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Influence of slow oscillation on hippocampal activity and ripples through cortico-hippocampal synaptic interactions, analyzed by a cortical-CA3-CA1 network model (2013)
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Hippocampal sharp wave-ripple complexes (SWRs) involve the synchronous discharge of thousands of cells throughout the CA3-CA1-subiculum-entorhinal cortex axis. Their strong transient output affects cortical targets, rendering SWRs a possible means f... Read More about Influence of slow oscillation on hippocampal activity and ripples through cortico-hippocampal synaptic interactions, analyzed by a cortical-CA3-CA1 network model.

Assessment of uncertainty in river flow projections for the Mekong River using multiple GCMs and hydrological models (2013)
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Hydrological model-related uncertainty is often ignored within climate change hydrological impact assessments. A MIKE SHE model is developed for the Mekong using the same data as an earlier semi-distributed, conceptual model (SLURP). The model is cal... Read More about Assessment of uncertainty in river flow projections for the Mekong River using multiple GCMs and hydrological models.

Commissioning social care for older people: Influencing the quality of direct care (2013)
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The delivery of personalised support to vulnerable older people is largely contingent on those staff who provide direct care. These care workers play an invaluable role in supporting vulnerable older people that may have increasingly complex needs ei... Read More about Commissioning social care for older people: Influencing the quality of direct care.

Coming to terms with permanent involuntary childlessness: A phenomenological analysis of bulletin board postings (2013)
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Little is known about the role that online support communities play in the lives of women faced with permanent involuntary childlessness. To understand the experiences of these women, this study conducted a thematic analysis of messages downloaded fr... Read More about Coming to terms with permanent involuntary childlessness: A phenomenological analysis of bulletin board postings.

A benchmark too far: national survey of surgical site infection surveillance (2013)
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Background The national surgical site infection (SSI) surveillance service in England collates and publishes SSI rates that are used for benchmarking and to identify the prevalence of SSIs. However, research studies using high-quality SSI surveill... Read More about A benchmark too far: national survey of surgical site infection surveillance.

The spirit of the sword and spear (2013)
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From the Norse sagas or the Arthurian cycles, we are used to the concept that the warrior’s weapon has an identity, a name. In this article I shall ask whether some prehistoric weapons also had an identity. Using case studies of La Tène swords, early... Read More about The spirit of the sword and spear.

Euler principal component analysis (2013)
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Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is perhaps the most prominent learning tool for dimensionality reduction in pattern recognition and computer vision. However, the ℓ 2-norm employed by standard PCA is not robust to outliers. In this paper, we propos... Read More about Euler principal component analysis.

Bacterial cooperation in the wild and in the clinic: are pathogen social behaviours relevant outside the laboratory? (2013)
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Individual bacterial cells can communicate via quorum sensing, cooperate to harvest nutrients from their environment, form multicellular biofilms, compete over resources and even kill one another. When the environment that bacteria inhabit is an anim... Read More about Bacterial cooperation in the wild and in the clinic: are pathogen social behaviours relevant outside the laboratory?.

Multiple factors modulate biofilm formation by the anaerobic pathogen Clostridium difficile (2013)
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Bacteria within biofilms are protected from multiple stresses, including immune responses and antimicrobial agents. The biofilm-forming ability of bacterial pathogens has been associated with increased antibiotic resistance and chronic recurrent infe... Read More about Multiple factors modulate biofilm formation by the anaerobic pathogen Clostridium difficile.

Feasibility of offering nicotine replacement therapy as a relapse prevention treatment in routine smoking cessation services (2013)
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Background: National Health Service stop smoking services (NHS SSS) in the UK offer cost- effective smoking cessation services. Despite high abstinence rates after acute cessation treatment, the majority of clients have relapsed by one year. Severa... Read More about Feasibility of offering nicotine replacement therapy as a relapse prevention treatment in routine smoking cessation services.

