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Biomechanics for inclusive urban design: Effects of tactile paving on older adults' gait when crossing the street. (2011)
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Thies, S., Kenney, L., Howard, D., Nester, C., Ormerod, M., Newton, R., …MacLennan, H. (2011). Biomechanics for inclusive urban design: Effects of tactile paving on older adults' gait when crossing the street. Journal of Biomechanics, 44, 1599--1604. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2010.12.016

In light of our ageing population it is important that the urban environment is easily accessible and hence supports older adults' independence. Tactile 'blister' paving was originally designed to provide guidance for visually impaired people at pede... Read More about Biomechanics for inclusive urban design: Effects of tactile paving on older adults' gait when crossing the street..

Low molecular weight heparins: Structural differentiation by spectroscopic and multivariate approaches (2011)
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Lima, M., de Farias, E., Rudd, T., Ebner, L., Gesteira, T., Mendes, A., …Fareed, J. (2011). Low molecular weight heparins: Structural differentiation by spectroscopic and multivariate approaches. Carbohydrate Polymers, 85, 903--909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbpol.2011.04.021

Anisotropic x-ray magnetic linear dichroism and spectromicroscopy of interfacial Co/NiO(001) (2011)
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van der Laan, G., Telling, N. D., Potenza, A., Dhesi, S. S., & Arenholz, E. Anisotropic x-ray magnetic linear dichroism and spectromicroscopy of interfacial Co/NiO(001). Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics, 83(6), Article 064409. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.83.064409

Photoemission electron microscopy (PEEM) with linearly polarized x rays is used to determine the orientation of antiferromagnetic domains by monitoring the relative peak intensities at the 3 d transition metal L 2 absorption edge. In such a... Read More about Anisotropic x-ray magnetic linear dichroism and spectromicroscopy of interfacial Co/NiO(001).

A robust method to quantify low molecular weight contaminants in heparin: detection of tris (2-n-butoxyethyl) phosphate (2011)
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Sassaki, G., Riter, D., Santana Filho, A., Guerrini, M., Lima, M., Cosentino, C., …Nader, H. (2011). A robust method to quantify low molecular weight contaminants in heparin: detection of tris (2-n-butoxyethyl) phosphate. Analyst, 136, 2330--2338. https://doi.org/10.1039/C0AN01010C

Developing leaders and leadership in health care: a case for rebalancing? (2011)
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(2011). Developing leaders and leadership in health care: a case for rebalancing?. Leadership in Health Services, 8-18. https://doi.org/10.1108/17511871111102490

Purpose – The paper aims to describe the emerging critique of leader development in health care and to describe an alternative approach. Design/methodology/approach – The paper explores the growing critique of leader development, highlighting th... Read More about Developing leaders and leadership in health care: a case for rebalancing?.

Foot kinematics in patients with two patterns of pathological plantar hyperkeratosis. (2011)
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Findlow, A., Nester, C., & Bowker, P. (2011). Foot kinematics in patients with two patterns of pathological plantar hyperkeratosis. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 4, 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-1146-4-7

BACKGROUND: The Root paradigm of foot function continues to underpin the majority of clinical foot biomechanics practice and foot orthotic therapy. There are great number of assumptions in this popular paradigm, most of which have not been thoroughly... Read More about Foot kinematics in patients with two patterns of pathological plantar hyperkeratosis..

High-sensitivity visualisation of contaminants in heparin samples by spectral filtering of 1H NMR spectra. (2011)
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Rudd, T., Gaudesi, D., Lima, M., Skidmore, M., Mulloy, B., Torri, G., …Yates, E. (2011). High-sensitivity visualisation of contaminants in heparin samples by spectral filtering of 1H NMR spectra. Analyst, 136, 1390--1398. https://doi.org/10.1039/c0an00835d

A novel application of two-dimensional correlation analysis has been employed to filter (1)H NMR heparin spectra distinguishing acceptable natural variation and the presence of foreign species. Analysis of contaminated heparin samples, compared to a... Read More about High-sensitivity visualisation of contaminants in heparin samples by spectral filtering of 1H NMR spectra..

Model annotation for synthetic biology: automating model to nucleotide sequence conversion. (2011)
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Misirli, G., Hallinan, J. S., Yu, T., Lawson, J. R., Wimalaratne, S. M., Cooling, M. T., & Wipat, A. (2011). Model annotation for synthetic biology: automating model to nucleotide sequence conversion. Bioinformatics, 27(7), 973 - 979. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btr048

MOTIVATION: The need for the automated computational design of genetic circuits is becoming increasingly apparent with the advent of ever more complex and ambitious synthetic biology projects. Currently, most circuits are designed through the assembl... Read More about Model annotation for synthetic biology: automating model to nucleotide sequence conversion..

Comparison and reproducibility of standard and high temporal resolution myocardial tissue tagging in patients with severe aortic stenosis (2011)
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(2011). Comparison and reproducibility of standard and high temporal resolution myocardial tissue tagging in patients with severe aortic stenosis. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, P311 - P311. https://doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-13-S1-P311

Objectives The aim of this study was to compare and assess the reproducibility of left ventricular (LV) circumferential peak systolic strain (PeakEcc) and strain rate (SR) measurements using standard and high temporal resolution myocardial tissue ta... Read More about Comparison and reproducibility of standard and high temporal resolution myocardial tissue tagging in patients with severe aortic stenosis.

