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Independence or Protection - does it have to be a choice? Reflections on the abuse people with learning disabilities in Cornwall (2007)
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Fyson, R., & Kitson, D. (2007). Independence or Protection - does it have to be a choice? Reflections on the abuse people with learning disabilities in Cornwall. Critical Social Policy, 27(3),

This commentary will use recent events in Cornwall to highlight the ongoing abuse of adults with learning disabilities in England. It will critically explore how two parallel policy agendas – namely, the promotion of choice and independence for adult... Read More about Independence or Protection - does it have to be a choice? Reflections on the abuse people with learning disabilities in Cornwall.

Comparative Analyses Between Lolium/Festuca Introgression Lines and Rice Reveal the Major Fraction of Functionally Annotated Gene Models Is Located in Recombination-Poor/Very Recombination-Poor Regions of the Genome (2007)
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King, J., Armstead, I., Donnison, S., Roberts, L., Harper, J., Skot, K., …King, I. (2007). Comparative Analyses Between Lolium/Festuca Introgression Lines and Rice Reveal the Major Fraction of Functionally Annotated Gene Models Is Located in Recombination-Poor/Very Recombination-Poor Regions of the Genome. Genetics, 177(1), 597-606. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.107.075515

Publication of the rice genome sequence has allowed an in-depth analysis of genome organization in a model monocot plant species. This has provided a powerful tool for genome analysis in large-genome unsequenced agriculturally important monocot speci... Read More about Comparative Analyses Between Lolium/Festuca Introgression Lines and Rice Reveal the Major Fraction of Functionally Annotated Gene Models Is Located in Recombination-Poor/Very Recombination-Poor Regions of the Genome.

Sunflower-seed oil body emulsions: Rheology and stability assessment of a natural emulsion (2007)
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White, D. A., Fisk, I. D., Mitchell, J. R., Wolf, B., Hill, S. E., & Gray, D. A. (2008). Sunflower-seed oil body emulsions: Rheology and stability assessment of a natural emulsion. Food Hydrocolloids, 22(7), 1224-1232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodhyd.2007.07.004

The viscoelastic characteristics of a purified oil body cream (67.6±0.7% lipid, 5.4±0.7% protein and 25.2±0.1% moisture) recovered from sunflower seeds (Helianthus annuus L.) have been determined. Moreover, the effects of pH (2-7) and CaCl2 concentra... Read More about Sunflower-seed oil body emulsions: Rheology and stability assessment of a natural emulsion.

A space to write: The construction of the writing subject in early schooling (2007)
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Dixon, K. (2007). A space to write: The construction of the writing subject in early schooling. English Academy Review: Southern African Journal of English Studies, 24(2), 85-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/10131750701452329

This article applies Foucault's (1977. Discipline and punish) theory of spatial distribution in relation to the teaching of writing in English medium classrooms in early schooling. It aims to highlight the value of working with spatial theory, by att... Read More about A space to write: The construction of the writing subject in early schooling.

Cognitive rehabilitation for memory deficits following stroke (2007)
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das Nair, R., & Lincoln, N. (2007). Cognitive rehabilitation for memory deficits following stroke. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 3, Article CD0022. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD002293.pub2

Background: Memory problems are a common cognitive complaint following stroke. Memory rehabilitation programmes either attempt to retrain lost or poor memory functions, or teach patients strategies to cope with them. Objectives: To determi... Read More about Cognitive rehabilitation for memory deficits following stroke.

Waiting time distributions for clusters of complex molecules (2007)
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Thul, R., & Falcke, M. (2007). Waiting time distributions for clusters of complex molecules. EPL, 79(3), https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/79/38003

Waiting time distributions are in the core of theories for a large variety of subjects ranging from the analysis of patch clamp records to stochastic excitable systems. Here, we present a novel exact method for the calculation of waiting time distrib... Read More about Waiting time distributions for clusters of complex molecules.

