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Open AccessCommon genetic variants do not predict recurrent events in coronary heart disease patients
It is unclear whether genetic variants identified from single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) strongly associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) in genome-wide association studies (GWAS), or a genetic risk ...
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Trajectories of Physical Work Capacity in Early Symptomatic Osteoarthritis of Hip and Knee: Results from the Cohort Hip and Cohort Knee (CHECK) Study
Purpose To evaluate the 5-year course of physical work capacity of participants with early symptomatic osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip and/or the knee; to identify trajectories and explore the relationship between...
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Open AccessA framework for stakeholder engagement during systematic reviews and maps in environmental management
People have a stake in conservation and environmental management both for their own interests and the sake of the environment itself. Environmental decision-making has changed somewhat in recent decades to acc...
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Open AccessEthnicity and cardiovascular health inequalities in people with severe mental illnesses: protocol for the E-CHASM study
People with severe mental illnesses (SMI) experience a 17- to 20-year reduction in life expectancy. One-third of deaths are due to cardiovascular disease. This study will establish the relationship of SMI with...
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Open AccessAssociations between the schizophrenia susceptibility gene ZNF804A and clinical outcomes in psychosis
We sought to test the hypothesis that the rs1344706 A allele will be associated with worse clinical outcome in first-episode psychosis. A data linkage was set up between a large systematic study of first-episode ...
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Incremental effects of 28 days of beta-alanine supplementation on high-intensity cycling performance and blood lactate in masters female cyclists
Within the aging population, there exists a subset of individuals termed masters athletes (MA). As masters-level competition increases in popularity, MA must find methods to enhance individual athletic perform...
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A Volumetric Study of Aqueous Primary Alcohols as Functions of Concentration and Temperature
Density measurements of aqueous solutions of ethanol, 1-butanol, and 1-pentanol made in this laboratory along with those made for methanol, ethanol, and 1-propanol by Benson and Kiyohara form the basis for a v...
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Treatment satisfaction and persistence among postmenopausal women on osteoporosis medications: 12-month results from POSSIBLE US™
Women in POSSIBLE US™ who expressed greater treatment satisfaction at study entry were more likely to persist with osteoporosis therapy over a 1-year period. Lower satisfaction among women with moderate/severe...
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Open Access12.06: Comparison of Simultaneous Invasive Central Arterial Pressure Measurements with Non-Invasive Arterial Pressure Estimates by Suprasystolic Oscillometry Using Pulsecor R6.5
Many devices estimate central aortic blood pressure (BP) from non-invasive measurements. Most need calibration using separately measured BP, which introduces unquantified inaccuracies. The Pulsecor R6.5 device...
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Parental Perception of the Childhhood Immunisation Programme in Ireland
Background and Aims: Ireland introduced the first National Childhood Immunisation Programme in 1949 with the BCG. The most recent revision occurred in 2010 with the addition of the HPV vaccine. Vaccination uptake...
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Open AccessmiRNA profiling in metastatic renal cell carcinoma reveals a tumour-suppressor effect for miR-215
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the most common neoplasm of the adult kidney. Metastatic RCC is difficult to treat. The 5-year survival rate for metastatic RCC is ⩽10%. Recently, microRNAs (miRNAs) have been sho...
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3rd IANA (International Academy on Nutrition and Aging) Meeting Nutrition, Exercise & Alzheimer and Clinical Trials on Sarcopenia August 1–2, 2008 Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort 1300 Tuyuna Trail Santa Ana Pueblo, NM USA
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Development of a generic activities model of command and control
This paper reports on five different models of command and control. Four different models are reviewed: a process model, a contextual control model, a decision ladder model and a functional model. Further to t...
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Inaugural Huntington Disease Clinical Research Symposium Organized by the Huntington Study Group
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Does breathing apparatus affect fish counts and observations? A comparison at three New Zealand fished and protected areas
Across three areas, open-circuit scuba (OC) and rebreather (RB) surveys produced similar results for the density and size distribution of fish species inside and outside marine reserves. At Tonga Island, more Not...
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Map** of QTL Influencing Saccharin Consumption in the Selectively Bred Alcohol-Preferring and -Nonpreferring Rat Lines
The inbred preferring (iP) and nonpreferring (iNP) rat strains were derived from the selectively bred alcohol-preferring (P) and alcohol-nonpreferring (NP) lines. Previously, 381 iP × iNP F2 progeny were gener...
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Evolutionary Algorithms: A Tool for Addressing Problems which Humans Cannot Solve
Although computers have been applied in many areas, there are some applications which seem to be more difficult than others to computerise. Typically these are problems for which we do not have a complete und...
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Long distance telementoring
Background: As general surgeons perform a growing number of laparoscopic operations in increasingly specialized environments, the ability to obtain expert advice during procedures becomes more im...
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Hiv-1 Neuropathogenesis and Abused Drugs
HIV Associated Dementia (HAD) and peripheral neuropathy result from HIV-1 infection and several parameters impact on their initiation and course. These parameters include properties of the virus such as sequen...
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