Do female public servants receive a stronger negative public reaction from being involved in corruption than their male counterparts? While there are good theoretical reasons to suggest they do, the empirical evidence on this question to date, which primarily focuses on elected officials, remains inconclusive.To shed new light on this matter, we in
Objective: Communication around a palliative approach to dementia care often is problematic or occurs infrequently in nursing homes (NH).Question prompt lists (QPLs), are evidence-based lists designed to improve communication by facilitating discussions within a specific population.This study aimed to develop a QPL concerning the progression and pa
BackgroundTrustworthy (i.e.low risk of bias) randomized clinical trials (RCTs) play an important role in evidence-based decision making.We aimed to systematically assess the risk of bias of trials published in high-impact endocrinology journals.MethodsWe Food searched the MEDLINE/PubMed database between 2014 and 2016 for phase 2-4 RCTs evaluating e
Abstract Understanding swarm pattern formation is of great interest because it occurs naturally in many physical and biological systems, and has artificial applications in robotics.In both natural and engineered swarms, agent communication is typically local and sparse.This is because, over a limited sensing or communication range, the number of in
This paper proposes a novel ultrawideband antenna with high gain and circular polarization.Its circular polarization can be easily changed to right-handed or left-handed.The antenna consists of four sophisticated antipodal Vivaldi antennas and an ultrawideband feeding network.The feeding network composes of four horizontal-to-vertical transitions,