A randomised controlled trial of intravenous zoledronic acid in malignant pleural disease: A proof of principle pilot study (2015)
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© 2015 Clive et al. Introduction: Animal studies have shown Zoledronic Acid (ZA) may diminish pleural fluid accumulation and tumour bulk in malignant pleural disease (MPD). We performed a pilot study to evaluate its effects in humans. Methods: We und... Read More about A randomised controlled trial of intravenous zoledronic acid in malignant pleural disease: A proof of principle pilot study.

The effect of chemotherapy on health-related quality of life in mesothelioma: Results from the SWAMP trial (2015)
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© 2015 Cancer Research UK. All rights reserved. Background: The effect of chemotherapy on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is poorly understood. Patient-individualised prognostication and prediction of tr... Read More about The effect of chemotherapy on health-related quality of life in mesothelioma: Results from the SWAMP trial.

Social behaviour and collective motion in plant-animal worms (2015)
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© 2016 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. Social behaviour may enable organisms to occupy ecological niches that would otherwise be unavailable to them. Here, we test this major evolutionary prin- ciple by demonstratin... Read More about Social behaviour and collective motion in plant-animal worms.

Universality in ant behaviour (2015)
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© 2014 The Authors. Prediction for social systems is a major challenge. Universality at the social level has inspired a unified theory for urban living but individual variation makes predicting relationships within societies difficult. Here, we show... Read More about Universality in ant behaviour.

Clinical evaluation of a prototype underwear designed to detect urine leakage from continence pads (2015)
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Copyright © 2015 by the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society. PURPOSE: We evaluated the performance of prototype underwear designed to detect urine leakage from continence pads, their acceptability to users, and their effect on health-related... Read More about Clinical evaluation of a prototype underwear designed to detect urine leakage from continence pads.

Relaxed observance of traditional marriage rules allows social connectivity without loss of genetic diversity (2015)
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© 2015 The Author. Marriage rules, the community prescriptions that dictate who an individual can or cannot marry, are extremely diverse and universally present in traditional societies. A major focus of research in the early decades of modern anthro... Read More about Relaxed observance of traditional marriage rules allows social connectivity without loss of genetic diversity.

SMARTPOP: Inferring the impact of social dynamics on genetic diversity through high speed simulations (2014)
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Background: Social behavior has long been known to influence patterns of genetic diversity, but the effect of social processes on population genetics remains poorly quantified - partly due to limited community-level genetic sampling (which is increas... Read More about SMARTPOP: Inferring the impact of social dynamics on genetic diversity through high speed simulations.

Trail laying during tandem-running recruitment in the ant Temnothorax albipennis (2014)
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Tandem running is a recruitment strategy whereby one ant leads a single naïve nest mate to a resource. While tandem running progresses towards the goal, the leader ant and the follower ant maintain contact mainly by tactile signals. In this paper, we... Read More about Trail laying during tandem-running recruitment in the ant Temnothorax albipennis.

The Canadian contribution to the otolaryngology literature: A five year bibliometric analysis (2014)
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© 2014 Gurberg et al. Objectives: To assess the 2008-2012 Canadian contribution to the Otolaryngology literature. Methods: All articles published from January 2008 - December 2012 in 5 Otolaryngology journals were reviewed. Nationality, number of aut... Read More about The Canadian contribution to the otolaryngology literature: A five year bibliometric analysis.

Nasogastric tube depth: The 'NEX' guideline is incorrect (2014)
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© 2014 MA Healthcare Ltd. Misplacing 17-23% of nasogastric (NG) tubes above the stomach (Rollins et al, 2012; Rayner, 2013) represents a serious risk in terms of aspiration, further invasive (tube) procedures, irradiation from failed X-ray confirmati... Read More about Nasogastric tube depth: The 'NEX' guideline is incorrect.

Landmarks and ant search strategies after interrupted tandem runs (2013)
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© 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd. During a tandem run, a single leading ant recruits a single follower to an important resource such as a new nest. To examine this process, we used a motorized gantry, which has not previously been u... Read More about Landmarks and ant search strategies after interrupted tandem runs.

Nest-seeking rock ants (Temnothorax albipennis) trade off sediment packing density and structural integrity for ease of cavity excavation (2013)
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We investigated excavation and nest site choice across sediment-filled cavities in the ant Temnothorax albipennis. Colonies were presented with sediment-filled cavities, covering a spectrum from ones that should be quick to excavate but will form a w... Read More about Nest-seeking rock ants (Temnothorax albipennis) trade off sediment packing density and structural integrity for ease of cavity excavation.

Economic investment by ant colonies in searches for better homes (2013)
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Organisms should invest more in gathering information when the pay-off from finding a profitable resource is likely to be greater. Here, we ask whether animal societies put more effort in scouting for a new nest when their current one is of low quali... Read More about Economic investment by ant colonies in searches for better homes.

Learning and decision making in a social context (2013)
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Individual and social information gathering are fine-tuned to the internal state of the group (2013)
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It is well known that the environment a group inhabits influences the frequency at which its members use information gained from one another, that is, social information. However, the potential link between internal state (i.e. individual and socia... Read More about Individual and social information gathering are fine-tuned to the internal state of the group.

Infrared Spectroscopic Studies of Cells and Tissues: Triple Helix Proteins as a Potential Biomarker for Tumors (2013)
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In this work, the infrared (IR) spectra of living neural cells in suspension, native brain tissue, and native brain tumor tissue were investigated. Methods were developed to overcome the strong IR signal of liquid water so that the signal from the ce... Read More about Infrared Spectroscopic Studies of Cells and Tissues: Triple Helix Proteins as a Potential Biomarker for Tumors.

Speech characteristics of 8-year-old children with speech difficulties: Findings from a prospective population study (2013)
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Climate change influenced female population sizes through time across the Indonesian archipelago (2013)
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Lying at the crossroads of Asia and the Pacific world, the Indonesian archipelago hosts one of the world's richest accumulations of cultural, linguistic, and genetic variation. While the role of human migration into and around the archipelago is now... Read More about Climate change influenced female population sizes through time across the Indonesian archipelago.

Deviation and failure of enhanced recovery after surgery following laparoscopic colorectal surgery: Early prediction model (2012)
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Aim Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) programmes are well established, but deviation from the postoperative elements may result in delayed discharge. Early identification of such patients may allow remedial action to be taken. The aims of this s... Read More about Deviation and failure of enhanced recovery after surgery following laparoscopic colorectal surgery: Early prediction model.

Validation of virtual reality simulation for obstetric ultrasonography: A prospective cross-sectional study (2012)
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INTRODUCTION: Ultrasonography is an important skill for obstetricians and gynecologists; however, trainees have highlighted ultrasonography as an area of deficiency in their training. We undertook a prospective cross-sectional comparative study to as... Read More about Validation of virtual reality simulation for obstetric ultrasonography: A prospective cross-sectional study.