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Ethnobiology: The missing link in ecology and evolution (2012)
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Saslis-Lagoudakis, C. H., & Clarke, A. C. (2013). Ethnobiology: The missing link in ecology and evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 28(2), 67-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2012.10.017

Evolutionary biologists and ecologists increasingly appreciate the value of local knowledge of human communities for research into the past, present, and future of biodiversity. However, there are often significant problems accessing and interpreting... Read More about Ethnobiology: The missing link in ecology and evolution.

Inclusion in a South African high school? Reporting and reflecting on what learners say (2012)
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Walton, E. (2013). Inclusion in a South African high school? Reporting and reflecting on what learners say. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 17(11), 1171-1185. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2012.742577

A concern with formal and epistemological access to schools can neglect the importance of access to the informal school and the friendships and sense of belonging that this implies. Despite the challenges of voice research, listening to what young pe... Read More about Inclusion in a South African high school? Reporting and reflecting on what learners say.

Herbert Hill and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (2012)
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Phelps, C. (2012). Herbert Hill and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Labor History, 53(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2012.732757

This article points to previously undetected evidence demonstrating that Herbert Hill, labor director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from the 1950s to the 1970s, informed for the Federal Bureau of Investigat... Read More about Herbert Hill and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Primary liver cancer incidence and survival in ethnic groups in England, 2001-2007 (2012)
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Jack, R. H., Konfortion, J., Coupland, V. H., Kocher, H. M., Berry, D. P., Allum, W., Linklater, K. M., & Møller, H. (2013). Primary liver cancer incidence and survival in ethnic groups in England, 2001-2007. Cancer Epidemiology, 37(1), 34-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2012.10.008

Background: The patterns of primary liver cancer incidence and survival are not known for detailed ethnic groups within the UK.

Methods: Data on patients resident in England diagnosed with primary liver cancer (ICD-10 C22) between 2001 and 2007 w... Read More about Primary liver cancer incidence and survival in ethnic groups in England, 2001-2007.

Bridging the gap: bitopic ligands of G-protein-coupled receptors (2012)
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Lane, J. R., Sexton, P. M., & Christopoulos, A. (2013). Bridging the gap: bitopic ligands of G-protein-coupled receptors. Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, 34(1), 59-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tips.2012.10.003

Although classical approaches to G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) drug design have targeted the orthosteric binding site, potentially all GPCRs possess druggable allosteric sites. In addition, it is clear that GPCRs can adopt multiple active states... Read More about Bridging the gap: bitopic ligands of G-protein-coupled receptors.

Clusterin regulates beta-amyloid toxicity via Dickkopf-1-driven induction of the wnt-PCP-JNK pathway (2012)
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Killick, R., Ribe, E. M., Al-Shawi, R., Malik, B., Hooper, C., Fernandes, C., Dobson, R., Nolan, P. M., LOURDUSAMY, A., Furney, S., Lin, K., Breen, G., Wroe, R., To, A. .., Leroy, K., Causevic, M., Usardi, A., Robinson, M., Noble, W., Williamson, R., …Lovestone, S. (2014). Clusterin regulates beta-amyloid toxicity via Dickkopf-1-driven induction of the wnt-PCP-JNK pathway. Molecular Psychiatry, 19(1), 88-98. https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2012.163

Although the mechanism of Abaction in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has remained elusive, it is known to increasethe expression of the antagonist of canonical wnt signalling, Dickkopf-1 (Dkk1), whereas the silencing ofDkk1blocks Abneur... Read More about Clusterin regulates beta-amyloid toxicity via Dickkopf-1-driven induction of the wnt-PCP-JNK pathway.

Leukotriene B4 receptor locus gene characterisation and association studies in asthma (2012)
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Tulah, A. S., Beghé, B., Barton, S. J., Holloway, J. W., & Sayers, I. (2012). Leukotriene B4 receptor locus gene characterisation and association studies in asthma. BMC Medical Genetics, 13(Novemb), Article 11. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2350-13-110

Background: Polymorphisms spanning genes involved in the production of leukotriene B4 (LTB4) e.g. ALOX5AP and
LTA4H are associated with asthma susceptibility, suggesting a role for LTB4 in disease. The contribution of LTB4
receptor polymorphism is... Read More about Leukotriene B4 receptor locus gene characterisation and association studies in asthma.

Adaptation for protein synthesis efficiency in a naturally occurring self-regulating operon (2012)
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Herman, D., Thomas, C. M., & Steke, D. J. (2012). Adaptation for protein synthesis efficiency in a naturally occurring self-regulating operon. PLoS ONE, 7(11), Article e49678. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049678

The korAB operon in RK2 plasmids is a beautiful natural example of a negatively and cooperatively self-regulating operon. It has been particularly well characterized both experimentally and with mathematical models. We have carried out a detailed inv... Read More about Adaptation for protein synthesis efficiency in a naturally occurring self-regulating operon.

p63 the guardian of human reproduction (2012)
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Amelio, I., Grespi, F., Annicchiarico-Petruzzelli, M., & Melino, G. (2012). p63 the guardian of human reproduction. Cell Cycle, 11(24), 4545-4551. https://doi.org/10.4161/cc.22819

p63 is a transcriptional factor implicated in cancer and development. The presence in TP63 gene of alternative promoters allows expression of one isoform containing the N-terminal transactivation domain (TA isoform) and one N-terminal truncated isofo... Read More about p63 the guardian of human reproduction.