Concise review: Bone marrow for the treatment of spinal cord injury: mechanisms and clinical applications. (2011)
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(2011). Concise review: Bone marrow for the treatment of spinal cord injury: mechanisms and clinical applications. STEM CELLS, 169 - 178. https://doi.org/10.1002/stem.570

Transplantation of bone marrow stem cells into spinal cord lesions enhances axonal regeneration and promotes functional recovery in animal studies. There are two types of adult bone marrow stem cell; hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), and mesenchymal s... Read More about Concise review: Bone marrow for the treatment of spinal cord injury: mechanisms and clinical applications..

Raltegravir is a substrate for SLC22A6: A putative mechanism for the interaction between raltegravir and tenofovir (2011)
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(2011). Raltegravir is a substrate for SLC22A6: A putative mechanism for the interaction between raltegravir and tenofovir. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 879-887. https://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.00623-10

The identification of transporters of the HIV integrase inhibitor raltegravir could be a factor in an understanding of the pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic relationship and reported drug interactions of raltegravir. Here we determined whether raltegr... Read More about Raltegravir is a substrate for SLC22A6: A putative mechanism for the interaction between raltegravir and tenofovir.

Ice chemistry in massive Young Stellar Objects: the role of metallicity (2011)
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Oliveira, J., van Loon, J., Sloan, G., Indebetouw, R., Kemper, F., Tielens, A. G. M., …Meixner, M. (2011). Ice chemistry in massive Young Stellar Objects: the role of metallicity. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 411(1), L36–L40. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-3933.2010.00990.x

We present the comparison of the three most important ice constituents (water, CO and CO2) in the envelopes of massive Young Stellar Objects (YSOs), in environments of different metallicities: the Galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and, for the... Read More about Ice chemistry in massive Young Stellar Objects: the role of metallicity.

Profiling dizziness in older primary care patients: an empirical study (2011)
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(2011). Profiling dizziness in older primary care patients: an empirical study. PloS one, 1- 7. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016481

The diagnostic approach to dizzy, older patients is not straightforward as many organ systems can be involved and evidence for diagnostic strategies is lacking. A first differentiation in diagnostic subtypes or profiles may guide the diagnostic proce... Read More about Profiling dizziness in older primary care patients: an empirical study.

Red Supergiants, Luminous Blue Variables and Wolf-Rayet stars: the single massive star perspective (2011)
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Meynet, G., Georgy, C., Hirschi, R., Maeder, A., Massey, P., Przybilla, N., & Nieva, M. (2011). Red Supergiants, Luminous Blue Variables and Wolf-Rayet stars: the single massive star perspective. Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège, 80, 266-278

We discuss, in the context of the single star scenario, the nature of the progenitors of Red Supergiants (RSG), of Luminous Blue Variables (LBV) and of Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars. These three different populations correspond to evolved phases of Main Sequ... Read More about Red Supergiants, Luminous Blue Variables and Wolf-Rayet stars: the single massive star perspective.

The role of reality monitoring in anosognosia for hemiplegia. (2011)
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Roffe, & Edelstyn. (2011). The role of reality monitoring in anosognosia for hemiplegia. Behavioural Neurology, 241 - 243. https://doi.org/10.3233/BEN-2010-0305

Background: The aim was to assess the feasibility of a single-centre, single-blind, randomized, crossover design to explore the effects of two slow-release dopamine agonists, ropinirole and pramipexole, on cued recall in Parkinson’s disease. As the... Read More about The role of reality monitoring in anosognosia for hemiplegia..

Chemical reduction of carboxyl groups in heparin abolishes its vasodilatory activity (2011)
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Paredes‐Gamero, E., Medeiros, V., Lima, M., Accardo, C., Farias, E., Sassaki, G., …Tersariol, I. (2011). Chemical reduction of carboxyl groups in heparin abolishes its vasodilatory activity. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, 113, 1359--1367. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcb.24008

A novel approach for the characterisation of proteoglycans and biosynthetic enzymes in a snail model (2011)
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Gesteira, T., Coulson-Thomas, V., Ogata, F., Farias, E., Cavalheiro, R., de Lima, M., …Toma, L. (2011). A novel approach for the characterisation of proteoglycans and biosynthetic enzymes in a snail model. BBA - Proteins and Proteomics, 1814, 1862--1869. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbapap.2011.07.024

Video Conferencing Over Very Narrow Band Internet Using Image Metamorphosis (2011)
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Mukarram IIossain, A. N., Kabir, S., & Haider Ati, M. (2011). Video Conferencing Over Very Narrow Band Internet Using Image Metamorphosis. Dhaka University Journal of Applied Science & Engineering, 1(2),

A Video conference is a set of interactive telecommunication technologies which allows two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmission simultaneously. Image Metamorphosis or image morphing is a power tool for creating visua... Read More about Video Conferencing Over Very Narrow Band Internet Using Image Metamorphosis.

Teacher, lecturer or labourer? Performance management issues in education (2011)
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Mather, K., & Seifert, R. (2011). Teacher, lecturer or labourer? Performance management issues in education. Management in Education, 25(1), 26-31. https://doi.org/10.1177/0892020610388060

Education management has increasingly been dominated by the norms and requirements of general management ideologies that focus on performance controls and target achievements. Under this regime, solving the labour problem — relatively low productivit... Read More about Teacher, lecturer or labourer? Performance management issues in education.

Causes and Consequences: Responsibility in the Political Thought of Max Weber (2011)
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O'Donovan, N. (2011). Causes and Consequences: Responsibility in the Political Thought of Max Weber. Polity, 43(1), 84-105. https://doi.org/10.1057/pol.2010.21

Many scholars view Max Weber's exposition of an “ethic of responsibility” in his 1919 lecture “Politik als Beruf” as a defense of pragmatic political action. This article re-examines Weber's argument in the context of his social scientific writings.... Read More about Causes and Consequences: Responsibility in the Political Thought of Max Weber.