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Pharmacotherapy for Cocaine Use Disorders
(2022)NeuroPsychopharmacotherapyCocaine is one of the most commonly used substances worldwide. It has a strong addictive potential, which often leads to excessive consumption causing pronounced physical and psychological harm to users. There is currently no approved or effective medication to treat cocaine use disorders. However, in the last decades, significant efforts have been made to identify medications that could increase the effectiveness of treatments, with ...Encyclopedia Entry -
Overcoming the Challenges of Communicating Uncertainties Across National Contexts
(2017)Oxford library of psychology ~ The Oxford Handbook of the Science of Science CommunicationThe goal of risk communication is to provide information about risks and uncertainties in a way that enables people to make the best decisions, based on their own values. Various factors influence the success of risk communication. This chapter first highlights risk communication methods and formats that determine successful risk communication. For example, laypeople do not understand all presentation formats of numbers equally well, and ...Encyclopedia Entry -
Disgust and Eating Behavior
(2020)Handbook of Eating and DrinkingDisgust is a human emotion that prevents us from having contact with something that might be pathogenic, because it triggers behavioral avoidance of the stimulus. People can vary in their tendency to react with disgust towards cues that indicate the presence of pathogens such as certain odors (e.g., smell of decayed food) or visual cues (e.g., mold, runny nose). This disgust sensitivity was linked to a broad range of behavioral and ...Encyclopedia Entry -
(2S,4S)-(9H-Fluoren-9-ylmethoxycarbonyl)-4-azidoproline
(2016)e-EROS: Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic SynthesisEncyclopedia Entry -
Policy Instruments to Reduce Carbon Emissions From Road Transport
(2021)International Encyclopedia of TransportationThis paper surveys policy instruments aiming at reducing carbon emissions from road transport. We present the basic economic framework used to evaluate environmental policy instruments and discuss the challenges and limitations it faces, which are important enough to justify departures from the first-best instrument (Pigouvian tax). We then discuss a number of policy instruments, including fuel and mileage taxes, standards, different forms ...Encyclopedia Entry -
Technological Change and Grand Strategy
(2021)The Oxford Handbook of Grand StrategyWhat is the relationship between technological change and grand strategy? Can great powers promote technological trends that allow them to pursue specific grand-strategic goals? Or is technological change beyond the reach of great powers, and thus it acts like an independent enabler or an independent constraint? This book chapter by CSS' Sophie-Charlotte Fischer, Andrea Gilli and CSS' Mauro Gilli provides a brief introduction to the ...Encyclopedia Entry -
2D Polymer Synthesis by Photopolymerization at the Air–Water Interface
(2018)Reference Module in Chemistry, Molecular Sciences and Chemical Engineering ~ Encyclopedia of Interfacial ChemistryEncyclopedia Entry -
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