Abstract Background Stroke poses a growing human and economic burden in South Africa.Excess sugar consumption, especially from sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), has been associated with increased obesity and stroke risk.Research shows that price increases for SSBs can influence consumption and modelling evidence suggests that taxing SSBs has the po
Map building and map-based relocalization techniques are important for unmanned vehicles operating in urban environments.The existing approaches require expensive high-density laser range finders and suffer from relocalization problems in long-term applications.This study proposes a novel map format called the ClusterMap, on the basis of which an a
BACKGROUND/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: The phenomenon of Neolithisation refers to the transition of prehistoric populations from a hunter-gatherer to an agro-pastoralist lifestyle.Traditionally, the spread of an agro-pastoralist economy into Europe has been framed within a dichotomy based either on an acculturation phenomenon or on a demic diffusion.Howeve
Cristina Bucchi,1,2 Massimo del Fabbro,3,4 Alain Arias,2 Ramón Fuentes,2 José Manuel Mendes,5 Marie Ordonneau,6 Valérie Orti,7 María-Cristina Manzanares-Céspedes6 1PhD Program in Medicine and Translational Research, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; 2Department of Integral Adults Dentistry, Research Cent