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Unmet health needs in patients with coronary heart disease: implications and potential for improvement in caring services (2003)
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Asadi-Lari, M., Packham, C., & Gray, D. (2003). Unmet health needs in patients with coronary heart disease: implications and potential for improvement in caring services. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 1(1),

BACKGROUND: Improving the quality of health care services requires tailoring facilities to fulfil patients' needs. Satisfying patients' healthcare needs, listening to patients' opinions and building a closer provider-user partnership are central to t... Read More about Unmet health needs in patients with coronary heart disease: implications and potential for improvement in caring services.

Local variation in helminth burdens of Egyptian spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus dimidiatus) from ecologically similar sites: relationships with hormone concentrations and social behaviour (2003)
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Barnard, C., Sayed, E., Barnard, L., Behnke, J., Abdel Nabi, I., Sherif, N., …Zalat, S. (2003). Local variation in helminth burdens of Egyptian spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus dimidiatus) from ecologically similar sites: relationships with hormone concentrations and social behaviour. Journal of Helminthology, 77(3), https://doi.org/10.1079/JOH2003189

Populations of Egyptian spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus dimidiatus) in a fragmented montane wadi system in the Sinai showed significant differences in the abundance of gut helminths. Differences in parasite load between populations were positively assoc... Read More about Local variation in helminth burdens of Egyptian spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus dimidiatus) from ecologically similar sites: relationships with hormone concentrations and social behaviour.

Paracrine effects of oocyte secreted factors and stem cell factor on porcine granulosa and theca cells in vitro (2003)
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Brankin, V., Mitchell, M., Webb, B., & Hunter, M. (2003). Paracrine effects of oocyte secreted factors and stem cell factor on porcine granulosa and theca cells in vitro. Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology, 1(1),

Oocyte control of granulosa and theca cell function may be mediated by several growth factors via a local feedback loop(s) between these cell types. This study examined both the role of oocyte-secreted factors on granulosa and thecal cells, cultured... Read More about Paracrine effects of oocyte secreted factors and stem cell factor on porcine granulosa and theca cells in vitro.

Modern trends in evidence scholarship: is all rosy in the garden? (2003)
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Jackson, J. (2003). Modern trends in evidence scholarship: is all rosy in the garden?

This article reviews the state of evidence scholarship in the early 21st century and argues that it has been enriched by drawing upon a range of different disciplines including social psychology,cognitive science, forensic psychology, mathematics, li... Read More about Modern trends in evidence scholarship: is all rosy in the garden?.

Expertise and forms of knowledge in the government of families (2003)
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Murphy, E. (2003). Expertise and forms of knowledge in the government of families. Sociological Review, 51(4),

This paper examines the relationship between the state and the individual in relation to an aspect of mundane family life – the feeding of babies and young children. The nutritional status of children has long been a matter of national concern and i... Read More about Expertise and forms of knowledge in the government of families.

Substituting outline fonts for bitmap fonts in archived PDF files (2003)
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Probets, S., & Brailsford, D. F. (2003). Substituting outline fonts for bitmap fonts in archived PDF files

As collections of archived digital documents continue to grow the maintenance of an archive, and the quality of reproduction from the archived format, become important long-term considerations. In particular, Adobe s PDF is now an important final for... Read More about Substituting outline fonts for bitmap fonts in archived PDF files.

Predicting the metabolic energy costs of bipedalism using evolutionary robotics (2003)
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Sellers, W. I., Dennis, L. A., & Crompton, R. H. (2003). Predicting the metabolic energy costs of bipedalism using evolutionary robotics

To understand the evolution of bipedalism among the homnoids in an ecological context we need to be able to estimate theenerrgetic cost of locomotion in fossil forms. Ideally such an estimate would be based entirely on morphology since, except for t... Read More about Predicting the metabolic energy costs of bipedalism using evolutionary robotics.

Vitamins Reverse Endothelial Dysfunction Through Regulation of eNOS and NAD(P)H Oxidase Activities (2003)
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Ulker, S., McKeown, P., & Bayraktutan, U. (2003). Vitamins Reverse Endothelial Dysfunction Through Regulation of eNOS and NAD(P)H Oxidase Activities. Hypertension, 41,

Antioxidant vitamins C and E have protective properties in genetic hypertension associated with enhanced
oxidative stress. This study investigated whether vitamins C and/or E modulate vascular function by regulating
enzymatic activities of endothel... Read More about Vitamins Reverse Endothelial Dysfunction Through Regulation of eNOS and NAD(P)H Oxidase Activities.

Comparison and integration of genetic maps generated from F2 and BC1-type mapping populations in perennial ryegrass (2002)
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Armstead, I., Turner, L., King, I., Cairns, A., & Humphreys, M. (2002). Comparison and integration of genetic maps generated from F2 and BC1-type mapping populations in perennial ryegrass. Plant Breeding, 121(6), 501-507. doi:10.1046/j.1439-0523.2002.00742.x

Linkage maps of perennial ryegrass were constructed from F2 and BC1‐type populations using, predominantly, restriction fragment length polymorphism data based on heterologous probes used in mapping other grass species. The maps identified seven linka... Read More about Comparison and integration of genetic maps generated from F2 and BC1-type mapping populations in perennial ryegrass.

