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Menstrual and menarche experience among pubescent female students in Taiwan: implications for health education and promotion practice (2009)
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Chang, Y., Chen, Y., Hayter, M., & Lin, M. (2009). Menstrual and menarche experience among pubescent female students in Taiwan: implications for health education and promotion practice. Journal of clinical nursing, 18(14), 2040-2048. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2702.2008.02545.x

Aims and objectives.  This study aimed to explore the menarche and menstruation experiences of young females aged 10–12 years in elementary education in Taiwan. Background.  Menarche is a significant milestone in a woman’s life and for female adol... Read More about Menstrual and menarche experience among pubescent female students in Taiwan: implications for health education and promotion practice.

The prognostic value of individual NT-proBNP values in chronic heart failure does not change with advancing age (2009)
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Frankenstein, L., Clark, A. L., Goode, K., Ingle, L., Remppis, A., Schellberg, D., Grabs, F., Nelles, M., Cleland, J. G. F., Katus, H. A., & Zugck, C. (2009). The prognostic value of individual NT-proBNP values in chronic heart failure does not change with advancing age. Heart, 95(10), 825-829. https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.2008.158626

Background: It is unclear whether age-related increases in N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) represent a normal physiological process - possibly affecting the prognostic power - of NT-proBNP - or reflect age-related subclinical pat... Read More about The prognostic value of individual NT-proBNP values in chronic heart failure does not change with advancing age.

Stressors and coping strategies among early and middle adolescent premier league academy soccer players: differences according to age (2009)
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Reeves, C. W., Nicholls, A. R., & McKenna, J. (2009). Stressors and coping strategies among early and middle adolescent premier league academy soccer players: differences according to age. Journal of applied sport psychology, 21(1), 31-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/10413200802443768

The purpose of this study was to examine stressors and coping strategies among early (12-14 years) and middle adolescents (15-18 years). Forty male academy soccer players, aged between 12-18 years (M age = 14.22 years), participated in semi-structure... Read More about Stressors and coping strategies among early and middle adolescent premier league academy soccer players: differences according to age.

Parasite resistance and the adaptive significance of sleep (2009)
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Preston, B. T., Capellini, I., McNamara, P., Barton, R. A., & Nunn, C. L. (2009). Parasite resistance and the adaptive significance of sleep. BMC evolutionary biology, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-7

Background. Sleep is a biological enigma. Despite occupying much of an animal's life, and having been scrutinized by numerous experimental studies, there is still no consensus on its function. Similarly, no hypothesis has yet explained why species ha... Read More about Parasite resistance and the adaptive significance of sleep.

'The enemy within?': the clergyman and the English school boards, 1870-1902 (2009)
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Smith, J. T. (2009). 'The enemy within?': the clergyman and the English school boards, 1870-1902. History of education, 38(1), 133-149. https://doi.org/10.1080/00467600701824727

This paper seeks to ascertain the attitudes to, and work on, English school boards of clergymen from the three main Churches which had taken an active interest in education in England in the nineteenth century - the Church of England, the Roman Catho... Read More about 'The enemy within?': the clergyman and the English school boards, 1870-1902.

Grazing incidence X-ray diffraction of a photoaligned nematic semiconductor (2009)
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Dröge, S., Khalifah, M. S. A., O'Neill, M., Thomas, H. E., Simmonds, H. S., Macdonald, J. E., …Kelly, S. M. (2009). Grazing incidence X-ray diffraction of a photoaligned nematic semiconductor. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 113(1), 49-53. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp803379a

Grazing incidence X-ray diffraction is used to find the thin film morphology of an extended molecule with an irregular alternating fluorene - thiophene structure, which is used to obtain linearly polarized electroluminescence and the photovoltaic eff... Read More about Grazing incidence X-ray diffraction of a photoaligned nematic semiconductor.

Assessment of the role of sutures in a lizard skull: a computer modelling study (2009)
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Moazen, M., Curtis, N., O'Higgins, P., Jones, M. E., Evans, S. E., & Fagan, M. J. (2009). Assessment of the role of sutures in a lizard skull: a computer modelling study. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 276(1654), 39-46. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.0863

Sutures form an integral part of the functioning skull, but their role has long been debated among vertebrate morphologists and palaeontologists. Furthermore, the relationship between typical skull sutures, and those involved in cranial kinesis, is p... Read More about Assessment of the role of sutures in a lizard skull: a computer modelling study.

Education differences in life expectancy with cognitive impairment (2009)
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Matthews, F. E., Jagger, C., Miller, L. L., & Brayne, C. (2009). Education differences in life expectancy with cognitive impairment. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 64(1), 125-131. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/gln003

Background. Low education has an impact on life expectancy and level of cognition, but little is known on its effect on life expectancy with cognitive impairment. Methods. The Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC CFAS) co... Read More about Education differences in life expectancy with cognitive impairment.

