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Enduring impact of communication skills training: results of a 12-month follow-up. (2003)
Journal Article
L, F., V, J., V, F., & I, S. (2003). Enduring impact of communication skills training: results of a 12-month follow-up. British journal of cancer, 1445 -1449. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6601309

The efficacy of a communication skills training programme was shown through a randomised trial. Oncologists (N=160) from 34 cancer centres were allocated to written feedback plus course; course alone; written feedback alone or control. Each clinician... Read More about Enduring impact of communication skills training: results of a 12-month follow-up..

Writing 1950s London: Narrative Strategies in Colin MacInnes's City of Spades and Absolute Beginners (2003)
Journal Article
Bentley, N. (2003). Writing 1950s London: Narrative Strategies in Colin MacInnes's City of Spades and Absolute Beginners. Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London, 1(2),

Colin MacInnes is a 1950s writer who has largely been overlooked in recent critical analyses of the period.[1] His writing represents a radical experiment with narrative forms and genres that corresponds to his investigation of the submerged worlds... Read More about Writing 1950s London: Narrative Strategies in Colin MacInnes's City of Spades and Absolute Beginners.

Jüdische Geschichte lesen (2003)
Book
Brenner, M., Kauders, A., Reuveni, G., & Römer, N. (2003). Jüdische Geschichte lesen. CH Beck

Dieses Lesebuch versammelt grundlegende Texte der jüdischen Geschichtsschreibung aus dem 19. und 20. Jahrhundert und bietet so einen profunden Überblick über die Geschichte dieses Fachs. Dabei werden die unterschiedlichen Interpretationen der jüdisch... Read More about Jüdische Geschichte lesen.

Decline in Rate of Colonization of Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cell (OPC)-Depleted Tissue by Adult OPCs with Age (2003)
Journal Article
Chari, D. M., Crang, A. J., & Blakemore, W. F. (2003). Decline in Rate of Colonization of Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cell (OPC)-Depleted Tissue by Adult OPCs with Age. Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology, 62(9), 908-916. https://doi.org/10.1093/jnen/62.9.908

Rates of remyelination decline with age and this has been attributed to slower recruitment of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) into areas of demyelination and slower differentiation of OPCs into remyelinating oligodendrocytes. When considering... Read More about Decline in Rate of Colonization of Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cell (OPC)-Depleted Tissue by Adult OPCs with Age.

Sildenafil as a treatment for pulmonary hypertension (2003)
Journal Article
(2003). Sildenafil as a treatment for pulmonary hypertension. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 411-422

The therapy of pulmonary hypertension has evolved rapidly in the last 10 years from the use of non-selective vasodilators to drugs that specifically target pulmonary vasodilation, endothelial function, and vascular remodeling. Sildenafil is a phospho... Read More about Sildenafil as a treatment for pulmonary hypertension.

Functional expression cloning reveals proapoptotic role for protein phosphatase 4 (2003)
Journal Article
Mourtada-Maarabouni, M., Kirkham, L., Jenkins, B., Rayner, J., Gonda, T. J., Starr, R., …Williams, G. T. (2003). Functional expression cloning reveals proapoptotic role for protein phosphatase 4. Cell Death and Differentiation, 10, Article 1016–1024. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.cdd.4401274

Functional expression cloning strategies are highly suitable for the analysis of the molecular control of apoptosis. This approach has two critical advantages. Firstly, it eliminates prior assumptions about the properties of the proteins involved, an... Read More about Functional expression cloning reveals proapoptotic role for protein phosphatase 4.

Cool stars in NGC 2547 and pre-main-sequence lithium depletion (2003)
Journal Article
Jeffries, R., Oliveira, J., Barrado y Navascués, D., & Stauffer, J. (2003). Cool stars in NGC 2547 and pre-main-sequence lithium depletion. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 343(4), 1271-1284. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06768.x

We present the results of a spectroscopic survey of X-ray selected, low-mass candidate members of the young open cluster NGC 2547. Using a combination of photometry, spectroscopic indices and radial velocities we refine our candidate list and then us... Read More about Cool stars in NGC 2547 and pre-main-sequence lithium depletion.

