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Do humans prefer altruistic mates? Testing a link between sexual selection and altruism towards non-relatives (2008)
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Phillips, T., Barnard, C., Ferguson, E., & Reader, T. (2008). Do humans prefer altruistic mates? Testing a link between sexual selection and altruism towards non-relatives. British Journal of Psychology, 99(4), 555-572. https://doi.org/10.1348/000712608X298467

Humans are often seen as unusual in displaying altruistic behaviour towards nonrelatives. Here we outline and test a hypothesis that human altruistic traits evolved as a result of sexual selection. We develop a psychometric scale to measure mate pref... Read More about Do humans prefer altruistic mates? Testing a link between sexual selection and altruism towards non-relatives.

The 2.6 angstrom crystal structure of a human A2A adenosine receptor bound to an antagonist (2008)
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Jaakola, V.-P., Griffith, M. T., Hanson, M. A., Cherezov, V., Chien, E. Y. T., Lane, J. R., Ijzerman, A. P., & Stevens, R. C. (2008). The 2.6 angstrom crystal structure of a human A2A adenosine receptor bound to an antagonist. Science, 322(5905), 1211-1217. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1164772

The adenosine class of heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide-binding protein (G protein)-coupled receptors (GPCRs) mediates the important role of extracellular adenosine in many physiological processes and is antagonized by caffeine. We have determined t... Read More about The 2.6 angstrom crystal structure of a human A2A adenosine receptor bound to an antagonist.

Identifying need in care homes for people with dementia: The relationship between two standard assessment tools (2008)
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Worden, A., Challis, D., Hancock, G., Woods, R., & Orrell, M. (2008). Identifying need in care homes for people with dementia: The relationship between two standard assessment tools. Aging and Mental Health, 12(6), 719-728. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607860802154382

Considerable effort has been invested in improving assessment processes for older people, some of the most vulnerable of whom live in care homes. The paper compares two well-known assessment tools used in care homes, the CANE and the Minimum Data Set... Read More about Identifying need in care homes for people with dementia: The relationship between two standard assessment tools.

Educating Professionals and Professional Education in a Geographical Context (2008)
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Faulconbridge, J. R., & Hall, S. (2009). Educating Professionals and Professional Education in a Geographical Context. Geography Compass, 3(1), 171-189. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00176.x

Economic geography has a well-established tradition of studying a range of professional service firms (PSFs), including law, advertising, architecture, accountancy, management consultancy and banking. Within this literature, considerable attention ha... Read More about Educating Professionals and Professional Education in a Geographical Context.

Instabilities in threshold-diffusion equations with delay (2008)
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Laing, C. R., & Coombes, S. (2009). Instabilities in threshold-diffusion equations with delay. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 238(3), 264-272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2008.10.014

The introduction of delays into ordinary or partial differential equation models is well known to facilitate the production of rich dynamics, ranging from periodic solutions through to spatio-temporal chaos. In this paper, we consider a class of scal... Read More about Instabilities in threshold-diffusion equations with delay.

Fusarium langsethiae pathogenicity and aggressiveness towards oats and wheat in wounded and unwounded in vitro detached leaf assays (2008)
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Imathiu, S. M., Ray, R. V., Back, M., Hare, M. C., & Edwards, S. G. (2009). Fusarium langsethiae pathogenicity and aggressiveness towards oats and wheat in wounded and unwounded in vitro detached leaf assays. European Journal of Plant Pathology, 124(1), 117-126. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-008-9398-7

In vitro detached leaf assays involving artificial inoculation of wounded and unwounded oat and wheat leaves were used to investigate the potential pathogenicity and aggressiveness of F. langsethiae, which was linked recently to the production of typ... Read More about Fusarium langsethiae pathogenicity and aggressiveness towards oats and wheat in wounded and unwounded in vitro detached leaf assays.

An inside job: Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus (2008)
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Sockett, L., Hobley, L., Fenton, A., Woods, R., Lambert, C., Chang, C. Y., …King, S. (2008). An inside job: Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. Microbiology Today, 35(4), 184-187

Criminal defence services: users’ perspectives: an interim report (2008)
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Kemp, V., & Balmer, N. (2008). Criminal defence services: users’ perspectives: an interim report. Legal Services Research Centre

A survey was undertaken of over 1,000 people drawn into the criminal justice system in order to find out more about their choice and use of a solicitor: 212 suspects interviewed in police stations, 767 in magistrates’ courts and 163 female prisoners.... Read More about Criminal defence services: users’ perspectives: an interim report.

Dipyridamole plus aspirin versus aspirin alone in the secondary prevention after TIA or stroke: a meta-analysis by risk (2008)
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Halkes, P., Gray, L. J., Bath, P. M., Diener, H.-C., & Guiraud-Chaumeil, B. (2008). Dipyridamole plus aspirin versus aspirin alone in the secondary prevention after TIA or stroke: a meta-analysis by risk. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 79(11), https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.2008.143875

Objectives: Our aim was to study the effect of combination therapy with aspirin and dipyridamole (A+D) over aspirin alone (ASA) in secondary prevention after transient
ischemic attack or minor stroke of presumed arterial origin and to perform subgr... Read More about Dipyridamole plus aspirin versus aspirin alone in the secondary prevention after TIA or stroke: a meta-analysis by risk.

Go or no-go? Developmental improvements in the efficiency of response inhibition in mid-childhood (2008)
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Cragg, L., & Nation, K. (2008). Go or no-go? Developmental improvements in the efficiency of response inhibition in mid-childhood. Developmental Science, 11(6), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00730.x

This experiment used a modified go/no-go paradigm to investigate the processes by which response inhibition becomes more efficient during mid-childhood. The novel task, which measured trials on which a response was initiated but not completed, was se... Read More about Go or no-go? Developmental improvements in the efficiency of response inhibition in mid-childhood.

