BACKGROUND Research evaluating mediated physical activity campaigns uses an unsophisticated conceptualization of the media and would benefit from the application of a media studies approach. The purpose of this article is to report on the application of this type of analysis to the Canada on the Move media campaign. METHODS Through interviews and document analysis, the press release surroundi...

We explore whether men and women differ in their attack behavior and how party environments condition these differences. Whereas the literature on gender and negative campaigning is almost exclusively focused on the United States, we theorize that in European multiparty systems with strong and cohesive parties, the party environment has a significant impact on whether male and female politician...

I shall begin by clarifying the concept of post-nomadism, used here with reference to the subject and to architecture. Rather than supposing a transition between forms of life conceived as distinct and whole, one nomadic and the other sedentary, post-nomadism suggests transformations of a nomadic way of life without assuming that they constitute a trajectory toward a sedentist notion of becomin...

Foodborne diseases are a growing public health problem worldwide with Campylobacter and Salmonella being the most common and widely distributed causative agents. These Gramnegative bacteria are common inhabitant of the gut of warm-blooded animals, especially livestock, being transmitted to humans primarily through the consumption of contaminated food of animal origin. Poultry meat and derivativ...

A crucial component of the receptor-evoked Ca(2+) signal is Ca(2+) influx mediated by the store-operated Ca(2+) channels (SOCs). The molecular makeup of one SOC is the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) Ca(2+) sensor STIM1 and the pore-forming Orai1. Ca(2+) release from the ER leads to co-clustering of STIM1 and Orai1 to activate Orai1. The short STIM1 SOAR/CAD domain (STIM1 Orai1-activating region/CRA...

The increased reliance on natural gas for heating worldwide makes the search carbon-free alternatives imperative, especially if international decarbonisation targets are to be met. Hydrogen does not release carbon dioxide (CO2) at point of use which it an appealing candidate decarbonise domestic heating. can produced from either 1) electrolysis water with no associated emissions, or 2) methane ...

Operation of reservoirs, often for conflicting purposes, is a difficult task. The uncertainty associated with reservoir operations is further increased due to the on-going hydrological impacts of climate change. Therefore, various artificial intelligence techniques such as genetic algorithms, ant-colony optimization, fuzzy logic and mathematical optimization methods such as Linear programming, ...

1 Background – Infectious diseases are a major burden on human population, especially in lowand 2 middle-income countries. The increase in the rate of emergence of infectious outbreaks necessitates 3 a better understanding of the worldwide distribution of diseases through space and time. 4 Methods – We analyze 100 years of records of diseases occurrence worldwide. We use a graph-theoretical 5 a...