Tobacco cessation interventions developed and evaluated for Alaska Native women do not exist. As part of routine clinical care provided at a prenatal visit, a brief tobacco educational intervention for Alaska Native pregnant women (N=100; mean ± SD age = 25.9±6.2 years; mean 6.3±2.6 months gestation) was piloted at the Y-K Delta Regional Hospital in Bethel, Alaska. This retrospective study repo...

A method for the speciication of software for safety-critical applications is presented. It is based on a combination of the formal speciication languages Z and real-time CSP. Guidelines for the development and validation of speciications are provided. Speciication development is supported by reference architectures that can serve as templates for the speciication of concrete systems. Validatio...

The study of viruses has traditionally focused on their roles as infectious agents and as tools for understanding cell biology. Viruses are now finding a new expanded role as nanoplatforms with applications in materials science and medicine. Viruses form highly symmetrical monodisperse architectures and are ideal templates for engineering multifunctionality, including multivalent display of sur...

A method for the speciication of software for safety-critical applications is presented. It is based on a combination of the formal speciication languages Z and real-time CSP. Guidelines for the development and validation of speciications are provided. Speciication development is supported by reference architectures that can serve as templates for the speciication of concrete systems. Validatio...

abstract introduction: at present, complementary and alternative medicine has brought hope for many hopeless patients. most cancerous patients who also use alternative medicine prefer this combination of alternative and conventional medicine since they are of the opinion that this combination is superior to either alone, which can be referred to as raising new hopes. methods: a literature revie...

Betweenness centrality is a distance-based invariant of graphs. In this paper, we use lexicographic product to compute betweenness centrality of some important classes of graphs. Finally, we pose some open problems related to this topic.

BACKGROUND Studies suggest that immigrants have higher rates of anxiety-depression than compatriots in low-middle income countries and lower rates than populations in host high income countries. Elucidating the factors that underlie these stepwise variations in prevalence may throw new light on the pathogenesis of anxiety-depressive disorders globally. This study aimed to examine whether quanti...