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Coping with food allergy: Exploring the role of the online support group (2007)
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Coulson, N. S., & Knibb, R. C. (2007). Coping with food allergy: Exploring the role of the online support group. Cyberpsychology and Behavior, 10(1), 145-148. https://doi.org/10.1089/cpb.2006.9978

The aims of this study were to explore the reasons for participation in an online support group for individuals affected by food allergy, its perceived advantages and disadvantages as well as impact on the relationship with healthcare providers. A to... Read More about Coping with food allergy: Exploring the role of the online support group.

Images of Childhood in Mothers' Accounts of Contemporary Childrearing (2007)
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Murphy, E. (2007). Images of Childhood in Mothers' Accounts of Contemporary Childrearing. Childhood, 14 (1)(1),

This article examines how a sample of first-time mothers in the UK constitute childhood in general, and their own children in particular, in and through their talk about the mundane practices of child-care. The data analysed are drawn from a longitu... Read More about Images of Childhood in Mothers' Accounts of Contemporary Childrearing.

Introgression mapping in the grasses (2007)
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King, J., Armstead, I. P., Donnison, I. S., Harper, J. A., Roberts, L. A., Thomas, H., …King, I. P. (2007). Introgression mapping in the grasses. Chromosome Research, 15(1), 105-113. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10577-006-1103-0

The unique properties of Lolium/Festuca hybrids and their derivatives provide an ideal system for intergeneric introgression. At IGER a focus on the Lolium perenne/Festuca pratensis system is being exploited to elucidate genome organization in the gr... Read More about Introgression mapping in the grasses.

Feasibility study to inform the design of a UK multi-centre randomised controlled trial of prophylactic antibiotics for the prevention of recurrent cellulitis of the leg (2007)
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Thomas, K. S., Cox, N. H., Savelyich, B. S., Shipley, D., Meredith, S., Nunn, A., Williams, H. C., & Reynolds, N. (2007). Feasibility study to inform the design of a UK multi-centre randomised controlled trial of prophylactic antibiotics for the prevention of recurrent cellulitis of the leg. Trials, 8(3),

Background: This paper describes the results of a feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial (RCT).

Methods: Twenty-nine members of the UK Dermatology Clinical Trials Network (UK DCTN) expressed an interest in recruiting for this study.... Read More about Feasibility study to inform the design of a UK multi-centre randomised controlled trial of prophylactic antibiotics for the prevention of recurrent cellulitis of the leg.

The protease allergen Der p 1 cleaves cell surface DC-SIGN and DC-SIGNR: Experimental analysis of in silico substrate identification and implications in allergic responses (2007)
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Furmonaviciene, R., Ghaemmaghami, A. M., Boyd, S. E., Jones, N. S., Bailey, K., Willis, A. C., …Shakib, F. (2007). The protease allergen Der p 1 cleaves cell surface DC-SIGN and DC-SIGNR: Experimental analysis of in silico substrate identification and implications in allergic responses. Clinical and Experimental Allergy, 37(2), 231-242. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2222.2007.02651.x

Background: The cysteine protease Der p 1 from the house dust mite Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus is one of the most potent allergens known. An attractive mechanism for a component of Der p 1 allergenicity lies in its ability to cleave key regulatory... Read More about The protease allergen Der p 1 cleaves cell surface DC-SIGN and DC-SIGNR: Experimental analysis of in silico substrate identification and implications in allergic responses.

Thyrotrophin-releasing hormone decreases feeding and increases body temperature, activity and oxygen consumption in Siberian hamsters (2007)
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Schuhler, S., Warner, A., Finney, N., Bennett, G. W., Ebling, F. J., & Brameld, J. M. (2007). Thyrotrophin-releasing hormone decreases feeding and increases body temperature, activity and oxygen consumption in Siberian hamsters. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 19(4), 239-249. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2826.2006.01524.x

Thyrotrophin-releasing hormone (TRH) is known to play an important role in the control of food intake and energy metabolism in addition to its actions on the pituitary-thyroid axis. We have previously shown that central administration of TRH decrease... Read More about Thyrotrophin-releasing hormone decreases feeding and increases body temperature, activity and oxygen consumption in Siberian hamsters.

Knowledge makes the money go round: Conflicts of interest and corporate finance in London's financial district (2007)
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Hall, S. (2007). Knowledge makes the money go round: Conflicts of interest and corporate finance in London's financial district. Geoforum, 38(4), 710-719. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.11.023

This paper argues that the conflicts of interest cases brought against Wall Street investment banks in the early 2000s were neither geographically nor institutionally isolated events. Rather, by combining recent work on financial knowledges in both e... Read More about Knowledge makes the money go round: Conflicts of interest and corporate finance in London's financial district.

Cross-Species Identification of Mendel's I Locus (2007)
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Armstead, I., Donnison, I., Aubry, S., Harper, J., Hortensteiner, S., James, C., …King, I. (2007). Cross-Species Identification of Mendel's I Locus. Science, 315(5808), 73-73. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1132912

A key gene involved in plant senescence, mutations of which partially disable chlorophyll catabolism and confer stay-green leaf and cotyledon phenotypes, has been identified in Pisum sativum, Arabidopsis thaliana, and Festuca pratensis by using class... Read More about Cross-Species Identification of Mendel's I Locus.

