Abstract Background Poorly controlled hypertension (HTN) remains one of the most significant public health problems in the United States, in terms of morbidity, mortality, and economic burden.Despite compelling evidence supporting the beneficial effects of therapeutic lifestyle changes (TLC) for blood pressure (BP) reduction, the effectiveness of t

This paper presents an extended cell transmission model to simulate an emergency evacuation of crowd in a supermarket scenario.The supermarket scenario with a daily shopping, an emergency exit Tablecloth and multiple parallel shelves is discretized into a set of regular hexagonal cells.First, we verify the validity of the model by comparing the res

Micro-pitting is a common fatigue failure mode of spur gears.To reduce it, this paper proposes a Toilet Seat Covers novel tooth tip relief method.Gear meshing simulation is firstly performed considering the actual contact path, showing that there are four Hertz contact stress peaks in the transition areas of the tooth flank.Equations are then devel

The UK has long been hailed as one of the world leaders in animal welfare.Within the UK, animals used in experiments are provided some protection Wifi Wire under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (ASPA).This Act was impacted by European Union (EU) Directive 2010/63/EU, and subsequently the ASPA was updated to reflect any changes required

Reform efforts to improve turnout typically focus on reducing the costs of participation or strengthening appeals to civic duty.While these efforts generate modest effects, Collaborations this paper explores whether citizens might respond to extrinsic rewards to encourage voting.We conduct a field experiment offering lottery prizes to undergraduate