Cigarette warning labels are important sources of risk information, but warning research for other tobacco products is limited. This study aimed to gauge perceptions about warnings that may be used for e-cigarettes. We conducted six small focus groups in late 2014/early 2015 with adult current e-cigarette users and cigarette-only smokers. Participants rated and discussed their perceptions of si...

Today, the latest technological developments and practices in e-learning are exploited in order to help public servants and private sector employees to master electronic services in order to improve their work performance in an increasingly interactive, digital environment. This paper presents results of two projects dealing with e-learning for e-government. The comparative analysis of these ca...

The 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act opened the possibility for tobacco companies to apply to market their products as having "modified" or reduced risks. However, research on how to communicate comparative tobacco risks and how such messages are interpreted is limited. This study aimed to qualitatively examine perceptions of potential modified risk statements presented as...

This paper attempts to discuss the spam issue from the Malaysian e-mail users’ perspective. The purpose is to discover how Malaysian users handle the spam e-mail problem. From the experiences we hope to discover the necessary effort needed to be undertaken to face this problem in the context of Malaysia. A survey was conducted to understand how Malaysian individual perceived spam and what they ...

Being familiar with the benefits of e-Health, Telekom Slovenia and the Faculty of Medicine from the University of Maribor along with other partners have initiated an eHealth project. In order to achieve high and effective user adoption of e-Health services, the user-centred design approach is used in the-Health project. Since broadly known conventional UCD methods and techniques are not complet...

The development of e-cigarettes was initially hailed as a resource in facilitating a reduction in or cessation of cigarette smoking. Many users of e-cigarettes are 'dual users', smoking traditional cigarettes and e-cigarettes. The present qualitative study examines the factors that a group of 20 dual users considered to have been influential in their decisions to use e-cigarettes and their comp...

I thank Dean Martin for his very flattering introduction. I thank the College for bestowing a chair to me and the Mathematics Department for providing a wonderful atmosphere for my work. I thank Don Lewis and my current and former colleagues for their support. I take this opportunity to also thank my family, friends, and collaborators. My mathematical horizon has widened considerably after join...

We derive diierent representations of compact QED xed to Lan-dau gauge by the lattice Faddeev-Popov procedure. Our analysis nds that (A)Nielsen-Olesen vortices arising from the compactness of the gauge-xing action are quenched , that is, the Faddeev-Popov determinant cancels them out and they do not innuence correlation functions such as the photon propagator; (B)Dirac strings are responsible f...

renewable natural resources are national capital and are of paramount importance in each country. preservation and developing these resources is incumbent upon relevant institutions and all people especially the beneficiaries. in this regard, various approaches have been recommended for optimum use and sustainable preservation of natural resources especially rangelands among which co-management...

BACKGROUND In recent years, the emerging electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) marketplace has developed prosperously all over the world. By analyzing online e-liquid reviews, we seek to identify the features attracting users. METHODS We collected e-liquid reviews from one of the largest online e-liquid review websites and extracted the e-liquid features by keywords. Then we used sentiment analy...