Dysfunctional oligodendrocyte progenitor cell (OPC) populations may inhibit repopulation of OPC depleted tissue (2003)
Journal Article
Chari, D., Huang, W., & Blakemore, W. (2003). Dysfunctional oligodendrocyte progenitor cell (OPC) populations may inhibit repopulation of OPC depleted tissue. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 73(6), 787-793. https://doi.org/10.1002/jnr.10700

We have attempted to extend a previously described rat model of focal oligodendrocyte progenitor cell (OPC) depletion, using 40 Gy X-irradiation (Chari and Blakemore [2002] Glia 37:307–313), to the adult mouse spinal cord, to examine the ability of O... Read More about Dysfunctional oligodendrocyte progenitor cell (OPC) populations may inhibit repopulation of OPC depleted tissue.

Why are eligible patients not prescribed aspirin in primary care?: a qualitative study indicating measures for improvement (2003)
Journal Article
(2003). Why are eligible patients not prescribed aspirin in primary care?: a qualitative study indicating measures for improvement. BMC Family Practice, 9 -?. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-4-9

BACKGROUND: Despite evidence-based guidelines, aspirin prescribing for the secondary prevention of stroke is sub-optimal. Little is known about why general practitioners do not prescribe aspirin to indicated patients. We sought to identify and descri... Read More about Why are eligible patients not prescribed aspirin in primary care?: a qualitative study indicating measures for improvement.

The lithium depletion boundary and the age of NGC 2547 (2003)
Journal Article
Oliveira, J., Barrado y Navascues, D., Jeffries, R., Devey, C., Navascues, D., Naylor, T., …Totten, E. (2003). The lithium depletion boundary and the age of NGC 2547. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 342(2), 651 -663. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06592.x

We present the results of a photometric and spectroscopic survey of cool M dwarf candidates in the young open cluster NGC 2547. Using the 2dF fiber spectrograph, we have searched for the luminosity at which lithium remains unburned in an attempt to c... Read More about The lithium depletion boundary and the age of NGC 2547.

Cultivating New Local Futures: Remittance Economies and Land-use Patterns in Ifugao, Philippines. (2003)
Journal Article
McKay. (2003). Cultivating New Local Futures: Remittance Economies and Land-use Patterns in Ifugao, Philippines. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 285 - 306. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463403000262

In the Philippines, female migration for contract domestic work transforms the local landscape. The changes in land, labour, crops and cropping patterns that are occurring may not reflect local ecology or economic opportunity as much as they represen... Read More about Cultivating New Local Futures: Remittance Economies and Land-use Patterns in Ifugao, Philippines..

Observation of ion beam induced magnetic patterning using off-specular polarized neutron reflectometry (2003)
Journal Article
Telling, N. D., Langridge, S., Dalgliesh, R. M., Grundy, P. J., & Vishnyakov, V. M. (2003). Observation of ion beam induced magnetic patterning using off-specular polarized neutron reflectometry. Journal of Applied Physics, 93(10), 7420-7422. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1544496

The long-range magnetic structure in Co/Pt multilayers magnetically patterned by ion irradiation is observed by off-specular polarized neutron reflectivity. While both specular and off-specular measurements indicate the formation of an artificial dom... Read More about Observation of ion beam induced magnetic patterning using off-specular polarized neutron reflectometry.

Ion irradiation of Co/Pt multilayer films (2003)
Journal Article
Bonder, M. J., Telling, N. D., Grundy, P. J., Faunce, C. A., Shen, T., & Vishnyakov, V. M. (2003). Ion irradiation of Co/Pt multilayer films. Journal of Applied Physics, 93(10), 7226-7228. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1557311

This article describes a microstructural and magnetic investigation of the modification of Co/Pt multilayer films by Ar ion irradiation which results in a change of the orientation of the magnetization from perpendicular to the film plane to the in-p... Read More about Ion irradiation of Co/Pt multilayer films.

