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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.

An evolutionary squeaky wheel optimisation approach to personnel scheduling (2009)
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The quest for robust heuristics that are able to solve more than one problem is ongoing. In this paper, we present, discuss and analyse a technique called Evolutionary Squeaky Wheel Optimisation and apply it to two different personnel scheduling prob... Read More about An evolutionary squeaky wheel optimisation approach to personnel scheduling.

Gender differences in computer-mediated communication: A systematic literature review of online health-related support groups (2009)
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Objective: Previous research has contended that the unique characteristics of the Internet might remove some of the gender differences that exist in face-to-face healthcare. The aims of the present study were to systematically review studies that hav... Read More about Gender differences in computer-mediated communication: A systematic literature review of online health-related support groups.

Exercise intervention in brain injury: a pilot randomized study of Tai Chi Qigong (2009)
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Objective: To examine the effects of a brief Tai Chi Chuan Qigong (‘Qigong’) exercise intervention on individuals with traumatic brain injury. Design: A single-centre randomized controlled trial pilot study. Setting: A registered charity day centre... Read More about Exercise intervention in brain injury: a pilot randomized study of Tai Chi Qigong.

Neonatal maternal separation alters reward-related ultrasonic vocalizations in rat dams (2009)
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We examined the effects of brief or long durations of repeated maternal separation (MS) on ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) in rat dams. 50-kHz USVs putatively identified as maternal in origin were emitted only immediately after pups were returned fol... Read More about Neonatal maternal separation alters reward-related ultrasonic vocalizations in rat dams.

Regulation of lens volume: Implications for lens transparency (2009)
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Lens transparency is critically dependent on the maintenance of an ordered tissue architecture, and disruption of this order leads to light scatter and eventually lens cataract. Hence the volume of the fiber cells that make up the bulk of the lens ne... Read More about Regulation of lens volume: Implications for lens transparency.

The regulation of cell proliferation by the papillomavirus early proteins (2009)
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The human papillomavirus (HPV) E6 and E7 oncogenes have direct effects on host cell proliferation. The viral E2 protein regulates transcription of E6 and E7 and thereby has an indirect effect on cell proliferation. In HPV-induced tumours, misappropri... Read More about The regulation of cell proliferation by the papillomavirus early proteins.

Prenatal induced chronic dietary hypothyroidism delays but does not block adult-type Leydig cell development (2009)
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Transient hypothyroidism induced by propyl-2-thiouracyl blocks postpartum Leydig cell development. In the present study, the effects of chronic hypothyroidism on the formation of this adult-type Leydig cell population were investigated, using a more... Read More about Prenatal induced chronic dietary hypothyroidism delays but does not block adult-type Leydig cell development.

The ethical ambivalence of resistant violence: notes from postcolonial south Asia (2009)
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In the face of mounting militarism in south Asia, this essay turns to anti-state, ‘liberatory’ movements in the region that employ violence to achieve their political aims. It explores some of the ethical quandaries that arise from the embrace of suc... Read More about The ethical ambivalence of resistant violence: notes from postcolonial south Asia.

A truncation in the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor of the CRL:WI(Han) rat does not affect the developmental toxicity of TCDD (2009)
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The Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor (AhR) is required for the toxicity of TCDD, and so the AhR of CRL:WI and CRL:WI(Han) rats was characterised. Western blot showed AhR proteins of ~110 and ~97 kDa in individual rats from both strains. The AhR cDNA from a... Read More about A truncation in the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor of the CRL:WI(Han) rat does not affect the developmental toxicity of TCDD.

‘Do We Look like Boy Racers?’ The Role of the Folk Devil in Contemporary Moral Panics (2009)
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This article addresses the failure of studies concerning moral panics to take into account the reaction of those individuals who are the subject of social anxiety. It responds to the suggestion by McRobbie and Thornton (1995) that studies of moral pa... Read More about ‘Do We Look like Boy Racers?’ The Role of the Folk Devil in Contemporary Moral Panics.

Cellular immortality in brain tumours: an integration of the cancer stem cell paradigm (2009)
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Brain tumours are a diverse group of neoplasms that continue to present a formidable challenge in our attempt to achieve curable intervention. Our conceptual framework of human brain cancer has been redrawn in the current decade. There is a gathering... Read More about Cellular immortality in brain tumours: an integration of the cancer stem cell paradigm.

Symmetry Reduction in Twisted Noncommutative Gravity with Applications to Cosmology and Black Holes (2009)
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As a preparation for a mathematically consistent study of the physics of symmetric spacetimes in a noncommutative setting, we study symmetry reductions in deformed gravity. We focus on deformations that are given by a twist of a Lie algebra acting on... Read More about Symmetry Reduction in Twisted Noncommutative Gravity with Applications to Cosmology and Black Holes.

Mode locking in a spatially extended neuron model: Active soma and compartmental tree (2009)
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Understanding the mode-locked response of excitable systems to periodic forcing has important applications in neuroscience. For example, it is known that spatially extended place cells in the hippocampus are driven by the theta rhythm to generate a c... Read More about Mode locking in a spatially extended neuron model: Active soma and compartmental tree.

Should applicants to Nottingham University Medical School study a non-science A-level?: a cohort study (2009)
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Background It has been suggested that studying non-science subjects at A-level should be compulsory for medical students. Our admissions criteria specify only Biology, Chemistry and one or more additional subjects. This study aimed to determine whet... Read More about Should applicants to Nottingham University Medical School study a non-science A-level?: a cohort study.

Epidermal Growth Factor Variations in Amniotic Membrane Used for Ex Vivo Tissue Constructs (2009)
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Introduction: The amniotic membrane (AM) is used for engineering ex vivo tissue constructs used in ocular surface reconstruction. Epidermal growth factor (EGF) content of the AM is believed to play a key role in supporting corneal epithelial cell exp... Read More about Epidermal Growth Factor Variations in Amniotic Membrane Used for Ex Vivo Tissue Constructs.

Galaxy Zoo: Chiral correlation function of galaxy spins (2009)
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Galaxy Zoo is the first study of nearby galaxies that contains reliable information about the spiral sense of rotation of galaxy arms for a sizeable number of galaxies. We measure the correlation function of spin chirality (the sense in which galaxie... Read More about Galaxy Zoo: Chiral correlation function of galaxy spins.

Coordination of Cd2+ ions in the internal pore system of zeolite-X: A combined EXAFS and isotopic exchange study (2009)
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The effect of prolonged contact time (up to 130 days) on the immobilization of Cd by sorption to calcium exchanged zeolite-X (CaX), under environmentally relevant conditions, was studied using both isotopic exchange and extended X-ray absorption fine... Read More about Coordination of Cd2+ ions in the internal pore system of zeolite-X: A combined EXAFS and isotopic exchange study.

Increasing uptake of hepatitis C virus infection case- finding, testing, and treatment in primary care: evaluation of the HepCATT (Hepatitis C Assessment Through to Treatment) trial (2009)
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Background Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a key cause of liver disease but can be cured in more than 95% of patients. Around 70 000 people in England may have undiagnosed HCV infection and many more will not have been treated. Interventions to... Read More about Increasing uptake of hepatitis C virus infection case- finding, testing, and treatment in primary care: evaluation of the HepCATT (Hepatitis C Assessment Through to Treatment) trial.