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Shifting development in mid-childhood: the influence of between-task interference (2009)
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Performance on the task-switching paradigm is greatly affected by the amount of conflict between tasks. Compared to adults, children appear to be particularly influenced by this conflict, suggesting that the ability to resolve interference between ta... Read More about Shifting development in mid-childhood: the influence of between-task interference.

"The post-antibiotic apocalypse" and the "war on superbugs": catastrophe discourse in microbiology, its rhetorical form and political function (2009)
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Discourses evoking an antibiotic apocalypse and a war on superbugs are emerging just at a time when so-called "catastrophe discourses" are undergoing critical and reflexive scrutiny in the context of global warming and climate change. This article co... Read More about "The post-antibiotic apocalypse" and the "war on superbugs": catastrophe discourse in microbiology, its rhetorical form and political function.

Correlation between the pattern of myopic fundal changes and the axis of astigmatism of the eye (2009)
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Chaste: A test-driven approach to software development for biological modelling (2009)
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Chaste ('Cancer, heart and soft-tissue environment') is a software library and a set of test suites for computational simulations in the domain of biology. Current functionality has arisen from modelling in the fields of cancer, cardiac physiology an... Read More about Chaste: A test-driven approach to software development for biological modelling.

The UNCITRAL Annex on security rights in IP: a work in progress (2009)
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Facile synthesis of responsive nanoparticles with reversible, tunable and rapid thermal transitions from biocompatible constituents (2009)
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Responsive polymeric nanoparticles composed of hybrid block co-polymers were prepared from biocompatible components that displayed rapid, tunable and multiply reversible transitions in response to change of temperature. © 2009 The Royal Society of Ch... Read More about Facile synthesis of responsive nanoparticles with reversible, tunable and rapid thermal transitions from biocompatible constituents.

Staff perceptions of e-learning for teaching delivery in healthcare (2009)
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Background: Web?based e?learning methods are increasingly used in higher education to support learning in pre? and post?registration healthcare subjects. Although new technologies are central to teaching and learning strategies, e?learning is not cur... Read More about Staff perceptions of e-learning for teaching delivery in healthcare.

Strong coupling in Ho?ava gravity (2009)
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By studying perturbations about the vacuum, we show that Horava gravity suffers from two different strong coupling problems, extending all the way into the deep infra-red. The first of these is associated with the principle of detailed balance and ex... Read More about Strong coupling in Ho?ava gravity.

Preparatory information for third molar extraction: Does preference for information and behavioral involvement matter? (2009)
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Objective: The objectives of the present study were to: (1) evaluate the impact of high versus low information provision in terms of anxiety towards third molar extraction (TME) as well as satisfaction with information provision. (2) Investigate how... Read More about Preparatory information for third molar extraction: Does preference for information and behavioral involvement matter?.

Building complex biological networks based upon model organisms: Mapping the human autophagy interactome via a hybrid yeast-human protein interaction network (2009)
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Autophagy is a process whose core machinery is highly conserved from yeast to higher eukaryotes and mammals. However it is becoming clear that multicellular organisms exhibit increased complexity of autophagic regulation and specialization of the non... Read More about Building complex biological networks based upon model organisms: Mapping the human autophagy interactome via a hybrid yeast-human protein interaction network.

Early life programming of fear conditioning and extinction in adult male rats (2009)
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The early rearing environment programs corticolimbic function and neuroendocrine stress reactivity in adulthood. Although early environmental programming of innate fear has been previously examined, its impact on fear learning and memory later in lif... Read More about Early life programming of fear conditioning and extinction in adult male rats.

How effective are physical activity interventions for alleviating depressive symptoms in older people?: a systematic review (2009)
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Background: The benefits of physical exercise in reducing clinically defined depression in the general population have been established, although a review of the evidence for older adults is needed. Objectives: To assess the efficacy of physical exe... Read More about How effective are physical activity interventions for alleviating depressive symptoms in older people?: a systematic review.

Validation of models that predict Cesarean section after induction of labor (2009)
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Ventral extra-striate cortical areas are required for human visual texture segmentation (2009)
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A patient (HJA) with bilateral occipital lobe damage to ventral cortical areas V2, V3 and V4 was tested on a texture segmentation task involving texture bar detection in an array of oriented lines. Performance detecting a target shape was assessed as... Read More about Ventral extra-striate cortical areas are required for human visual texture segmentation.

The endocannabinoid 2-arachidonylglycerol is a negative allosteric modulator of the human A3 adenosine receptor (2009)
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Studies of endogenous cannabinoid agonists, such as 2-arachidonylglycerol (2-AG), have revealed their potential to exert modulatory actions on other receptor systems in addition to their ability to activate cannabinoid receptors. This study investiga... Read More about The endocannabinoid 2-arachidonylglycerol is a negative allosteric modulator of the human A3 adenosine receptor.

Surviving mass extinction by bridging the benthic/planktic divide (2009)
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Evolution of planktic organisms from benthic ancestors is commonly thought to represent unidirectional expansion into new ecological domains, possibly only once per clade. For foraminifera, this evolutionary expansion occurred in the Early-Middle Jur... Read More about Surviving mass extinction by bridging the benthic/planktic divide.

Relationship between therapeutic changes in blood pressure and outcomes in acute stroke: a metaregression (2009)
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Both low and high blood pressure (BP) during the acute phase of stroke are associated independently with a poor outcome. Several small clinical trials have involved the alteration of BP and this study assessed the relationship between change in BP an... Read More about Relationship between therapeutic changes in blood pressure and outcomes in acute stroke: a metaregression.

Risky Business: Disambiguating Ambiguity-Related Responses in the Brain (2009)
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Previous functional MRI studies reported neural correlates of risk and ambiguity based on behavioral economic theories. A recent study controlled for uncertainty by adding noise to information of an impending aversive event and demonstrated brain are... Read More about Risky Business: Disambiguating Ambiguity-Related Responses in the Brain.

Interactions between new and pre-existing dynamics in bimanual movement control (2009)
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Motor skills are commonly acquired through practice. This process not only involves acquisition of the particular task demands but also requires overcoming pre-existing modes. In the present study, interactions between new and intrinsic dynamics were... Read More about Interactions between new and pre-existing dynamics in bimanual movement control.

Compounds, creativity and complexity in climate change communication: the case of ‘carbon indulgences’ (2009)
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This article deals with climate change from a linguistic perspective. Climate change is an extremely complex issue that has exercised the minds of experts and policy makers with renewed urgency in recent years. It has prompted an explosion of writing... Read More about Compounds, creativity and complexity in climate change communication: the case of ‘carbon indulgences’.