Effects of the Imidazoline Binding Site Ligands, Idazoxan and Efaroxan, on the Viability of Insulin-Secreting BRIN-BD11 Cells (2003)
Journal Article
Gao, H., Mourtada, M., & Morgan, N. G. (2003). Effects of the Imidazoline Binding Site Ligands, Idazoxan and Efaroxan, on the Viability of Insulin-Secreting BRIN-BD11 Cells. Journal of the Pancreas, 4(3),

Context Certain imidazoline drugs stimulate insulin secretion acutely but their longer term effects on the viability of pancreatic beta-cells are less well characterised. Indeed, some reports have suggested that imidazolines can be toxic to beta-cel... Read More about Effects of the Imidazoline Binding Site Ligands, Idazoxan and Efaroxan, on the Viability of Insulin-Secreting BRIN-BD11 Cells.

Randomized controlled trial of nebulized adrenaline in acute bronchiolitis. (2003)
Journal Article
(2003). Randomized controlled trial of nebulized adrenaline in acute bronchiolitis. Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, 134 - 139. https://doi.org/10.1034/j.1399-3038.2003.00014.x

Use of both l-epinephrine and racemic epinephrine (adrenaline) has improved clinical symptoms and composite respiratory scores in acute bronchiolitis. The objective of this randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study was to assess whether there... Read More about Randomized controlled trial of nebulized adrenaline in acute bronchiolitis..

Explaining the fuel protests (2003)
Journal Article
Doherty. (2003). Explaining the fuel protests. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 1 -23. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-856X.00093

We describe and analyse the fuel protests in the UK in September and November 2000. We draw on theories of social movements to explain the success of the first of these protests and the failure of the second. We show how the loose, network forms of o... Read More about Explaining the fuel protests.

Degeneration of the intervertebral disc (2003)
Journal Article
(2003). Degeneration of the intervertebral disc. Arthritis Research and Therapy, 120 -130. https://doi.org/10.1186/ar629

The intervertebral disc is a cartilaginous structure that resembles articular cartilage in its biochemistry, but morphologically it is clearly different. It shows degenerative and ageing changes earlier than does any other connective tissue in the bo... Read More about Degeneration of the intervertebral disc.

X-ray images of defect formation in porcelain ceramics during drying (2003)
Journal Article
Potter, A., Austin, J., Ormerod, R., Haycock, P., Heywood, B., & George, S. (2003). X-ray images of defect formation in porcelain ceramics during drying. NDT and E International, 36(2), 77-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0963-8695%2802%2900088-9

The drying phase during the manufacture of ceramic pieces is often the point of failure owing to the formation of cracks. In this study, non-destructive microfocus X-ray imaging has been employed to study the onset of cracking in porcelain and correl... Read More about X-ray images of defect formation in porcelain ceramics during drying.

Simultaneous acceleration of the cell cycle and suppression of apoptosis by splice variant delta-6 of the candidate tumour suppressor LUCA-15/RBM5 (2003)
Journal Article
Mourtada-Maarabouni, M., Sutherland, L. C., Meredith, J. M., & Williams, G. T. (2003). Simultaneous acceleration of the cell cycle and suppression of apoptosis by splice variant delta-6 of the candidate tumour suppressor LUCA-15/RBM5. Genes to Cells, 8(2), 109-119. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2443.2003.00619.x

Background: The short arm of chromosome 3 is thought to include one or more tumour suppressor genes (TSGs), since carcinoma of various tissues display deletions in this region. Many genes mapping to this region have recently been identified, includin... Read More about Simultaneous acceleration of the cell cycle and suppression of apoptosis by splice variant delta-6 of the candidate tumour suppressor LUCA-15/RBM5.

The Legal Status of Precaution in International Law (2003)
Presentation / Conference
Prost, M. (2003, February). The Legal Status of Precaution in International Law. Presented at Precaution in International and European Law, Roundtable organized by the Institute for European Studies, University of Montreal, Canada