The reactivity hypothesis implicates exaggerated cardiovascular reactions to acute psychological stress in the development of hypertension and other cardiovascular disease outcomes. However, cardiovascular reactivity has also been suggested as a mediator between a variety of psychosocial and behavioural risk factors and cardiovascular disease. Data from various analyses of the West of Scotland ...

Screen-printing technology is widely used for the mass-production of disposable electrochemical sensors. The practical utility of carbon screen-printed electrodes has been exploited, despite the fact that little is known about the nature of the electrode reactions. (Wang, J.; Pedrero, M.; Sakslumd, H.; Hammerich, O.; Pingarron, J. Electrochemical activation of screenprinted carbon strips. The A...

A wealth of research indicates that cue reactivity is critical to understanding the neurobiology of nicotine and alcohol addiction and developing treatments. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalograph (EEG) studies have shown abnormal cue reactivity in various conditions between nicotine or alcohol addicts and the healthy. Although the causes of these abnormalities a...

ackground: An early family environment marked by harsh parenting has been related to risk for multiple mental disorders in dulthood, risks that may be mediated, in part, by deficits in emotion regulation skills. This study examined neural mechanisms nderlying these consequences of “risky” families (RF) by exploring neural activity to tasks involving responses to emotional stimuli. ethods: Parti...

The utilization of many industrial byproducts in the construction industry is now well-developed as it helps in improving the sustainability in two ways. First, reuse of the materials which otherwise will burden the environment and will be occupying scarce land resource. Second, it minimizes the degradation of land and the environment as a result of comparatively less digging. Quantities of was...

Alcohol is a known exogenous modulator of negative affect (anxiety, tension) in both animals and humans. It has been proposed that the anxiolytic effects of alcohol are mediated via the amygdala, an area critical to fear perception and responding. However, little is known about the acute effects of alcohol on amygdala reactivity to threatening information in humans. We used functional magnetic ...

Antigen Capture-ELISA based on eight different neutralizing mouse monoclonal antibodies (Mabs) was used to study Polish infectious bursal disease viruses (IBDVs) isolated from two epidemics on the turn of 70/80s (early IBDV) and in the 90s (recent IBDV). They were compared to the Faragher 52/70 (F52/70) reference strain of European classical serotype 1 IBDV and to the 89/163 (typical) and 91/16...

Smoking cessation failures are frequently thought to reflect poor top-down regulatory control over behavior. Previous studies have suggested that smoking cues occupy limited working memory resources, an effect that may contribute to difficulty achieving abstinence. Few studies have evaluated the effects of cognitive load on the ability to actively maintain information in the face of distracting...

Photocatalytic ceramic membranes have attracted considerable attention for industrial wastewater treatment. However, morphological control of the membrane surface to improve its photocatalytic reactivity for the degradation of organic pollutants remains a challenge. Herein, we report a new nanostructured TiO2/Al2O3 composite ceramic membrane prepared from a poly(oxyethylene methacrylate) (POEM)...

Effectiveness of permanganate (MnO 4 ) injection for in situ chemical oxidation is often controlled by the natural oxidant demand (NOD) of the aquifer solids. In this work, a simple procedure was developed and applied to generate a database of NOD kinetic parameters for six different models for 50 different aquifer materials. Representing oxidant consumption as an initial instantaneous reaction...