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The prognostic value of cardiopulmonary exercise testing with a peak respiratory exchange ratio of < 1.0 in patients with chronic heart failure (2007)
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Ingle, L., Witte, K. K., Cleland, J. G., & Clark, A. L. (2008). The prognostic value of cardiopulmonary exercise testing with a peak respiratory exchange ratio of < 1.0 in patients with chronic heart failure. International journal of cardiology, 127(1), 88-92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.04.075

Background: Peak oxygen consumption derived from a maximal cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET) is a standard prognostic indicator in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). Tests with a peak respiratory exchange ratio (pRER) < 1.0 are often tak... Read More about The prognostic value of cardiopulmonary exercise testing with a peak respiratory exchange ratio of < 1.0 in patients with chronic heart failure.

Dangers to going it alone: Social capital and the origins of community resilience in the Philippines (2007)
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Bankoff, G. (2007). Dangers to going it alone: Social capital and the origins of community resilience in the Philippines. Continuity and Change, 22(2), 327-355. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416007006315

Robert Putnam's influential article 'Bowling alone: America's declining social capital' puts forward a number of possible factors to explain the decline of civil society in the USA. Many of these same forces are also at work in America's erstwhile co... Read More about Dangers to going it alone: Social capital and the origins of community resilience in the Philippines.

Living with death in a time of AIDS: A rural South African case study (2007)
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Posel, D., Kahn, K., & Walker, L. (2007). Living with death in a time of AIDS: A rural South African case study. Scandinavian journal of public health, 35(SUPPL. 69), 138-146. https://doi.org/10.1080/14034950701356443

Aims: To examine how a rural community profoundly affected by escalating rates of largely AIDS-related deaths of young and middle-aged people makes sense of this phenomenon and its impact on their everyday lives. Methods: Data were collected in Aginc... Read More about Living with death in a time of AIDS: A rural South African case study.

Importance of aspect ratio over shape in determining the quantization potential of self-assembled zinc-blende III-V quantum dots (2007)
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Rybchenko, S. I., Yeap, G., Gupta, R., Itskevich, I. E., & Haywood, S. K. (2007). Importance of aspect ratio over shape in determining the quantization potential of self-assembled zinc-blende III-V quantum dots. Journal of applied physics, 102(1), 013706. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2752127

We have studied the effect of shape on the strain-modified electron/hole confinement potential in zinc-blende quantum dots (QDs), using standard deformation potential theory and an anisotropic continuum-elasticity approximation. Calculations were per... Read More about Importance of aspect ratio over shape in determining the quantization potential of self-assembled zinc-blende III-V quantum dots.

White matter lesions in an unselected cohort of the elderly: Astrocytic, microglial and oligodendrocyte precursor cell responses (2007)
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Simpson, J. E., Fernando, M. S., Clark, L., Ince, P. G., Matthews, F., Forster, G., O'Brien, J. T., Barber, R., Kalaria, R. N., Brayne, C., Shaw, P. J., Lewis, C. E., & Wharton, S. B. (2007). White matter lesions in an unselected cohort of the elderly: Astrocytic, microglial and oligodendrocyte precursor cell responses. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology, 33(4), 410-419. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2990.2007.00828.x

Hyperintense lesions are frequently identified in T2-weighted magnetic resonance images (MRI) in the ageing brain. The pathological correlate and pathogenesis of white matter lesions (WML) remain unclear, and it is uncertain whether pathology and pat... Read More about White matter lesions in an unselected cohort of the elderly: Astrocytic, microglial and oligodendrocyte precursor cell responses.

Physiological aspects of soccer refereeing performance and training (2007)
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Castagna, C., Abt, G., & D'Ottavio, S. (2007). Physiological aspects of soccer refereeing performance and training. Sports medicine, 37(7), 625-646. https://doi.org/10.2165/00007256-200737070-00006

The role of the referee is far from minimal in the economy of soccer, as very often, particularly in professional soccer, a wrong judgment may have profound implications on the outcome of the game. In this regard, a better knowledge of soccer referee... Read More about Physiological aspects of soccer refereeing performance and training.

