OBJECTIVES Online Cessation Support Networks (OCSNs) are associated with increased quit success rates, but few studies have examined their use over time. We identified usage patterns in New Zealand's largest OCSN over two years and explored implications for OCSN intervention design and evaluation. METHODS We analysed metadata relating to 133,096 OCSN interactions during 2011 and 2012. Metrics...

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Cognitive radio (CR) is an enabling technology that helps efficiently use spectrum. In this paper, a collaborative spectrum sensing mechanism is proposed which combines passive detection and sensing service compensation. Theoretical analysis and simulations show that this method not only reduces the energy cost and the passive sensing time, but also maintains fairness in the CR communication sy...

introduction: lead (pb) is a neurotoxin that its different effects on the central nervous system are well-known. previous studies have reported the potent effects of vitamin c on memory.the present study was undertaken to evaluate the protective effects of vitamin c against leadinduced amnesia. methods: male wistar rats were divided into 4 groups: the control (saline), negative control (lead), ...

this paper focused on the characterization of electrochemical behavior of a martensitic stainless steel inthe acidic solutions. for this purpose, electrochemical parameters were derived from potentiodynamicpolarization, mott schottky analysis and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (eis) techniques.the potentiodynamic polarization results showed that corrosion current density of aisi 420 sta...

introduction: zinc is an essential trace element that plays an important role in synaptic plasticity and modulating the activity of cns and involve in learning and memory. synaptic vesicle zinc in the hippocampus area exerting modulatory effects on nmda glutamate receptor. method: in this experiment the effects of nmda agonist and antagonist administration intra hippocampus on passive avoidance...

We present a method for eecient conversion of diierential (chosen-plaintext) attacks into the more practical known-plaintext and ciphertext-only attacks. Our observation may save up to a factor of 2 20 in data over the known methods, assuming that plaintext is ASCII encoded English (or some other types of highly redundant data). We demonstrate the eeectiveness of our method by practical attacks...

introduction:with increasing threats of weapons of mass destruction (wmd) in future war especially biological threats against our country necessity of using novel technologies in crisis management against new warfare’s is very important. passive defense as a peaceful and preventive strategy without any warfare is able to not only monitor the prospect of new warfare specially biological warfare ...