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Open AccessPerceptions of friendship, peers and influence on adolescent smoking according to tobacco control context: a systematic review and meta-ethnography of qualitative research
A relationship between smoking and interpersonal influences has been well established within the literature. There have been cultural shifts in denormalisation and a reduction in tobacco smoking in many countr...
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Towards an action plan for characterizing food plant diversity
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Open AccessExploring the association between school-based peer networks and smoking according to socioeconomic status and tobacco control context: a systematic review
Whilst prevalence of youth smoking in middle and high income countries has decreased, inequality has prevailed. The introduction of legislation regulating tobacco use in public spaces varies across countries, ...
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Open AccessAssociations between school-based peer networks and smoking according to socioeconomic status and tobacco control context: protocol for a mixed method systematic review
Smoking remains a major public health concern. School-based social networks influence uptake of smoking among peers. During the past two decades, the UK macro-systemic context within which schools are nested a...
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Open AccessProcess evaluation of the Healthy Primary School of the Future: the key learning points
While schools have potential to contribute to children’s health and healthy behaviour, embedding health promotion within complex school systems is challenging. The ‘Healthy Primary School of the Future’ (HPSF)...
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Economic evaluation of lifestyle interventions to treat overweight or obesity in children
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Families of type III0 ergodic transformations in distinct orbit equivalent classes
A new isomorphism invariant of certain measure preserving flows, using sequences of integers, is introduced. Using this invariant, we are able to construct large families of type III0 systems which are not orbit ...
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Morphology of Thick SiC Epitaxial Films Grown by the Physical Vapor Transport Method
Epitaxial SiC films were deposited on on-axis Si-face 4H-SiC(0001) substrates by the physical vapor transport (PVT) method from a SiC powder. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) showed a surface morphology whic...
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Open AccessInvestigation of electron density profile in the lower ionosphere by SRP-4 rocket experiment
The SRP-4 rocket was launched at 12:07 LT on 18 March 2002. The objective of this rocket experiment is the investigation of the electron density profile in the high-latitude D-region of the ionosphere at noon....
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Laboratory study of the effects of two nitrification inhibitors on greenhouse gas emissions from a slurry-treated arable soil: impact of diurnal temperature cycle
An automated laboratory soil incubation system enabled the effects on gaseous emissions from a soil to be quantified accurately, when amended with slurry plus a nitrification inhibitor: dicyandiamide (DCD), or...
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Yellow Sea Internal Solitary Wave Variability
Our studies are centered in an area south of the Shandong peninsula where the observations of Zhou, Zhang and Rogers [1] showed an anomalous drop in acoustical intensity at 630 Hz. For this region ocean-acoustic ...
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The DNA sequence of human chromosome 22
Knowledge of the complete genomic DNA sequence of an organism allows a systematic approach to defining its genetic components. The genomic sequence provides access to the complete structures of all genes, incl...
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The Yeast Genome Directory
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Influence of Azole Compounds on Adhesion, Germ Tube Formation and Virulence of C. Albicans in Cell Cultures and Infected Animals
Three stages of fungal infection have been described; attachment of the fungal cells, production of germ tubes and penetration of the epithelial surface by hyphae. It was the purpose of our investigations to ...
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Inbreeding considerations in a REM sleep model for rat swimming activity
Over the past few years, our laboratory group has elaborated a repeated measures rat swimming test. It provides an animal base for showing that the REM sleep mechanism is important to both emotional responsive...
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Administration of cyclosporin A, a new selective immunosuppressive agent, to mice infected withSchistosoma mansoni resulted in a significant reduction in the number of mature and immature male and, to a greater e...
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Effect of Galvanized Iron on Some Tree Seedlings
IT has become usual in Australian forest nurseries to grow tree seedlings in lacquered tin-plate tubes about 6 in. high and 1–1½ in. diameter, which contain sufficient soil for up to two seasons' growth before...
