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Suppressing human rights? A rights-based approach to the use of pharmacotherapy with sex offenders (2009)
Journal Article
Harrison, K., & Rainey, B. (2009). Suppressing human rights? A rights-based approach to the use of pharmacotherapy with sex offenders. Legal Studies, 29(1), 47-74. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-121X.2008.00111.x

The use of pharmacotherapy (more emotively known as chemical castration) is the use of drugs to treat and help manage the risk that sex offenders, and in particular paedophiles, pose to society. Due to the increased climate of public fear of this ris... Read More about Suppressing human rights? A rights-based approach to the use of pharmacotherapy with sex offenders.

Seoul housing prices and the role of speculation (2009)
Journal Article
Xiao, Q., & Park, D. (2010). Seoul housing prices and the role of speculation. Empirical economics, 38(3), 619-644. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-009-0282-x

Between June 1998 and March 2006, the price index of apartment houses in Seoul, Korea, more than doubled, while fundamentals such as GDP, wage, and population increased by less than 35%. This study examines the role of a rational speculative bubble i... Read More about Seoul housing prices and the role of speculation.

Book review: Flexible higher education (2009)
Journal Article
Watson, R. (2009). Book review: Flexible higher education. Review of higher education, 32(3), 437 - 439

To a significant extent, flexible learning is quite inflexible in the sense that mistakes incorporated into learning resources cannot easily be corrected; the teacher cannot simply tell students at the next lecture or tutorial or easily issue correct... Read More about Book review: Flexible higher education.

Daniel Goldmark, Lawrence Kramer, and Richard Leppert, eds, Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007), ISBN 978-0-520-25069-7 (hb), 978-0-520-25070-3 (pb) (2009)
Journal Article
Binns, A. (2009). Daniel Goldmark, Lawrence Kramer, and Richard Leppert, eds, Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007), ISBN 978-0-520-25069-7 (hb), 978-0-520-25070-3 (pb). Twentieth-century music, 6(1), 122-126. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1478572210000101

The use of carrier RNA to enhance DNA extraction from microfluidic-based silica monoliths (2009)
Journal Article
Shaw, K. J., Thain, L., Dyer, C., Docker, P. T., Greenman, J., Greenway, G. M., & Haswell, S. J. (2009). The use of carrier RNA to enhance DNA extraction from microfluidic-based silica monoliths. Analytica Chimica Acta, 652(1-2), 231-233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aca.2009.03.038

DNA extraction was carried out on silica-based monoliths within a microfluidic device. Solid-phase DNA extraction methodology was applied in which the DNA binds to silica in the presence of a chaotropic salt, such as guanidine hydrochloride, and is e... Read More about The use of carrier RNA to enhance DNA extraction from microfluidic-based silica monoliths.

Organisational Stressors, Coping, and Coping Effectiveness: A Longitudinal Study with an Elite Coach (2009)
Journal Article
Levy, A., Nicholls, A., Marchant, D., & Polman, R. (2009). Organisational Stressors, Coping, and Coping Effectiveness: A Longitudinal Study with an Elite Coach. International journal of sports science & coaching, 4(1), 31-45. https://doi.org/10.1260/1747-9541.4.1.31

The purpose of this study was to examine organisational stressors, coping, and perceptions of coping effectiveness with an elite coach. The participant completed a daily diary over a 28-day period. Each diary entry consisted of an open-ended stressor... Read More about Organisational Stressors, Coping, and Coping Effectiveness: A Longitudinal Study with an Elite Coach.

Stress appraisals, emotions, and coping among international adolescent golfers (2009)
Journal Article
Nicholls, A. R., Hemmings, B., & Clough, P. J. (2010). Stress appraisals, emotions, and coping among international adolescent golfers. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, 20(2), 346-355. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0838.2009.00894.x

The aims of this study were to (a) explore the emotions generated during or as a consequence of stress appraisals, after coping, and after the event outcome, (b) explore whether multiple emotions were generated from the initial stress appraisal throu... Read More about Stress appraisals, emotions, and coping among international adolescent golfers.

