Abstract Due to its high ecological validity, virtual reality (VR) technology has emerged as a powerful tool for mental health research.Despite the wide use of VR simulations in research on mental illnesses, the study of addictive processes through the use of VR environments is still at its dawn.In a systematic literature search, we identified 38 r

We explain the anomaly of election results between large cities and rural areas in terms of urban scaling in the 1948-2016 US elections and in the 2016 EU referendum of the Oxygen Therapy Accessories UK.The scaling curves are all universal and depend on a single parameter only, and one of the parties always shows superlinear scaling and drives the

Hollow sandcrete blocks constitute more than 90% of residential building construction in developing countries especially in West Africa.Over-reliance on dredged river sands and conventional ordinary Portland cement (OPC) contributes to environmental degradation and post-construction problems such as swelling and shrinkage-induced cracks prevalent i

Our short-term memory has a limited capacity of taking in information and retaining it the memory storage.However, this can be enhanced by various memory techniques especially dividing the information into smaller chunks.To investigate this memory enhancement strategy, this study compared the effectiveness of three Boswellia chunking methods, namel