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Secondhand smoke exposure and risk following the irish smoking ban: an assessment of salivary cotinine concentrations in hotel workers and air nicotine levels in bars
(BMJ, 2005-12-01)Objective: To investigate whether the Irish smoking ban has had an impact on secondhand smoke (SHS) exposures for hospitality workers. Design, setting, and participants: Before and after the smoking ban a cohort of workers ... -
Secondhand smoke exposure in hospitality venues in europe
(Environmental Health Perspectives, 2008-07-18)BACKGROUND: Although in the last few years some European countries have implemented smoking bans in hospitality venues, the levels of secondhand smoke (SHS) in this occupational sector Could still be extremely high in most ... -
Secretion of growth hormone elicited by intravenous desipramine in the conscious, unrestrained rat
(Wiley-Blackwell, 1991-02-01)1 Acute intravenous administration of either clonidine (Clon) (50-mu-g kg-1) or desipramine (DMI) (5 mg kg-1) elicited a pulse of growth hormone (GH) and corticosterone secretion in conscious, unrestrained rats. 2 The ... -
The secretome derived from mesenchymal stromal cells cultured in a xeno-free medium promotes human cartilage recovery in vitro
(Frontiers Media, 2020-02-14)Osteoarthritis (OA) is a disabling joint disorder causing articular cartilage degeneration. Currently, the treatments are mainly aimed to pain and symptoms relief, rather than disease amelioration. Human bone marrow stromal ... -
Secularism, feminism and the public sphere
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A secure and efficient micropayment solution for online gaming
(IEEE, 2009-10-23)An innovative micropayment solution is proposed which incorporates both distributed security and social networking features. This has significant potential to impact on both the provision of new services and community ... -
A secure and efficient micropayment solution for online gaming
(2009)An innovative micropayment solution is proposed which incorporates both distributed security and social networking features. This has significant potential to impact on both the provision of new services and community ... -
Secure Intellectual Property Management in Reconfigurable Computing Systems
(2010)This thesis contributes to Intellectual Property (IP) security and IP usage accounting in Partially Reconfigurable (PR) Xilinx Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based Reconfigurable Computing (RC) systems.The outsourcing ... -
Securitizing instability: The US military and full spectrum operations
(SAGE Publications, 2015-01-01)This paper examines the recent broadening of the US military’s overseas mission into what it calls ‘full spectrum operations’ and critiques how it is being enabled by what I term ‘full spectrum law’. The paper explores the ... -
Sediment mobility modelling and hydrodynamic properties of maerl
(2016-11-11)Sediment mobility modelling is a useful tool for scientifically robust marine spatial planning and characterisation of the benthic disturbance regime. As a prerequisite to modelling sediment transport of free living coralline ... -
Seeking Gender Justice in Post-Conflict Transitions: Towards a Transformative Women's Human Rights Approach
(Cambridge University Press, 2007)This article critically examines the prospects for achieving a comprehensive vision of gender justice in post-conflict transitional contexts. It is divided into three main sections. The first reviews the gendered limits ... -
Seeking the face of innovation with the ethical compass of Emmanuel Levinas.
(Springer Verlag, 2008)A recent biographer has described the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas as being permeated by one simple but profound theme: western philosophy has at best ignored and at worst suppressed the ¿Other¿. The approach of this ... -
Seektb, a two-stage multiplex real-time-pcr-based method for differentiation of the mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
(American Society for Microbiology, 2012-05-02)Tuberculosis (TB) in humans is caused by members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC). The accurate identification of the MTC member causing human infection is important because the treatment of TB caused by ... -
Segment number, body length, and latitude in geophilomorph centipedes: a ‘converse-bergmann’ pattern
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Segregation of replicative dna polymerases during s phase
(American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB), 2012-08-10)DNA polymerases (Pol) alpha, delta, and is an element of replicate the bulk of chromosomal DNA in eukaryotic cells, Pol is an element of being the main leading strand and Pol delta the lagging strand DNA polymerase. By ... -
Seismic Design of Concentrically Braced Steel Frames
(2012-03-01)The aim of this project is to develop a robust numerical model that accurately replicates the behaviour of CBFs during earthquakes. This numerical model is then used to validate a codified performance based design approach ... -
Seismic Rayleigh waves on an exponentially graded, orthotropic half-space
(The Royal Society, 2007)Efforts at modelling the propagation of seismic waves in half-spaces with continuously varying properties have mostly been focused on shear-horizontal waves. Here, a sagittally polarized (Rayleigh type) wave travels along ... -
Selecting Economic Immigrants: A Statistical Approach
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2009-09)There is growing international interest in a Canadian-style points system for selecting economic immigrants. Although existing points systems are influenced by the human capital literature, the findings have traditionally ... -
Selection shapes synonymous stop codon use in mammals
(Springer (part of Springer Nature), 2020-07-02)Phylogenetic models of the evolution of protein-coding sequences can provide insights into the selection pressures that have shaped them. In the application of these models synonymous nucleotide substitutions, which do not ... -
Selection, collection and analysis as sources of evidence in case study research
(RCN Publishing Ltd., 2017-03-22)Background Case study research is a valuable way to explore and describe nursing phenomena in their natural contexts. Multiple sources of evidence are critical in this approach. It is imperative that the strategies for ...