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The discrimination of structure: III. Representation of spatial relationships. (2005)
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Haselgrove, M., George, D. N., & Pearce, J. M. (2005). The discrimination of structure: III. Representation of spatial relationships. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 31(4), 433-448. https://doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.31.4.433

Pigeons received a discrimination in which the spatial relationship between 2 adjacent rectangles filled with different colors signaled the trial outcome. Test trials then involved the same rectangles separated horizontally by a gap. The tests in Exp... Read More about The discrimination of structure: III. Representation of spatial relationships..

Pretreatment with hyperbaric oxygen and its effect on neuropsychometric dysfunction and systemic inflammatory response after cardiopulmonary bypass: a prospective randomized double-blind trial (2005)
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Alex, J., Laden, G., Cale, A. R. J., Bennett, S., Flowers, K., Madden, L., Gardiner, E., McCollum, P. T., & Griffin, S. C. (2005). Pretreatment with hyperbaric oxygen and its effect on neuropsychometric dysfunction and systemic inflammatory response after cardiopulmonary bypass: a prospective randomized double-blind trial. Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 130(6), 1623-1630. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2005.08.018

Objective: Animal studies have shown that pretreatment with hyperbaric oxygen can induce central nervous system ischemic tolerance and also modulate the inflammatory response. We evaluated this therapy in patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass. M... Read More about Pretreatment with hyperbaric oxygen and its effect on neuropsychometric dysfunction and systemic inflammatory response after cardiopulmonary bypass: a prospective randomized double-blind trial.

Adrenomedullin and tumour angiogenesis (2005)
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Nikitenko, L. L., Fox, S. B., Kehoe, S., Rees, M. C., & Bicknell, R. (2006). Adrenomedullin and tumour angiogenesis. The British Journal of Cancer, 94(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6602832

The angiogenic activity of peptide adrenomedullin (AM) was first shown in 1998 . Since then, a number of reports have confirmed the ability of AM to induce the growth and migration of isolated vascular endothelial and smooth muscle cells in vitro and... Read More about Adrenomedullin and tumour angiogenesis.

Poor relationship between exercise capacity and spirometric measurements in patients with more symptomatic heart failure (2005)
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Ingle, L., Shelton, R. J., Cleland, J. G., & Clark, A. L. (2005). Poor relationship between exercise capacity and spirometric measurements in patients with more symptomatic heart failure. Journal of cardiac failure, 11(8), 619-623. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cardfail.2005.06.430

Background: The origin of exercise limitation in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) is multifactorial, and the relative contributions of different abnormalities may vary with severity of heart failure symptoms. The aim of the current study was... Read More about Poor relationship between exercise capacity and spirometric measurements in patients with more symptomatic heart failure.

Assessing the validity and responsiveness of disease-specific quality of life instruments in intermittent claudication (2005)
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Mehta, T., Venkatasubramaniam, A., Chetter, I., & McCollum, P. (2006). Assessing the validity and responsiveness of disease-specific quality of life instruments in intermittent claudication. European journal of vascular and endovascular surgery : the official journal of the European Society for Vascular Surgery, 31(1), 46 - 52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejvs.2005.08.028

PurposeTo recommend a suitable disease-specific quality of life (QOL) instrument for use in intermittent claudication (IC) based on validity and responsiveness.MethodsSeventy claudicants completed two generic (SF36 and EUROQOL) and three disease-spec... Read More about Assessing the validity and responsiveness of disease-specific quality of life instruments in intermittent claudication.

General method of preparation of mesoporous M/Si3N4 nano-composites via a non-aqueous sol-gel route (2005)
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Cheng, F., Kelly, S. M., Young, N. A., Clark, S., Francesconi, M. G., Lefebvre, F., & Bradley, J. S. (2005). General method of preparation of mesoporous M/Si3N4 nano-composites via a non-aqueous sol-gel route. Chemical communications : Chem comm / the Royal Society of Chemistry, 5662-5664. https://doi.org/10.1039/b511790a

We report a general method for the preparation of transition-metal silicon nitride nanocomposites; for example, mesoporous Pd-Si 3 N 4 nanocomposite materials with high surface area were prepared by pyrolysis of a silicon palladium imide-chloride co... Read More about General method of preparation of mesoporous M/Si3N4 nano-composites via a non-aqueous sol-gel route.