Reduced selenium concentrations and glutathione peroxidase activity in preeclamptic pregnancies (2008)
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Mistry, H. D., Wilson, V., Ramsay, M. M., Symonds, M. E., & Broughton Pipkin, F. (2008). Reduced selenium concentrations and glutathione peroxidase activity in preeclamptic pregnancies. Hypertension, 52, https://doi.org/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.108.116103

Preeclampsia is a pregnancy-specific condition affecting 2-7% of women and a leading cause of perinatal and maternal morbidity and mortality. Preeclampsia may also predispose the fetus to increased risks of adult cardiovascular disease. Selenium, act... Read More about Reduced selenium concentrations and glutathione peroxidase activity in preeclamptic pregnancies.

Radiological classification of optic pathway gliomas: experience of a modified functional classification system (2008)
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Walker, D., Benson, C., Ritzmann, T., Parker, T., Gregson, R., Milano, G., …Taylor, T. (2008). Radiological classification of optic pathway gliomas: experience of a modified functional classification system. British Journal of Radiology, 81(970), 761-766. https://doi.org/10.1259/bjr/65246351

Optic pathway gliomas (OPGs) in childhood are associated with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and since 1958 have been classified anatomically using the Dodge classification (DC). MR scanning permits a more detailed anatomical description than can be... Read More about Radiological classification of optic pathway gliomas: experience of a modified functional classification system.

A survey of search methodologies and automated system development for examination timetabling (2008)
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Qu, R., Burke, E., McCollum, B., Merlot, L., & Lee, S. (2008). A survey of search methodologies and automated system development for examination timetabling. Journal of Scheduling, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10951-008-0077-5

Examination timetabling is one of the most important administrative activities that takes place in all academic institutions. In this paper, we present a critical discussion of the research on exam timetabling which has taken place in the last decade... Read More about A survey of search methodologies and automated system development for examination timetabling.

The molecular basis of allergenicity (2008)
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Shakib, F., Ghaemmaghami, A. M., & Sewell, H. F. (2008). The molecular basis of allergenicity. Trends in Immunology, 29(12), 633-642. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.it.2008.08.007

Allergens are mostly innocuous antigens that elicit powerful T helper cell type 2 (Th2) responses leading to hyper-immunoglobulin E (IgE) production and allergy. Research carried out over several years has highlighted the possible role of the inheren... Read More about The molecular basis of allergenicity.

Novel Regulation of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-A (VEGF-A) by Transforming Growth Factor β1: REQUIREMENT FOR Smads,β-CATENIN, AND GSK3β (2008)
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Clifford, R. L., Deacon, K., & Knox, A. J. (2008). Novel Regulation of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-A (VEGF-A) by Transforming Growth Factor β1: REQUIREMENT FOR Smads,β-CATENIN, AND GSK3β. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 283(51), 35337-35353. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.m803342200

Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a vital angiogenic effector, regulating key angiogenic processes. Vascular development relies on numerous signaling pathways, of which those induced by transforming growth factor-β (TGFβ) are critical. The... Read More about Novel Regulation of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-A (VEGF-A) by Transforming Growth Factor β1: REQUIREMENT FOR Smads,β-CATENIN, AND GSK3β.

Hybridizations within a graph based hyper-heuristic framework for university timetabling problems (2008)
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Qu, R., & Burke, E. (2008). Hybridizations within a graph based hyper-heuristic framework for university timetabling problems. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 60(9), https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.2008.102

A significant body of recent literature has explored various research directions in hyper-heuristics (which can be thought as heuristics to choose heuristics). In this paper, we extend our previous work to construct a unified graph-based hyper-heuris... Read More about Hybridizations within a graph based hyper-heuristic framework for university timetabling problems.

Gamma-irradiation as a method of microbiological control, and its impact on the oxidative labile lipid component of Cannabis sativa and Helianthus annus (2008)
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Fisk, I. D., Gkatzionis, K., Lad, M., Dodd, C. E., & Gray, D. A. (2009). Gamma-irradiation as a method of microbiological control, and its impact on the oxidative labile lipid component of Cannabis sativa and Helianthus annus. European Food Research and Technology, 228(4), 613-621. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00217-008-0970-3

The effect of irradiation (0-20 kGy) on hemp and sunflower seeds was assessed, with specific reference to the oxidatively labile lipid component (unsaturated fatty acids and tocochromanols). Total protein, lipid, and solids content of the seeds did n... Read More about Gamma-irradiation as a method of microbiological control, and its impact on the oxidative labile lipid component of Cannabis sativa and Helianthus annus.

Seroprevalence and epidemiological correlates of Toxoplasma gondii infections among patients referred for hospital-based serological testing in Doha, Qatar (2008)
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serological testing in Doha, Qatar. Parasites and Vectors, 1(1), Article 39. https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-1-39

Background: The city of Doha in Qatar has a high density of feral cats and there is a high risk of toxoplasmosis for the resident human population. No data currently exist for the prevalence of infection with Toxoplasma gondii in the city.
Methods:... Read More about Seroprevalence and epidemiological correlates of Toxoplasma gondii infections among patients referred for hospital-based serological testing in Doha, Qatar.

Early life programming of innate fear and fear learning in adult female rats (2008)
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Stevenson, C. W., Meredith, J. P., Spicer, C. H., Mason, R., & Marsden, C. A. (2009). Early life programming of innate fear and fear learning in adult female rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 198(1), 51-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2008.10.021

The early rearing environment can impact on emotional reactivity and learning later in life. In this study the effects of neonatal maternal separation (MS) on innate fear and fear learning were assessed in the adult female rat. Pups were subjected to... Read More about Early life programming of innate fear and fear learning in adult female rats.