1 Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria; Phone: +43 512 507 5118; Fax: +43 512 507 2934; E-mail: [email protected] 2 Competence Centre for Wood Composites and Wood Chemistry K-Plus, St.-Peter-Str. 25, 4021 Linz, Austria 3 Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria...

Connolly suggests an additional benefit: establishing enduring relationships with real people. This means going beyond seeing others simply as peers who trade digital content. For example, connecting with fellow dorm residents through Facebook can help a student overcome the kind of isolation that otherwise might lead her to leave school. A Twitter account can provide a shy student with informa...

While most applications of bio-impedance measurements for characterization of cells or tissue do not have any time requirements, newer developments like real time monitoring of moving cells or membrane recovery after high voltage application depend on fast measurement. This is not compatible with sweeping the frequency through the desired range while assessing magnitude and phase of the materia...

One of the major decisions that prospective consumers of a smartphone have to make is choosing its operating system. Currently, the most prevailing operating systems are Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. This empirical study investigates if users of iOS and Android differ in their perceptions of the advantages and disadvantages of smartphones. The paper examines smartphone possessors’ perceptio...

Retinal ischemia is a major cause of blindness worldwide. It is associated with various disorders such as diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, optic neuropathies, stroke, and other retinopathies. Retinal ischemia is a clinical condition that occurs due to lack of appropriate supply of blood to the retina. As the retina has a higher metabolic demand, any hindrance in the blood supply to it can lead t...

Screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) has been shown to reduce mortality from the disease as well as incidence. Several methods for screening are available, but none are ideal. The present short review discusses the advantages and drawbacks using fecal occult blood tests (FOBTs), fecal DNA tests, flexible sigmoidoscopy (FS), colonoscopy, double contrast barium enema, and computed tomographic co...

PEGylation changes the physical and chemical properties of the biomedical molecule, such as its conformation, electrostatic binding, and hydrophobicity, and results in an improvement in the pharmacokinetic behavior of the drug, while it also causes some disadvantages of which cannot be neglected. The available data manifests that polyethylene glycol (PEG) itself shows potential risk, such as im...

In this paper, we present the first reported Bluetooth technology solution so–called 'BlueThunder'. The proposed solution represents an excellent blossom in the Bluetooth wireless field. It solves the incompatibility problems between devices, and, simultaneously, assures the reliability of the data streaming and enhances the quality of the transformed data via wireless technology. It can be use...

For more than 20 years, researchers have attempted to identify diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia, major (unipolar) depression, and bipolar disorder. Advocates of this research contend that identifying such biomarkers will aid in the diagnosis of these disorders, as well as the possible development of effective psychiatric medications to treat...

While hierarchical structures have many advantages for the effective running of organizations, they also pose major drawbacks both for organizations and for individuals lower in a hierarchy. Research in kibbutz industry and in its social organizations shows that kibbutzim are not much different from other organizations because within kibbutzim hierarchical structures are common, differentials i...