Silverfish silk is formed by entanglement of randomly coiled protein chains.
Walker AA, Church JS, Woodhead AL, Sutherland TD.SourceResearch School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia; CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Canberra 2601, Australia.
Silks are semi-crystalline solids in which protein chains are associated by intermolecular hydrogen bonding within ordered crystallites, and by entanglement within unordered regions. By varying the type of protein secondary structure within crystallites and the overall degree of molecular order with
Validation of the Temps-A in university student population in Serbia.
Hinić D, Akiskal SH, Akiskal KK, Jović J, Ignjatović Ristić D.SourceDepartment of Psychology, University of Novi Pazar, Serbia.
Journal of affective disorders.J Affect Disord.2013 Jul;149(1-3):146-51. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2013.01.015. Epub 2013 Feb 20.
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The TEMPS-A scale is a self-evaluation measure which assesses five affective temperaments. This study is a comparative analysis of affective temperament types in different educational fields, and the first validation of the Serbian version of the TEMPS-A.METHODS: The TEMPS-A que
Do follow-on therapeutic substitutes induce price competition between hospital medicines? Evidence from the Danish hospital sector.
Hostenkamp G.SourceCOHERE Centre of Health Economic Research, University of Southern Denmark, Department of Business and Economics, J.B. WinsløwsVej 9B, DK-5000 Odense C, Denmark. Electronic address: gih@sam.sdu.dk.
OBJECTIVE: The pricing of follow-on drugs, that offer only limited health benefits over existing therapeutic alternatives, is a recurring health policy debate. This study investigates whether follow-on therapeutic substitutes create price competition between branded hospital medicines.METHODS: New f
FRAMING THE WILLINGNESS-TO-PAY QUESTION: IMPACT ON RESPONSE PATTERNS AND MEAN WILLINGNESS TO PAY.
Gyrd-Hansen D, Jensen ML, Kjaer T.SourceThe Danish Institute for Health Services Research, Copenhagen, Denmark; COHERE, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health (ACERH), University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia.
Health economics.Health Econ.2013 May 22. doi: 10.1002/hec.2932. [Epub ahead of print]
In this study, respondents were randomly allocated to three variants of the payment card format and an open-ended format in order to test for convergent validity. The aim was to test whether preferences (as measured by willingness to pay additional tax) would be affected by framing the willingness-t