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Open AccessInfant Effortful Control Mediates Relations Between Nondirective Parenting and Internalising-Related Child Behaviours in an Autism-Enriched Infant Cohort
Internalising problems are common within Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD); early intervention to support those with emerging signs may be warranted. One promising signal lies in how individual differences in tem...
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Open AccessAssociation Of Plasma And Urinary Mutant DNA With Clinical Outcomes In Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer
Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer (MIBC) has a poor prognosis. Whilst patients can achieve a 6% improvement in overall survival with Neo-Adjuvant Chemotherapy (NAC), many do not respond. Body fluid mutant DNA (mu...
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Gigahertz quantized charge pum** in graphene quantum dots
Single-electron pumps are set to revolutionize electrical metrology by enabling the ampere to be redefined in terms of the elementary charge of an electron1. Pumps based on lithographically fixed tunnel barriers ...
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A Geochemical and Geophysical Assessment of Coastal Groundwater Discharge at Select Sites in Maui and O’ahu, Hawai’i
This chapter summarizes fieldwork conducted to derive new estimates of coastal groundwater discharge and associated nutrient loadings at select coastal sites in Hawai’i, USA. Locations for this work were typic...
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Natural Radium and Radon Tracers to Quantify Water Exchange and Movement in Reservoirs
Radon and radium isotopes are routinely used to quantify exchange rates between different hydrologic reservoirs. Since their recognition as oceanic tracers in the 1960s, both radon and radium have been used to...
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Crosslinked PMMA as a Low-Dimensional Dielectric Sacrificial Layer for MEMS/NEMS and Quantum Nanostructures Fabrication
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) is a term that describes the integration of miniaturized mechanical elements with microelectronics through microfabrication technology, so that a mechanical function is co...
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Development of XUV lasers at the RAL Central Laser Facility
Recent progress in the development of XUV lasers by research teams using high-power and ultrashort-pulse Nd: glass and KrF laser facilities at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is reviewed. Injector-amplifier...
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Conductance in Quantum Boxes: Interference and Single Electron Effects
Ballistic electron transport in the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) formed at a GaAs/AlxGai_xAs heterojunction has been studied in depth both experimentally and theoretically in recent years, and remains an a...
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Preliminary studies of radiation coupling between remote soft X-ray laser amplifiers
Coupling of a soft X-ray laser beam with a relaying concave mirror in a sequentially pumped amplifier geometry using the Ne-like Ge system has been studied experimentally. Preliminary observations indicate an ...
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Role of the Reactor in Optimizing Productivity of Suspension Culture Animal Cells
A relatively simple, unstirred, non-aerated tank is the most common bioreactor in industrial use today. Many of the processes taking place in such reactors are anaerobic and are used to generate wine, potable ...
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Thermal Transport in Free-Standing GaAs Wires in a High Magnetic Field
We have studied electron heating effects in free-standing GaAs wires subjected to magnetic fields of up to 20 T, applied both parallel and perpendicular to the long axis of the wires: the purpose of these meas...
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Experience in scale-up of homogeneous perfusion culture for hybridomas
A perfusion system for production of monoclonal antibodies was developed using an externally-mounted, hollow-fibre cartridge. The experimental apparatus was operated for 420 h and demonstrated increased steady...
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Aspects of One Dimensional Transport Effects in Gallium Arsenide Heterojunction Structures
A brief account is presented on aspects of recent work on one dimensional transport in GaAs-A1GaAs heterojunctions. Application of high resolution electron beam lithography allows the fabrication of a number o...
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Regulation of Expression of Glutathione Peroxidase by Selenium
Selenium was shown in 1957 to be an essential dietary nutrient for the rat (Schwarz and Foltz 1957). In the same year, Mills (1957) reported the discovery of an enzyme, glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px, GSH: H2O2 o...
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Immunogold localization of acyl carrier protein in plants and Escherichia coli: Evidence for membrane association in plants
Immunogold labelling was used to study the distribution of acyl carrier protein (ACP) in Escherichia coli and a variety of plant tissues. In E. coli, ACP is distributed throughout the cytoplasm, confirming the ob...
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Oil Seed Rape Acyl Carrier Protein (ACP) Protein and Gene Structure
Acyl carrier protein (ACP) plays a central rôle in lipid metabolism, serving as both a component of plant fatty acid synthetase (1) and as a substrate/cofactor for complex lipid biosynthesis (2). The protein h...
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Electric Field Heating of Supported and Free-Standing AuPd Fine Wires
Using electron-beam lithography, fine AuPd wires of 50 nm and 30 nm thickness have been fabricated over a length of 10 μm on a Si3N4 substrate. The resistance rise as a function of temperature fits well to one-di...
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Therapeutic drug effects on male reproductive function
Some of the most commonly used drugs in therapeutics can cause impairment of sexual function in men. The reproductive system is unusual among the bodily systems in the complexity of the mechanisms that control...
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Effects of illicit drugs on male reproduction
Maturation, maintenance, and regulation of normal reproductive capacity in the male is a complex and highly integrated phenomenon. It requires proper nutritional and hormonal support, not only by the hormones ...
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A re-appraisal of nitrocarburising and nitriding when applied to the design and manufacture of non-alloy steel automobile components
An investigation has been conducted into the contribution made by nitrogen and nitrogen plus carbon to the properties of non-alloy steel treated at 570 °C. It is shown that both the fatigue properties of the d...