651 Articles found
Inderscience Publishers Articles
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A public health policy approach to reducing economic and health costs of obesity in the USA
Obesity is rapidly increasing in the USA. It is one of the most serious public health problems that significantly increase the risk of many chronic illnesses. Obesity disproportionately affects people with lower incomes and minority groups and ...
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Thermodynamic analysis of serogroup C antigen production by Neisseria meningitidis
Kinetic and thermodynamic models are developed to relate substrate consumption, serogroup C antigen production and growth rate of Neisseria meningitidis, a meningitides causing bacterium during the uncontrolled, pH controlled and dissolved oxygen ...
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Stabilisation of (3–mercaptopropyl)–trimethoxysilanecapped ZnS nanocrystals in polyacrylamide hydrogel
In this study, we synthesised ZnS nanocrystals and embedded them in polyacrylamide (PAAm) hydrogel to stabilise the fluorescence emission for biomedical applications. ZnS nanoparticles have strong emission but they lose it in time, so generally they ...
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Exploring the impact of international human resource management practices on firm performance
In the recent decade, the global tourism industry is showing trends of increasing visitor arrivals in the developing countries. On one hand, this implies that more tourist dollar is coming into small island developing states; on the other hand, it ...
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Notions of innovation in healthcare services and products
This investigation explores the role innovations play in the healthcare system within the UK. Discussions include the debate surrounding the definition of the term innovation, as well as the importance of innovations on patients and the current ...
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Ultra low–temperature microwave annealing for ultra–shallow junctions and P–MOS devices
Low energy ion implantation and low–temperature microwave annealing were used in this study to fabricate ultra–shallow junctions (USJs). A two–steps modulatory microwave annealing (MWA) process was employed to recover and activate a boron (400 eV) ...
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Implementation and perception of risk management practices in health/fitness facilities
The health/fitness industry is an important contributor to the national preventative health policies against obesity and associated health risk factors. However, inappropriately designed programs and services can increase the risk of injuries and ...
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Children’s exposure to traffic-related pollution: assessment of CO exposure in a typical school day
This paper evaluates the exposure of four children to carbon monoxide (CO) in two different classrooms during the time spent in school in a typical school day, using a numerical modelling approach. The study is focused on an area of 550 × 550 m 2 ...
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Scaling the impact of social entrepreneurship from production and operations management perspective – a study of eight organisations in the health and education sector in India
Social entrepreneurs are springing up everywhere across the globe and they are gaining increasing recognition for their activities as agents of change. More and more citizens are using entrepreneurial skills in building sustainable enterprises, ...
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Molecular dynamics simulation of the nano–ejection system with various interfacial wettabilities
Because of the significance of the interfacial phenomenon, this study examines the nanojet ejection systems with various interfacial wettabilities. A modified Lennard–Jones potential function was used to simulate the various solid–liquid ...
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Effects of fluorine implantation on polysilicon with high–k Er<div style="display : inline; font-size:xx-small;">2</div>O<div style="display : inline; font-size:xx-small;">3</div> dielectrics
This paper reports on electrical and physical characteristics of erbium oxide (Er2O3) dielectric films combined with fluorine implantation on polycrystalline silicon. It was found that high–k Er2O3 polyoxides with fluorine implantation have lower ...
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Fabrication of large diameter TiO<div style="display : inline; font-size:xx-small;">2</div> nanotube for bone morphogenetic protein–2 delivery
A localised and release–controlled carrier is essential to enhance the effectiveness of bone morphogenetic protein in bone regeneration and repair. In this work, TiO2 nanotubes with diameter larger than 350 nm were successfully fabricated for the ...
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Cancer stem–like cells photothermolysed by gold nanorod–mediated near–infrared laser irradiation
Several studies have recently identified CD133 as a marker of cancer stem–like cells (CSCs) for various tumours. Such findings make CD133 a potential molecular target for tumour–selective therapeutic approach. In this study, fluorescence–tagged ...
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A novel approach for selecting green teams: the case of surgical teams
One of the important issues of human resources management in healthcare system is to select green teams aiming at improving environmental management practices. This paper proposes a new general model for green team selection integrating ...
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Burgeoning Chinese postpartum nursing enterprises and birth tourism – the perspective from transaction cost entrepreneurship
The one-month confinement (or doing the month, DM) for post-partum women is a tradition that has been practiced for millennia in Chinese society. Tedious preparations and numerous procedures of DM incur high transaction costs when purchasing the ...
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The control systems engineering foundation of traditional Indian medicine: the Rosetta Stone for Siddha and Ayurveda
This paper uncovers the scientific foundation of traditional systems of Indian medicine: Siddha and Ayurveda, from core principles shared in modern control systems engineering. Grand challenges of modern healthcare are motivating a paradigm shift ...
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Sustainability of systems of systems
The purpose of this paper is to synthesise multiple worldviews of system of systems and introduce sustainability as a prerequisite for the development of the field. Fundamentally, systems of systems provide significantly greater capability than ...
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Biopharmaceuticals and firm organisation in Argentina: opportunities and challenges
In Argentina, some biotechnology firms operating in the human health sector managed to enter into the biosimilars segment of global biopharmaceutical markets at an early stage. These firms’ forms of organisation and their articulation with local ...
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Oxidation of antiepileptic drug oxcarbazepine stimulated by thermally activated persulfate
Oxcarbazepine (OXC) is widely used nowadays due to its similar therapeutic effects of carbamazepine (CBZ) but with fewer side effects. The prescribed consumption of OXC has increased significantly in some countries, and its environmental pollutions ...
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Critical factors in health innovation in cities: from ivory tower to living lab
Health of the population in cities is regarded as an important precondition for the development of social capital and social participation in the frame of urban sustainability. The focus of this paper is on living labs for health innovations. ...