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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.

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.

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 t... Read More about Oscillons and quasi-breathers in D+1 dimensions.

Foster Fathers: their experiences and contributions to fostering (2007)
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Wilson, K., Fyson, R., & Newstone, S. (2007). Foster Fathers: their experiences and contributions to fostering

The paper reports some of the findings of an exploratory study which looks at foster fathers’ experiences of fostering and discusses their routes into foster care and their perspectives on their roles and tasks. The study collected quantitative and q... Read More about Foster Fathers: their experiences and contributions to fostering.

Risk, human rights and the management of a serious sex offender (2007)
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Whitty, N. (2007). Risk, human rights and the management of a serious sex offender. Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie, 28(2), 265-276. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfrs-2007-0214

Risk and human rights discourses have become dominant features of the UK criminal justice arena. However, there has been little critical scrutiny of the ways in which these discourses relate to each other. In this article, I focus on different accoun... Read More about Risk, human rights and the management of a serious sex offender.

Robust recognition of planar shapes under affine transforms using principal component analysis (2007)
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Tzimiropoulos, G., Mitianoudis, N., & Stathaki, T. (2007). Robust recognition of planar shapes under affine transforms using principal component analysis. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 14(10), https://doi.org/10.1109/LSP.2007.896434

A scheme, based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA), is proposed that can be used for the recognition of 2D planar shapes under affine transformations. A PCA step is first used to map the object boundary to its canonical form, reducing the problem... Read More about Robust recognition of planar shapes under affine transforms using principal component analysis.

Diatom oxygen isotopes: evidence of a species effect in the sediment record (2007)
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Swann, G. E., Leng, M. J., Sloane, H. J., Maslin, M. A., & Onodera, J. (2007). Diatom oxygen isotopes: evidence of a species effect in the sediment record. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 8(6), Article Q06012. https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GC001535

Diatom oxygen isotope measurements are commonly made on bulk mixed species assemblages due to the difficulty in purifying and separating individual taxa. As such, it is essential to understand processes in diatoms which may lead to isotope offsets bo... Read More about Diatom oxygen isotopes: evidence of a species effect in the sediment record.

Nematicidal effects of cysteine proteinases against sedentary plant parasitic nematodes (2007)
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Stepek, G., Curtis, R., Kerry, B., Shewry, P., Clark, S., Lowe, A., …Behnke, J. (2007). Nematicidal effects of cysteine proteinases against sedentary plant parasitic nematodes. Parasitology, 134(12), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182007003289

Cysteine proteinases from the fruit and latex of plants, such as papaya, pineapple and fig, have previously been shown to have substantial anthelmintic efficacy, in vitro and in vivo, against a range of animal parasitic nematodes. In this paper, we d... Read More about Nematicidal effects of cysteine proteinases against sedentary plant parasitic nematodes.

Amphetamine increases blood pressure and heart rate but has no effect on motor recovery or cerebral haemodynamics in ischaemic stroke: a randomized controlled trial (ISRCTN 36285333) (2007)
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Sprigg, N., Willmot, M., Gray, L. J., Sunderland, A., Pomeroy, V., Walker, M., & Bath, P. M. (2007). Amphetamine increases blood pressure and heart rate but has no effect on motor recovery or cerebral haemodynamics in ischaemic stroke: a randomized controlled trial (ISRCTN 36285333). Journal of Human Hypertension, 21(8),

Amphetamine enhances recovery after experimental ischaemia and has shown promise in small clinical trials when combined with motor or sensory stimulation. Amphetamine, a sympathomimetic, might have haemodynamic effects in stroke patients, although li... Read More about Amphetamine increases blood pressure and heart rate but has no effect on motor recovery or cerebral haemodynamics in ischaemic stroke: a randomized controlled trial (ISRCTN 36285333).

Expressivism and the practicality of moral convictions (2007)
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Sinclair, N. (2007). Expressivism and the practicality of moral convictions. Journal of Value Inquiry, 41(2-4), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-007-9080-x

Many expressivists have employed a claim about the practicality of morality in support of their view that moral convictions are not purely descriptive mental states. In this paper I argue that all extant arguments of this form fail. I distinguish six... Read More about Expressivism and the practicality of moral convictions.

One-class classification for monitoring a specific land cover class: SVDD classification of fenland (2007)
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Sanchez-Hernandez, C., Boyd, D. S., & Foody, G. M. (2007). One-class classification for monitoring a specific land cover class: SVDD classification of fenland. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 45(4), https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2006.890414

Remote sensing is a major source of land cover information. Commonly, interest focuses on a single land cover class. Although a conventional multi-class classifier may be used to provide a map depicting the class of interest the analysis is not focus... Read More about One-class classification for monitoring a specific land cover class: SVDD classification of fenland.

When “happy” means “sad”: neuropsychological evidence for the right prefrontal cortex contribution to executive semantic processing (2007)
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Samson, D., Connolly, C., & Humphreys, G. W. (2007). When “happy” means “sad”: neuropsychological evidence for the right prefrontal cortex contribution to executive semantic processing. Neuropsychologia, 45(5),

The contribution of the left inferior prefrontal cortex in semantic processing has been widely investigated in the last decade. Converging evidence from functional imaging studies shows that this region is involved in the “executive” or “controlled”... Read More about When “happy” means “sad”: neuropsychological evidence for the right prefrontal cortex contribution to executive semantic processing.

Error analyses reveal contrasting deficits in “theory of mind”: neuropsychological evidence from a 3-option false belief task (2007)
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Samson, D., Apperly, I. A., & Humphreys, G. W. (2007). Error analyses reveal contrasting deficits in “theory of mind”: neuropsychological evidence from a 3-option false belief task. Neuropsychologia, 45(11), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.03.013

Perspective taking is a crucial ability that guides our social interactions. In this study, we show how the specific patterns of errors of brain-damaged patients in perspective taking tasks can help us further understand the factors contributing to p... Read More about Error analyses reveal contrasting deficits in “theory of mind”: neuropsychological evidence from a 3-option false belief task.

The everyday life of the revolution: gender, violence and memory (2007)
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Roy, S. (2007). The everyday life of the revolution: gender, violence and memory. South Asia Research, 27(2),

The ‘heroic life’ or the life of the revolutionary is one that resists or even seeks to transcend the everyday and the ordinary. The ‘banal’ vulnerabilities of everyday life, however, continue to constitute the unseen, often unspoken background of su... Read More about The everyday life of the revolution: gender, violence and memory.

Prime implicants for modularised non-coherent fault trees using binary decision diagrams (2007)
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Remenyte-Prescott, R., & Andrews, J. (2007). Prime implicants for modularised non-coherent fault trees using binary decision diagrams. International Journal of Reliability and Safety, 1(4), https://doi.org/10.1504/IJRS.2007.016259

This paper presents an extended strategy for the analysis of complex fault trees. The method utilises simplification rules, which are applied to the fault tree to reduce it to a series of smaller subtrees, whose solution is equivalent to the original... Read More about Prime implicants for modularised non-coherent fault trees using binary decision diagrams.

Risk and human rights in UK prison governance (2007)
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Murphy, T., & Whitty, N. (2007). Risk and human rights in UK prison governance. British Journal of Criminology, 47(5), https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azm012

Risk and human rights discourses dominate the landscape of prison governance in the United Kingdom. For the most part, however, criminologists have focused only on concepts of risk and lawyers on human rights; there has been little overlap in the sch... Read More about Risk and human rights in UK prison governance.