PASCal: a principal axis strain calculator for thermal expansion and compressibility determination (2012)
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Cliffe, M. J., & Goodwin, A. L. (2012). PASCal: a principal axis strain calculator for thermal expansion and compressibility determination. Journal of Applied Crystallography, 45(6), 1321-1329. https://doi.org/10.1107/s0021889812043026

This article describes a web-based tool (PASCal; principal axis strain calculator; http://pascal.chem.ox.ac.uk) designed to simplify the determination of principal coefficients of thermal expansion and compressibilities from variable-temperature and... Read More about PASCal: a principal axis strain calculator for thermal expansion and compressibility determination.

Heart rate variability and target organ damage in hypertensive patients (2012)
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Melillo, P., Izzo, R., De Luca, N., & Pecchia, L. (2012). Heart rate variability and target organ damage in hypertensive patients. BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 12(Novemb), Article 11. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2261-12-105

Background
We evaluated the association between linear standard Heart Rate Variability (HRV) measures and vascular, renal and cardiac target organ damage (TOD).

Methods
A retrospective analysis was performed including 200 patients registered in... Read More about Heart rate variability and target organ damage in hypertensive patients.

Next generation sequencing of CLU, PICALM and CR1: pitfalls and potential solutions (2012)
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Lord, J., Turton, J., Medway, C., Shi, H., Brown, K., Lowe, J., Mann, D., Pickering-Brown, S., Kalsheker, N., Passmore, P., & Morgan, K. (2012). Next generation sequencing of CLU, PICALM and CR1: pitfalls and potential solutions. International Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Genetics, IJMEG, 3(4),

CLU, PICALM and CR1 were identified as genetic risk factors for late onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in two large genome wide association studies (GWAS) published in 2009, but the variants that convey this alteration in disease risk, and how the genes... Read More about Next generation sequencing of CLU, PICALM and CR1: pitfalls and potential solutions.

Calibrated BOLD using direct measurement of changes in venous oxygenation (2012)
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Driver, I. D., Hall, E. L., Wharton, S. J., Pritchard, S. E., Francis, S. T., & Gowland, P. A. (2012). Calibrated BOLD using direct measurement of changes in venous oxygenation. NeuroImage, 63(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.08.045

Calibration of the BOLD signal is potentially of great value in providing a closer measure of the underlying changes in brain function related to neuronal activity than the BOLD signal alone, but current approaches rely on an assumed relationship bet... Read More about Calibrated BOLD using direct measurement of changes in venous oxygenation.

Contribution of large scale biases in decoding of direction-of-motion from high-resolution fMRI data in human early visual cortex (2012)
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Beckett, A., Peirce, J., Sanchez-Panchuelo, R.-M., Francis, S., & Schluppeck, D. (2012). Contribution of large scale biases in decoding of direction-of-motion from high-resolution fMRI data in human early visual cortex. NeuroImage, 63(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.07.066

Previous studies have demonstrated that the perceived direction of motion of a visual stimulus can be decoded from the pattern of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) responses in occipital cortex using multivariate analysis methods (Kamitani... Read More about Contribution of large scale biases in decoding of direction-of-motion from high-resolution fMRI data in human early visual cortex.

Transient serum exposure regimes to support dual differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells (2012)
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France, L., Scotchford, C., Grant, D., Rashidi, H., Popov, A., & Sottile, V. (2014). Transient serum exposure regimes to support dual differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells. Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 8(8), https://doi.org/10.1002/term.1567

Human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), which can generate both osteoblasts and chondrocytes, represent an ideal resource for orthopaedic repair using tissue-engineering approaches. One major difficulty for the development of osteochondral constructs us... Read More about Transient serum exposure regimes to support dual differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells.

Implications of regional surface ozone increases on visibility degradation in southeast China (2012)
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Lin, M., Chan, I.-N., Chan, C.-Y., Engling, G., & Bloss, W. (in press). Implications of regional surface ozone increases on visibility degradation in southeast China. Tellus B, 64(1), Article 19625. https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v64i0.19625

Long-term visibility (1968–2010) and air pollutant (1984–2010) data records in Hong Kong reveal that the occurrence of reduced visibility (RV, defined as the percentage of hours per month with visibility below 8 km in the absence of rain, fog, mist o... Read More about Implications of regional surface ozone increases on visibility degradation in southeast China.

Sexual cognition guides viewing strategies to human figures (2012)
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Hall, C. L., Hogue, T., & Guo, K. (2014). Sexual cognition guides viewing strategies to human figures. Journal of Sex Research, 51(2), 184-196. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2012.716872

Gaze patterns to figure images have been proposed to reflect the observer's sexual interest, particularly for men. This eye-tracking study investigated how individual differences in sexual motivation tendencies are manifested in naturalistic gaze pat... Read More about Sexual cognition guides viewing strategies to human figures.

Prospects for detecting the 21 cm forest from the diffuse intergalactic medium with LOFAR (2012)
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Ciardi, B., Labropoulos, P., Maselli, A., Thomas, R., Zaroubi, S., Graziani, L., Bolton, J. S., Bernardi, G., Brentjens, M., de Bruyn, A. G., Daiboo, S., Harker, G. J. A., Jelic, V., Kazemi, S., Koopmans, L. V. E., Martinez, O., Mellema, G., Offringa, A. R., Pandey, V. N., Schaye, J., …Yatawatta, S. (2013). Prospects for detecting the 21 cm forest from the diffuse intergalactic medium with LOFAR. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 428(2), 1755-1765. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sts156

We discuss the feasibility of the detection of the 21 cm forest in the diffuse intergalactic medium (IGM) with the radio telescope LOFAR. The optical depth to the 21 cm line has been derived using simulations of reionization which include detailed ra... Read More about Prospects for detecting the 21 cm forest from the diffuse intergalactic medium with LOFAR.