Self-rated health and mortality in patients with chronic heart failure (2009)
Journal Article
Farkas, J., Nabb, S., Zaletel-Kragelj, L., Cleland, J. G. F., & Lainscak, M. (2009). Self-rated health and mortality in patients with chronic heart failure. European journal of heart failure, 11(5), 518-524. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjhf/hfp038

AimsIn patients with chronic heart failure (CHF), there is limited information on self-rated health (SRH). We aimed to examine the distribution of SRH and whether SRH is associated with mortality in patients with stable CHF.Methods and resultsWe enro... Read More about Self-rated health and mortality in patients with chronic heart failure.

Performing wartime memories: ceremony as contest at the Risiera di San Sabba Death Camp, Trieste (2009)
Journal Article
Purvis, M., & Atkinson, D. (2009). Performing wartime memories: ceremony as contest at the Risiera di San Sabba Death Camp, Trieste. Social & cultural geography, 10(3), 337-356. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649360902756648

The paper examines contest over one of Trieste's most emotive sites of memory, the former Nazi death camp at the Risiera di San Sabba. Attention is paid to the Risiera as a site for ceremonial recollection of World War Two, and to the enmeshing of th... Read More about Performing wartime memories: ceremony as contest at the Risiera di San Sabba Death Camp, Trieste.

Decisions Made on Scant Information: Overview (2009)
Book Chapter
Williams, T. M. (2009). Decisions Made on Scant Information: Overview. In T. M. Williams, K. Samset, & K. Sunnevåg (Eds.), Making Essential Choices with Scant Information: Front-End Decision Making in Major Projects (3-17). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230236837_1

This chapter brings an overview to an edited book that looks at how decisions can be made at the front-end of major projects, in circumstances where information is usually scant. The book examines how projects can be successfully aligned with the des... Read More about Decisions Made on Scant Information: Overview.

Plastin 1 binds to keratin and is required for terminal web assembly in the intestinal epithelium (2009)
Journal Article
Grimm-Gunter, E. M. S., Grimm-Guenter, E.-M. S., Ferrary, E., Grimm-Günter, E.-M. S., Hurbain, I., Louvard, D., Ramos, S., Revenu, C., Rivero, F., Robine, S., & Smyth, N. (2009). Plastin 1 binds to keratin and is required for terminal web assembly in the intestinal epithelium. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 20(10), 2549-2562. https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.e08-10-1030

Plastin 1 (I-plastin, fimbrin) along with villin and espin is a prominent actin-bundling protein of the intestinal brush border microvilli. We demonstrate here that plastin 1 accumulates in the terminal web and interacts with keratin 19, possibly con... Read More about Plastin 1 binds to keratin and is required for terminal web assembly in the intestinal epithelium.

Why colour in subterranean vertebrates? Exploring the evolution of colour patterns in caecilian amphibians (2009)
Journal Article
Wollenberg, K. C., & John Measey, G. (2009). Why colour in subterranean vertebrates? Exploring the evolution of colour patterns in caecilian amphibians. Journal of evolutionary biology, 22(5), 1046-1056. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01717.x

The proximate functions of animal skin colour are difficult to assign as they can result from natural selection, sexual selection or neutral evolution under genetic drift. Most often colour patterns are thought to signal visual stimuli; so, their pre... Read More about Why colour in subterranean vertebrates? Exploring the evolution of colour patterns in caecilian amphibians.

A microfluidic approach to chemically driven assembly of colloidal particles at gas-liquid interfaces (2009)
Journal Article
Park, J. I., Nie, Z., Kumachev, A., Abdelrahman, A. I., Binks, B. P., Stone, H. A., & Kumacheva, E. (2009). A microfluidic approach to chemically driven assembly of colloidal particles at gas-liquid interfaces. Angewandte Chemie, 48(29), 5300-5304. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.200805204

Bubbling up: Dissolution of CO 2 bubbles in a suspension of colloidal particles chemically induces the assembly of particles on the surface of shrunken bubbles, and thus yields rapid continuous formation of a colloidal armor. This approach maintains... Read More about A microfluidic approach to chemically driven assembly of colloidal particles at gas-liquid interfaces.

