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Examination of myosin heavy chain isoform expression in ovine skeletal muscles (2009)
Journal Article

The contractile and associated metabolic characteristics of muscles are determined by their myosin heavy chain (MHC) isoform expression. In large mammals, the level of MHCIIB expression, which is associated with fast glycolytic-type muscle fibers, ha... Read More about Examination of myosin heavy chain isoform expression in ovine skeletal muscles.

Heuristic approach for automated shelf space allocation (2009)
Conference Proceeding

Shelf space allocation is the problem of efficiently arranging retail products on shelves in order to maximise profit, improve stock control, improve customer satisfaction, etc. Most work reported in the literature on this problem has focused on the... Read More about Heuristic approach for automated shelf space allocation.

Health, hygiene and biosecurity: tribal knowledge claims in the UK poultry industry (2009)
Journal Article

Since 1997 the world has been facing the threat of a human influenza pandemic that may be caused by an avian virus and the poultry industry around the globe has been grappling with the highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza H5N1, or in more info... Read More about Health, hygiene and biosecurity: tribal knowledge claims in the UK poultry industry.

Second-order elliptic PDE with discontinuous boundary data (2009)
Journal Article

We shall consider the weak formulation of a linear elliptic model problem with discontinuous Dirichlet boundary conditions. Since such problems are typically not well-defined in the standard H^1-H^1 setting, we will introduce a suitable saddle point... Read More about Second-order elliptic PDE with discontinuous boundary data.

The enriched opportunities programme: a cluster randomised controlled trial of a new approach to living with dementia and other mental health issues in ExtraCare housing schemes and villages (2009)
Book

Abdominal haemorrhage and exercise-associated deaths in greyhounds (2009)
Journal Article

Prokineticin 2 is a hypothalamic neuropeptide that potently inhibits food intake (2009)
Journal Article

OBJECTIVE-Prokineticin 2 (PK2) is a hypothalamic neuropeptide expressed in central nervous system areas known to be involved in food intake. We therefore hypothesized that PK2 plays a role in energy homeostasis. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS - We inves... Read More about Prokineticin 2 is a hypothalamic neuropeptide that potently inhibits food intake.

Governing prostitution in colonial Delhi: from cantonment regulations to international hygiene (1864-1939) (2009)
Journal Article

This article explores the social and governmental geographies of colonial Delhi, India. It seeks contrasts and comparisons between two periods in the city's history. The first period is delimited by the ‘Mutiny’ of 1857 and the transfer of the capita... Read More about Governing prostitution in colonial Delhi: from cantonment regulations to international hygiene (1864-1939).

The future of tuberculosis vaccinology (2009)
Book Chapter

© 2006 by Taylor and Francis Group, LLC. The outcome of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis is crucially dependent on the immune response of the host. Most individuals mount a response that is sufficient to prevent progression to disease but ma... Read More about The future of tuberculosis vaccinology.

Graduate entry to medicine: widening psychological diversity (2009)
Journal Article

Abstract Background: At Nottingham University more than 95% of entrants to the traditional 5-year medical course are school leavers. Since 2003 we have admitted graduate entrants (GEM) to a shortened (4-year) course to 'widen access to students from... Read More about Graduate entry to medicine: widening psychological diversity.

A DNA Nanostructure for the Functional Assembly of Chemical Groups with Tunable Stoichiometry and Defined Nanoscale Geometry (2009)
Journal Article

Investigating participation in Advanced level mathematics: a study of student drop out (2009)
Journal Article

There has for some years been a growing concern about participation in university-entrance level mathematics in England and across the developed world. Extensive statistical analyses present the decline but offer little to help us understand the cau... Read More about Investigating participation in Advanced level mathematics: a study of student drop out.

Evolutionary non-linear great deluge for university course timetabling (2009)
Book Chapter

This paper presents a hybrid evolutionary algorithm to tackle university course timetabling problems. The proposed approach is an extension of a non-linear great deluge algorithm in which evolutionary operators are incorporated. First, we generate a... Read More about Evolutionary non-linear great deluge for university course timetabling.

The human papillomavirus E7-E2 interaction mechanism in vitro reveals a finely turned system for modulating available E7 and E2 proteins (2009)
Journal Article

Transcription of the human papillomavirus E7 oncoprotein is negatively controlled by the viral E2 protein, and loss of this repression leads to irreversible transformation and carcinogenesis. Here we show that interaction of the HPV16 E7 protein with... Read More about The human papillomavirus E7-E2 interaction mechanism in vitro reveals a finely turned system for modulating available E7 and E2 proteins.

Architecture and distribution of human corneal nerves (2009)
Journal Article

Trading Auntie: the exploitation and protection of intellectual property rights during the BBC’s monopoly years (2009)
Journal Article

Most histories of British television date the emergence of a trade in programming to the mid- to late-1950s when recording technologies turned previously ephemeral programmes into exchangeable goods and ITV brought a commercial impetus to British bro... Read More about Trading Auntie: the exploitation and protection of intellectual property rights during the BBC’s monopoly years.

Interconversion of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale and Scandinavian Stroke Scale in acute stroke (2009)
Journal Article

Reading through photography: Roland Barthes’s last seminar “Proust et la photographie” (2009)
Journal Article

Focused on Roland Barthes’s notes for the last seminar of his Collège de France lecture series, entitled “Proust et la photographie,” this article considers the later Barthes’s conceptions of reading and writing, arguing that they are closely intertw... Read More about Reading through photography: Roland Barthes’s last seminar “Proust et la photographie”.

Vitamin D - a new treatment for airway remodelling in asthma? (2009)
Journal Article

Increased airway smooth muscle (ASM) mass plays a critical role in chronic asthmatic airway remodelling. ASM cell hypertrophy and hyperplasia are likely to contribute to increased ASM mass and a variety of mitogens induce ASM proliferation in cell cu... Read More about Vitamin D - a new treatment for airway remodelling in asthma?.

Eucharistic celebrations: the chasm between idea and action (2009)
Journal Article

The two changes (1, a new rite; and 2. the move to the vernacular) that occurred in the eucharistic liturgy of the Roman Rite have often been seen as simply evolutionary, liturgical variations: this perception suited that time of great change in the... Read More about Eucharistic celebrations: the chasm between idea and action.