Cigarettes are commonly sold in packs of 20 units and therefore little is known about the potential impact of pack size on consumption.Using insights from behavioral economics, we suggest that cigarette packs smaller than the standard size may help some smokers cut back and/or quit, consistent with their long-term goals.Results from an online hypot
The main threats to business are: competitors; supervisory and investigative bodies; tax system; crisis developments; currency exchange rates and so on.However, the world experience of recent decades has shown that not only external phenomena but also own employees can be perceived as tangible threats to business.On the part of the staff, there are
The problem of voltage/current ripples has become a primary power quality issue for dc systems, which could seriously degrade the performance on both the source side and the load side and lead to reliability concerns.In this paper, a single-phase Pulse width modulation-controlled rectifier is taken as an example to investigate how active control st
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) bacilli are the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), a major killer of mankind.Although it is widely accepted that local interactions between Mtb and the immune system in the tuberculous granuloma determine whether the outcome of infection is controlled or disseminated, these have been poorly studied due to methodo