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On the delineation of tropical vegetation types with an emphasis on forest/savanna transitions (2013)
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Background: There is no generally agreed classification scheme for the many different vegetation formation types occurring in the tropics. This hinders cross-continental comparisons and causes confusion as words such as ‘forest’ and ‘savanna’ have di... Read More about On the delineation of tropical vegetation types with an emphasis on forest/savanna transitions.

Recovering complete plant root system architectures from soil via X-ray ?-computed tomography (2013)
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Background: X-ray micro-Computed Tomography (μCT) offers the ability to visualise the three-dimensional structure of plant roots growing in their natural environment – soil. Recovery of root architecture descriptions from X-ray CT data is, however,... Read More about Recovering complete plant root system architectures from soil via X-ray ?-computed tomography.

Cross-cultural adaptation of the short-form condom attitude scale: Validity assessment in a sub-sample of rural-to-urban migrant workers in Bangladesh (2013)
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Background: The reliable and valid measurement of attitudes towards condom use are essential to assist efforts to design population specific interventions aimed at promoting positive attitude towards, and increased use of condoms. Although several st... Read More about Cross-cultural adaptation of the short-form condom attitude scale: Validity assessment in a sub-sample of rural-to-urban migrant workers in Bangladesh.

Thyroid hormones and their placental deiodination in normal and pre-eclamptic pregnancy (2013)
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Pre-eclampsia is associated with lower serum selenium concentrations and glutathione peroxidase expression/activity; total thyroid hormones are also lower. Objectives, study design and main outcome measures: We hypothesised that the placental seleno... Read More about Thyroid hormones and their placental deiodination in normal and pre-eclamptic pregnancy.

The assessment of weight status in children and young people attending a spina bifida outpatient clinic: a retrospective medical record review (2013)
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PURPOSE: Children with disabilities are two to three times more likely to become overweight or obese than typically developing children. Children with spina bifida (SB) are at particular risk, yet obesity prevalence and weight management with this p... Read More about The assessment of weight status in children and young people attending a spina bifida outpatient clinic: a retrospective medical record review.

Exploring the role of independent organisations in care coordination for older people in England (2013)
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A biophysical model of endocannabinoid-mediated short term depression in hippocampal inhibition (2013)
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Memories are believed to be represented in the synaptic pathways of vastly interconnected networks of neurons. The plasticity of synapses, that is, their strengthening and weakening depending on neuronal activity, is believed to be the basis of lea... Read More about A biophysical model of endocannabinoid-mediated short term depression in hippocampal inhibition.

Linear bosonic and fermionic quantum gauge theories on curved spacetimes (2013)
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We develop a general setting for the quantization of linear bosonic and fermionic field theories subject to local gauge invariance and show how standard examples such as linearized Yang-Mills theory and linearized general relativity fit into this fra... Read More about Linear bosonic and fermionic quantum gauge theories on curved spacetimes.

Chaste: An Open Source C++ Library for Computational Physiology and Biology (2013)
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Chaste - Cancer, Heart And Soft Tissue Environment - is an open source C++ library for the computational simulation of mathematical models developed for physiology and biology. Code development has been driven by two initial applications: cardiac ele... Read More about Chaste: An Open Source C++ Library for Computational Physiology and Biology.

Association between somatic cell count early in the first lactation and the lifetime milk yield of cows in Irish dairy herds (2013)
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Change in lifetime milk yield is an important component of the cost of diseases in dairy cows. Knowledge of the likelihood and scale of potential savings through disease prevention measures is important to evaluate how much expenditure on control mea... Read More about Association between somatic cell count early in the first lactation and the lifetime milk yield of cows in Irish dairy herds.

Handwriting automaticity: the search for performance thresholds (2013)
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Although handwriting has a fairly low status in literacy education, evidence is accumulating that it has an important role in written composition. In particular, handwriting automaticity appears to relate to success in composition. This relationship... Read More about Handwriting automaticity: the search for performance thresholds.

Complexity and specificity of experimentally-induced expectations in motion perception (2013)
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Our perceptions are fundamentally altered by our expectations, i.e., priors about the world. In previous statistical learning experiments (Chalk, Seitz, & Seriès, 2010), we investigated how such priors are formed by presenting subjects with white low... Read More about Complexity and specificity of experimentally-induced expectations in motion perception.

Fallow deer (Dama dama dama) management in Roman South-East Britain (2013)
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This paper presents new carbon, nitrogen and sulphur isotope data for European fallow deer (Dama dama dama) in Roman Britain and discusses results in light of evidence from classical texts, landscape archaeology, zooarchaeology and the limited availa... Read More about Fallow deer (Dama dama dama) management in Roman South-East Britain.

Benzamil sensitive ion channels contribute to volume regulation in canine chondrocytes (2013)
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Background and Purpose: Chondrocytes exist within cartilage and serve to maintain the extracellular matrix. It has been postulated that osteoarthritic (OA) chondrocytes lose the ability to regulate their volume, affecting extracellular matrix product... Read More about Benzamil sensitive ion channels contribute to volume regulation in canine chondrocytes.

Soil-type influences human selenium status and underlies widespread selenium deficiency risks in Malawi (2013)
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Selenium (Se) is an essential human micronutrient with critical roles in immune functioning and antioxidant defence. Estimates of dietary Se intakes and status are scarce for Africa although crop surveys indicate deficiency is probably widespread in... Read More about Soil-type influences human selenium status and underlies widespread selenium deficiency risks in Malawi.

Detection of porcine circovirus type 2 and viral replication by in situ hybridization in primary lymphoid organs from naturally and experimentally infected pigs (2013)
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Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) infection is the cause of postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS). It has been speculated whether cell types permissive of replication are found in the primary lymphoid organs and whether infection of these... Read More about Detection of porcine circovirus type 2 and viral replication by in situ hybridization in primary lymphoid organs from naturally and experimentally infected pigs.

Lateral root morphogenesis is dependent on the mechanical properties of the overlaying tissues (2013)
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In Arabidopsis, lateral root primordia (LRPs) originate from pericycle cells located deep within the parental root and have to emerge through endodermal, cortical, and epidermal tissues. These overlaying tissues place biomechanical constraints on the... Read More about Lateral root morphogenesis is dependent on the mechanical properties of the overlaying tissues.

Differential activation of killer cells in the circulation and the lung: a study of current smoking status and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (2013)
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Background:CD8+ T-lymphocytes, natural killer T-like cells (NKT-like cells, CD56+CD3+) and natural killer cells (NK cells, CD56+CD3?) are the three main classes of human killer cells and they are implicated in the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive... Read More about Differential activation of killer cells in the circulation and the lung: a study of current smoking status and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Tobacco imagery on prime time UK television (2013)
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Background: Smoking in ?lms is a common and well documented cause of youth smoking experimentation and uptake and hence a signi?cant health hazard. The extent of exposure of young people to tobacco imagery in television programming has to date be... Read More about Tobacco imagery on prime time UK television.

Trifluoromethylation of Allylsilanes under Photoredox Catalysis (2013)
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A new catalytic method to access allylic secondary CF3 products is described. These reactions use the visible light excited Ru(bpy)3Cl2·6H2O catalyst and the Togni or Umemoto reagent as the CF3 source. The photoredox catalytic manifold delivers enant... Read More about Trifluoromethylation of Allylsilanes under Photoredox Catalysis.