In this paper we review recent sociological research dealing with the consumption of culture produced in the fine and popular arts realms. We note that most of the initial theoretical developments in the sociological study of culture consumption were first developed to explain audience segmentation in the fine arts realm under what we refer as the “cultural capital” paradigm developed by Pierre...

Transcriptome Auto-annotation Conducting Tool (TACT) is a newly developed web-based automated tool for conducting functional annotation of transcripts by the integration of sequence similarity searches and functional motif predictions. We developed the TACT system by integrating two kinds of similarity searches, FASTY and BLASTX, against protein sequence databases, UniProtKB (Swiss-Prot/TrEMBL)...

In this study, BaZrO3:Eu0.025 powder was synthesized through the solid-state reaction method with two different heating processes. For the one-step process, the BaZrO3:Eu0.025 powder was heated to 1000 ̋C–1400 ̋C for 2 h. For the two-step heating process, the BaZrO3:Eu0.025 powder was pre-heated at 800 ̋C for 2 h, after being cooled to room temperature and ground, then the powder was heated to ...

Symmetry formation, symmetry breaking, and the strength of symmetric coupling in social interaction are investigated using motion capture data from pairs of individuals dancing to repeating rhythms. Repeating auditory rhythms are a simple form of temporal symmetry in which local entropy can be controlled. Spatio--temporal symmetry is formed when an individual performs cyclic movements, such as ...

Drug use is associated with increased sexual risk behaviors. We examined whether decreases in drug use risk are associated with reduction in HIV-related sex risk behaviors among adults. Data was from a cohort of participants (n = 574) identified by drug use screening in a randomized trial of brief intervention for drug use in an urban primary care setting. Inverse probability of treatment weigh...

OBJECTIVE Although suboptimal glycemic control is known to be common in diabetic adults, few studies have evaluated factors at the level of the physician-patient encounter. Our objective was to identify novel visit-based factors associated with intensification of oral diabetes medications in diabetic adults. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We conducted a nonconcurrent prospective cohort study of ...

Abstract Background Nowadays combination therapy has become more popular due to their additional effect, synergistic effect and antagonistic effect. Any of these can influence the treatment profile. Combination is used treat some chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension, cancer etc. But recently India banned fixed dose drug combinations increased chances adverse effects interactions. So it ...