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Serum proteomic profiling reveals that pretreatment complement protein levels are predictive of esophageal cancer patient response to neoadjuvant chemoradiation (2011)
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Maher, S. G., McDowell, D. T., Collins, B. C., Muldoon, C., Gallagher, W. M., & Reynolds, J. V. (2011). Serum proteomic profiling reveals that pretreatment complement protein levels are predictive of esophageal cancer patient response to neoadjuvant chemoradiation. Annals of Surgery, 254(5), 809-816. https://doi.org/10.1097/SLA.0b013e31823699f2

OBJECTIVE: To identify serum-based biomarkers predicting response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (neo-CRT) in esophageal cancer. PURPOSE: Increasingly, the standard of care for esophageal cancer involves neo-CRT followed by surgery. The identificat... Read More about Serum proteomic profiling reveals that pretreatment complement protein levels are predictive of esophageal cancer patient response to neoadjuvant chemoradiation.

Sound fields inside street canyons with inclined flanking building façades (2011)
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Tang, S. K., & Piippo, K. E. (2011). Sound fields inside street canyons with inclined flanking building façades. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3624578

Street canyons are common in modern cities. It is well known that the multiple sound reflections within the canyons tend to increase the noise levels inside the canyons. An scaled down model experiment was conducted in the present investigation to st... Read More about Sound fields inside street canyons with inclined flanking building façades.

Use of the dynalearn learning environment by naïve student modelers: Implications for automated support (2011)
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Noble, R., & Bredeweg, B. (2011). Use of the dynalearn learning environment by naïve student modelers: Implications for automated support. Lecture notes in computer science, 6738 LNAI, 519-521. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21869-9_88

This paper shows that naïve students will require coaching to overcome the difficulties they face in identifying the important concepts to be modeled, and understanding the causal meta-vocabulary needed for conceptual models. The results of this stud... Read More about Use of the dynalearn learning environment by naïve student modelers: Implications for automated support.

Maternal investment, life histories, and the costs of brain growth in mammals (2011)
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Barton, R. A., & Capellini, I. (2011). Maternal investment, life histories, and the costs of brain growth in mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(15), 6169-6174. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1019140108

Brain size variation in mammals correlates with life histories: larger-brained species have longer gestations, mature later, and have increased lifespans. These patterns have been explained in terms of developmental costs (larger brains take longer t... Read More about Maternal investment, life histories, and the costs of brain growth in mammals.

An integrated pipeline to create and experience compelling scenarios in virtual reality (2011)
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Springer, J. P., Neumann, C., Reiners, D., & Cruz-Neira, C. (2011). An integrated pipeline to create and experience compelling scenarios in virtual reality. Proceedings of SPIE, 7864, 43070. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.879278

One of the main barriers to create and use compelling scenarios in virtual reality is the complexity and time-consuming efforts for modeling, element integration, and the software development to properly display and interact with the content in the a... Read More about An integrated pipeline to create and experience compelling scenarios in virtual reality.

Place of death: Is home always best? (2011)
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Macleod, U. (2011). Place of death: Is home always best?. British journal of hospital medicine, 72(8), 441-443. https://doi.org/10.12968/hmed.2011.72.8.441

Place of death is now a quality marker of end of life care. Decisions around place of death are complex. This article considers the extent to which place of death is an appropriate way to determine good end of life care.

Dynamic effect of perfect preventive maintenance on system reliability and cost using HiP-HOPS (2010)
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Nggada, S. H., Parker, D. J., & Papadopoulos, Y. I. (2010). Dynamic effect of perfect preventive maintenance on system reliability and cost using HiP-HOPS. IFAC Proceedings Volumes/ International Federation of Automatic Control, 43(17), 204-209. https://doi.org/10.3182/20100908-3-pt-3007.00039

The occurrence of failure in a safety critical engineering system can be reduced through the use of preventive maintenance (PM). Each time a component of the system is maintained its effective age is reduced; the extent of this age reduction depends... Read More about Dynamic effect of perfect preventive maintenance on system reliability and cost using HiP-HOPS.

The fate of oilfield corrosion inhibitors in multiphase systems (2010)
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Horsup, D. I., Clark, J. C., Binks, B. P., Fletcher, P. D. I., & Hicks, J. T. (2010). The fate of oilfield corrosion inhibitors in multiphase systems. Corrosion, 66(3), 0360011-03600114. https://doi.org/10.5006/1.3360913

Corrosion inhibitors have been used for many years to protect oil and gas pipelines, The application of small quantifies of an inhibitor to production fluids is often one of the most cost-effective methods for, imparting corrosion protection in a sys... Read More about The fate of oilfield corrosion inhibitors in multiphase systems.