An estimation of distribution algorithm for nurse scheduling (2007)
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Aickelin, U., & Li, J. (2007). An estimation of distribution algorithm for nurse scheduling. Annals of Operations Research, 155(1), 289-309. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-007-0214-0

Schedules can be built in a similar way to a human scheduler by using a set of rules that involve domain knowledge. This paper presents an Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (EDA) for the nurse scheduling problem, which involves choosing a suitable... Read More about An estimation of distribution algorithm for nurse scheduling.

Design Methodology for Seismic Upgrading of Substandard Reinforced Concrete Structures (2007)
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Thermou, G. E., Pantazopoulou, S. J., & Elnashai, A. S. (2007). Design Methodology for Seismic Upgrading of Substandard Reinforced Concrete Structures. Journal of Earthquake Engineering, 11(4), 582-606. doi:10.1080/13632460601031573

This article presents a design methodology for seismic upgrading of existing reinforced concrete (RC) buildings. The methodology is based on the modification of the deflected shape of the structure so as to achieve a near-uniform distribution of inte... Read More about Design Methodology for Seismic Upgrading of Substandard Reinforced Concrete Structures.

Propositional clothing and belief (2007)
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Sinclair, N. (2007). Propositional clothing and belief. Philosophical Quarterly, 57(228), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2007.488.x

Moral discourse is propositionally clothed, that is, it exhibits those features – such as the ability of its sentences to intelligibly embed in conditionals and other unasserted contexts – that have been taken by some philosophers to be constitutive... Read More about Propositional clothing and belief.

Toxicity of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) in the developing male Wistar(Han) rat II: chronic dosing causes developmental delay (2007)
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Bell, D. R., Clode, S., Fan, M., Fernandes, A., Foster, P. M. D., Jiang, T., …White, S. (2007). Toxicity of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) in the developing male Wistar(Han) rat II: chronic dosing causes developmental delay. Toxicological Sciences, 99(1),

We have investigated whether fetal exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) causes defects in the male reproductive system of the rat, using chronically exposed rats to ensure continuous exposure of the fetus. 5-6 week old rats were exp... Read More about Toxicity of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) in the developing male Wistar(Han) rat II: chronic dosing causes developmental delay.

Amphetamine and the adenosine A2A antagonist KW-6002 enhance the effects of conditional temporal probability of a stimulus in rats (2007)
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O'Neill, M., & Brown, V. J. (2007). Amphetamine and the adenosine A2A antagonist KW-6002 enhance the effects of conditional temporal probability of a stimulus in rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 121(3), 535-542. https://doi.org/10.1037/0735-7044.121.3.535

As the length of foreperiod preceding an imperative signal increases, reaction time decreases and anticipatory (prior to the signal) responding increases. The authors designed a task to dissociate the effect of elapsing time in the foreperiod and con... Read More about Amphetamine and the adenosine A2A antagonist KW-6002 enhance the effects of conditional temporal probability of a stimulus in rats.

A cancer cell-specific inducer of apoptosis (2007)
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Green, K. L., Brown, C., Roeder, G. E., Southgate, T. D., & Gaston, K. (2007). A cancer cell-specific inducer of apoptosis. Human Gene Therapy, 18(6), 547-561. doi:10.1089/hum.2006.042

Human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA is found in virtually all cervical cancers, strongly suggesting that these viruses are necessary to initiate this disease. The HPV E2 protein is required for viral replication, but E2 expression is usually lost in HPV-t... Read More about A cancer cell-specific inducer of apoptosis.

From phenotype to genotype: whole tissue profiling for plant breeding (2007)
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Goodacre, R., Roberts, L., Ellis, D. I., Thorogood, D., Reader, S. M., Ougham, H., & King, I. (2007). From phenotype to genotype: whole tissue profiling for plant breeding. Metabolomics, 3(4), 489-501. doi:10.1007/s11306-007-0062-6

Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) was used to obtain ‘holistic’ metabolic fingerprints from a wide range of plants to differentiate species, population, single plant genotype, and chromosomal constitution differences. Sample preparation... Read More about From phenotype to genotype: whole tissue profiling for plant breeding.