The CREE project - Investigating user requirements for searching within institutional environments (2005)
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Awre, C., Hanganu, G., Ingram, C., Brett, T., & Dolphin, I. (2005). The CREE project - Investigating user requirements for searching within institutional environments. D-Lib magazine : the magazine of the Digital Library Forum, 11(10), https://doi.org/10.1045/october2005-awre

The Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE) project has investigated user requirements for the presentation of a range of different Internet-based search tools in a variety of local institutional environments, enabling access to the search... Read More about The CREE project - Investigating user requirements for searching within institutional environments.

The influence of hippocampal lesions on the discrimination of structure and on spatial memory in pigeons (Columba livia). (2005)
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Pearce, J. M., George, D. N., Haselgrove, M., Erichsen, J. T., & Good, M. A. (2005). The influence of hippocampal lesions on the discrimination of structure and on spatial memory in pigeons (Columba livia). Behavioral Neuroscience, 119(5), 1316-1330. https://doi.org/10.1037/0735-7044.119.5.1316

Pigeons (Columba livia) were trained with a spatial structural discrimination, which was based on the spatial relationship among the components of a pattern, and a feature-binding structural discrimination, which was based on how different visual fea... Read More about The influence of hippocampal lesions on the discrimination of structure and on spatial memory in pigeons (Columba livia)..

Reading the rhetoric of nationhood in two reformation pamphlets by Richard Morison and Nicholas Bodrugan (2005)
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Mottram, S. (2005). Reading the rhetoric of nationhood in two reformation pamphlets by Richard Morison and Nicholas Bodrugan. Renaissance Studies, 19(4), 523-540. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-4658.2005.00116.x

This article seeks to redress a contemporary critical trend amongst social historians concerned to date the dawn of nationalism on our Western political horizons from the twilight period of empire at the end of the eighteenth century. It does so by e... Read More about Reading the rhetoric of nationhood in two reformation pamphlets by Richard Morison and Nicholas Bodrugan.

Use of shallow water habitats by fish assemblages in a Mediterranean coastal lagoon (2005)
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Franco, A., Franzoi, P., Malavasi, S., Riccato, F., Torricelli, P., & Mainardi, D. (2006). Use of shallow water habitats by fish assemblages in a Mediterranean coastal lagoon. Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 66(1-2), 67-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2005.07.020

The present study investigates the different uses and the functional roles of shallow habitats for fish fauna in the Venice Lagoon, by applying the functional guilds approach. Temporal (seasons) and spatial (location) changes within the lagoon show d... Read More about Use of shallow water habitats by fish assemblages in a Mediterranean coastal lagoon.

The factor structure of the SF-36 in early pregnancy (2005)
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Jomeen, J., & Martin, C. R. (2005). The factor structure of the SF-36 in early pregnancy. Journal of psychosomatic research, 59(3), 131-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2005.02.018

Objective: The concept of Quality of Life (QoL) has emerged as an important psychological dimension within pregnancy. The current study sought to establish the psychometric properties of the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form 36 (SF-36) Version 2 in e... Read More about The factor structure of the SF-36 in early pregnancy.

The Rise of ‘New’ Policy Instruments in Comparative Perspective: Has Governance Eclipsed Government? (2005)
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Jordan, A., Wurzel, R. K. W., & Zito, A. (2005). The Rise of ‘New’ Policy Instruments in Comparative Perspective: Has Governance Eclipsed Government?. Political studies, 53(3), 477-496. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2005.00540.x

Governance is a term in good currency, but there are still too few detailed empirical analyses of the precise extent to which it has or has not eclipsed government. This article explores the temporal and spatial characteristics of the governance tran... Read More about The Rise of ‘New’ Policy Instruments in Comparative Perspective: Has Governance Eclipsed Government?.

