BACKGROUND Hypertension is a major risk factor for functional impairment. Dependence is an important related outcome for older adults, but outcomes in hypertension trials appear to focus primarily on major vascular events. ...

Mindfulness originated in the Buddhist tradition as a way of cultivating clarity of thought. Despite the fact that this behavior is best captured using critical thinking (CT) assessments, no studies have examined the effects ...

Purpose This paper investigates the moderating role of multitasking computer self-efficacy on the relationship between social media affordances and social media overload as well as its moderation between social media ...

Background and purpose There is still much debate whether bridging-therapy [intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) prior to mechanical thrombectomy (MT)] might be beneficial compared to MT alone. We investigated the effect of IVT ...

Sponges and their associated microbiota are well known to produce a large diversity of natural products, also called specialized metabolites. In addition to their potential use in the pharmaceutical industry, these rather ...

The unicellular red alga Rhodella maculata Evans is reported for the first time from the central Baltic Sea (habitat salinity 5 psu). To evaluate whether this Baltic isolate is locally adapted to the brackish environment, ...

The core question of my doctoral thesis asks what is meant by the recognition of gender in law, and what effects the emergence of a multiplicity of gender identities onto international human rights law forums has had on ...

This article contributes to cross-disciplinary engagement with the idea of transnationality through a discussion of transnational feminisms. In particular, it reviews and responds to some of the more critical readings of ...

Extracting general or intermediate level terms is a relevant problem that has not received much attention in literature. Current approaches for term extraction rely on contrastive corpora to identify domain-specific terms, ...