The transcription factor PPARα is overexpressed and is associated with a favourable prognosis in IDH-wildtype primary glioblastoma (2016)
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© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aims: PPARα agonists are in current clinical use as hypolipidaemic agents and show significant antineoplastic effects in human glioblastoma models. To date however, the expression of PPARα in large-scale glioblastoma da... Read More about The transcription factor PPARα is overexpressed and is associated with a favourable prognosis in IDH-wildtype primary glioblastoma.

A social mechanism facilitates ant colony emigrations over different distances (2016)
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© 2016. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd. Behavioural responses enable animals to react rapidly to fluctuating environments. In eusocial organisms, such changes are often enacted at the group level, but may be organised in a decentralised f... Read More about A social mechanism facilitates ant colony emigrations over different distances.

Dietary patterns by cluster analysis in pregnant women: relationship with nutrient intakes and dietary patterns in 7-year-old offspring (2016)
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© 2016 The Authors. Maternal & Child Nutrition published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Little is known about how dietary patterns of mothers and their children track over time. The objectives of this study are to obtain dietary patterns in pregnancy... Read More about Dietary patterns by cluster analysis in pregnant women: relationship with nutrient intakes and dietary patterns in 7-year-old offspring.

Scrambled statistics: What are the chances of finding multi-yolk eggs? (2016)
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© 2016 The Royal Statistical Society Journalists ask a lot of questions of statisticians, but some are more bizarre than others. Statistical ambassador Deirdre Toher recounts one such experience.

A randomised controlled feasibility and proof-of-concept trial in delayedgastric emptying when metoclopramide fails: We should revisitnasointestinal feeding versus dual prokinetic treatment: Achieving goal nutrition in critical illness and delayed gastric emptying: Trial of nasointestinal feeding versus nasogastric feeding plus prokinetics (2016)
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© 2016 European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism Background & aims Delayed gastric emptying (DGE) commonly limits the use of enteral nutrition (EN) and may increase ventilator-associated pneumonia. Nasointestinal feeding has not been tes... Read More about A randomised controlled feasibility and proof-of-concept trial in delayedgastric emptying when metoclopramide fails: We should revisitnasointestinal feeding versus dual prokinetic treatment: Achieving goal nutrition in critical illness and delayed gastric emptying: Trial of nasointestinal feeding versus nasogastric feeding plus prokinetics.

High frequency haplotypes are expected events, not historical figures (2016)
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Cultural transmission of reproductive success states that successful men have more children and pass this raised fecundity to their offspring. Balaresque and colleagues found high frequency haplotypes in a Central Asian Y chromosome dataset, which th... Read More about High frequency haplotypes are expected events, not historical figures.

The effect of social information on the collective choices of ant colonies (2016)
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© 2016 The Author. In collective decision making, groups collate social information to inform their decisions. Indeed, societies can gather more information than individuals - so social information can be more reliable than private information. Colon... Read More about The effect of social information on the collective choices of ant colonies.

Exploration adjustment by ant colonies (2016)
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© 2016 The Authors. How do animals in groups organize their work? Division of labour, i.e. the process by which individuals within a group choose which tasks to perform, has been extensively studied in social insects. Variability among individuals wi... Read More about Exploration adjustment by ant colonies.

Migration control: A distance compensation strategy in ants (2016)
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©The Author(s) 2016. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com. Migratory behaviour forms an intrinsic part of the life histories of many organisms but is often a high-risk process. Consequently, varied strategies have evolved to... Read More about Migration control: A distance compensation strategy in ants.

Relationship between mediation analysis and the structured life course approach (2016)
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© The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association. Many questions in life course epidemiology involve mediation and/or interaction because of the long latency period between exposures a... Read More about Relationship between mediation analysis and the structured life course approach.