Lower urinary tract symptoms in men: self-perceptions and the concept of bother (2005)
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Gannon, K., Glover, L., O'Neill, M., & Emberton, M. (2005). Lower urinary tract symptoms in men: self-perceptions and the concept of bother. BJU international, 96(6), 823-827. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1464-410X.2005.05720.x

OBJECTIVE To explore the meaning that men attach to their experiences of having lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and to understand 'bother' in the context of those meanings. PATIENTS AND METHODS Sixteen men with symptoms suggestive of LUTS and/or... Read More about Lower urinary tract symptoms in men: self-perceptions and the concept of bother.

Pharmacological properties of motion vision in goldfish measured with the optomotor response (2005)
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Mora-Ferrer, C., Hausselt, S., Hoffmann, R. S., Ebisch, B., Schick, S., Wollenberg, K., Schneider, C., Teege, P., & Jürgens, K. (2005). Pharmacological properties of motion vision in goldfish measured with the optomotor response. Brain research, 1058(1-2), 17-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2005.07.073

In goldfish, the retinal pathways involved in motion coding have been demonstrated to have an L-cone dominated action spectrum (S. Schaerer, C. Neumeyer, Motion detection in goldfish investigated with the optomotor response is "color blind", Vision R... Read More about Pharmacological properties of motion vision in goldfish measured with the optomotor response.

An investigation of district spatial variations of childhood diarrhoea and fever morbidity in Malawi (2005)
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Kandala, N. B., Magadi, M., & Madise, N. J. (2006). An investigation of district spatial variations of childhood diarrhoea and fever morbidity in Malawi. Social science & medicine, 62(5), 1138-1152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.07.028

Although diarrhoea and malaria are among the leading causes of child mortality and morbidity in Sub-Saharan Africa, few detailed studies have examined the patterns and determinants of these ailments in the most affected communities. In this paper, we... Read More about An investigation of district spatial variations of childhood diarrhoea and fever morbidity in Malawi.

VRVision: A new tool for the display of 3-D images in behavioral research (2005)
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Ward, J., & Liu, C. H. (2005). VRVision: A new tool for the display of 3-D images in behavioral research. Behavior research methods, 37(3), 464-469. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03192715

Researchers using three-dimensional (3-D) scenes in their studies often spend a lot of time prerendering the scenes into a set of images for later presentations. To improve efficiency, we have developed a new plug-in program for MATLAB that eliminate... Read More about VRVision: A new tool for the display of 3-D images in behavioral research.

Patronizing speech to older patients: a literature review (2005)
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Draper, P. (2005). Patronizing speech to older patients: a literature review. Reviews in Clinical Gerontology, 15(3-4), 273 - 279. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959259806001869

This review summarizes research into the phenomenon of patronizing speech addressed to older people by doctors, nurses, health professionals and other carers. Patronizing speech is defined and illustrated and its negative impact on the dignity and we... Read More about Patronizing speech to older patients: a literature review.

Partial spreads in PG(4,2) and flats in PG(9,2) external to the Grassmannian G1,4,2 (2005)
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Shaw, R., Gordon, N. A., & Maks, J. G. (2005). Partial spreads in PG(4,2) and flats in PG(9,2) external to the Grassmannian G1,4,2. Discrete Mathematics, 301(1), 137-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.disc.2004.11.023

We consider the following 'even hyperplane construction'of flats in the projective space PG(9, 2) = P(boolean AND(2) V(5, 2)) which are external to the Grassmannian G(1,4,2) of lines of PG(4,2). Let the Grassmann image in G(1,4,2) of a partial spread... Read More about Partial spreads in PG(4,2) and flats in PG(9,2) external to the Grassmannian G1,4,2.