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Comparing value for money in healthcare and transport PFI projects (2011)
Journal Article

New research identifies and compares the main factors that complicate PFI projects in the UK healthcare and transport sectors. The findings cast light on the fundamentals of the public-private procurement dynamic just as PFI comes under review in the... Read More about Comparing value for money in healthcare and transport PFI projects.

β-catenin represses expression of the tumour suppressor 15-prostaglandin dehydrogenase in the normal intestinal epithelium and colorectal tumour cells (2011)
Journal Article

Background: Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) overexpression in colorectal cancer increases levels of its protumorigenic product prostaglandin E2 (PGE2). The recently identified colorectal tumour suppressor 15-prostaglandin dehydrogenase (15-PGDH) catalyses p... Read More about β-catenin represses expression of the tumour suppressor 15-prostaglandin dehydrogenase in the normal intestinal epithelium and colorectal tumour cells.

Virtuality and Ernst Bloch: Hope and subjectivity (2011)
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Theories of affect have become an increasingly popular tool with which to conceptualise and analyse subjectivity. Of particular interest to us in this article are expositions that have sought to bring to the forefront of analysis notions of excess an... Read More about Virtuality and Ernst Bloch: Hope and subjectivity.

Someone to talk to: Using automated characters to support simulated learning activities (2011)
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The University of the West of England (UWE) has a large number of students who will pursue subsequent careers in a wide range of professional fields such as engineering, law, business, nursing, teaching, psychology, criminology and design. An importa... Read More about Someone to talk to: Using automated characters to support simulated learning activities.

A turn to the rights: UK conservative Christian lobby groups and the 'gay debate' (2011)
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The extension of non-heterosexual rights in largely liberal democratic contexts and confirmed in wider international conventions poses a challenge to Christian churches which historically condemned homosexuality and other sexual 'variations' on the b... Read More about A turn to the rights: UK conservative Christian lobby groups and the 'gay debate'.

Signalling of DNA damage and cytokines across cell barriers exposed to nanoparticles depends on barrier thickness (2011)
Journal Article

The use of nanoparticles in medicine is ever increasing, and it is important to understand their targeted and non-targeted effects. We have previously shown that nanoparticles can cause DNA damage to cells cultured below a cellular barrier without cr... Read More about Signalling of DNA damage and cytokines across cell barriers exposed to nanoparticles depends on barrier thickness.

Lunar-solar rhythmpatterns: Towards the material cultures of tides (2011)
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The movements of the oceans, and the liminal margins of sea, land, and fresh water haveprofound implications for human/nonhuman life. Those movements and margins are rhythmicallyaffected by tides which are thus a key means by which the forceful mater... Read More about Lunar-solar rhythmpatterns: Towards the material cultures of tides.

Erwinia oleae sp. nov., isolated from olive knots caused by Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi (2011)
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Three endophytic bacterial isolates were obtained in Italy from olive knots caused by Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi. Phenotypic tests in combination with 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis indicated a phylogenetic position for these isolates in... Read More about Erwinia oleae sp. nov., isolated from olive knots caused by Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi.

Families created through surrogacy: Mother–child relationships and children's psychological adjustment at age 7 (2011)
Journal Article

Each year, an increasing number of children are born through surrogacy and thus lack a genetic and/or gestational link with their mother. This study examined the impact of surrogacy on mother-child relationships and children's psychological adjustmen... Read More about Families created through surrogacy: Mother–child relationships and children's psychological adjustment at age 7.

Shear-derived mixing in dense granular flows (2011)
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In flume experiments, granular avalanches run onto loose substrates develop 3-D architectures that record shear-derived mixing between the flow and the substrate. Spherical silica beads 0.250 mm diameter are run onto stratified substrates of various... Read More about Shear-derived mixing in dense granular flows.

An audit of rubella IgG antibody status in antenatal women in a NHS Trust over 5 years (2005 - 2009) (2011)
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Rubella, a vaccine-preventable infection. This study examined the antibody status of 11 987 pregnant women during 2005 - 2009. Results showed a non-significant decrease in those with antibody levels of

Privacy dictionary: A new resource for the automated content analysis of privacy (2011)
Journal Article

This article presents the privacy dictionary, a new linguistic resource for automated content analysis on privacy-related texts. To overcome the definitional challenges inherent in privacy research, the dictionary was informed by an inclusive set of... Read More about Privacy dictionary: A new resource for the automated content analysis of privacy.

Developing the evidence base of patient and public involvement in health and social care research: The case for measuring impact (2011)
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While patient and public involvement (PPI) in health and social care research has progressed successfully in the last decade, a range of difficulties with the evidence base exist, including poor understanding of the concept of impact, limited theoriz... Read More about Developing the evidence base of patient and public involvement in health and social care research: The case for measuring impact.

Application of bacterial bioluminescence to assess the efficacy of fast-acting biocides (2011)
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Traditional microbiological techniques are used to provide reliable data on the rate and extent of kill for a range of biocides. However, such techniques provide very limited data regarding the initial rate of kill of fast-acting biocides over very s... Read More about Application of bacterial bioluminescence to assess the efficacy of fast-acting biocides.

Are infinitival to omission errors primed by prior discourse? The case of WANT constructions (2011)
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This paper examines the suggestion that infinitival to omission errors in English-speaking children can result from competition between two constructions (Kirjavainen et al. 2009a). Kirjavainen et al. suggested that the acquisition of two (or more) c... Read More about Are infinitival to omission errors primed by prior discourse? The case of WANT constructions.

Capturing constraint evolution: A technique to preserve and handle design knowledge (2011)
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Product development can be considered as the evolutionary and iterative process of recognition, formulation and satisfaction of constraints. These become the rationale driving the design to the final specifications, with the evolution of constraints... Read More about Capturing constraint evolution: A technique to preserve and handle design knowledge.

Equine road user safety: Public attitudes, understandings and beliefs from a qualitative study in the United Kingdom (2011)
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Horse riders represent a significant group of vulnerable road user and are involved in a number of accidents and near misses on the road. Despite this horse riders have received little attention both in terms of academic research and transport policy... Read More about Equine road user safety: Public attitudes, understandings and beliefs from a qualitative study in the United Kingdom.

A national survey of GP and nurse attitudes and beliefs towards depression after myocardial infarction (2011)
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Aim. To investigate primary care practitioner's attitudes to depression after myocardial infarction. Background. Depression after myocardial infarction affects almost half of all patients and has a considerable negative effect on recovery. Despite th... Read More about A national survey of GP and nurse attitudes and beliefs towards depression after myocardial infarction.

Relearning in semantic dementia reflects contributions from both medial temporal lobe episodic and degraded neocortical semantic systems: Evidence in support of the complementary learning systems theory (2011)
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When relearning words, patients with semantic dementia (SD) exhibit a characteristic rigidity, including a failure to generalise names to untrained exemplars of trained concepts. This has been attributed to an over-reliance on the medial temporal reg... Read More about Relearning in semantic dementia reflects contributions from both medial temporal lobe episodic and degraded neocortical semantic systems: Evidence in support of the complementary learning systems theory.

Macrobenthic assemblage structure in a cool-temperate intertidal dwarf eelgrass bed in comparison with those from lower latitudes (2011)
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The evolution and ecology of latitudinal patterns in marine macrofaunal biodiversity and assemblage structure are contentious. With the aim of investigating the occurrence of such patterns in intertidal dwarf eelgrass beds (Nanozosteraspp.), those at... Read More about Macrobenthic assemblage structure in a cool-temperate intertidal dwarf eelgrass bed in comparison with those from lower latitudes.