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Alien Registration- Macneill, Daniel E. (Bath, Sagadahoc County)
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In reply to: Questioning the ethics of ethicists
Hamor questions ‘the ethics of the ethicists’ without addressing the substantive points made in our paper.1 While our empirical findings were that physicians and members of the public consider that some gifts are appropriate, we go further and explore the implications of those findings.2 Just as a public survey finding support for capital punishment would not be sufficient to convince us that it was right, we argue that pharmaceutical industry largesse should not be accepted simply because it enjoys popular or professional support. Data are important, but are not the only consideration. Values, including the independence of clinical decision making and the primacy of patient welfare, should also be considered. These are accepted ethical commitments within the profession. For these reasons, we question pharmaceutical marketing and the use of ‘gifts’ to influence doctors' prescribing. There is concern in the literature about the potential for this strategy to bias doctors' judgments. The giving of ‘gifts’ to doctors has the intended outcome that doctors prescribe from loyalty to the ‘gift’ giver rather than prescribing on the basis of evidence of drug efficacy and safety. Even a small gift like ‘post-it’ notes can have this effect. Hamor, however, appears to argue that acceptance of gifts from industry is not morally problematic without addressing the primary concern that this may undermine the independence of clinical decision making and potentially put patients at risk
Bis(μ-dithieno[3,2-b:2′,3′-d]thioÂphene-2,6-dicarboxylÂato-κ2 O 2:O 6)bisÂ[bisÂ(1,10-phenanthroline-κ2 N,N′)cobalt(II)] dimethylÂformamide disolvate
The asymmetric unit of the title compound, [Co2(C10H2O4S3)2(C12H8N2)4]·2C3H7NO, contains one half of the formula unit, with the rest generated by inversion. The cobalt ion sits in a slightly distorted octaÂhedral environment and is ligated to four N atoms of two 1,10-phenanthroline molecules and to two O atoms of two dithieno[3,2-b:2′,3′-d]thioÂphene-2,6-dicarbÂoxyÂlÂate anions. The anions act as bridges between the CoII centers
Understanding recruitment and retention in the NHS community pharmacy stop smoking service: perceptions of smoking cessation advisers
NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research Programme
(RP-PG-0609-10181
1006-55 In vivo macrophage imaging of acute coronary syndromes with intracoronary optical coherence tomography
Observation of the nonlinear Hall effect under time reversal symmetric conditions
The electrical Hall effect is the production of a transverse voltage under an
out-of-plane magnetic field. Historically, studies of the Hall effect have led
to major breakthroughs including the discoveries of Berry curvature and the
topological Chern invariants. In magnets, the internal magnetization allows
Hall conductivity in the absence of external magnetic field. This anomalous
Hall effect (AHE) has become an important tool to study quantum magnets. In
nonmagnetic materials without external magnetic fields, the electrical Hall
effect is rarely explored because of the constraint by time-reversal symmetry.
However, strictly speaking, only the Hall effect in the linear response regime,
i.e., the Hall voltage linearly proportional to the external electric field,
identically vanishes due to time-reversal symmetry. The Hall effect in the
nonlinear response regime, on the other hand, may not be subject to such
symmetry constraints. Here, we report the observation of the nonlinear Hall
effect (NLHE) in the electrical transport of the nonmagnetic 2D quantum
material, bilayer WTe2. Specifically, flowing an electrical current in bilayer
WTe2 leads to a nonlinear Hall voltage in the absence of magnetic field. The
NLHE exhibits unusual properties sharply distinct from the AHE in metals: The
NLHE shows a quadratic I-V characteristic; It strongly dominates the nonlinear
longitudinal response, leading to a Hall angle of about 90 degree. We further
show that the NLHE directly measures the "dipole moment" of the Berry
curvature, which arises from layer-polarized Dirac fermions in bilayer WTe2.
Our results demonstrate a new Hall effect and provide a powerful methodology to
detect Berry curvature in a wide range of nonmagnetic quantum materials in an
energy-resolved way
Switching magnetization with a Weyl semimetal
Energy-efficient magnetization manipulation is a prerequisite for competitive spintronic devices. The Weyl semimetal WTe2 can act as a spin current source that enables magnetization switching of an adjacent ferromagnet at low power consumption and additionally induces chiral magnetism.</p
Physical activity and psychosocial characteristics of the peer supporters in the PLAN-A study – a latent class analysis
PLAN-A is a cluster randomised controlled trial of a peer-led physical activity intervention which uses peer supporters to increase the physical activity of 13–14-year-old girls in the UK. This paper uses latent class analysis to identify classes in the whole study population and investigate how those selected as peer supporters in PLAN-A were drawn from different social groups. We identified five classes of girls, based on psychosocial variables (self-esteem, physical activity self-efficacy, motivation, physical activity values among friends and peer support for physical activity (PA) and physical activity behaviour variables (average minutes of weekday MVPA, sedentary time and screen viewing). Peer supporters were similar to the whole study population in terms of overall demographics, but were drawn unequally from the five classes. In addition, there was considerable variation in the distribution of peer supporters between schools. The selection of peer supporters is an integral component of peer-led interventions and should be explored and linked to underlying theory to understand the characteristics of those recruited. However, demographic representativeness is not necessarily the aim, and simple reporting of overall demographic comparisons may mask important differences within subgroups
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