This study explored the mediating role of sleep in the relationship between personality traits and depressive symptoms in a group of community-dwelling men and women (Mage = 57.92, SD = 4.00).Participants completed the short form NEO Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Dep
The German Smart Meter Gateway (SMGW) infrastructure enables digital access to metering data and distributed energy resources by external parties.There are, however, various restrictions in order to guarantee the privacy of consumers, and strong security requirements.Furthermore, in the current state of development, there are still several challeng
The homeostasis of epithelial tissue relies on a balance between the self-renewal of stem cell populations, cellular differentiation, and loss.Although this balance needs to be tightly regulated to avoid pathologies, such as tumor growth, Pool Ladders the regulatory mechanisms, both cell-intrinsic and collective, which ensure tissue steady-state ar
Compacted bentonite/sand mixture have been considered as possible sealing/backfilling material in the deep geological disposal of high-level radioactive nuclear waste.The swelling pressure of the compacted bentonite/sand mixture is of significance in the design of the geological repository, which requires good consistency between data obtained by l