Adolescents’ perceptions of the costs and benefits of food additives and their presence in different foods (2002)
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Richard Eiser, J., Coulson, N. S., & Eiser, C. (2002). Adolescents’ perceptions of the costs and benefits of food additives and their presence in different foods. Journal of Risk Research, 5(2), 167-176. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669870010004979

A questionnaire concerning the use of additives in foods was completed by 572 high school students aged 12–15 years. Participants recorded how often they ate each of 16 common foods, and rated the relative levels of colourings, flavourings, preservat... Read More about Adolescents’ perceptions of the costs and benefits of food additives and their presence in different foods.

Understanding relaxin in the female reproductive system (2002)
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Ivell, R., & Anand-Ivell, R. (2003). Understanding relaxin in the female reproductive system. Current Medicinal Chemistry Immunology Endocrine and Metabolic Agents, 5(5), 383-389. https://doi.org/10.2174/156801305774322394

Recent advances in our understanding of the hormone relaxin, and the discovery of its specific receptor LGR7, have provided a series of new tools and paradigms, with which to re-examine many aspects of female reproductive physiology classically assoc... Read More about Understanding relaxin in the female reproductive system.

Efficient Solution of Rational Conics (2002)
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Cremona, J. E., & Rusin, D. (2003). Efficient Solution of Rational Conics. Mathematics of Computation, 72(243), 1417-1441. https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-02-01480-1

We present efficient algorithms for solving Legendre equations over Q (equivalently, for finding rational points on rational conics) and parametrizing all solutions. Unlike existing algorithms, no integer factorization is required, provided that the... Read More about Efficient Solution of Rational Conics.

Nasal immunization with homogenate and peptide antigens induces protective immunity against Trichinella spiralis (2002)
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McGuire, C., Chan, W. C., & Wakelin, D. (2002). Nasal immunization with homogenate and peptide antigens induces protective immunity against Trichinella spiralis. Infection and Immunity, 70(12), 7149-7152. https://doi.org/10.1128/IAI.70.12.7149-7152.2002

Mice were successfully immunized against the intestinal nematode Trichinella spiralis by intranasal administration of a 30-mer peptide antigen with cholera toxin B. Immunized mice developed antigen-specific serum immunoglobulin G1, intestinal immunog... Read More about Nasal immunization with homogenate and peptide antigens induces protective immunity against Trichinella spiralis.

Student attendance at dental checkups: An application of the transtheoretical model (2002)
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Coulson, N. S., & Buchanan, H. (2002). Student attendance at dental checkups: An application of the transtheoretical model. Health Education Journal, 61(4), 309-319. https://doi.org/10.1177/001789690206100404

Objective To examine the application of key constructs of the Transtheoretical Model (stages of change and decisional balance) to attendance at dental checkups with a student sample. Method A questionnaire was completed by 224 students from the Unive... Read More about Student attendance at dental checkups: An application of the transtheoretical model.

Spectral synthesis and topologies on ideal spaces for Banach *-algebras (2002)
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Feinstein, J., Kaniuth, E., & Somerset, D. (2002). Spectral synthesis and topologies on ideal spaces for Banach *-algebras. Journal of Functional Analysis, 196(1), https://doi.org/10.1006/jfan.2002.3964

This paper continues the study of spectral synthesis and the topologies τ∞ and τr on the ideal space of a Banach algebra, concentrating on the class of Banach *-algebras, and in particular on L1-group algebras. It is shown that if a group G is a fini... Read More about Spectral synthesis and topologies on ideal spaces for Banach *-algebras.

A High-Copy-Number CACTA Family Transposon in Temperate Grasses and Cereals (2002)
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Langdon, T., Jenkins, G., Hasterok, R., Jones, R. N., & King, I. P. (2003). A High-Copy-Number CACTA Family Transposon in Temperate Grasses and Cereals. Genetics, 163(3), 1097-1108

A lineage of CACTA family transposons has been identified in temperate grasses and cereals, and a full-length representative of the subfamily from Lolium perenne has been sequenced. Both the size and internal organization of the L. perenne element ar... Read More about A High-Copy-Number CACTA Family Transposon in Temperate Grasses and Cereals.

The genotype distribution of the XRCC1 gene indicates a role for base excision repair in the development of therapy-related acute myeloblastic leukemia (2002)
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Seedhouse, C., Bainton, R., Lewis, M., Harding, A., Russell, N., & Das-Gupta, E. (2002). The genotype distribution of the XRCC1 gene indicates a role for base excision repair in the development of therapy-related acute myeloblastic leukemia. Blood, 100(10), 3761-3766. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2002-04-1152

Polymorphisms in several DNA repair genes have been described. These polymorphisms may affect DNA repair capacity and modulate cancer susceptibility by means of gene-environment interactions. We investigated DNA repair capacity and its association wi... Read More about The genotype distribution of the XRCC1 gene indicates a role for base excision repair in the development of therapy-related acute myeloblastic leukemia.