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Objectives: To apply sociological theories to understand public trust in extended services provided by community pharmacists relative to those provided by general practitioners (GPs). Design: Qualitative study involving focus groups with members of the public. Setting: The West of Scotland. Participants: 26 purposively sampled members of the public were involved in one of five focus groups. The groups were composed to represent known groups of users and non-users of community pharmacy, nam...

Objective Earlier diagnosis of cancer has become a policy priority. There is evidence that minority ethnic groups are more likely to delay help‐seeking for cancer symptoms, but few studies have explored reasons for delay in these groups. The present study explored facilitators and barriers to help‐seeking for breast and cervical cancer in an ethnically diverse sample of women. Methods Semi‐structured interviews were carried out with 54 healthy women from a range of ethnic backgrounds; Indian...

The pyrethroid deltamethrin and the macrocyclic lactone emamectin benzoate (EMB) are used to treat infestations of farmed salmon by parasitic salmon lice, Lepeophtheirus salmonis. While the efficacy of both compounds against Atlantic populations of the parasite has decreased as a result of the evolution of resistance, the molecular mechanisms of drug resistance in L. salmonis are currently not fully understood. The functionally diverse carboxylesterases (CaE) family includes members involved ...

Assigning positive and negative polarity into Persian sentences is difficult task, there are different approaches has been proposed in various languages such as English. However, there is not any approach available to identify the final polarity of the Persian sentences. In this paper, the novel approach has been proposed to detect polarity for Persian sentences using PerSent lexicon (Persian lexicon). For this, we have proposed two different algorithms to detect polarity in the sentence and ...