High-Fugacity Expansion, Lee–Yang Zeros, and Order–Disorder Transitions in Hard-Core Lattice Systems

Flavonoids are considered as a significant class of compounds among the natural products, exhibiting a variety of structural skeletons as well as multidirectional biological potentials. In structural elucidations of natural products, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has been playing a vital role; the technique is one of the sharpest tools in the hands of natural products chemists. The present resume deals with hard-core applications of such spectral technique, particularly in structural elucidation of flavonoids; different NMR techniques including 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, and 2D-NMR [viz. 1H-1H COSY, COLOC, HMBC, HMQC] are described in detail.

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An American Dream

Public Voices ◽

10.22140/pv.269 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (2-3) ◽

pp. 123

Author(s):

R. J. Hansen

Keyword(s):

American Dream ◽

New Technology ◽

Hard Core ◽

Fictional Characters

Malfunctioning of new technology causes mass confusion at the ballot box on the Election Day: people vote for fictional characters, actors who play them, and dead presidents; hard-core Republicans find themselves voting for Democratic candidates and proud liberals give their votes to representatives of the GOP.

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Elastic scattering from cubic lattice systems with paracrystalline distortion. II

Physical Review B ◽

10.1103/physrevb.41.3854 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 41 (6) ◽

pp. 3854-3856 ◽

Cited By ~ 47

Author(s):

Hideki Matsuoka ◽

Hideaki Tanaka ◽

Norio Iizuka ◽

Takeji Hashimoto ◽

Norio Ise

Keyword(s):

Elastic Scattering ◽

Lattice Systems ◽

Cubic Lattice

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Smokers who do not quit: Can the precaution adoption process model help identify hard-core smokers?

The Journal of Smoking Cessation ◽

10.1017/jsc.2019.20 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 6-13 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tanya Buchanan ◽

Christopher A. Magee ◽

Peter J. Kelly

Keyword(s):

Process Model ◽

Economic Status ◽

Hard Core ◽

Adoption Process ◽

Intent To Quit ◽

Online Data ◽

Quit Attempt ◽

Stage 4 ◽

Precaution Adoption Process Model ◽

Precaution Adoption

AbstractIntroductionHard-core smokers have been identified as a potential public health challenge. The trans-theoretical model lacks the specificity to identify hard-core smokers. The precaution adoption process model (PAPM) is a stage-based behaviour change model which includes ‘no intent to quit’ as a distinct stage and so may be useful in identifying hard-core smokers.AimsThe aim of this study was to apply the PAPM to a community based sample of smokers to determine whether it provides a useful approach to identifying hard-core smokers.MethodsWe surveyed smokers in Australia who were recruited through social media and an online data collection agency.ResultsThe sample included 336 current smokers, 11.9% were in Stage 4 of the PAPM – i.e. had decided not to quit. Stage 4 smokers are more resistant to quitting and marked by their similarities to hard-core smokers. This is further amplified when addressing Stage 4 smokers with no previous quit attempt.ConclusionsStage 4 smokers with no previous quit attempts are aligned with a hard-core smoker profile with higher levels of nicotine dependence, greater cigarette consumption and low socio-economic status. Further research is required to determine if PAPM is a valid predictive model for identifying hard-core smokers in clinical practice.

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