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Coxiella burnetii (Q-Fever) Seroprevalence in Prey and Predators in the United Kingdom: Evaluation of Infection in Wild Rodents, Foxes and Domestic Cats Using a Modified ELISA. (2014)
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Meredith, A., Cleaveland, S., Denwood, M., Brown, J., & Shaw, D. (2015). Coxiella burnetii (Q-Fever) Seroprevalence in Prey and Predators in the United Kingdom: Evaluation of Infection in Wild Rodents, Foxes and Domestic Cats Using a Modified ELISA. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 62, 639-649. https://doi.org/10.1111/tbed.12211

Coxiella burnetii, the agent of Q-fever, is recognized as a worldwide zoonosis with a wide host range and potentially complex reservoir systems. Infected ruminants are the main source of infection for humans, but cats and other mammals, including wil... Read More about Coxiella burnetii (Q-Fever) Seroprevalence in Prey and Predators in the United Kingdom: Evaluation of Infection in Wild Rodents, Foxes and Domestic Cats Using a Modified ELISA..

Effect of fasting on serum lithium levels: an experimental study in animal models. (2014)
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Ahmed, Z., Subhan, F., Tahir Shah, M., & Farooq, S. (2014). Effect of fasting on serum lithium levels: an experimental study in animal models. Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 27(1), 33-37

Muslims throughout the world observe dawn to dusk fast in the month of Holy Ramadan. This study aims to investigate the effect of fasting on serum lithium levels in an animal model under typical conditions of Ramadan. Animals were categorized into or... Read More about Effect of fasting on serum lithium levels: an experimental study in animal models..

GPR and bulk ground resistivity surveys in graveyards: Locating unmarked burials in contrasting soil types (2014)
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Hansen, J. D., Pringle, J. K., & Goodwin, J. (2014). GPR and bulk ground resistivity surveys in graveyards: Locating unmarked burials in contrasting soil types. Forensic Science International, 237, e14 - e29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2014.01.009

With graveyards and cemeteries globally being increasingly designated as full, there is a growing need to identify unmarked burial positions to find burial space or exhume and re-inter if necessary. In some countries, for example the U.S. and U.K., b... Read More about GPR and bulk ground resistivity surveys in graveyards: Locating unmarked burials in contrasting soil types.

On the nature of problems in action learning (2014)
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(2014). On the nature of problems in action learning. Action Learning: Research and Practice, 25-41. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767333.2013.870879

The article aims to explore the nature of problems in action learning. Beginning with Revans' distinction between problems and puzzles, it draws parallels with the notion of wicked and tame problems. It offers four means of considering problems in ac... Read More about On the nature of problems in action learning.

Changes of synovial fluid protein concentrations in supra-patellar bursitis patients after the injection of different molecular weights of hyaluronic acid (2014)
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Chen, C. P., Hsu, C. C., Pei, Y., Chen, R. L., Zhou, S., Shen, H., …Tsai, W. C. (2014). Changes of synovial fluid protein concentrations in supra-patellar bursitis patients after the injection of different molecular weights of hyaluronic acid. Experimental Gerontology, 52, 30-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exger.2014.01.016

Knee pain is commonly seen in orthopedic and rehabilitation outpatient clinical settings, and in the aging population. Bursitis of the knee joint, especially when the volume of the synovial fluid is large enough, can compress and distend the nearby s... Read More about Changes of synovial fluid protein concentrations in supra-patellar bursitis patients after the injection of different molecular weights of hyaluronic acid.

Health services changes: is a run-in period necessary before evaluation in randomised clinical trials? (2014)
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Rathod, T., Belcher, J., Montgomery, A. A., Salisbury, C., & Foster, N. E. (2014). Health services changes: is a run-in period necessary before evaluation in randomised clinical trials?. Trials, 15, Article 41. https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-15-41

BACKGROUND: Most randomised clinical trials (RCTs) testing a new health service do not allow a run-in period of consolidation before evaluating the new approach. Consequently, health professionals involved may feel insufficiently familiar or confiden... Read More about Health services changes: is a run-in period necessary before evaluation in randomised clinical trials?.

Evaluating the effectiveness of domestic abuse prevention education: Are certain children more or less receptive to the messages conveyed? (2014)
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Fox, C., Corr, M., Gadd, D., & Sim, J. (2014). Evaluating the effectiveness of domestic abuse prevention education: Are certain children more or less receptive to the messages conveyed?. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 212-227. https://doi.org/10.1111/lcrp.12046

Purpose
A number of school-based domestic abuse prevention programmes have been developed in the United Kingdom, but evidence as to the effectiveness of such programmes is limited. The aim of the research was to evaluate the effectiveness of one suc... Read More about Evaluating the effectiveness of domestic abuse prevention education: Are certain children more or less receptive to the messages conveyed?.

An in vitro spinal cord injury model to screen neuroregenerative materials (2014)
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Weightman, A. P., Pickard, M. R., Yang, Y., & Chari, D. M. (2014). An in vitro spinal cord injury model to screen neuroregenerative materials. Biomaterials, 35(12), 3756-3765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2014.01.022

Implantable ‘structural bridges’ based on nanofabricated polymer scaffolds have great promise to aid spinal cord regeneration. Their development (optimal formulations, surface functionalizations, safety, topographical influences and degradation profi... Read More about An in vitro spinal cord injury model to screen neuroregenerative materials.

microRNAs as Anti-Cancer Therapy (2014)
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Garofalo, M., Di Leva, G., & Croce, C. (2014). microRNAs as Anti-Cancer Therapy. Current Pharmaceutical Design, 20(33), 5328-5335. https://doi.org/10.2174/1381612820666140128211346

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenously expressed and evolutionarily conserved small non-coding RNAs, which regulate gene expression. Several studies have shown that they are involved in fundamental biological processes, such as proliferation and apoptos... Read More about microRNAs as Anti-Cancer Therapy.

The evolution of massive stars and their spectra I. A non-rotating 60 Msun star from the zero-age main sequence to the pre-supernova stage (2014)
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(2014). The evolution of massive stars and their spectra I. A non-rotating 60 Msun star from the zero-age main sequence to the pre-supernova stage. Astronomy & Astrophysics,

For the first time, the interior and spectroscopic evolution of a massive star is analyzed from the zero-age main sequence (ZAMS) to the pre-supernova (SN) stage. For this purpose, we combined stellar evolution models using the Geneva code and atmosp... Read More about The evolution of massive stars and their spectra I. A non-rotating 60 Msun star from the zero-age main sequence to the pre-supernova stage.

Derivation of enhanced potentials for plutonium dioxide and the calculation of lattice and intrinsic defect properties (2014)
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Read, M. S., Walker, S. R., & Jackson, R. A. (2014). Derivation of enhanced potentials for plutonium dioxide and the calculation of lattice and intrinsic defect properties. Journal of Nuclear Materials, 448(1-3), 20-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2014.01.020

A new potential has been derived for plutonium dioxide and used to calculate its lattice and defect properties. The Pu4+ ⋯ O2− potential is obtained via a combination of empirical fitting to crystal structural data and parametric fitting to additiona... Read More about Derivation of enhanced potentials for plutonium dioxide and the calculation of lattice and intrinsic defect properties.