THE FIRST-PERSON EFFECT. A RECONSIDERATION OF TWO META-ANALYSES.

The first-person effect. A reconsideration of two meta-analyses.

The third-person effect describes a tendency to estimate the influence of mass communication on others ("third persons") as being stronger than on oneself and this has been well documented in previous research.Though a first-person effect has also been postulated for desirable mass communication messages (for ex.non-profit advertisements or public

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Fault Tolerant DHT-Based Routing in MANET

In Distributed Hash Table (DHT)-based Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs), a logical structured network (i.e., follows a tree, ring, chord, 3D, etc., structure) is built over the ad hoc physical topology in a distributed manner.The logical structures guide routing processes and eliminate flooding at the control and the data plans, thus making the syste

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The nutritional use of millet grain for food and feed: a review

Abstract Worldwide, millets are regarded as a significant grain, however, they are the least exploited.Millet grain is abundant in nutrients and health-beneficial phenolic compounds, making it suitable as food and feed.The diverse content of nutrients and phenolic compounds present in finger and pearl millet are good indicators that the variety of

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Interstitial Lung Disease in Connective Tissue Disease: A Common Lesion With Heterogeneous Mechanisms and Treatment Considerations

Connective tissue disease (CTD) related interstitial lung disease (CTD-ILD) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality of CTD.Clinically, CTD-ILD is highly heterogenous and involves rheumatic immunity and Sinus multiple manifestations of respiratory complications affecting the airways, vessels, lung parenchyma, pleura, and respiratory

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Severe Human Intestinal Spirochetosis: An Unusual Cause of Diffuse Colonic Ulcerations in a Patient Living with HIV

We describe a case of a homosexual male with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and CD4 count of 246 presenting with acute severe bloody diarrhea.Infectious Shorts work up was negative, and colonoscopy revealed severe diffuse colonic ulcerations.Histopathologic analysis and Treponemal pallidum immunostaining confirmed the diagnosis of intestinal sp

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