THE PAP SMEAR SCREENING AS AN OCCASION FOR SMOKING CESSATION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY COUNSELLING: EFFECTIVENESS OF THE SPRINT RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL

The Pap smear screening as an occasion for smoking cessation and physical activity counselling: effectiveness of the SPRINT randomized controlled trial

Abstract Background The organized Cervical Cancer Screening Programme (CCSP) in Italy might represent an occasion to deliver smoking cessation (SC) counselling to women attending the Pap test examination.Evidence of effectiveness of physical activity (PA) promotion and intervention in adjunct to SC counselling is not strong.Objective of the SPRINT

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Exploring neuronal bistability at the depolarization block.

Many neurons display bistability--coexistence of two firing modes such as bursting and tonic spiking or tonic spiking and silence.Bistability has been proposed to endow neurons with richer forms of information processing in general and to be involved in short-term memory in particular by allowing Health Aids a brief signal to elicit long-lasting ch

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