Going the distance: human population genetics in a clinal world (2007)
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Lawson Handley, L. J., Manica, A., Goudet, J., & Balloux, F. (2007). Going the distance: human population genetics in a clinal world. Trends in Genetics, 23(9), 432-439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2007.07.002

Global human genetic variation is greatly influenced by geography, with genetic differentiation between populations increasing with geographic distance and within-population diversity decreasing with distance from Africa. In fact, these ’clines’ can... Read More about Going the distance: human population genetics in a clinal world.

Molecular phylogeny of Malagasy reed frogs, Heterixalus, and the relative performance of bioacoustics and color-patterns for resolving their systematics (2007)
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Wollenberg, K. C., Glaw, F., Meyer, A., & Vences, M. (2007). Molecular phylogeny of Malagasy reed frogs, Heterixalus, and the relative performance of bioacoustics and color-patterns for resolving their systematics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 45(1), 14-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2007.06.024

The members of the genus Heterixalus constitute one of the endemic frog radiations in Madagascar. Here we present a complete species-level phylogeny based on DNA sequences (4876 base pairs) of three nuclear and four mitochondrial markers to clarify t... Read More about Molecular phylogeny of Malagasy reed frogs, Heterixalus, and the relative performance of bioacoustics and color-patterns for resolving their systematics.

Spin-offs, stages of growth and funding issues: Some UK evidence (2007)
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Ullah, F., Akbar, S., & Taylor, P. (2007). Spin-offs, stages of growth and funding issues: Some UK evidence. International journal of entrepreneurship and innovation management, 7(6), 524-540. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijeim.2007.014595

This paper explores funding issues at the early development stages of Technology-Based Small Firms (TBSFs) spun-out from universities, non-university research organisations and parent companies. This paper presents empirical evidence for the UK, deri... Read More about Spin-offs, stages of growth and funding issues: Some UK evidence.

Factors influencing the growth of foreign banks' branches in China (2007)
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Lu, Q., & Dewhurst, J. (2007). Factors influencing the growth of foreign banks' branches in China. Journal of Contemporary China, 16(52), 517-534. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670560701314487

Because of the excess demand for branch licences and the Chinese government’s policy to effectively ration banking licences, this paper suggests explaining the allocation of branch licences by the objectives of the Chinese government rather than by t... Read More about Factors influencing the growth of foreign banks' branches in China.

Estuarine, coastal and marine ecosystem restoration: Confusing management and science – A revision of concepts (2007)
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Burdon, D., Hemingway, K. L., Elliott, M., & Apitz, S. E. (2007). Estuarine, coastal and marine ecosystem restoration: Confusing management and science – A revision of concepts. Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 74(3), 349-366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2007.05.034

This review presents recent concepts, understanding and experience of the restoration, recovery and human-mediated modification of estuarine, coastal and marine ecosystems. It shows that these can be divided into four categories: natural recovery fro... Read More about Estuarine, coastal and marine ecosystem restoration: Confusing management and science – A revision of concepts.

Are polyelectrolyte dendrimers stimuli responsive? (2007)
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Giupponi, G., Buzza, D. M. A., & Adolf, D. B. (2007). Are polyelectrolyte dendrimers stimuli responsive?. Macromolecules, 40(16), 5959-5965. https://doi.org/10.1021/ma070609l

Using a molecular dynamics and mean field theory approach which explicitly accounts for free ions, we study the conformation of polyelectrolyte dendrimers for different generation numbers, spacer lengths, charge distributions and ionic strengths. We... Read More about Are polyelectrolyte dendrimers stimuli responsive?.

