Research has documented the harms associated with performance and image enhancing drug (PIED) use lack of disclosure to healthcare providers (HCPs). Given that relationship between HCPs PIED consumers plays an important role in harm reduction, research is required understand barriers facilitators for engage help-seeking. This qualitative study explored attitudes around current reduction framewo...

The use of performance-enhancing and social drugs by athletes raises a number of ethical and health concerns. The World Anti-Doping Agency was constituted to address both of these issues as well as publishing a list of, and testing for, banned substances in athletes. Despite continuing methodological developments to detect drug use and associated punishments for positive dope tests, there are s...

This paper provides an overview of techniques for improving Web performance. For improving server performance, multiple Web servers can be used in combination with efficient load balancing techniques. We also discuss how the choice of server architecture affects performance. We examine content distribution networks (CDN’s) and the routing techniques that they use. While Web performance can be i...

BACKGROUND Substances with performance enhancing properties appear on a continuum, ranging from prohibited performance enhancing drugs (PED) through dietary supplements to functional foods (FF). Anti-doping messages designed to dissuade athletes from using PEDs have been typically based on moralising sport competition and/or employing scare campaigns with focus on the negative consequences. Cam...

It is well known that the large round trip time and the highly variable delay in a cellular network may degrade the performance of TCP. Many concepts have been proposed to improve this situation, including performance enhancing proxies (PEPs). One important class of PEPs are split connection proxies, which terminate a connection from a server in the Internet in a host close to the Radio Access ...