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Problems of variable biomarker evaluation in stratified medicine research--A case study of ERCC1 in non-small-cell lung cancer. (2015)
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(2015). Problems of variable biomarker evaluation in stratified medicine research--A case study of ERCC1 in non-small-cell lung cancer. Lung Cancer, 1 - 7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lungcan.2015.11.017

OBJECTIVES: Consistency of procedures for the evaluation of a predictive biomarker (including sample collection, processing, assay and scoring system) based on adequate evidence is necessary to implement research findings in clinical practice. As a c... Read More about Problems of variable biomarker evaluation in stratified medicine research--A case study of ERCC1 in non-small-cell lung cancer..

The effect of practice on n-2 repetition costs in set switching. (2015)
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Grange. (2015). The effect of practice on n-2 repetition costs in set switching. Acta psychologica, 14 -25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.11.003

Inhibition in set switching is inferred from so-called n-2 repetition costs: slower response times to ABA sequences compared to CBA sequences (where A, B, and C are arbitrary labels for different tasks). These costs are thought to reflect the persist... Read More about The effect of practice on n-2 repetition costs in set switching..

The Corporation Ten Years On: An Interview and an Audience with Joel Bakan (2015)
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(2015). The Corporation Ten Years On: An Interview and an Audience with Joel Bakan. Journal of Management Inquiry, 344-354. https://doi.org/10.1177/1056492615616872

More than 10 years ago, the Canadian documentary film The Corporation, written by University of British Columbia professor of law Joel Bakan, significantly challenged the way we think about the modern corporation by unraveling its legal status as a p... Read More about The Corporation Ten Years On: An Interview and an Audience with Joel Bakan.

Are clinical measures of foot posture and mobility associated with foot kinematics when walking? (2015)
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Buldt, A., Murley, G., Levinger, P., Menz, H., Nester, C., & Landorf, K. (2015). Are clinical measures of foot posture and mobility associated with foot kinematics when walking?. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 63 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13047-015-0122-5

BACKGROUND: There is uncertainty as to which foot posture measures are the most valid in terms of predicting kinematics of the foot. The aim of this study was to investigate the associations of clinical measures of static foot posture and mobility wi... Read More about Are clinical measures of foot posture and mobility associated with foot kinematics when walking?.

Physician's prescribing preference as an instrumental variable: exploring assumptions using survey data (2015)
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Mallen, C. (2015). Physician's prescribing preference as an instrumental variable: exploring assumptions using survey data. Epidemiology, 276-283. https://doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000000425

Background: Physician's prescribing preference is increasingly used as an instrumental variable in studies of therapeutic effects. However, differences in prescribing patterns among physicians may reflect differences in preferences or in case-mix. Fu... Read More about Physician's prescribing preference as an instrumental variable: exploring assumptions using survey data.

Long-term glycaemic variability and risk of adverse outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2015)
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Mamas. (2015). Long-term glycaemic variability and risk of adverse outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Diabetes Care, 2354-2369. https://doi.org/10.2337/dc15-1188

OBJECTIVE Glycemic variability is emerging as a measure of glycemic control, which may be a reliable predictor of complications. This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluates the association between HbA1c variability and micro- and macrovascular... Read More about Long-term glycaemic variability and risk of adverse outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

The Role of Cultural Contexts in Research Design Decisions: Reflections on the Conflicting Study Results in the Bahraini Context (2015)
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Hayes, A. L. (2015). The Role of Cultural Contexts in Research Design Decisions: Reflections on the Conflicting Study Results in the Bahraini Context. SAGE Open, https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244015583336

Self-reporting surveys in social science are commonly criticized for generating results that are often found not to reflect the actual behavior of participants. This article discusses the limitations of such surveys specifically in exploring the Arab... Read More about The Role of Cultural Contexts in Research Design Decisions: Reflections on the Conflicting Study Results in the Bahraini Context.

Integral field spectroscopy of massive young stellar objects in the N113 H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (2015)
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Ward, J., Oliveira, J., Van Loon, J. T., & Sewiło, M. (2016). Integral field spectroscopy of massive young stellar objects in the N113 H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455(3), 2345 - 2362. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2424

The Spitzer Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution (SAGE) survey has allowed the identification and analysis of significant samples of Young Stellar Object (YSO) candidates in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). However, the angular resolution of Spi... Read More about Integral field spectroscopy of massive young stellar objects in the N113 H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The role of diet and exercise and of glucosamine sulfate in the prevention of knee osteoarthritis: Further results from the PRevention of knee Osteoarthritis in Overweight Females (PROOF) study. (2015)
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(2015). The role of diet and exercise and of glucosamine sulfate in the prevention of knee osteoarthritis: Further results from the PRevention of knee Osteoarthritis in Overweight Females (PROOF) study. Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, S42 - S48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semarthrit.2015.11.001

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The PRevention of knee Osteoarthritis in Overweight Females (PROOF) study (ISRCTN 42823086) described a trend for a decrease in the incidence of knee osteoarthritis (OA) by a tailored diet and exercise program (DEP) or by o... Read More about The role of diet and exercise and of glucosamine sulfate in the prevention of knee osteoarthritis: Further results from the PRevention of knee Osteoarthritis in Overweight Females (PROOF) study..