An investigation into the spiritual needs of neuro-oncology patients from a nurse perspective (2013)
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Background: Spiritual needs of cancer patients should be assessed and discussed by healthcare professionals. Neurosurgical nurses need to be able to assess and support neuro-oncology patients with their spiritual needs from diagnosis and throughout t... Read More about An investigation into the spiritual needs of neuro-oncology patients from a nurse perspective.

Evolutionary, multi-scale analysis of river bank line retreat using continuous wavelet transforms: Jamuna River, Bangladesh (2013)
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In this study continuous wavelet transforms are used to explore spatio-temporal patterns of multi-scale bank line retreat along a 204 km reach of the Jamuna River, Bangladesh. A sequence of eight bank line retreat series, derived from remotely-sense... Read More about Evolutionary, multi-scale analysis of river bank line retreat using continuous wavelet transforms: Jamuna River, Bangladesh.

Clinical psychology in haemoglobinopathies: cost effective pathways to funding (2013)
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This article describes a service evaluation which was used as evidence in a bidfor clinical psychology funding in haemoglobinopathies. We present the approach as a promising framework for securing funding in this difficult financial climate. SICKLE C... Read More about Clinical psychology in haemoglobinopathies: cost effective pathways to funding.

Haemodynamic Responses to Radial Motion in the Visual Cortex (2013)
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Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is an optical imaging technique that relies on emitting near-infrared light into cortical tissue to measure changes in haemoglobin concentrations as a result of stimulation. The purpose of this study was... Read More about Haemodynamic Responses to Radial Motion in the Visual Cortex.

Specificity and Function of Archaeal DNA Replication Initiator Proteins (2013)
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Chromosomes with multiple DNA replication origins are a hallmark of Eukaryotes and some Archaea. All eukaryal nuclear replication origins are defined by the origin recognition complex (ORC) that recruits the replicative helicase MCM(2-7) via Cdc6 and... Read More about Specificity and Function of Archaeal DNA Replication Initiator Proteins.

A randomised controlled pilot study: the effectiveness of narrative exposure therapy with adult survivors of the Sichuan earthquake (2013)
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Background: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a common psychological reaction after large-scale natural disasters. Given the number of people involved and shortage of resources in any major disaster, brief, pragmatic and easily trainable int... Read More about A randomised controlled pilot study: the effectiveness of narrative exposure therapy with adult survivors of the Sichuan earthquake.

A comparison of field-based and lab-based experiments to evaluate user experience of personalised mobile devices (2013)
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There is a growing debate in the literature regarding the tradeoffs between lab and field evaluation of mobile devices. This paper presents a comparison of field-based and lab-based experiments to evaluate user experience of personalised mobile devic... Read More about A comparison of field-based and lab-based experiments to evaluate user experience of personalised mobile devices.

Young people, social media, social network sites and sexual health communication in Australia: "this is funny, you should watch it" (2013)
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Social media and social network sites (SNS) are an evolving area for sexual health communication with young people. They present opportunities and challenges for sexual health professionals and young people alike, such as learning through interactivi... Read More about Young people, social media, social network sites and sexual health communication in Australia: "this is funny, you should watch it".

Determinants of arterial stiffness in chronic kidney disease stage 3 (2013)
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Background: Early chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with increased cardiovascular (CV) risk but underlying mechanisms remain uncertain. Arterial stiffness (AS) is associated with increased CV risk in advanced CKD, but it is unclear whether A... Read More about Determinants of arterial stiffness in chronic kidney disease stage 3.

A Change of Perspective: Seeing Through Children at the Front of the Classroom, to Seeing Children from the Back of the Classroom (2013)
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This article considers a noted trend by teacher educators at a South African University where student teachers seem to have very little connection with children they teach on their teaching practicals. This lack of engagement and ability to see indiv... Read More about A Change of Perspective: Seeing Through Children at the Front of the Classroom, to Seeing Children from the Back of the Classroom.