Kastin, Abba J., and Victoria Akerstrom. Entry of CART into brain is rapid but not inhibited by excess CART or leptin. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Endocrinol. Metab. 40): E901– E904, 1999.—Cocaineand amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) is a new anorectic peptide found in the brain and periphery. It is closely associated with leptin, an anorectic agent saturably transported across the blood-brain b...

This paper extends a previous study that examined the role of enjoyment on the development of e-Loyalty by considering the role of race, income, and education on the enjoyment and development of e-Loyalty in women online shoppers. The goal of this research was to develop a better understanding of the online consumer by investigating women in relation to their e-commerce behaviors and perception...

An estimated 24,200 children younger than 15 years, 20,700 (85%) of whom were younger than 5 years, were treated in US hospital emergency departments in 2005 for shopping cart-related injuries. Approximately 4% of shopping cart-related injuries to children younger than 15 years require admission to the hospital. Injuries to the head and neck represent three fourths of all injuries. Fractures ac...

OBJECTIVE Determine whether HIV and combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) affect resting-state functional connectivity (rs-fc) between the striatum and the cortical regions. METHODS Forty-nine HIV-uninfected (HIV-) and 132 HIV-infected (HIV+) (65% receiving cART) patients underwent laboratory studies (current and nadir CD4 T-cell counts, and plasma HIV viral load), neuropsychological perf...

BACKGROUND  Kaposi sarcoma (KS) remains a frequent cancer in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients starting combination antiretroviral therapy (cART). We examined incidence rates and risk factors for developing KS in different periods after starting cART in patients from European observational HIV cohorts. METHODS  We included HIV-positive adults starting cART after 1 January 1...

We present MoCoShoP, a system that supports the collaborative process of shopping and planning furniture and interior items. The system consists of a mobile application running on the users' mobile phones and an interactive surface application deployed on shared planning desks in the furniture retail store environment. Users belonging together share a virtual shopping cart. By scanning labels a...

A significant interest for Web process design is to discover the discrepancies between the users' transaction process sequences and the desired process sequence for the Web transaction process. Sequence data analysis has been an important approach to analyzing Web log data in the e-commerce field. There have been many methods for sequence data analysis; however, few existing methods can be appl...

E-shopping has grown considerably in the last years, providing customers with convenience, merchants with increased sales, and financial entities with an additional source of income. However, it may also be the source of serious threats to privacy. In this paper, we review the e-shopping process, discussing attacks or threats that have been analyzed in the literature for each of its stages. By ...

The success of knowledge discovery in real-world domains often depends on our ability to handle data imperfections. Here we study this problem in the framework of association mining, seeking to identify frequent itemsets in transactional databases where the presence of some items in a given transaction is unknown. We want to use the frequent itemsets to predict “missing items”: based on the par...