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The rulB gene of plasmid pWW0 is a hotspot for the site-specific insertion of integron-like elements found in the chromosomes of environmental Pseudomonas fluorescens group bacteria (2013)
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Summary: The rulAB operon of Pseudomonas spp. confers fitness traits on the host and has been suggested to be a hotspot for insertion of mobile elements that carry avirulence genes. Here, for the first time, we show that rulB on plasmid pWW0 is a hot... Read More about The rulB gene of plasmid pWW0 is a hotspot for the site-specific insertion of integron-like elements found in the chromosomes of environmental Pseudomonas fluorescens group bacteria.

Closing public toilets makes Bristol an 'inconvenient city' (2013)
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The impact of childbirth on sexual functioning in women with episiotomy (2013)
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Objective: To compare the pregnancy period with the postpartum period, and infer if the presence of episiotomy interferes with the experience of female sexuality after childbirth. Method: This is an exploratory and descriptive, quantitative study. A... Read More about The impact of childbirth on sexual functioning in women with episiotomy.

The path towards a professional identity: An IPA study of Greek family therapy trainees (2013)
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Objective: Contemporary psychotherapy research has focused mainly on practitioners' training and education. The impact of training on professional development and the application of therapeutic skills have been the primary foci of the empirical liter... Read More about The path towards a professional identity: An IPA study of Greek family therapy trainees.

Knowledge related to climate change and willingness to act for adaptation and mitigation practices in rural Nepal (2013)
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This descriptive analysis sought to test Leiserowitz 2007 findings. Leiserowitz 2007 findings claimed that until people gained a general understanding of climate change or it was commonly discussed as a part of everyday discourse, people would percei... Read More about Knowledge related to climate change and willingness to act for adaptation and mitigation practices in rural Nepal.

Precipitation downscaling in Canadian prairie provinces using the LARS-WG and GLM approaches (2013)
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Two stochastic precipitation simulation models, namely the Long Ashton Research Station weather generator (LARS-WG) and a Generalized Linear Model-based weather generator (GLM-WG), are evaluated for downscaling daily precipitation at four selected lo... Read More about Precipitation downscaling in Canadian prairie provinces using the LARS-WG and GLM approaches.

Damage in the ANCA-associated vasculitides: Long-term data from the European Vasculitis Study Group (EUVAS) therapeutic trials (2013)
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Objectives To describe short-term (up to 12 months) and long-term (up to 7 years) damage in patients with newly diagnosed antineutrophil-cytoplasm antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV).

Methods Data were combined from six European Vasculitis Study... Read More about Damage in the ANCA-associated vasculitides: Long-term data from the European Vasculitis Study Group (EUVAS) therapeutic trials.

Non-existence of local solutions for semilinear heat equations of Osgood type (2013)
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We establish non-existence results for the Cauchy problem of some semilinear heat equations with non-negative initial data and locally Lipschitz, non-negative source term f. Global (in time) solutions of the scalar ODE v;=f(v) exist for v(0)>0 if and... Read More about Non-existence of local solutions for semilinear heat equations of Osgood type.

Meta-analysis of predictors of favorable employment outcomes among individuals with bipolar disorder (2013)
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Objectives: Although several studies have reported on predictors of employment in individuals with bipolar disorder (BD), the magnitude of the impact of these variables is unclear as no previous studies have estimated the collective effect sizes (ESs... Read More about Meta-analysis of predictors of favorable employment outcomes among individuals with bipolar disorder.

Trusted cloud computing framework for healthcare sector (2013)
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Cloud computing is rapidly evolving due to its efficient characteristics such as cost-effectiveness, availability and elasticity. Healthcare organizations and consumers lose control when they outsource their sensitive data and computing resources to... Read More about Trusted cloud computing framework for healthcare sector.

Design and implementation of a privacy preserved off-premises cloud storage (2013)
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Despite several cost-effective and flexible characteristics of cloud computing, some clients are reluctant to adopt this paradigm due to emerging security and privacy concerns. Organization such as Healthcare and Payment Card Industry where confident... Read More about Design and implementation of a privacy preserved off-premises cloud storage.

'New mechanisms of independent accountability': Select committees and parliamentary scrutiny of the intelligence services (2013)
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© 2013 The Author. Oversight of intelligence and security agencies has become of significant interest in recent years. In the UK the principal mechanism for providing parliamentary oversight of the agencies is the Intelligence and Security Committee... Read More about 'New mechanisms of independent accountability': Select committees and parliamentary scrutiny of the intelligence services.

Sounds of the salon: The auditory routines of hairdressers at work (2013)
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This article broadens the landscape of sensual ways of knowing and understanding and takes account of what we hear at work. In particular, I examine what role sounds play in the everyday lives of employees and why sounds are notable in organisational... Read More about Sounds of the salon: The auditory routines of hairdressers at work.

Axial kinematic response of end-bearing piles to P waves (2013)
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Kinematic pile-soil interaction under vertically impinging seismic P waves is revisited through a novel continuum elastodynamic solution of the Tajimi type. The proposed model simulates the steady-state kinematic response of a cylindrical end-bearing... Read More about Axial kinematic response of end-bearing piles to P waves.

Methods of Knowledge Exchange and Learning Focused on Local Authorities' Experiences of Flood Science Communication (2013)
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© 2013 Taylor & Francis. Devastating floods in 2007 across western England resulted in legislative changes which have placed increased responsibility on local government for managing and mitigating local flood risk. For these changes to be effectiv... Read More about Methods of Knowledge Exchange and Learning Focused on Local Authorities' Experiences of Flood Science Communication.

The effect of billets extruded by a curved and flat-face die on the semisolid characteristics and tensile properties of thixoformed products (2013)
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In this study, A356 aluminum billets in different extruded states are used as feedstock for the thixoforming. The extrusion billets were fabricated by a hot extrusion process through a flat-face and a curved die. After the induction reheating of the... Read More about The effect of billets extruded by a curved and flat-face die on the semisolid characteristics and tensile properties of thixoformed products.

Tasks and strategies of self-management of living with antiretroviral therapy in Uganda (2013)
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There is increasing interest in promoting and supporting self-management of HIV and antiretroviral treatment (ART), including in resource-limited settings. Although the impact of HIV and ART on people in Uganda has been explored, little attention has... Read More about Tasks and strategies of self-management of living with antiretroviral therapy in Uganda.

Understanding tourist encounters with nature: a thematic framework (2013)
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This paper presents a thematic framework that simplifies and explains the complexity of tourist encounters with nature. The research combines qualitative data, derived from questionnaire surveys, in-depth interviews, field journals and personal obser... Read More about Understanding tourist encounters with nature: a thematic framework.

A statistical model of catheter motion from interventional x-ray images: Application to image-based gating (2013)
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The motion and deformation of catheters that lie inside cardiac structures can provide valuable information about the motion of the heart. In this paper we describe the formation of a novel statistical model of the motion of a coronary sinus (CS) cat... Read More about A statistical model of catheter motion from interventional x-ray images: Application to image-based gating.

Drop-coated titanium dioxide memristors (2013)
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The fabrication of memristors by drop-coating sol-gel Ti(OH)4 solution onto either aluminium foil or sputter-coated aluminium on plastic is presented. The gel layer is thick, 37 μm, but both devices exhibit good memristance I-V profiles. The drop coa... Read More about Drop-coated titanium dioxide memristors.