BACKGROUND This study establishes baseline prevalence of smoking and cigarette consumption among Cork bar workers prior to the Republic of Ireland's (ROI) smokefree workplace legislation and compares gender- and age-specific smoking rates and estimates the adjusted odds of being a smoker for Cork bar workers relative to the general population. METHODS Cross-sectional random sample of bar work...

Traditionally, the method of bar code recognition is based on edge detection. Because of the high density of the stacked two-dimensional bar code, the signal is severely blurred by the point spread function of the optical system. And this method is not suitable. In order to deblur the image, a deconvolution technique is necessary. Under the influence of noise, deconvolution is a type of ill-pos...

We describe a Fourier-based method of separating bars from spirals in near-infrared images. The method takes advantage of the fact that a bar is typically a feature with a relatively fixed position angle and uses the simple assumption that the relative Fourier amplitudes due to the bar decline with radius past a maximum in the same or a similar manner as they rose to that maximum. With such an ...

We describe a Fourier-based method of separating bars from spirals in near-infrared images. The method takes advantage of the fact that a bar is typically a feature with a relatively fixed position angle, and uses the simple assumption that the relative Fourier amplitudes due to the bar decline with radius past a maximum in the same or a similar manner as they rose to that maximum. With such an...

We use a gravitational bar torque method to compare bar strengths (the maximum tangential force normalized by radial force) in B and H-band images of 152 galaxies from the Ohio State University Bright Spiral Galaxy Survey. Our main motivation is to check how much the difference in the rest-frame wavelength could affect comparisons of bar strengths in low and high redshift observations. Between ...

AIMS Bifunctional apoptosis regulator (BAR) is an endoplasmic reticulum protein that interacts with both the extrinsic and intrinsic apoptosis pathways. We hypothesize that over-expression of BAR Delta RING prevents apoptosis and injury following ischaemia/reperfusion (I/R) and attenuates doxorubicin (DOX)-induced cardiotoxicity. METHODS AND RESULTS We generated a line of transgenic mice that...

The paper studies the interpolation properties of anisotropic net spaces $N_{\bar{p},\bar{q}}(M)$, where $\bar{p}=(p_1, p_2)$, $\bar{q}=(q_1, q_2)$. It is shown that following equality holds with respect to multidimensional method $$ (N_{\bar{p}_0,\bar{q}_0}(M), N_{\bar{p}_1,\bar{q}_1}(M))_{\bar{\theta},\bar{q}}=N_{\bar{p},\bar{q}}(M),\;\;\; \frac{1}{\bar{p}}=\frac{1-\bar{\theta}}{\bar{p}_0}+\f...

Amphiphysin2/BIN1 is a crescent-shaped N-BAR protein playing a key role in forming deeply invaginated tubes in muscle T-tubules. Amphiphysin2/BIN1 structurally stabilizes tubular formations in contrast to other N-BAR proteins involved in dynamic membrane scission processes; however, the molecular mechanism of the stabilizing effect is poorly understood. Using cryo-EM, we investigated the assemb...

We report on the 2: 00 5 (400 pc) resolution CO (J = 1 ! 0) observations covering the whole length of the bar in the strongly barred late-type spiral galaxy NGC 7479. CO emission is detected only along a dust lane that traverses the whole length of the bar, including the nucleus. The emission is strongest in the nucleus. The distribution of emission is clumpy along the bar outside the nucleus, ...

BACKGROUND "Smoke-Free" legislation prohibiting smoking in all enclosed public places was introduced in March 2006. This qualitative study presents insights from bar workers about their observations of the changing social bar environment, changing patrons' behaviours and challenges bar workers have faced in managing smoke-free legislation. METHODS Twelve in-depth interviews were conducted bet...