Transgenic Anopheles gambiae expressing an antimalarial peptide suffer no significant fitness cost

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Rapidly varying A-type stars in the SuperWASP archive (2014)
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Smalley. (2014). Rapidly varying A-type stars in the SuperWASP archive. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 423- 424. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921313014865

The searches for transiting exoplanets have produced a vast amount of time-resolved photometric data of many millions of stars. One of the leading ground-based surveys is the SuperWASP project. We present the initial results of a survey of over 1.5 m... Read More about Rapidly varying A-type stars in the SuperWASP archive.

High-frequency A-type pulsators discovered using SuperWASP(star)dagger (2014)
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Holdsworth, D. L., Smalley, B., Gillon, M., Clubb, K. I., Southworth, J., Maxted, P. F. L., …Wheatley, P. J. (2014). High-frequency A-type pulsators discovered using SuperWASP(star)dagger. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 439(2), 2078 - 2095. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu094

We present the results of a survey using the WASP archive to search for high-frequency pulsations in F-, A- and B-type stars. Over 1.5 million targets have been searched for pulsations with amplitudes greater than 0.5 millimagnitude. We identify over... Read More about High-frequency A-type pulsators discovered using SuperWASP(star)dagger.

The screening and diagnosis of cystic fibrosis-related diabetes in the United Kingdom (2014)
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Wickens-Mitchell, K. L., Gilchrist, F. J., McKenna, D., Raffeeq, P., & Lenney, W. (2014). The screening and diagnosis of cystic fibrosis-related diabetes in the United Kingdom. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, 13(5), 589-592. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcf.2014.01.008

Introduction The cystic fibrosis-related diabetes (CFRD) guidelines produced by the UK CF Trust differ from those used in Europe and the US. We conducted a study to establish current practice. Method Paediatric and adult questionnaires were devi... Read More about The screening and diagnosis of cystic fibrosis-related diabetes in the United Kingdom.

Outcomes in patients with acute and stable coronary syndromes: insights from the prospective NOBORI-2 study (2014)
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Mamas. (2014). Outcomes in patients with acute and stable coronary syndromes: insights from the prospective NOBORI-2 study. PloS one, e88577 -?. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088577

BACKGROUND: Contemporary data remains limited regarding mortality and major adverse cardiac events (MACE) outcomes in patients undergoing PCI for different manifestations of coronary artery disease. OBJECTIVES: We evaluated mortality and MACE outcome... Read More about Outcomes in patients with acute and stable coronary syndromes: insights from the prospective NOBORI-2 study.

Predictors of New-Onset Widespread Pain in Older Adults Results From a Population-Based Prospective Cohort Study in the UK (2014)
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McBeth, J., Lacey, R. J., & Wilkie, R. (2014). Predictors of New-Onset Widespread Pain in Older Adults Results From a Population-Based Prospective Cohort Study in the UK. Arthritis and Rheumatology, 66(3), 757-767. https://doi.org/10.1002/art.38284

The health profile of football/soccer players in Northern Ireland – a review of the uefa pre-participation medical screening procedure (2014)
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Heron. (2014). The health profile of football/soccer players in Northern Ireland – a review of the uefa pre-participation medical screening procedure. BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation, https://doi.org/10.1186/2052-1847-6-5

Background It is compulsory that domestic football/soccer teams in UEFA competitions organise players’ pre-participation medicals. Although screening guidelines have been established, these remain controversial. The findings of medical examinations... Read More about The health profile of football/soccer players in Northern Ireland – a review of the uefa pre-participation medical screening procedure.

Major bleeding after percutaneous coronary intervention and risk of subsequent mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (2014)
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Mamas, M., & Nolan, J. (2014). Major bleeding after percutaneous coronary intervention and risk of subsequent mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Open Heart, e000021 -?. https://doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2013-000021

OBJECTIVES: To examine the relationship between periprocedural bleeding complications and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) and mortality outcomes following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and study differences in the prognostic im... Read More about Major bleeding after percutaneous coronary intervention and risk of subsequent mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis..

Orbital solutions of eight close sdB binaries and constraints on the nature of the unseen companions (2014)
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Geier, S., Østensen, R. H., Heber, U., Kupfer, T., Maxted, P. F. L., Barlow, B. N., …McLeod, A. F. (2014). Orbital solutions of eight close sdB binaries and constraints on the nature of the unseen companions. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 562, A95. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201323115

The project Massive Unseen Companions to Hot Faint Underluminous Stars from SDSS (MUCHFUSS) aims at finding hot subdwarf stars (sdBs) with massive compact companions such as white dwarfs, neutron stars, or stellar-mass black holes. In a supplementary... Read More about Orbital solutions of eight close sdB binaries and constraints on the nature of the unseen companions.

A heparin-like glycosaminoglycan from shrimp containing high levels of 3-O-sulfated D-glucosamine groups in an unusual trisaccharide sequence (2014)
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Chavante, S., Brito, A., Lima, M., Yates, E., Nader, H., Guerrini, M., …Bisio, A. (2014). A heparin-like glycosaminoglycan from shrimp containing high levels of 3-O-sulfated D-glucosamine groups in an unusual trisaccharide sequence. Carbohydrate Research, 390, 59--66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carres.2014.03.002

How context information and target information guide the eyes from the first epoch of search in real-world scenes. (2014)
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(2014). How context information and target information guide the eyes from the first epoch of search in real-world scenes. Journal of Vision, https://doi.org/10.1167/14.2.7

This study investigated how the visual system utilizes context and task information during the different phases of a visual search task. The specificity of the target template (the picture or the name of the target) and the plausibility of target pos... Read More about How context information and target information guide the eyes from the first epoch of search in real-world scenes..

