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Open AccessThe Relationship Between Patient-Reported Severity of Hair Loss and Health-Related Quality of Life and Treatment Patterns Among Patients with Alopecia Areata
Alopecia areata (AA) is an autoimmune disease characterized by hair loss. Patients with AA experience a range of social and emotional impacts, and the lack of effective treatments and multiple affected locatio...
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Open AccessPhysical and functional performance assessment in pediatric oncology: a systematic review
Research indicates reduced physical performance from diagnosis into survivorship of pediatric cancer patients. However, there is no systematic information or guideline available on the methods to assess physic...
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Open AccessNeonatal mortality in a public referral hospital in southern Haiti: a retrospective cohort study
Haiti has the highest rate of neonatal mortality in the Latin America and Caribbean region. While the rate of facility births in Haiti has doubled over the past two decades, there have been no comparable reduc...
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Open AccessPrediction and mechanistic analysis of drug-induced liver injury (DILI) based on chemical structure
Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a major safety concern characterized by a complex and diverse pathogenesis. In order to identify DILI early in drug development, a better understanding of the injury and mod...
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Open AccessA rapid high-performance semi-automated tool to measure total kidney volume from MRI in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
To develop a high-performance, rapid semi-automated method (Sheffield TKV Tool) for measuring total kidney volume (TKV) from magnetic resonance images (MRI) in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidne...
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The Enchantments of Technology
Back in 2003 when we contributed this chapter in Funology, the smartphone was barely available let alone the ubiquitously enchanting technology it is today. But even then, it was becoming clear that the settin...
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Introduction to: Funology 1
These papers are published largely as they appeared in the 2003 edition. Chapter authors were invited to write a note explaining how things have developed since 2003 or setting the context in which the 2003 ch...
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Making Sense of Experience
When this chapter appeared in the first edition of Funology in 2003, there was an emerging interest in user experience. However, the information processing theories and models of interaction that were used at ...
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Open AccessAbstracts from the 8th International Conference on cGMP Generators, Effectors and Therapeutic Implications
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Open AccessFRET biosensor uncovers cAMP nano-domains at β-adrenergic targets that dictate precise tuning of cardiac contractility
Compartmentalized cAMP/PKA signalling is now recognized as important for physiology and pathophysiology, yet a detailed understanding of the properties, regulation and function of local cAMP/PKA signals is lac...
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Open AccessThe NULevel trial of a scalable, technology-assisted weight loss maintenance intervention for obese adults after clinically significant weight loss: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Effective weight loss interventions are widely available but, after weight loss, most individuals regain weight. This article describes the protocol for the NULevel trial evaluating the effectiveness and cost-...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Analysis of the Impact of the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 on the Use of Advertising by General Motor Freight Carriers
The purpose of this paper is to determine if advertising in the motor carrier industry has increased since the passage of the Motor Carrier Act of 1980. A census of sixty-five common carriers was conducted thr...
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Nightingallery: theatrical framing and orchestration in participatory performance
The Nightingallery project encouraged participants to converse, sing, and perform with a musically responsive animatronic bird, playfully interacting with the character while members of the public could look on a...
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Open AccessA constraints-based resource discovery model for multi-provider cloud environments
Increasingly infrastructure providers are supplying the cloud marketplace with storage and on-demand compute resources to host cloud applications. From an application user’s point of view, it is desirable to i...
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Performing ‘Hope’: Authentic Story, Change and Transformation in Teacher Education
This chapter describes the processes used to develop a collaborative project where the arts are used to both enquire into and express student’s lives in performative ways. It considers issues of identity and c...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Map** Application Requirements to Cloud Resources
Cloud Computing has created a paradigm shift in software development. Many developers now use the Cloud as an affordable platform on which to deploy business solutions. One outstanding challenge is the integra...
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High efficiency, high switching speed, AlGaAs/GaAs P-HEMT DC–DC converter for integrated power amplifier modules
This paper presents a high efficiency, high switching frequency DC–DC buck converter in AlGaAs/GaAs technology, targeting integrated power amplifier modules for wireless communications. The switch mode, induct...
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Agency, Intersubjectivity and Drama Education
Theories of agency have long been implicit in drama education and applied theatre where the focus is on the performative, action, and engagement. What the notion of agency foregrounds is the individual, choice...
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Introduction
The continuing contemporary growth in science fiction scholarship, the expansion of undergraduate provision, and the interest shown in the genre at postgraduate level firmly situate sf within the provinces of ...