Selected Ion Flow-Drift Tube Mass Spectrometry: Quantification of Volatile Compounds in Air and Breath (2015)
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(2015). Selected Ion Flow-Drift Tube Mass Spectrometry: Quantification of Volatile Compounds in Air and Breath. Analytical Chemistry, 12151 -12160. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.5b02994

A selected ion flow-drift tube mass spectrometric analytical technique, SIFDT-MS, is described that extends the established selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry, SIFT-MS, by the inclusion of a static but variable E-field along the axis of the flo... Read More about Selected Ion Flow-Drift Tube Mass Spectrometry: Quantification of Volatile Compounds in Air and Breath.

Virtual geology special issue: developing training, teaching and research skillsets for geoscientists (2015)
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Pringle. (2015). Virtual geology special issue: developing training, teaching and research skillsets for geoscientists. Geology Today, 31(6), 213 -215. https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12118

Current physical science students and researchers are becoming ever more diverse in their learning needs and styles, in their ways of learning and indeed their scientific backgrounds in the subjects that they study. Current schools, colleges and High... Read More about Virtual geology special issue: developing training, teaching and research skillsets for geoscientists.

Increase of methanol in exhaled breath quantified by SIFT-MS following aspartame ingestion (2015)
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(2015). Increase of methanol in exhaled breath quantified by SIFT-MS following aspartame ingestion. Journal of Breath Research, 047104 -?. https://doi.org/10.1088/1752-7155/9/4/047104

Aspartame, methyl-L-a-aspartyl-L-phenylalaninate, is used worldwide as a sweetener in foods and drinks and is considered to be safe at an acceptable daily intake (ADI) of 40?mg per kg of body weight. This compound is completely hydrolyzed in the gast... Read More about Increase of methanol in exhaled breath quantified by SIFT-MS following aspartame ingestion.

Systematic review of the use of behaviour change techniques (BCTs) in home-based cardiac rehabilitation programmes for patients with cardiovascular disease—protocol (2015)
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Heron. (2015). Systematic review of the use of behaviour change techniques (BCTs) in home-based cardiac rehabilitation programmes for patients with cardiovascular disease—protocol. Systematic Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-015-0149-5

Background Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), including myocardial infarction, heart failure, peripheral arterial disease and strokes, are highly prevalent conditions and are associated with high morbidity and mortality. Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is... Read More about Systematic review of the use of behaviour change techniques (BCTs) in home-based cardiac rehabilitation programmes for patients with cardiovascular disease—protocol.

The distribution of blow fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae) larval lengths and its implications for estimating post mortem intervals (2015)
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Moffatt, C., Heaton, V., & De Haan, D. (2016). The distribution of blow fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae) larval lengths and its implications for estimating post mortem intervals. International Journal of Legal Medicine, 130(1), 287-297. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-015-1289-9

The length or stage of development of blow fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae) larvae may be used to estimate a minimum postmortem interval, often by targeting the largest individuals of a species in the belief that they will be the oldest. However, natural... Read More about The distribution of blow fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae) larval lengths and its implications for estimating post mortem intervals.

Annotation of rule-based models with formal semantics to enable creation, analysis, reuse and visualization. (2015)
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Gilfellon, O., Honorato-Zimmer, R., Pocock, M., Madsen, C., Waites, W., Cavaliere, M., …Wipat, A. (2015). Annotation of rule-based models with formal semantics to enable creation, analysis, reuse and visualization. Bioinformatics, 908 - 917. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btv660

MOTIVATION: Biological systems are complex and challenging to model and therefore model reuse is highly desirable. To promote model reuse, models should include both information about the specifics of simulations and the underlying biology in the for... Read More about Annotation of rule-based models with formal semantics to enable creation, analysis, reuse and visualization..

Caveolae as a target to quench autoinduction of the metastatic phenotype in lung cancer (2015)
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(2015). Caveolae as a target to quench autoinduction of the metastatic phenotype in lung cancer. Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology, 611-618. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00432-015-2074-3

Purpose Mevalonate pathway inhibitors are potentially useful chemotherapeutic agents showing growth inhibition and pro-apoptotic effects in cancer cells. The effects of statins and bisphosphonates on cancer growth are attributed to a reduction in pr... Read More about Caveolae as a target to quench autoinduction of the metastatic phenotype in lung cancer.

Exhaled breath hydrogen cyanide as a marker of early Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in children with cystic fibrosis (2015)
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Gilchrist, F. J., Belcher, J., Jones, A. M., Smith, D., Smyth, A. R., Southern, K. W., …Lenney, W. (2015). Exhaled breath hydrogen cyanide as a marker of early Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in children with cystic fibrosis. ERJ Open Research, 1(2), https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00044-2015

Hydrogen cyanide is readily detected in the headspace above Pseudomonas aeruginosa cultures and in the breath of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients with chronic (P. aeruginosa) infection. We investigated if exhaled breath HCN is an early marker of P. aeru... Read More about Exhaled breath hydrogen cyanide as a marker of early Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in children with cystic fibrosis.

A better participant experience using sms for real time data collection (2015)
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(2015). A better participant experience using sms for real time data collection. Trials, https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-16-S2-O63

High quality, error free and complete data is the Holy Grail for healthcare researchers. Using SMS, researchers can build a data collection pathway which, when integrated with web technologies, can provide a dynamic data collection experience for... Read More about A better participant experience using sms for real time data collection.