibria. Using the direct Lyapunov method with Volterra type Lyap...

Apoptosis has recently been associated with herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) latency and disease severity. There is an intricate balance between pro- and anti-apoptotic processes during HSV-1 infection. When anti-apoptotic pathways are suppressed, this balance is upset and the cells die by apoptosis, referred to here as HSV-1-dependent apoptosis (HDAP). It has been observed previously that HeLa c...

Naturally acquired immunity to Plasmodium falciparum may be linked to key features of the immune system that change during normal development and ageing. Evidence of this was seen in non-immune Javanese transmigrants taking up residence in hyperendemic Irian Jaya, Indonesia. After 1-2 years of residence, the adult migrants had less frequent and less intense parasitaemias than their children. Sp...