e408 www.thelancet.com/hiv Vol 3 September 2016 of violence within sexual relationships are likely to infl uence decisions about PrEP. Furthermore, young women’s access to education, information, and social support and their own HIV risk perceptions are likely to signifi cantly infl uence PrEP uptake. The two sides of the framework are connected to illustrate the continuous interplay between th...

Modelling of technological processes of heat treatment or welding, involving multiple heat source transitions, requires considering the phenomenon of tempering. In work have been presented results of dilatometric research of hardened C45 steel subjected to tempering. The analysis of the infl uence of heating rate at the kinetic determined from dilatometric curves has been made. There have also ...

U.S. federal budget dynamics, as a major attribute of the legislative and bureaucratic decision-making processes, increasingly calls into question the scholarly focus on incrementalism. What constitutes a “small” change is largely unspecifi ed in previous research that has also been unable to assess incrementalism across multiple levels of aggregation. Using a unique budgetary database, this ar...

A number of recent empirical studies document signifi cant eff ects of in-patient care quality indicators on the choice of hospital. These studies use either objective quality indicators based on quantitative fi gures, or if subjective reputation scores are used, scores based on the opinion of hospital market insiders. We contribute to the current debate by using a subjective reputation score r...

The article examines the struggle of Qatari- Turkish alliance for regional leadership in Federal Republic Somalia. analysis revealed that foreign policy activity Turkey and Qatar Somalia began during events Arab Spring. Ankara Doha used diplomatic, military fi nancial instruments to strengthen their infl uence country. Moreover, Qatari money played an important role promoting pro-qatari candida...

The selecting tactics for managing patients with ulcerative colitis, an individual approach is required each patient, depending on the activity and duration of disease, as well response to previous therapy.It known that gut microbiome has a profound impact pathogenesis infl ammatory bowel disease (IBD). IBD generally characterized by reduced species richness diversity, less temporal stability, ...

Th is paper reports research on service branding carried out on the prestigious Norwegian Coastal Voyage, or Hurtigruten, which is its brand name. Th e primary research instrument employed in the research was semi-structured in-depth interviews with managers and service personnel previously and presently employed by the shipping line Hurtigruten ASA. Th e paper shows that a set of factors infl ...

Most real estate studies have been concerned with exploring the macroeconomic determinants of housing prices. Little attention has been paid to the context in which property markets function. This study, however, goes beyond macroeconomic factors and explores how country specifi c factors such as cultural values infl uence residential property markets. We have tested and verifi ed the assumptio...