Established corticosteroid creams should be applied only once daily in patients with atopic eczema (2007)
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Williams, H. C. (2007). Established corticosteroid creams should be applied only once daily in patients with atopic eczema. British medical journal, 334,

Atopic eczema affects many adults and up to 20% of children,1 with health costs comparable to diabetes2 and asthma.3 One community survey of 1760 young children in the United Kingdom found that 84% had mild eczema, 14% moderate, and 2% severe eczema.... Read More about Established corticosteroid creams should be applied only once daily in patients with atopic eczema.

The streptavidin/biotinylated DNA/protein bound complex protocol for determining the association of c-JUN protein with NANOG promoter (2007)
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SHAMS-NATERI, A., & BABAEI-JADIDI, R. (2013). The streptavidin/biotinylated DNA/protein bound complex protocol for determining the association of c-JUN protein with NANOG promoter. Current Protocols in Stem Cell Biology, 25(UNIT 1B.10), 1-13

Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is a widely used and pre-eminent technique for detecting the association of an individual protein or a particular protein complex with its specific DNA sequence(s) in vivo. Herein we introduce a novel and simple b... Read More about The streptavidin/biotinylated DNA/protein bound complex protocol for determining the association of c-JUN protein with NANOG promoter.

Characterization of an enhancer region of the galanin gene that directs expression to the dorsal root ganglion and confers responsiveness to axotomy (2007)
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Bacon, A., Kerr, N. C., Holmes, F. E., Gaston, K., & Wynick, D. (2007). Characterization of an enhancer region of the galanin gene that directs expression to the dorsal root ganglion and confers responsiveness to axotomy. Journal of Neuroscience, 27(24), 6573-6580. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1596-07.2007

Galanin expression markedly increases in the dorsal root ganglion (DRG) after sciatic nerve axotomy and modulates pain behavior and regeneration of sensory neurons. Here, we describe transgenic mice expressing constructs with varying amounts of seque... Read More about Characterization of an enhancer region of the galanin gene that directs expression to the dorsal root ganglion and confers responsiveness to axotomy.

Wavelet and multiwavelet watermarking (2007)
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Serdean, C., Ibrahim, M., Moemeni, A., & Al-Akaidi, M. (2007). Wavelet and multiwavelet watermarking. IET Image Processing, 1(2), 223-230. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-ipr%3A20060214

The main objective of the paper is to provide a like-with-like performance comparison between the wavelet domain and the multiwavelet domain watermarking, under a variety of attacks. The investigation is restricted to balanced multiwavelets. Furtherm... Read More about Wavelet and multiwavelet watermarking.

Bone mineral density, polyphenols and caffeine: a reassessment (2007)
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Dew, T. P., Day, A. J., & Morgan, M. R. A. (2007). Bone mineral density, polyphenols and caffeine: a reassessment. Nutrition Research Reviews, 20(1), 89-105. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954422407738805

Several studies have shown beneficial associations between tea consumption and bone mineral density (BMD) and fracture risk. Current investigations into potential mechanisms of benefit are focused upon the F and polyphenol components of tea. However,... Read More about Bone mineral density, polyphenols and caffeine: a reassessment.

Effect of maternal dietary restriction during pregnancy on lamb carcass characteristics and muscle fiber composition (2007)
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Daniel, Z. C., Brameld, J. M., Craigon, J., Scollan, N. D., & Buttery, P. J. (2007). Effect of maternal dietary restriction during pregnancy on lamb carcass characteristics and muscle fiber composition. Journal of Animal Science, 85(6), 1565-1576. https://doi.org/10.2527/jas.2006-743

Two experiments were conducted to determine whether the decreased proportion of fast muscle fibers seen previously in 2-wk-old lambs from ewes that were dietary restricted from d 30 to 70 of gestation are still evident in older lambs and what the con... Read More about Effect of maternal dietary restriction during pregnancy on lamb carcass characteristics and muscle fiber composition.