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Efficacy, safety, and predictive factors for a positive yield of EUS-guided Trucut biopsy: a large tertiary referral center experience (2009)
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OBJECTIVES: Endoscopic ultrasound-guided trucut biopsy (EUS-TCB) technique has the advantage of obtaining tissue for histological examination rather than for cytology alone. However, the diagnostic yield may depend on factors related to both techni... Read More about Efficacy, safety, and predictive factors for a positive yield of EUS-guided Trucut biopsy: a large tertiary referral center experience.

Biology of insulin-like factor 3 in human reproduction (2009)
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Background: Insulin-like factor 3 (INSL3) is a neohormone that has evolved to address specific mammalian traits, in particular, the first phase of testicular descent towards the scrotum during mid-gestation. Methods: A thorough literature search was... Read More about Biology of insulin-like factor 3 in human reproduction.

Delays in activity-based neural networks (2009)
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In this paper, we study the effect of two distinct discrete delays on the dynamics of a Wilson-Cowan neural network. This activity-based model describes the dynamics of synaptically interacting excitatory and inhibitory neuronal populations. We discu... Read More about Delays in activity-based neural networks.

Development of intron-flanking EST markers for the Lolium/Festuca complex using rice genomic information (2009)
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DNA markers able to distinguish species or genera with high specificity are valuable in the identification of introgressed regions in interspecific or intergeneric hybrids. Intergeneric hybridization between the genera of Lolium and Festuca, leading... Read More about Development of intron-flanking EST markers for the Lolium/Festuca complex using rice genomic information.

Fat oxidation during exercise and satiety during recovery are increased following a low-glycemic index breakfast in sedentary women (2009)
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Consuming low-glycemic index (LGI) carbohydrates (CHO) before endurance exercise results in increased fat oxidation during exercise in trained men and women. It is not known if this phenomenon occurs during low intensity exercise and in untrained par... Read More about Fat oxidation during exercise and satiety during recovery are increased following a low-glycemic index breakfast in sedentary women.

CK2 phosphorylation of the PRH/Hex homeodomain functions as a reversible switch for DNA binding (2009)
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The proline-rich homeodomain protein (PRH/Hex) regulates transcription by binding to specific DNA sequences and regulates mRNA transport by binding to translation initiation factor eIF4E. Protein kinase CK2 plays multiple roles in the regulation of g... Read More about CK2 phosphorylation of the PRH/Hex homeodomain functions as a reversible switch for DNA binding.

Human factors at sea: common patterns of error in groundings and collisions Human factors at sea: common patterns of error in groundings and collisions (2009)
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This research aimed to identify and map the common patterns of human and organizational causes underlying two types of marine accident: groundings and collisions. Generalising patterns of causality from relatively unique and individual accident event... Read More about Human factors at sea: common patterns of error in groundings and collisions Human factors at sea: common patterns of error in groundings and collisions.

‘Reality Television’ and Content Regulation – Perspectives and Challenges (2009)
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The 'war for talent': The gatekeeper role of executive search firms in elite labour markets (2009)
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Recent years have been characterised by the increasing encroachment into policy and academic debates of discourses describing knowledge and weightless economies and an associated 'war for talent'. In this paper we argue that these current discourses... Read More about The 'war for talent': The gatekeeper role of executive search firms in elite labour markets.

Store-operated cyclic AMP signalling mediated by STIM1 (2009)
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Depletion of Ca2+ from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) results in activation of plasma membrane Ca2+ entry channels. This 'store-operated' process requires translocation of a transmembrane ER Ca2+ sensor protein, stromal interaction molecule 1 (STIM1)... Read More about Store-operated cyclic AMP signalling mediated by STIM1.

A multiple timescale analysis of a mathematical model of the Wnt/?-catenin signalling pathway (2009)
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The Wnt signalling pathway is involved in stem cell maintenance, differentiation and tissue development. Its disregulation has also been implicated in many cancers. β-catenin is a protein that regulates both transcription of many genes and cell-cell... Read More about A multiple timescale analysis of a mathematical model of the Wnt/?-catenin signalling pathway.

Ecologies of business education and the geographies of knowledge (2009)
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The identification in political and corporate circles of business education as a means of (re)producing highly skilled economic elites has been reflected by growing academic interest in the sector. However, this research predominately studies busines... Read More about Ecologies of business education and the geographies of knowledge.

The role of histamine 3 receptors in the control of food intake in a seasonal model of obesity: The Siberian hamster (2009)
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Siberian hamsters develop hypophagia and increase catabolism of fat reserves in response to short photoperiods resulting in a natural loss of body weight in winter. We previously found that histamine 3 receptor (H3R) mRNA in the posterior hypothalamu... Read More about The role of histamine 3 receptors in the control of food intake in a seasonal model of obesity: The Siberian hamster.

An efficient real-time method of analysis for non-coherent fault trees (2009)
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Fault tree analysis is commonly used to assess the reliability of potentially hazardous industrial systems. The type of logic is usually restricted to AND and OR gates which makes the fault tree structure coherent. In non-coherent structures not only... Read More about An efficient real-time method of analysis for non-coherent fault trees.

Beyond the human genome: microbes, metaphors and what it means to be human in an interconnected post-genomic world (2009)
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Four years after the completion of the Human Genome Project, the US National Institutes for Health launched the Human Microbiome Project on 19 December 2007. Using metaphor analysis, this article investigates reporting in English-language newspapers... Read More about Beyond the human genome: microbes, metaphors and what it means to be human in an interconnected post-genomic world.

Whose health, whose care, whose say? Some comments on public involvement in new NHS commissioning arrangements (2009)
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Recent health policy in England has demanded greater involvement of patients and the public in the commissioning of health and social care services. Public involvement is seen as a means of driving up service quality, reducing health inequalities a... Read More about Whose health, whose care, whose say? Some comments on public involvement in new NHS commissioning arrangements.

Public and user participation in public service delivery: tensions in policy and practice (2009)
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Social-scientific analysis of public-participation initiatives has proliferated in recent years. This review article discusses some key aspects of recent work. Firstly, it analyses some of the justifications put forward for public participation, dr... Read More about Public and user participation in public service delivery: tensions in policy and practice.

Good laboratory practice: preventing introduction of bias at the bench (2009)
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Background and Purpose—As a research community, we have failed to demonstrate that drugs which show substantial efficacy in animal models of cerebral ischemia can also improve outcome in human stroke. Summary of Review—Accumulating evidence sugge... Read More about Good laboratory practice: preventing introduction of bias at the bench.

Dose-dependent impact of larval Ascaris suum on host body weight in the mouse model (2009)
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Ascaris lumbricoides and Ascaris suum are important helminth parasites of humans and pigs, respectively. Although it is now well established that the presence of mature adult worms in the host intestine contributes to significant nutritional morbidit... Read More about Dose-dependent impact of larval Ascaris suum on host body weight in the mouse model.

Management interventions in dairy herds: exploring within herd uncertainty using an integrated Bayesian model (2009)
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Knowledge of the efficacy of an intervention for disease control on an individual farm is essential to make good decisions on preventive healthcare, but the uncertainty in outcome associated with undertaking a specific control strategy has rarely b... Read More about Management interventions in dairy herds: exploring within herd uncertainty using an integrated Bayesian model.