Weapons and violence: a review of theory and research (2009)
Journal Article
Brennan, I. R., & Moore, S. C. (2009). Weapons and violence: a review of theory and research. Aggression and violent behavior, 14(3), 215-225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2009.03.003

Weapons are used in approximately one quarter of all violent incidents and the majority of homicides in the US, and the UK. Despite their overwhelming contribution to violent harm, theories of weapon related behaviors are scarce, and little is known... Read More about Weapons and violence: a review of theory and research.

Suggested visual hallucinations in and out of hypnosis (2009)
Journal Article
Mazzoni, G., Rotriquenz, E., Carvalho, C., Vannucci, M., Roberts, K., & Kirsch, I. (2009). Suggested visual hallucinations in and out of hypnosis. Consciousness and cognition, 18(2), 494-499. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2009.02.002

We administered suggestions to see a gray-scale pattern as colored and a colored pattern in shades of gray to 30 high suggestible and eight low suggestible students. The suggestions were administered twice, once following the induction of hypnosis an... Read More about Suggested visual hallucinations in and out of hypnosis.

Bedrich Smetana: Dalibor (2009)
Book
Zlámalová, L., Drábek, P., & Drabek, P. (2009). Bedrich Smetana: Dalibor. Větrné mlýny

An edition of librettos for Bedrich Smetana's opera Dalibor by Pavel Drábek, Josef Wenzig, Ervín Špindler and Rudolf Vonásek. Introductory essays by Miloš Štedron, Pavel Drábek, Michael Tarant, Zdenek Nejedlý, Josef Bartoš, Bohuslav Karásek. Critical... Read More about Bedrich Smetana: Dalibor.

Exposure to secondhand smoke and cognitive impairment in non-smokers: National cross sectional study with cotinine measurement (2009)
Journal Article
Llewellyn, D. J., Lang, L. A., Langa, K. M., Naughton, F., & Matthews, F. E. (2009). Exposure to secondhand smoke and cognitive impairment in non-smokers: National cross sectional study with cotinine measurement. BMJ, 338(7695), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b462

Objective To examine the association between a biomarker of exposure to secondhand smoke (salivary cotinine concentration) and cognitive impairment. Design Cross sectional analysis of a national population based study. Setting Stratified random sampl... Read More about Exposure to secondhand smoke and cognitive impairment in non-smokers: National cross sectional study with cotinine measurement.

Mental toughness in sport: Achievement level, gender, age, experience, and sport type differences (2009)
Journal Article
Nicholls, A. R., Polman, R. C. J., Levy, A. R., & Backhouse, S. H. (2009). Mental toughness in sport: Achievement level, gender, age, experience, and sport type differences. Personality and individual differences, 47(1), 73-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.02.006

It was hypothesized that there would be significant differences in mental toughness among athletes of different: (a) achievement level, (b) gender, (c) age, (d) sporting experience, and (e) sport type (team vs. individual and contact vs. non-contact... Read More about Mental toughness in sport: Achievement level, gender, age, experience, and sport type differences.

Randomized clinical trial of Entonox ® versus midazolam-fentanyl sedation for colonoscopy (2009)
Journal Article
Maslekar, S., Gardiner, A., Hughes, M., Culbert, B., & Duthie, G. S. (2009). Randomized clinical trial of Entonox ® versus midazolam-fentanyl sedation for colonoscopy. British journal of surgery, 96(4), 361-368. https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.6467

Background: Intravenous sedation for colonoscopy is associated with cardiorespiratory complications and delayed recovery. The aim of this randomized clinical trial was to compare the efficacy of Entonox ® (50 per cent nitrous oxide and 50 per cent o... Read More about Randomized clinical trial of Entonox ® versus midazolam-fentanyl sedation for colonoscopy.