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Examining effects of climatic factors on flexible pavement performance and service life (2013)
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The potential risk of climate change raises interest in how it may affect the deterioration rates of flexible pavements and how pavement service lives would be altered as a consequence. Previous studies demonstrated that temperature is the most influ... Read More about Examining effects of climatic factors on flexible pavement performance and service life.

Responsiveness of the EQ-5D health-related quality-of-life instrument in assessing low back pain (2013)
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Objective: To compare the responsiveness of the EuroQol five-dimensional questionnaire (EQ-5D) generic quality-of-life instrument with that of specific instruments - the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) and the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) - in assessin... Read More about Responsiveness of the EQ-5D health-related quality-of-life instrument in assessing low back pain.

Synthesis, functional and binding profile of (R)-apomorphine based homobivalent ligands targeting the dopamine D2 receptor (2013)
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Bivalent ligands represent useful tools to investigate the phenomenon of GPCR dimerization. We synthesized bivalent ligands based on (R)-apomorphine with variations in spacer length, and assessed these compounds in functional and binding assays at th... Read More about Synthesis, functional and binding profile of (R)-apomorphine based homobivalent ligands targeting the dopamine D2 receptor.

Interventions to reduce dependency in personal activities of daily living in community-dwelling adults who use homecare services: protocol for a systematic review (2013)
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Background There is a growing demand for services whereby individuals receive assistance from care workers for personal care within the home. This has led to the development of re-ablement or restorative homecare services that provide time-limited... Read More about Interventions to reduce dependency in personal activities of daily living in community-dwelling adults who use homecare services: protocol for a systematic review.

Wyndham Lewis’s ‘Very Bad Thing’: jazz, inter-war culture, and 'The Apes of God' (2013)
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Age-related differences in selection by visual saliency (2013)
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We examined the ability of older adults to select local and global stimuli varying in perceptual saliency – a task requiring non-spatial visual selection. Participants were asked to identify in separate blocks a target at either the global or local l... Read More about Age-related differences in selection by visual saliency.

Schmallenberg virus: could infection of wildlife species result in an ever-present threat to livestock? (2013)
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Testing for Schmallenberg virus (2013)
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Seasonally resolved diatom ?18O records from the west Antarctic Peninsula over the last deglaciation (2013)
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Understanding the response of the Antarctic ice sheets during the rapid climatic change that accompanied the last deglaciation has implications for establishing the susceptibility of these regions to future 21st Century warming. A unique diatom δ18O... Read More about Seasonally resolved diatom ?18O records from the west Antarctic Peninsula over the last deglaciation.

Analysis of mass spectrometry data from the secretome of an explant model of articular cartilage exposed to pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory stimuli using machine learning (2013)
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Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) is an inflammatory disease of synovial joints involving the loss and degeneration of articular cartilage. The gold standard for evaluating cartilage loss in OA is the measurement of joint space width on standard radiog... Read More about Analysis of mass spectrometry data from the secretome of an explant model of articular cartilage exposed to pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory stimuli using machine learning.

Mechanical stiffening of porphyrin nanorings through supramolecular columnar stacking (2013)
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Solvent-induced aggregates of nanoring cyclic polymers may be transferred by electrospray deposition to a surface where they adsorb as threedimensional columnar stacks. The observed stack height varies from single rings to four stacked rings with a l... Read More about Mechanical stiffening of porphyrin nanorings through supramolecular columnar stacking.

Native Apps versus Web Apps: which is best for healthcare applications? (2013)
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Smartphone applications (Apps) provide a new way to deliver healthcare, illustrated by the fact that healthcare Apps are estimated to make up over 30% of new Apps currently being developed; with this number seemingly set to increase as the benefits b... Read More about Native Apps versus Web Apps: which is best for healthcare applications?.

Membranes, molecules and biophysics: enhancing monocyte derived dendritic cell (MDDC) immunogenicity for improved anti-cancer therapy (2013)
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Despite great medical advancement in the treatment of cancer, cancer remains a disease of global significance. Chemotherapeutics can be very expensive and drain medical resources at a national level and in some cases the cost of treatment is so great... Read More about Membranes, molecules and biophysics: enhancing monocyte derived dendritic cell (MDDC) immunogenicity for improved anti-cancer therapy.

Insight into lithium transport in lithium nitridometallate battery materials from muon spin relaxation (2013)
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Muon spin relaxation and powder neutron diffraction have been combined to study three lithium cobalt nitride battery materials. Neutron diffraction shows that these retain the P6/mmm space group of Li3N with Co located only on Li(1) sites. The lattic... Read More about Insight into lithium transport in lithium nitridometallate battery materials from muon spin relaxation.

Beyond neutrality: professionals’ responses to clients’ indirect complaints in a Therapeutic Community for people with a diagnosis of mental illness (2013)
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Previous research has evidenced that in different institutional settings professionals are cautious when responding to clients’ indirect complaints and tend to avoid siding either with the clients/ complainants or the complained-of absent parties... Read More about Beyond neutrality: professionals’ responses to clients’ indirect complaints in a Therapeutic Community for people with a diagnosis of mental illness.

Climate change on Twitter: topics, communities and conversations about the 2013 IPCC report (2013)
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In September 2013 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published its first comprehensive assessment of physical climate science in six years, constituting a critical event in the societal debate about climate change. This paper analyses the... Read More about Climate change on Twitter: topics, communities and conversations about the 2013 IPCC report.

Recent palaeolimnological change recorded in Lake Xiaolongwan, northeast China: climatic versus anthropogenic forcing (2013)
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Pitch production during the Roman period: an intensive mountain industry for a globalised economy? (2013)
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The authors’ research project in the Pyrenees mountains has located and excavated Roman kilns for producing pitch from pine resin. Their investigations reveal a whole sustainable industry, integrated into the local environmental cycle, supplying pitc... Read More about Pitch production during the Roman period: an intensive mountain industry for a globalised economy?.

Reconsidering the water system of Roman Barcino (Barcelona) from supply to discharge (2013)
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This paper presents the results of the ‘Roman Barcino Water Network’ Project. This study employed a series of methodologies aiming at joining and interpreting all data available on water supply, distribution, management, use and discharge in the Roma... Read More about Reconsidering the water system of Roman Barcino (Barcelona) from supply to discharge.

Blessing and breaking: a dissonance of action and interpretation in the Eucharistic Prayers of the Roman Rite (2013)
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The references to 'blessing' and 'thanking' in the context of the community meal, the Eucharist, are found in the Synoptic Gospels as referring to Jesus' prayer to God; however, they are interpreted in contemporary Catholic practice as referring to t... Read More about Blessing and breaking: a dissonance of action and interpretation in the Eucharistic Prayers of the Roman Rite.