Teenagers are among the most prolific users of social network sites (SNS). Emerging studies find that youth spend a considerable portion of their daily life interacting through social media. Subsequently, questions and controversies emerge about the effects SNS have on adolescent development. This review outlines the theoretical frameworks researchers have used to understand adolescents and SNS...

Solar cells were prepared on glass substrates sputtered with ITO (Psiotec Ltd), which were cleaned in acetone and isopropanol in an ultrasonic bath. Next, a planar TiO2 and also a SnS layer were prepared as described above. Afterwards, the nanostructured SnS layer was infiltrated with P3HT (Plexcore OS 2100) by spin coating a P3HT solution (17.25 mg in chlorobenzene) onto the SnS layer having a...

Teenagers are among the most prolific users of social network sites (SNS). Emerging studies find that youth spend a considerable portion of their daily life interacting through social media. Subsequently, questions and controversies emerge about the effects SNS have on adolescent development. This review outlines the theoretical frameworks researchers have used to understand adolescents and SNS...

Despite the worldwide popularity and rapid proliferation of social networking sites (SNS), e.g., Facebook, our understanding about what drive people to SNS and how they use them remains limited. This study aims at establishing a theoretical framework guiding the research on SNS usage. Built upon the Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), the framework makes following major extensio...

Ab initio based multireference configuration interaction calculations are carried out for SnS and its monopositive ion using effective core potentials. Potential energy curves and spectroscopic constants of the low-lying states of SnS and SnS+ are computed. The ground-state dissociation energies of the neutral and ionic species are about 4.71 and 2.86 eV, respectively which compare well with th...

Although several cytokines and neurotrophic factors induce sympathetic neurons to transdifferentiate into cholinergic neurons in vitro, the physiological and pathophysiological roles of this remain unknown. During congestive heart failure (CHF), sympathetic neural tone is upregulated, but there is a paradoxical reduction in norepinephrine synthesis and reuptake in the cardiac sympathetic nervou...

As more people access to social network services (SNS), especially by using mobile devices, more organizations become to use SNS as a channel for their marketing and promotion. It is known that the growth potential of the mobile advertising market is significant. While brand engagement is a key motive for mobile advertising, there is a lack of understanding about how SNS users become to engage ...

Peripheral axotomy induces long-term hyperexcitability (LTH) of centrally located sensory neuron (SN) somata in diverse species. In mammals this LTH can promote spontaneous activity of pain-related SNs, and such activity may contribute to neuropathic pain and hyperalgesia. However, few axotomized SN somata begin to fire spontaneously in any species, and why so many SNs display soma LTH after ax...

AIMS Bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) can mediate structural and functional detrusor changes, which can lead to bothersome lower urinary tract symptoms. We investigate if sacral nerve stimulation (SNS) can prevent these structural and functional changes in a rat model of BOO. METHODS 24 female Sprague-Dawley rats (250 gm) were divided into 4 groups: control (CTRL), BOO, SNS, and both (BOO/SNS...

Thin-film solar cells made from earth-abundant, inexpensive, and non-toxic materials are needed to replace the current technologies whose widespread use is limited by their use of scarce, costly, and toxic elements. Tin monosulfide (SnS) is a promising candidate for making absorber layers in scalable, inexpensive, and non-toxic solar cells. SnS has always been observed to be a p-type semiconduc...