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Estrogenic activity of cadmium, copper and zinc in the yeast estrogen screen (2009)
Journal Article
Denier, X., Hill, E. M., Rotchell, J., & Minier, C. (2009). Estrogenic activity of cadmium, copper and zinc in the yeast estrogen screen. Toxicology in Vitro, 23(4), 569-573. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tiv.2009.01.006

Heavy metals are increasingly studied due to their apparent ability to disrupt signaling pathways of living organisms including humans. Among various mechanisms of action, metals are suspected of exerting estrogenic activity in human and wildlife. In... Read More about Estrogenic activity of cadmium, copper and zinc in the yeast estrogen screen.

Menstrual and menarche experience among pubescent female students in Taiwan: implications for health education and promotion practice (2009)
Journal Article
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., …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.

A decade of internationalisation: Has it influenced students' views of cross-cultural group work at University? (2009)
Journal Article
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?.

Parasite resistance and the adaptive significance of sleep (2009)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Disinterestedness and objectivity (2009)
Journal Article
Came, D. (2009). Disinterestedness and objectivity. European Journal of Philosophy, 17(1), 91-100. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0378.2008.00334.x

Grazing incidence X-ray diffraction of a photoaligned nematic semiconductor (2009)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Biomarkers, dementia, and public health (2009)
Journal Article
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.

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)
Journal Article
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..

Shore crabs (Carcinus maenas (Linneaus)) as predators of rough periwinkles (Littorina saxatilis (Olivi)) : can crab feeding behaviour influence the distribution of rough periwinkles? (2009)
Thesis
Jennings, R. (2009). Shore crabs (Carcinus maenas (Linneaus)) as predators of rough periwinkles (Littorina saxatilis (Olivi)) : can crab feeding behaviour influence the distribution of rough periwinkles?. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4215940

The feeding behaviour of the predator Carcinus maenas (L.) whilst foraging on the two distinct ecotypes, H and M, of the rough periwinkle Littorina saxatilis (Olivi) found on the North East coast of England was studied. The high shore (H) ecotype pos... Read More about Shore crabs (Carcinus maenas (Linneaus)) as predators of rough periwinkles (Littorina saxatilis (Olivi)) : can crab feeding behaviour influence the distribution of rough periwinkles?.

Theoretical investigations into competition, regulation, and integration in transport networks (2009)
Thesis
Reynolds, M. M. (2009). Theoretical investigations into competition, regulation, and integration in transport networks. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4215481

This thesis consists of three parts. In the first part, we review the literature and some of the key issues in UK transport. We identify a need to discourage car use and the role that public transport plays in this. We discuss the various options ava... Read More about Theoretical investigations into competition, regulation, and integration in transport networks.

The efficacy of back calculation methods for determining length at age data and the use of such data to determine growth standards, national growth patterns and recruitment dynamics of roach (Rutilus rutilus (L.)), dace (Leuciscus leuciscus (L.)) and chub (Leuciscus cephalus (L.)) in UK rivers (2009)
Thesis
Rollins, D. J. (2009). The efficacy of back calculation methods for determining length at age data and the use of such data to determine growth standards, national growth patterns and recruitment dynamics of roach (Rutilus rutilus (L.)), dace (Leuciscus leuciscus (L.)) and chub (Leuciscus cephalus (L.)) in UK rivers. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4213984

The use of fish scales to age and back-calculate previous lengths at age and gain age and growth information has long been used as a management tool in fisheries. Calcified structures from fish, including otoliths, fin rays, and vertebrae have been u... Read More about The efficacy of back calculation methods for determining length at age data and the use of such data to determine growth standards, national growth patterns and recruitment dynamics of roach (Rutilus rutilus (L.)), dace (Leuciscus leuciscus (L.)) and chub (Leuciscus cephalus (L.)) in UK rivers.

Understanding good ecological status: a palaeolimnological approach (2009)
Thesis
Yates-Sabren, K. T. (2009). Understanding good ecological status: a palaeolimnological approach. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4213058

The current study uses multiproxy palaeolimnological analysis of sediment cores to reconstruct the long-term (10² to 10³ years) nutrient status of Upper Talley and Llyn Pencarreg, two closely adjacent, moderately nutrient-enriched lakes in Carmarthen... Read More about Understanding good ecological status: a palaeolimnological approach.