A decade of internationalisation: Has it influenced students' views of cross-cultural group work at University? (2009)
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Montgomery, C. (2009). A decade of internationalisation: Has it influenced students' views of cross-cultural group work at University?. Journal of Studies in International Education, 13(2), 256-270. doi:10.1177/1028315308329790

This article considers how student views of collaborative study in a diverse international academic context may have changed in the past decade. A retrospective is provided on a research project carried out in 1998 that investigated students' views o... Read More about A decade of internationalisation: Has it influenced students' views of cross-cultural group work at University?.

Biomarkers, dementia, and public health (2009)
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Wright, C. F., Hall, A., Matthews, F. E., & Brayne, C. (2009). Biomarkers, dementia, and public health. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1180, 11-19. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04942.x

Public health is defined as the organized efforts of society to improve health. This is often framed in terms of prevention, with primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention representing, respectively, fundamental prevention through understanding of... Read More about Biomarkers, dementia, and public health.

Non-coherent modelling in compositional fault tree analysis (2008)
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Sharvia, S., & Papadopoulos, Y. I. (2008). Non-coherent modelling in compositional fault tree analysis. IFAC Proceedings Volumes/ International Federation of Automatic Control, 41(2), 4138-4143. https://doi.org/10.3182/20080706-5-KR-1001.00696

The inclusion of NOT gates in a fault tree creates a 'non-coherent' structure in which not only the failure of a component but also the negation of failure, i.e. the working state of the component, can contribute to the undesirable effects on a syste... Read More about Non-coherent modelling in compositional fault tree analysis.

Conflict and collaboration: Britain and Sultan Ibrahim of Johore (2008)
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Smith, S. C. (2008). Conflict and collaboration: Britain and Sultan Ibrahim of Johore. Indonesia and the Malay World, 36(106), 345-358. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639810802450357

The establishment of workable collaborative relations with indigenous elites formed a vital part of the maintenance of the British Empire. This was especially so in the Malay States, where the Malay rulers enjoyed considerable local prestige as relig... Read More about Conflict and collaboration: Britain and Sultan Ibrahim of Johore.

The disengage deficit in hemispatial neglect is restricted to between-object shifts and is abolished by prism adaptation (2008)
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Schindler, I., McIntosh, R. D., Cassidy, T. P., Birchall, D., Benson, V., Ietswaart, M., & Milner, A. D. (2009). The disengage deficit in hemispatial neglect is restricted to between-object shifts and is abolished by prism adaptation. Experimental Brain Research, 192(3), 499-510. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-008-1585-4

We sought to determine the effects of prism adaptation on peripherally cued visual attention shifting in patients with spatial neglect, using a task devised by Egly et al. (J Exp Psychol Gen 123:161-177, 1994) based on the classic Posner paradigm. Th... Read More about The disengage deficit in hemispatial neglect is restricted to between-object shifts and is abolished by prism adaptation.

Fighting behaviour and the role of urinary signals in dominance assessment of Norway lobsters, Nephrops norvegicus (2008)
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Breithaupt, T., Johnson, M., & Katoh, E. (2008). Fighting behaviour and the role of urinary signals in dominance assessment of Norway lobsters, Nephrops norvegicus. Behaviour, 145(10), 1447-1464. https://doi.org/10.1163/156853908785765917

Norway lobsters, Nephrops norvegicus, live on the bottom of the continental shelf where they construct and defend burrows. Little is known about their agonistic behaviour and potential mechanisms of dominance. This paper investigates fighting behavio... Read More about Fighting behaviour and the role of urinary signals in dominance assessment of Norway lobsters, Nephrops norvegicus.

Development of behavioural and physiological assays to assess discrimination of male and female odours in crayfish, Pacifastacus leniusculus (2008)
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Berry, F. C., & Breithaupt, T. (2008). Development of behavioural and physiological assays to assess discrimination of male and female odours in crayfish, Pacifastacus leniusculus. Behaviour, 145(10), 1427-1446. https://doi.org/10.1163/156853908785765845

Many aquatic organisms use chemical signals to coordinate courtship. However, relatively few water-borne pheromones have been identified. A key obstacle hindering progress in the purification of crustacean pheromones has been the development of relia... Read More about Development of behavioural and physiological assays to assess discrimination of male and female odours in crayfish, Pacifastacus leniusculus.

Interspecific activity of the sex pheromone of the European shore crab (Carcinus maenas) (2008)
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Bublitz, R., Sainte-Marie, B., Newcomb-Hodgetts, C., Fletcher, N., Smith, M., & Hardege, J. (2008). Interspecific activity of the sex pheromone of the European shore crab (Carcinus maenas). Behaviour, 145(10), 1465-1478. https://doi.org/10.1163/156853908785765872

The recent identification of uridine diphosphate (UDP) as the female sex-pheromone in the European shore crab Carcinus maenas demonstrated not only the link between moult and pheromone production, but also how it may have evolved from a 'simple' meta... Read More about Interspecific activity of the sex pheromone of the European shore crab (Carcinus maenas).