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Is cancer associated with polymyalgia rheumatica?: A cohort study in the General Practice Research Database (2014)
Journal Article
Muller, S., Hider, S. L., Belcher, J., Helliwell, T., & Mallen, C. D. (2014). Is cancer associated with polymyalgia rheumatica?: A cohort study in the General Practice Research Database. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 73(10), 1769 -1773. https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-203465

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the incidence of new cancer diagnoses in a community sample of patients with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR). METHODS: All incident cases of PMR in the UK General Practice Research Database (GPRD) (1987-99), without pre-existin... Read More about Is cancer associated with polymyalgia rheumatica?: A cohort study in the General Practice Research Database.

BacillusRegNet: a transcriptional regulation database and analysis platform for Bacillus species. (2014)
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Röttger, R., Baumbach, J., Wipat, A., Misirli, G., & Hallinan, J. (2014). BacillusRegNet: a transcriptional regulation database and analysis platform for Bacillus species. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, 244 - ?. https://doi.org/10.2390/biecoll-jib-2014-244

As high-throughput technologies become cheaper and easier to use, raw sequence data and corresponding annotations for many organisms are becoming available. However, sequence data alone is not sufficient to explain the biological behaviour of organis... Read More about BacillusRegNet: a transcriptional regulation database and analysis platform for Bacillus species..

Improving the transparency of prognosis research: the role of reporting, data sharing, registration, and protocols (2014)
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Peat, G., Riley, R. D., Croft, P., Morley, K. I., Kyzas, P. A., Moons, K. G., …van der Windt, D. (2014). Improving the transparency of prognosis research: the role of reporting, data sharing, registration, and protocols. PLoS Medicine, e1001671 -?. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001671

Prognosis research is concerned with predicting outcomes to make health care more effective. It has a crucial role to play in clinical and policy decision-making. The quality of much prognosis research is poor, evidenced by incomplete reporting, poor... Read More about Improving the transparency of prognosis research: the role of reporting, data sharing, registration, and protocols.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: the Galactic thick to thin disc transition (2014)
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Recio-Blanco, A., de Laverny, P., Kordopatis, G., Helmi, A., Hill, V., Gilmore, G., …Maiorca, E. (2014). The Gaia-ESO Survey: the Galactic thick to thin disc transition. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 567, Article A5. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322944

Aims. The nature of the thick disc and its relation to the thin disc is presently an important subject of debate. In fact, the structural and chemo-dynamical transition between disc populations can be used as a test of the proposed models of Galactic... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: the Galactic thick to thin disc transition.

Using Fourier transform IR spectroscopy to analyze biological materials (2014)
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Baker, M. J., Trevisan, J., Bassan, P., Bhargava, R., Butler, H. J., Dorling, K. M., …Martin, F. L. (2014). Using Fourier transform IR spectroscopy to analyze biological materials. Nature Protocols, 9(8), 1771-1791. https://doi.org/10.1038/nprot.2014.110

IR spectroscopy is an excellent method for biological analyses. It enables the nonperturbative, label-free extraction of biochemical information and images toward diagnosis and the assessment of cell functionality. Although not strictly microscopy in... Read More about Using Fourier transform IR spectroscopy to analyze biological materials.

From isolation and dependence to autonomy – expectations before and experiences after cochlear implantation in adult cochlear implant users and their significant others (2014)
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Mäki-Torkko, E. M., Vestergren, S., Harder, H., & Lyxell, B. (2015). From isolation and dependence to autonomy – expectations before and experiences after cochlear implantation in adult cochlear implant users and their significant others. Disability and Rehabilitation, 37(6), 541-547. https://doi.org/10.3109/09638288.2014.935490

The aim of the study was to examine pre-operative expectations and the post-operative experiences related to cochlear implants (CI) in CI-users and their significant others.

Experiences of UK health‐care services for people with Multiple Sclerosis: a systematic narrative review (2014)
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Methley, A. M., Chew‐Graham, C., Campbell, S., & Cheraghi‐Sohi, S. (2015). Experiences of UK health‐care services for people with Multiple Sclerosis: a systematic narrative review. Health Expectations, 18(6), 1844-1855. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12228

Background
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, degenerative condition with an estimated UK prevalence of 100 000. Contact with health-care services is frequent and long-term; however, little research has investigated the experiences of health care... Read More about Experiences of UK health‐care services for people with Multiple Sclerosis: a systematic narrative review.