Hippocampal tau pathology is related to neuroanatomical connections: An ageing population-based study (2009)
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Lace, G., Savva, G. M., Forster, G., De Silva, R., Brayne, C., Matthews, F. E., …Wharton, S. B. (2009). Hippocampal tau pathology is related to neuroanatomical connections: An ageing population-based study. Brain, 132(5), 1324-1334. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awp059

Deposits of abnormally phosphorylated tau protein are found in numerous neurodegenerative disorders; the 'tauopathies', which include Alzheimers and Picks diseases, but tau pathology is also found in the ageing brain. Variation in tau pathology in br... Read More about Hippocampal tau pathology is related to neuroanatomical connections: An ageing population-based study.

Neuropathological correlates of dementia in over-80-year-old brain donors from the population-based Cambridge city over-75s cohort (CC75C) study (2009)
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Brayne, C., Richardson, K., Matthews, F. E., Fleming, J., Hunter, S., Xuereb, J. H., …Dening, T. (2009). Neuropathological correlates of dementia in over-80-year-old brain donors from the population-based Cambridge city over-75s cohort (CC75C) study. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 18(3), 645-658. https://doi.org/10.3233/JAD-2009-1182

Key neuropathological changes associated with late-onset dementia are not fully understood. Population-based longitudinal studies offer an opportunity to step back and examine which pathological indices best link to clinical state. CC75C is a longitu... Read More about Neuropathological correlates of dementia in over-80-year-old brain donors from the population-based Cambridge city over-75s cohort (CC75C) study.

Increasing levels of semantic verbal fluency in elderly English adults. (2009)
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Llewellyn, D. J., & Matthews, F. E. (2009). Increasing levels of semantic verbal fluency in elderly English adults. Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition, 16(4), 433-445. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825580902773867

Analyses incorporating large independent population-based samples and identical measures are needed to investigate recent trends in cognitive function. Nationally representative independent cohorts of community living individuals in England aged 65 y... Read More about Increasing levels of semantic verbal fluency in elderly English adults..

Heritage, history, and gardening: The Victorian Kitchen Garden (BBC/Sveringes television 2, 1987) and the representation of the Victorian age as cultural homeland (2009)
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Kleinecke-Bates, I. (2009). Heritage, history, and gardening: The Victorian Kitchen Garden (BBC/Sveringes television 2, 1987) and the representation of the Victorian age as cultural homeland. Visual culture in Britain, 10(1), 71-85. https://doi.org/10.1080/14714780802686340

This article examines the representation of the past on British television. As a response to the perennial popularity of history programming, debates about authenticity and truth in relation to television's rendering of history have been particularly... Read More about Heritage, history, and gardening: The Victorian Kitchen Garden (BBC/Sveringes television 2, 1987) and the representation of the Victorian age as cultural homeland.

The determinants of trading volume for cross-listed Euribor futures contracts (2009)
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Rhodes, M., Aguenaou, S., & Gwilym, O. A. (2009). The determinants of trading volume for cross-listed Euribor futures contracts. The European journal of finance, 15(1), 89-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/13518470802423148

This article investigates the determinants of trading volume for the Euribor futures contract traded at both Euronext-LIFFE and Eurex. Granger causality tests suggest that volumes on the two exchanges are interdependent. Hausman tests demonstrate tha... Read More about The determinants of trading volume for cross-listed Euribor futures contracts.

Cruel Britannia: a personal critique of nursing in the United Kingdom (2009)
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Watson, R., & Shields, L. (2009). Cruel Britannia: a personal critique of nursing in the United Kingdom. Contemporary nurse, 32(1-2), 42-54. https://doi.org/10.5172/conu.32.1-2.42

The United Kingdom (UK) once led the world in nursing but because of the exigencies of the funding mechanisms of the National Health Service (NHS), it has fallen a long way behind other countries. We aim to raise awareness inside and outside the UK a... Read More about Cruel Britannia: a personal critique of nursing in the United Kingdom.

The effect of atorvastatin in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome: a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study (2009)
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Sathyapalan, T., Kilpatrick, E. S., Coady, A. M., & Atkin, S. L. (2009). The effect of atorvastatin in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome: a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 94(1), 103-108. https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2008-1750

CONTEXT: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity, whereas statins are proven to reduce cardiovascular mortality and morbidity through lipid-lowering and perhaps through their pleiotropic effects.... Read More about The effect of atorvastatin in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome: a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study.