Oscillons and quasi-breathers in D+1 dimensions (2007)
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Saffin, P. M., & Tranberg, A. (2007). Oscillons and quasi-breathers in D+1 dimensions. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2007(1), https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2007/01/030

We study oscillons in D+1 space-time dimensions using a spherically symmetric ansatz. From Gaussian initial conditions, these evolve by emitting radiation, approaching quasi-breathers'', near-periodic solutions to the equations of motion. Using a tru... Read More about Oscillons and quasi-breathers in D+1 dimensions.

Meyerbeer's "L'Africaine": French grand opera and the Iberian exotic (2007)
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Andrews, J. (2007). Meyerbeer's "L'Africaine": French grand opera and the Iberian exotic. Modern Language Review, 102(1),

Meyerbeer's grand opera L'Africaine (1865) tells the story of the sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama's triumphant journey back from the east African coast and his love for an African slave. It raises questions relating to the repres... Read More about Meyerbeer's "L'Africaine": French grand opera and the Iberian exotic.

A graph-based hyper heuristic for timetabling problems (2007)
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Burke, E., MacCloumn, B., Meisels, A., Petrovic, S., & Qu, R. (2007). A graph-based hyper heuristic for timetabling problems. European Journal of Operational Research, 176(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2005.08.012

This paper presents an investigation of a simple generic hyper-heuristic approach upon a set of widely used constructive heuristics (graph coloring heuristics) in timetabling. Within the hyperheuristic framework, a Tabu Search approach is employed to... Read More about A graph-based hyper heuristic for timetabling problems.

Avian flu: the creation of expectations in the interplay between science and the media (2007)
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Nerlich, B., & Halliday, C. (2007). Avian flu: the creation of expectations in the interplay between science and the media. Sociology of Health and Illness, 29(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.00517.x

This paper examines the emerging cultural patterns and interpretative repertoires in reports of an impending pandemic of avian flu in the UK mass media and scientific journals at the beginning of 2005, paying particular attention to metaphors, pragma... Read More about Avian flu: the creation of expectations in the interplay between science and the media.

Anthelmintic action of plant cysteine proteinases against the rodent stomach nematode, Protospirura muricola, in vitro and in vivo (2007)
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Stepek, G., Lowe, A., Buttle, D. J., Duce, I., & Behnke, J. M. (2007). Anthelmintic action of plant cysteine proteinases against the rodent stomach nematode, Protospirura muricola, in vitro and in vivo. Parasitology, 134(1), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182006001302

Cysteine proteinases from the fruit and latex of plants, including papaya, pineapple and fig, were previously shown to have a rapid detrimental effect, in vitro, against the rodent gastrointestinal nematodes, Heligmosomoides polygyrus (which is found... Read More about Anthelmintic action of plant cysteine proteinases against the rodent stomach nematode, Protospirura muricola, in vitro and in vivo.

Conditional moment closure for chemical reactions in laminar chaotic flows (2007)
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Vikhansky, A., & Cox, S. M. (2007). Conditional moment closure for chemical reactions in laminar chaotic flows. AIChE Journal, 53(1),

We implement conditional moment closure (CMC) for simulation of chemical reactions in laminar chaotic flows. The CMC approach predicts the expected concentration of reactive species, conditional upon the concentration of a corresponding nonreactive s... Read More about Conditional moment closure for chemical reactions in laminar chaotic flows.

Unruptured arteriovenous malformations of the brain (2007)
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Al-Shahi Salman, R., Mast, H., & Stapf, C. (2007). Unruptured arteriovenous malformations of the brain. Advances in Clinical Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, 6(6),

Unruptured, asymptomatic arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) lurk in the brains of approximately one person in every thousand; their prevalence, based on four studies of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of 7,359 people without brain disorders, 1-4 was... Read More about Unruptured arteriovenous malformations of the brain.

A matter of necessity? Enforced treatment under the Mental Health Act: R. (JB) v. responsible medical officer Dr A. Haddock, Mental Health Act Commission second opinion appointed doctor, Dr. Rigby, Mental Health Act Commission second opinion appointed Doctor Wood, [2006] E.W.C.A. Civ. 961 (2007)
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Bartlett, P. (2007). A matter of necessity? Enforced treatment under the Mental Health Act: R. (JB) v. responsible medical officer Dr A. Haddock, Mental Health Act Commission second opinion appointed doctor, Dr. Rigby, Mental Health Act Commission second opinion appointed Doctor Wood, [2006] E.W.C.A. Civ. 961. Medical Law Review, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwl027

This case concerned the substantive prerequisites for involuntary treatment under the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA). The parties agreed that following the European Court of Human Rights ruling in Herczegfalvy v. Austria, treatment for mental disorder... Read More about A matter of necessity? Enforced treatment under the Mental Health Act: R. (JB) v. responsible medical officer Dr A. Haddock, Mental Health Act Commission second opinion appointed doctor, Dr. Rigby, Mental Health Act Commission second opinion appointed Doctor Wood, [2006] E.W.C.A. Civ. 961.

Fortuity in the law of marine insurance (2007)
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Bennett, H. (2007). Fortuity in the law of marine insurance. Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly,

This article addresses the meaning and significance of the concept of fortuity within the law of marine insurance. Voluntary conduct, naturally occurring losses and inherent vice, and inevitable losses are analysed, highlighting both the variable rol... Read More about Fortuity in the law of marine insurance.