Mouse GDF9 decreases KITL gene expression in human granulosa cells (2014)
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Tuck, A. R., Mottershead, D. G., Fernandes, H. A., Norman, R. J., Tilley, W. D., Robker, R. L., & Hickey, T. E. (2015). Mouse GDF9 decreases KITL gene expression in human granulosa cells. Endocrine, 48(2), 686-695. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12020-014-0335-6

Kit ligand (KITL) is an important granulosa cell-derived growth factor in ovarian folliculogenesis, but its expression and function in human granulosa cells are currently poorly understood. Based on studies performed in animal models, it was hypothes... Read More about Mouse GDF9 decreases KITL gene expression in human granulosa cells.

A Novel Experience in Crime Narrative: Watching and Reading The Killing (2014)
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Archer. (2014). A Novel Experience in Crime Narrative: Watching and Reading The Killing. Adaptation, https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apu008

This essay will consider the adaptation of series one of the Danish television serial Forbrydelsen / The Killing (2007) into David Hewson’s novel The Killing (2012). Considering the television show through theoretical paradigms of contemporary long-f... Read More about A Novel Experience in Crime Narrative: Watching and Reading The Killing.

Feasibility trial of GP and case-managed support for workplace sickness absence. (2014)
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(2014). Feasibility trial of GP and case-managed support for workplace sickness absence. Primary Health Care Research & Development, 252 - 261. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1463423613000133

UNLABELLED: Aim Our aim was to compare the return-to-work rates between individuals supported by their GP plus workplace health advisers (intervention group) and those supported by their GP alone. BACKGROUND: Workplace sickness absence places a signi... Read More about Feasibility trial of GP and case-managed support for workplace sickness absence..

A balanced judgement? Performance indicators, quality and the English ambulance service; some issues, developments and a research agenda (2014)
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(2014). A balanced judgement? Performance indicators, quality and the English ambulance service; some issues, developments and a research agenda

A significant feature of the 'New Public Management' has been the particular emphasis it placed on public sector organisations measuring their performance. However, in practice, this has often been carried out in ways which proved dysfunctional: for... Read More about A balanced judgement? Performance indicators, quality and the English ambulance service; some issues, developments and a research agenda.

Potential of social media to determine hay fever seasons and drug efficacy (2014)
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Kyriacou, & De Quincey. (2014). Potential of social media to determine hay fever seasons and drug efficacy

This working paper describes an exploratory study that has collected and analysed over 130,000 UK geolocated tweets from June 2012 to April 2013 that contained instances of the words “hayfever” and “hay fever”. Preliminary results indicate that the t... Read More about Potential of social media to determine hay fever seasons and drug efficacy.

Does the gender of the bully/victim dyad and the type of bullying influence children's responses to a bullying incident? (2014)
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Fox, C. L., Jones, S. E., Stiff, C. E., & Sayers, J. (2014). Does the gender of the bully/victim dyad and the type of bullying influence children's responses to a bullying incident?. Aggressive behavior, 359 - 368. https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.21529

Children's responses to bullying are context related; they will vary depending on the specific bullying episode. The aim of the present study was to explore whether children's responses to bullying vary depending on the gender of the bully and victim... Read More about Does the gender of the bully/victim dyad and the type of bullying influence children's responses to a bullying incident?.

Plasma and urine neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin in the diagnosis of new onset acute kidney injury in critically ill patients (2014)
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(2014). Plasma and urine neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin in the diagnosis of new onset acute kidney injury in critically ill patients. Critical Care, R137 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1186/cc13958

INTRODUCTION: Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) has been demonstrated to be a useful early diagnostic biomarker of acute kidney injury (AKI) where the timing of the insult is certain. However, NGAL is not well validated in adult criti... Read More about Plasma and urine neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin in the diagnosis of new onset acute kidney injury in critically ill patients.

The effect of star-spots on the ages of low-mass stars determined from the lithium depletion boundary (2014)
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Jackson, R. J., & Jeffries, R. D. (2014). The effect of star-spots on the ages of low-mass stars determined from the lithium depletion boundary. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 445(4), 2111-2123. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2076

In a coeval group of low-mass stars, the luminosity of the sharp transition between stars that retain their initial lithium and those at slightly higher masses in which Li has been depleted by nuclear reactions, the lithium depletion boundary (LDB),... Read More about The effect of star-spots on the ages of low-mass stars determined from the lithium depletion boundary.

A study of the effect of seasonal climatic factors on the electrical resistivity response of three experimental graves (2014)
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Pringle, J. K., & Jervis, J. R. (2014). A study of the effect of seasonal climatic factors on the electrical resistivity response of three experimental graves. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 108, 53 -60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2014.06.008

Electrical resistivity surveys have proven useful for locating clandestine graves in a number of forensic searches. However, some aspects of grave detection with resistivity surveys remain imperfectly understood. One such aspect is the effect of seas... Read More about A study of the effect of seasonal climatic factors on the electrical resistivity response of three experimental graves.