Persistent genetic signatures of colonization in Brachionus manjavacas rotifers in the Iberian Peninsula (2007)
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Gomez, A., Montero-Pau, J., Lunt, D. H., Serra, M., & Campillo, S. (2007). Persistent genetic signatures of colonization in Brachionus manjavacas rotifers in the Iberian Peninsula. Molecular ecology, 16(15), 3228-3240. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03372.x

Recent phylogeographical assessments have consistently shown that continental zooplankton display high levels of population subdivision, despite the high dispersal capacity of their diapausing propagules. As such, there is an apparent paradox between... Read More about Persistent genetic signatures of colonization in Brachionus manjavacas rotifers in the Iberian Peninsula.

A grounded theory approach to the phenomenon of pro-anorexia (2007)
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Williams, S., & Reid, M. (2007). A grounded theory approach to the phenomenon of pro-anorexia. Addiction research & theory, 15(2), 141-152. https://doi.org/10.1080/16066350601143239

This research looked at the thoughts and feelings expressed by visitors to pro-anorexic websites to find out how they felt about anorexia and why they used pro-anorexic sites. Using grounded theory (Strauss A, Corbin J. 1998. Basics of qualitative re... Read More about A grounded theory approach to the phenomenon of pro-anorexia.

Neural representation of auditory size in the human voice and in sounds from other resonant sources (2007)
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von Kriegstein, K., Smith, D. R. R., Patterson, R. D., Ives, D. T., & Griffiths, T. D. (2007). Neural representation of auditory size in the human voice and in sounds from other resonant sources. Current biology : CB, 17(13), 1123-1128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2007.05.061

The size of a resonant source can be estimated by the acoustic-scale information in the sound [1-3]. Previous studies revealed that posterior superior temporal gyrus (STG) responds to acoustic scale in human speech when it is controlled for spectral-... Read More about Neural representation of auditory size in the human voice and in sounds from other resonant sources.

Reaching the population with dementia drugs: What are the challenges? (2007)
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Matthews, F. E., McKeith, I., Bond, J., & Brayne, C. (2007). Reaching the population with dementia drugs: What are the challenges?. International journal of geriatric psychiatry, 22(7), 627-631. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.1720

Background: Systematic evidence became available in the late 1990s on efficacy of cholinesterase inhibitors (CHEIs) for patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease (AI)) and they began to be used sporadically. Since January 2001 UK based guide... Read More about Reaching the population with dementia drugs: What are the challenges?.

Using the mini-mental state examination for tracking cognition in the older population based on longitudinal data (2007)
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Chatfield, M., Matthews, F. E., & Brayne, C. (2007). Using the mini-mental state examination for tracking cognition in the older population based on longitudinal data. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 55(7), 1066-1071. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.2007.01216.x

OBJECTIVES: To estimate population norms for use in assessment of individuals in relation to their age-matched peers using true longitudinal patterns of decline. DESIGN: Longitudinal study of 10 years of follow-up data from the Medical Research Counc... Read More about Using the mini-mental state examination for tracking cognition in the older population based on longitudinal data.

Institutional investors and director pay: An empirical study of UK companies (2007)
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Dong, M., & Ozkan, A. (2008). Institutional investors and director pay: An empirical study of UK companies. Journal of Multinational Financial Management, 18(1), 16-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mulfin.2007.06.001

This paper empirically examines the determinants of director pay for a sample of listed non-financial firms in the UK by focusing on the effects of institutional ownership on both director pay and pay-performance relationship. Our analysis reveals th... Read More about Institutional investors and director pay: An empirical study of UK companies.

Development of a (silent) speech recognition system for patients following laryngectomy (2007)
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Fagan, M. J., Ell, S. R., Gilbert, J. M., Sarrazin, E., & Chapman, P. M. (2008). Development of a (silent) speech recognition system for patients following laryngectomy. Medical engineering & physics, 30(4), 419-425. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medengphy.2007.05.003

Surgical voice restoration post-laryngectomy has a number of limitations and drawbacks. The present gold standard involves the use of a tracheo-oesophageal fistula (TOF) valve to divert air from the lungs into the throat, which vibrates, and from thi... Read More about Development of a (silent) speech recognition system for patients following laryngectomy.