Infrared Spectroscopic Studies of Cells and Tissues: Triple Helix Proteins as a Potential Biomarker for Tumors (2013)
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Stelling, A. L., Toher, D., Uckermann, O., Tavkin, J., Leipnitz, E., Schweizer, J., …Kirsch, M. (2013). Infrared Spectroscopic Studies of Cells and Tissues: Triple Helix Proteins as a Potential Biomarker for Tumors. PLoS ONE, 8(3), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058332

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.

Police identity in a time of rapid organizational, social and political change: A pilot report, Avon and Somerset constabulary (2013)
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Speech characteristics of 8-year-old children with speech difficulties: Findings from a prospective population study (2013)
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Wren, Y., McLeod, S., White, P., Miller, L., & Roulstone, S. (2013). Speech characteristics of 8-year-old children with speech difficulties: Findings from a prospective population study. Journal of Communication Disorders, 46(1), 53-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2012.08.008

Climate change influenced female population sizes through time across the Indonesian archipelago (2013)
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Guillot, E. G., Guillot, E., Tumonggor, M. K., Lansing, J. S., Sudoyo, H., & Cox, M. P. (2013). Climate change influenced female population sizes through time across the Indonesian archipelago. Human Biology, 85(1-3), 135-152. https://doi.org/10.3378/027.085.0306

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.

Speech characteristics of 8-year-old children: Findings from a prospective population study (2013)
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Miller, L. L., Wren, Y., McLeod, S., White, P., Miller, L., & Roulstone, S. (2013). Speech characteristics of 8-year-old children: Findings from a prospective population study. Journal of Communication Disorders, 46(1), 53-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2012.08.008

Speech disorder that continues into middle childhood is rarely studied compared with speech disorder in the early years. Speech production in single words, connected speech and nonword repetition was assessed for 7390 eight-year-old children within t... Read More about Speech characteristics of 8-year-old children: Findings from a prospective population study.

A pilot randomised controlled trial of the pelvic toner device in female stress urinary incontinence (2013)
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Delgado, D., White, P., Trochez, R., & Drake, M. J. (2013). A pilot randomised controlled trial of the pelvic toner device in female stress urinary incontinence. International Urogynecology Journal, 24(10), 1739-1745. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00192-013-2107-x

Introduction and hypothesis To determine the feasibility of using the pelvic toner device (PTD) in aiding pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) Methods Forty women, aged at least 18 years with symptoms of pure stress urinary incontinence (SUI) or stres... Read More about A pilot randomised controlled trial of the pelvic toner device in female stress urinary incontinence.

Deviation and failure of enhanced recovery after surgery following laparoscopic colorectal surgery: Early prediction model (2012)
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White, P., Smart, N. J., White, P., Allison, A. S., Ockrim, J. B., Kennedy, R. H., & Francis, N. K. (2012). Deviation and failure of enhanced recovery after surgery following laparoscopic colorectal surgery: Early prediction model. Colorectal Disease, 14(10), e727-e734. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-1318.2012.03096.x

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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Fox, R., Burden, C., Preshaw, J., White, P., Draycott, T. J., & Grant, S. (2012). Validation of virtual reality simulation for obstetric ultrasonography: A prospective cross-sectional study. Simulation in Healthcare, 7(5), 269-273. https://doi.org/10.1097/SIH.0b013e3182611844

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.

Clinical outcomes from bilateral versus unilateral stimulation of the pedunculopontine nucleus with and without concomitant caudal zona incerta region stimulation in Parkinson's disease (2012)
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Gill, S. S., Khan, S., Javed, S., Mooney, L., White, P., Plaha, P., & Whone, A. (2012). Clinical outcomes from bilateral versus unilateral stimulation of the pedunculopontine nucleus with and without concomitant caudal zona incerta region stimulation in Parkinson's disease. British Journal of Neurosurgery, 26(5), 722-725. https://doi.org/10.3109/02688697.2012.659297

Introduction. The Pedunculopontine nucleus is a novel target for deep brain stimulation and this may improve postural instability and gait dysfunction in Parkinson's disease. If unilateral Pedunculopontine nucleus stimulation is as efficacious as bil... Read More about Clinical outcomes from bilateral versus unilateral stimulation of the pedunculopontine nucleus with and without concomitant caudal zona incerta region stimulation in Parkinson's disease.

Low priority? A cross sectional study of appearance anxiety in 500 consecutive referrals for cosmetic surgery (2012)
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Butler, P. E., Clarke, A., Hansen, E. L., & White, P. (2012). Low priority? A cross sectional study of appearance anxiety in 500 consecutive referrals for cosmetic surgery. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 17(4), 440-446. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2011.626433

Low priority treatment guidance is used in the National Health Service to manage requests for cosmetic surgery where there is no associated functional impairment. Provision is made in this guidance to provide surgery on exceptional grounds, and this... Read More about Low priority? A cross sectional study of appearance anxiety in 500 consecutive referrals for cosmetic surgery.

Combined pedunculopontine-subthalamic stimulation in Parkinson disease (2012)
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Khan, S., Gill, S. S., Mooney, L., White, P., Whone, A., Brooks, D. J., & Pavese, N. (2012). Combined pedunculopontine-subthalamic stimulation in Parkinson disease. Neurology, 78(14), 1090-1095. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0b013e31824e8e96

Objective: To assess the effect of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) and caudal zona incerta (cZi)-both separately and in combination-on motor symptoms and regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in patients with Parkinso... Read More about Combined pedunculopontine-subthalamic stimulation in Parkinson disease.

