Faculty of Science: Recent submissions
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Understanding end-user perspectives to enhance perceived value uptake of harm-minimization tools: considering gambler’s views of a pre-commitment system
Published 2017-09-18Harm-minimization strategies reduce the experience of gambling-related harms for individuals and those close to them. Most policies and particularly discussions of tool design and implementation fail to involve end users ...Open AccessArticle -
An Exploratory Study of Gambling Operators’ Use of Social Media and the Latent Messages Conveyed
Published 2015-02-03Advertisements for gambling products have historically been restricted due to their potential to normalize gambling and contribute to excessive gambling behaviours among vulnerable populations. However, social media enables ...Open AccessArticle -
Mental Health and Online, Land-Based and Mixed Gamblers
Published 2015-03-06Although high rates of problem gambling have been identified among Internet gamblers, most studies have failed to identify the relative contribution of multiple forms of gambling as opposed to the exclusive participation ...Open AccessArticle -
The reduction of cis-platinum(IV) complexes by ascorbate and in whole human blood models using 1H NMR and XANES spectroscopy
Published 2019-03-01The efficacy of platinum(IV) prodrugs depends on their relative resistance to reduction in the extra- and intra-cellular environments. In the study reported here we investigated the influence of the nature of the axial and ...Open AccessPreprint -
Mosquito-Derived Anophelin Sulfoproteins Are Potent Antithrombotics
Published 2018-04-11The anophelins are small protein thrombin inhibitors that are produced in the salivary glands of the Anopheles mosquito to fulfill a vital role in blood feeding. A bioinformatic analysis of anophelin sequences revealed the ...Open AccessArticle