In recent years the popular media have asserted that massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPGS) are highly addictive. According to popular belief, these games have caused players to forsake “real life” obligations and “significant” offline relationships i...

The objective of this study was to improve our ability to predict CO2-SO2 geologic storage. SO2 is an impurity of industrial CO2 gas streams which is expected to intensify brine acidification resulting in enhanced mineral reaction. Short-term H2SO4-brine-rock experiment...

International therapeutic guidelines recommend HIV drug resistance testing as an important part of routine clinical practice in HIV/AIDS treatment and care. This study aims to examine the factors that determine who gets tested for HIV drug resistance in a setting where ...

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and Francisella tularensis possess a toolkit of virulence factors that allow them to adapt to the host environment and prevail over the body’s natural defenses in different ways. For diarrheagenic EPEC, a type III secretion syste...

Public bike share (PBS) programs offer a flexible and convenient transport option that may also offer public health benefits from increased physical activity. Emerging evidence suggests several factors as important to bike share use, but little data exists from users wh...

This report includes the results of a survey gathering details on the current state of regulation of prepaid mobile phones across a comparable range of countries in the OECD. It presents the results of the survey and is intended to contribute to an informed public delib...

There is a scarcity of literature examining gay, bisexual, and queer (GBQ) men’s experiences of public displays of affection. An interview protocol informed by Emotion-Focused Therapy was used alongside narrative inquiry to conduct semi-structured interviews with 10 GBQ...