Do ants need to be old and experienced to teach? (2012)
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Marshall, J. A., Robinson, E. J., Franklin, E. L., Sendova-Franks, A. B., & Franks, N. R. (2012). Do ants need to be old and experienced to teach?. Journal of Experimental Biology, 215(8), 1287-1292. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.064618

Learning is widespread in invertebrates. However, whether social insects improve their recruitment skills with experience is only beginning to be investigated. Tandem running is a one-to-one form of recruitment used by certain species of ant. It is a... Read More about Do ants need to be old and experienced to teach?.

Pain-related bias in the classification of emotionally ambiguous facial expressions in mothers of children with chronic abdominal pain (2012)
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Liossi, C., White, P., Croome, N., & Hatira, P. (2012). Pain-related bias in the classification of emotionally ambiguous facial expressions in mothers of children with chronic abdominal pain. PAIN, 153(3), 674-681. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pain.2011.12.004

This study sought to determine whether mothers of young people with chronic abdominal pain (CAP) compared to mothers of pain-free children show a pain recognition bias when they classify facial emotional expressions. One hundred demographically match... Read More about Pain-related bias in the classification of emotionally ambiguous facial expressions in mothers of children with chronic abdominal pain.

Traffic instabilities in self-organized pedestrian crowds (2012)
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Moussaïd, M., Guillot, E., Moreau, M., Fehrenbach, J., Chabiron, O., Lemercier, S., …Theraulaz, G. (2012). Traffic instabilities in self-organized pedestrian crowds. PLoS Computational Biology, 8(3), e1002442. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002442

In human crowds as well as in many animal societies, local interactions among individuals often give rise to self-organized collective organizations that offer functional benefits to the group. For instance, flows of pedestrians moving in opposite di... Read More about Traffic instabilities in self-organized pedestrian crowds.

Modelling vocabulary growth in a foreign language (2012)
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Daller, M., Turlik, J., & Weir, I. Modelling vocabulary growth in a foreign language. Manuscript submitted for publication

Many studies in a variety of educational contexts show that learning curves are non-linear (e.g. Freedman 1987 for the development of story telling skills in the first language, De Keyser 1997 for the acquisition of morphosyntactic rules of an artifi... Read More about Modelling vocabulary growth in a foreign language.

Traction on the cervix in theatre before anterior repair: Does it tell us when to perform a concomitant hysterectomy? (2012)
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Kingsly, A., Foon, R., Agur, W., White, P., & Smith, P. (2012). Traction on the cervix in theatre before anterior repair: Does it tell us when to perform a concomitant hysterectomy?. European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 160(2), 205-209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejogrb.2011.11.002

Objective: To evaluate the surgical outcome of uterine preservation during anterior colporrhaphy, in women with apparent uterine descent, after the application of validated cervical traction under anaesthesia. Study design: This study was conducted a... Read More about Traction on the cervix in theatre before anterior repair: Does it tell us when to perform a concomitant hysterectomy?.

Maximum urethral closure pressure in women: Normative data and evaluation as a diagnostic test (2012)
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Kapoor, D. S., Housami, F., Swithinbank, L., White, P., & Drake, M. (2012). Maximum urethral closure pressure in women: Normative data and evaluation as a diagnostic test. International Urogynecology Journal, 23(11), 1613-1618. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00192-012-1770-7

Introduction and hypothesis: Our goal was to identify correlates of maximum urethral closure pressure (MUCP) and MUCP as a diagnostic test for stress urinary incontinence (SUI). Methods: This study was a retrospective review of women with non-neurolo... Read More about Maximum urethral closure pressure in women: Normative data and evaluation as a diagnostic test.

Measuring poverty/health: A cautionary note (2012)
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Shamsan, Y., White, P., & Webber, D. J. (2012). Measuring poverty/health: A cautionary note. Empirical Economics Letters, 11(12),

Economists use various measures to account for the effect of poverty, welfare or health on economic growth but there is a lack of understanding of the movement of such variables over time and whether countries experiences similar trends. This paper p... Read More about Measuring poverty/health: A cautionary note.

Convergence across Spanish provinces: Cross-section and pairwise evidence (2012)
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Webber, D. J., White, P., Minondo, A., & Allen, D. O. (2012). Convergence across Spanish provinces: Cross-section and pairwise evidence. Empirical Economics Letters, 11(6), 611-622

Distribution free statistics are employed to investigate biennial income per capita convergence across 52 Spanish provinces over the period 1955-1997. Based upon ideas of concordance and discordance that capture convergence and divergence properties,... Read More about Convergence across Spanish provinces: Cross-section and pairwise evidence.

Multiuser scheduling on the LTE downlink with simulated annealing (2011)
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Aydin, M. E., Kwan, R., Wu, J., & Zhang, J. (2011). Multiuser scheduling on the LTE downlink with simulated annealing. In 2011 IEEE 73rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring). , (1-5). https://doi.org/10.1109/VETECS.2011.5956238

In this paper, the issue of multi-user radio resource scheduling on the downlink of a Long Term Evolution (LTE) cellular communication system is addressed. An optimization model has been proposed in [1], where radio resources for multiple users are j... Read More about Multiuser scheduling on the LTE downlink with simulated annealing.