Ultraviolet-excess sources with a red/infrared counterpart: low-mass companions, debris discs and QSO selection (2014)
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Wright, N. J. (2014). Ultraviolet-excess sources with a red/infrared counterpart: low-mass companions, debris discs and QSO selection. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2-13. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1492

We present the result of the cross-matching between ultraviolet (UV)-excess sources selected from the UV-Excess Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane (UVEX) and several infrared (IR) surveys (2MASS, UKIDSS and WISE). From the position in the (J - H)... Read More about Ultraviolet-excess sources with a red/infrared counterpart: low-mass companions, debris discs and QSO selection.

Normal A0-A1 stars with low rotational velocities I. Abundance determination and classification (2014)
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Smalley. (2014). Normal A0-A1 stars with low rotational velocities I. Abundance determination and classification. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322762

Context. The study of rotational velocity distributions for normal stars requires an accurate spectral characterization of the objects in order to avoid polluting the results with undetected binary or peculiar stars. This piece of information is a ke... Read More about Normal A0-A1 stars with low rotational velocities I. Abundance determination and classification.

Normal A0-A1 stars with low v sin i (2014)
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Smalley. (2014). Normal A0-A1 stars with low v sin i. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 265 - 269. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322762

Context. The study of rotational velocity distributions for normal stars requires an accurate spectral characterization of the objects in order to avoid polluting the results with undetected binary or peculiar stars. This piece of information is a ke... Read More about Normal A0-A1 stars with low v sin i.

Extending the role of peritoneal dialysis: can we win hearts and minds? (2014)
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Davies, S., Lally, F., Satchithananda, D., Kadam, U., & Roffe, C. (2014). Extending the role of peritoneal dialysis: can we win hearts and minds?. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 29(9), 1648-1654. https://doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gfu001

Background The ability of peritoneal dialysis (PD) to achieve low-molecular weight solute clearance and ultrafiltration at low haemodynamic cost makes it an attractive therapy in situations where more aggressive therapy may be undesirable due to sud... Read More about Extending the role of peritoneal dialysis: can we win hearts and minds?.

Reconstruction of Northern Hemisphere 1950-2010 atmospheric non-methane hydrocarbons (2014)
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(2014). Reconstruction of Northern Hemisphere 1950-2010 atmospheric non-methane hydrocarbons. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 1463 - 1483. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-1463-2014

The short-chain non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC) are mostly emitted into the atmosphere by anthropogenic processes. Recent studies have pointed out a tight linkage between the atmospheric mole fractions of the NMHC ethane and the atmospheric growth ra... Read More about Reconstruction of Northern Hemisphere 1950-2010 atmospheric non-methane hydrocarbons.

Volatile (H2O, CO2, Cl, S) budget of the Central American subduction zone (2014)
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Frische, M., Rabbel, W., Hansteen, T., Hensen, C., Wehrmann, H., Kutterolf, S., …Grevemeyer, I. (2014). Volatile (H2O, CO2, Cl, S) budget of the Central American subduction zone. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2101 -2127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-014-1001-1

After more than a decade of multidisciplinary studies of the Central American subduction zone mainly in the framework of two large research programmes, the US MARGINS program and the German Collaborative Research Center SFB 574, we here review and in... Read More about Volatile (H2O, CO2, Cl, S) budget of the Central American subduction zone.

Feeding and metabolic consequences of scheduled consumption of large, binge-type meals of high fat diet in the Sprague–Dawley rat (2014)
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Bake, T., Morgan, D., & Mercer, J. (2014). Feeding and metabolic consequences of scheduled consumption of large, binge-type meals of high fat diet in the Sprague–Dawley rat. Physiology and Behavior, 128, 70-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.01.018

Providing rats and mice with access to palatable high fat diets for a short period each day induces the consumption of substantial binge-like meals. Temporal food intake structure (assessed using the TSE PhenoMaster/LabMaster system) and metabolic ou... Read More about Feeding and metabolic consequences of scheduled consumption of large, binge-type meals of high fat diet in the Sprague–Dawley rat.

Extreme infrared variables from UKIDSS – I. A concentration in star-forming regions (2014)
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Contreras Peña, C., Lucas, P. W., Froebrich, D., Kumar, M. S. N., Goldstein, J., Drew, J. E., …Wright, N. J. (2014). Extreme infrared variables from UKIDSS – I. A concentration in star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 439(2), 1829-1854. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu063

We present initial results of the first panoramic search for high-amplitude near-infrared variability in the Galactic plane. We analyse the widely separated two-epoch K-band photometry in the fifth and seventh data releases of the UKIDSS Galactic pla... Read More about Extreme infrared variables from UKIDSS – I. A concentration in star-forming regions.

Quantifying the Temperature of Maggot Masses and its Relationship to Decomposition (2014)
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Heaton, V., Moffatt, C., & Simmons, T. (2014). Quantifying the Temperature of Maggot Masses and its Relationship to Decomposition. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 59(3), 676-682. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.12396

Numerous Calliphoridae species have been observed to form larval aggregations during the feeding stage of development, resulting in localized increases in temperature. This study investigates the relationship between maggot numbers in a mass and heat... Read More about Quantifying the Temperature of Maggot Masses and its Relationship to Decomposition.

Transgenic Anopheles gambiae expressing an antimalarial peptide suffer no significant fitness cost (2014)
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(2014). Transgenic Anopheles gambiae expressing an antimalarial peptide suffer no significant fitness cost. PloS one, e88625 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088625

Mosquito-borne diseases present some of the greatest health challenges faced by the world today. In many cases, existing control measures are compromised by insecticide resistance, pathogen tolerance to drugs and the lack of effective vaccines. In li... Read More about Transgenic Anopheles gambiae expressing an antimalarial peptide suffer no significant fitness cost.

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