Objective evidence for the use of polylactic acid implants in HIV-associated facial lipoatrophy using three-dimensional surface laser scanning and psychological assessment (2009)
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The advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has dramatically improved the life expectancy of people infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Although patients often have excellent disease control with these combinations of ant... Read More about Objective evidence for the use of polylactic acid implants in HIV-associated facial lipoatrophy using three-dimensional surface laser scanning and psychological assessment.

A randomized clinical trial of a brief hypnosis intervention to control venepuncture-related pain of paediatric cancer patients (2009)
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Venepuncture for blood sampling can be a distressing experience for a considerable number of children. A prospective controlled trial was conducted to compare the efficacy of a local anaesthetic (EMLA) with a combination of EMLA with self-hypnosis in... Read More about A randomized clinical trial of a brief hypnosis intervention to control venepuncture-related pain of paediatric cancer patients.

Radio tagging reveals the roles of corpulence, experience and social information in ant decision making (2009)
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Ant colonies are factories within fortresses (Oster and Wilson 1978). They run on resources foraged from an outside world fraught with danger. On what basis do individual ants decide to leave the safety of the nest? We investigated the relative roles... Read More about Radio tagging reveals the roles of corpulence, experience and social information in ant decision making.

A randomization method to control the Type I error rates in best subset regression (2009)
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The behaviour of ant transporters at the old and new nests during successive colony emigrations (2008)
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Colonies of the ant Temnothorax albipennis improve their collective performance over successive emigrations (Langridge et al. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 56:523-529, 2004, Behav Ecol Sociobiol 62:447-456, 2008). Here, by analysing the performance of individ... Read More about The behaviour of ant transporters at the old and new nests during successive colony emigrations.

Can ant colonies choose a far-and-away better nest over an in-the-way poor one? (2008)
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Nest choice in the ant Temnothorax albipennis is a model system for investigating collective decision making. Previous research has demonstrated the sophistication of this decentralized system, yet such studies have focused on binary choices in which... Read More about Can ant colonies choose a far-and-away better nest over an in-the-way poor one?.

Individual and collective choice: Parallel prospecting and mining in ants (2008)
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Decision making is of crucial importance in the lives of both animals and humans. How decisions of group members scale up to group decisions is of great interest. Accordingly, we gave homeless ant colonies (n=67) in three experiments a choice between... Read More about Individual and collective choice: Parallel prospecting and mining in ants.

How experienced individuals contribute to an improvement in collective performance in ants (2008)
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Certain groups of organisms are capable of improving their collective performance with experience. In a recent study, we demonstrated that, over successive emigrations, colonies of the ant Temnothorax albipennis are able to improve their collective p... Read More about How experienced individuals contribute to an improvement in collective performance in ants.

Improving organ and tissue donation in transplantation: a model for maximising rates of donation and managing emergent transplant procedures (2008)
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A computational approach for valid assessment of significance in best subsets regression (2008)
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Parental pain expectancy as a mediator between child expected and experienced procedure-related pain intensity during painful medical procedures (2007)
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OBJECTIVES: The aim of this prospective investigation was to evaluate child and parental expectancies as a predictor of pain perception in pediatric oncology patients undergoing painful medical procedures. METHODS: Forty-five children with leukemia o... Read More about Parental pain expectancy as a mediator between child expected and experienced procedure-related pain intensity during painful medical procedures.

Attitudes to facial transplantation of transplant professionals in the UK (2007)
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Does severity predict distress? The relationship between subjective and objective measures of appearance and psychological adjustment, during treatment for facial lipoatrophy (2007)
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Bristol COPD knowledge questionnaire (BCKQ): Testing what we teach patients about COPD (2006)
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Health professionals recommend education of patients about COPD. There is no satisfactory instrument to measure their knowledge and therefore to assess the results of education. A multiple-choice questionnaire (BCKQ) has been designed and tested. Eac... Read More about Bristol COPD knowledge questionnaire (BCKQ): Testing what we teach patients about COPD.

Attitudes to face transplantation: Results of a public engagement exercise at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition (2006)
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Hettiaratchy and Butler (Lancet 2002;360:5-6) framed face transplantation as the next logical step on the reconstructive ladder for severe facial injury, in particular, pan-facial burns. The procedure formed the basis for a Royal College of Surgeons... Read More about Attitudes to face transplantation: Results of a public engagement exercise at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition.

Practice-based learning in information systems: The advantages for students (2006)
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Improvement in collective performance with experience in ants (2004)
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We show that entire ant colonies can improve their collective performance progressively when they repeat the same process. Colonies of Leptothorax albipennis can reduce their total emigration times over successive emigrations. We show that this impro... Read More about Improvement in collective performance with experience in ants.

Algorithms for building annular structures with minimalist robots inspired by brood sorting in ant colonies (2004)
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This study shows that a task as complicated as multi-object 'ant-like annular sorting' can be accomplished with 'minimalist' solutions employing simple mechanisms and minimal hardware. It provides an alternative to 'patch sorting' for multi-object so... Read More about Algorithms for building annular structures with minimalist robots inspired by brood sorting in ant colonies.

Random walk models of worker sorting in ant colonies (2002)
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Sorting can be an important mechanism for the transfer of information from one level of biological organization to another. Here we study the algorithm underlying worker sorting in Leptothorax ant colonies. Worker sorting is related to task allocatio... Read More about Random walk models of worker sorting in ant colonies.

The role of competition in task switching during colony emigration in the ant Leptothorax albipennis (2002)
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The decision-making process that determines when an animal should switch between tasks is a fundamental issue in the study of animal behaviour. We investigated, for the first time, such task switching in terms of the dynamics of worker populations in... Read More about The role of competition in task switching during colony emigration in the ant Leptothorax albipennis.