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.

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.

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.

Differentiated anti-predation responses in a superorganism (2015)
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© 2015 O'Shea-Wheller et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source... Read More about Differentiated anti-predation responses in a superorganism.

Test statistics for comparing two proportions with partially overlapping samples (2015)
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Standard tests for comparing two sample proportions of a dichotomous dependent variable where there is a combination of paired and unpaired samples are considered. Four new tests are introduced and compared against standard tests and an alternative p... Read More about Test statistics for comparing two proportions with partially overlapping samples.

The safety of general anaesthesia in paediatric patients undergoing the application of Biobrane® for small scalds (2015)
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© 2015 Elsevier Ltd and ISBI. All rights reserved. Background Each year more than 5000 children present to English and Welsh hospitals for the management of scalds; 60% of these are small scalds of less than 10% body surface area. There are no agreed... Read More about The safety of general anaesthesia in paediatric patients undergoing the application of Biobrane® for small scalds.

How ants use quorum sensing to estimate the average quality of a fluctuating resource (2015)
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© 2015, Nature Publishing Group. All rights reserved. We show that one of the advantages of quorum-based decision-making is an ability to estimate the average value of a resource that fluctuates in quality. By using a quorum threshold, namely the num... Read More about How ants use quorum sensing to estimate the average quality of a fluctuating resource.

Cardiopulmonary reserve as determined by cardiopulmonary exercise testing correlates with length of stay and predicts complications after radical cystectomy (2015)
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© 2014 The Authors. BJU International © 2014 BJU International. ObjectiveTo investigate whether poor preoperative cardiopulmonary reserve and comorbid state dictate high-risk status and can predict complications in patients undergoing radical cystect... Read More about Cardiopulmonary reserve as determined by cardiopulmonary exercise testing correlates with length of stay and predicts complications after radical cystectomy.

The South West Area Mesothelioma and Pemetrexed trial: A multicentre prospective observational study evaluating novel markers of chemotherapy response and prognostication (2015)
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© 2015 Cancer Research UK. All rights reserved. Background: Robust markers that predict prognosis and detect early treatment response in malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) would enhance patient care. Methods: Consecutive patients with MPM who were... Read More about The South West Area Mesothelioma and Pemetrexed trial: A multicentre prospective observational study evaluating novel markers of chemotherapy response and prognostication.

A randomised controlled trial of intravenous zoledronic acid in malignant pleural disease: A proof of principle pilot study (2015)
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© 2015 Clive et al. Introduction: Animal studies have shown Zoledronic Acid (ZA) may diminish pleural fluid accumulation and tumour bulk in malignant pleural disease (MPD). We performed a pilot study to evaluate its effects in humans. Methods: We und... Read More about A randomised controlled trial of intravenous zoledronic acid in malignant pleural disease: A proof of principle pilot study.

The effect of chemotherapy on health-related quality of life in mesothelioma: Results from the SWAMP trial (2015)
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© 2015 Cancer Research UK. All rights reserved. Background: The effect of chemotherapy on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is poorly understood. Patient-individualised prognostication and prediction of tr... Read More about The effect of chemotherapy on health-related quality of life in mesothelioma: Results from the SWAMP trial.

Social behaviour and collective motion in plant-animal worms (2015)
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© 2016 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. Social behaviour may enable organisms to occupy ecological niches that would otherwise be unavailable to them. Here, we test this major evolutionary prin- ciple by demonstratin... Read More about Social behaviour and collective motion in plant-animal worms.

Relaxed observance of traditional marriage rules allows social connectivity without loss of genetic diversity (2015)
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© 2015 The Author. Marriage rules, the community prescriptions that dictate who an individual can or cannot marry, are extremely diverse and universally present in traditional societies. A major focus of research in the early decades of modern anthro... Read More about Relaxed observance of traditional marriage rules allows social connectivity without loss of genetic diversity.

Clinical evaluation of a prototype underwear designed to detect urine leakage from continence pads (2015)
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Copyright © 2015 by the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society. PURPOSE: We evaluated the performance of prototype underwear designed to detect urine leakage from continence pads, their acceptability to users, and their effect on health-related... Read More about Clinical evaluation of a prototype underwear designed to detect urine leakage from continence pads.

Universality in ant behaviour (2015)
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© 2014 The Authors. Prediction for social systems is a major challenge. Universality at the social level has inspired a unified theory for urban living but individual variation makes predicting relationships within societies difficult. Here, we show... Read More about Universality in ant behaviour.