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Pilot randomised controlled trial of a radiation therapist-led educational intervention for breast cancer patients prior to commencing radiotherapy

Although patients receive information prior to commencing radiotherapy, they often experience anxiety and distress. We conducted a pilot randomised controlled trial to determine whether a radiation therapist l...

G. K. B. Halkett, M. O’Connor, S. Aranda, M. Jefford, T. Shaw… in Supportive Care in Cancer (2013)

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Determination of the Failure Stresses for Fluid-filled Microcapsules that Rupture Near the Elastic Regime

The encapsulation of liquids within an external wall or shell is an important technology often utilized in the production of many commercial products. The mechanical characterization of such microcapsules is p...

R. Mercadé-Prieto, R. Allen, D. York, J. A. Preece, T. E. Goodwin… in Experimental Mechanics (2012)

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Preface to proceedings of the symposium on methods and applications of combined quantum mechanical and molecularmechanical potentials (2001)

J. Gao, D. York in Theoretical Chemistry Accounts (2003)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Visual Evoked Responses as a Monitor of Intracranial Pressure During Hyperosmolar Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption

Intracarotid mannitol (HBBBD = hyperosmotic BBB disruption) as a method of transiently increasing solute/drug delivery to brain parenchyma has been associated in animals with a 1-2% increase in brain water and...

Mary Kay Gumerlock M. D., D. York, D. Durkis in Brain Edema IX (1994)

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Precise single-grain ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹ Ar dating of a cold to warm climate transition in Central Europe

RECENT advances in ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating^1,2 have made it possible to date individual K-feldspar grains from Pleistocene tephra, a capability that greatly improves the reliability and temporal resolving power of the m...

P. van den Bogaard, C. M. Hall, H.-U. Schmincke, D. York in Nature (1989)

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Eruption ages and magma supply rates during the miocene evolution of Gran Canaria

P. v. d. Bogaard, H. -U. Schmincke, A. Freundt, C. M. Hall, D. York in Naturwissenschaften (1988)

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Human immunodeficiency virus replication in human brain cells

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the etiologic agent of AIDS, was found to infect and replicate in human brain cells. The extent of HIV replication was minimal in human brain-derived cells in comparison to ...

A. Srinivasan, D. Dorsett, D. York, C. Bohan, R. Anand in Archives of Virology (1988)

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Studies on human immunodeficiency virus-induced cytopathic effects: use of human rhabdomyosarcoma (RD) cells

A full-length molecular clone of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) proviral DNA was transferred to human rhabdomyosarcoma (RD) cells by gene transfer method. RD cells released infectious virus within 12 hours...

A. Srinivasan, C. S. Goldsmith, D. York, R. Anand, P. Luciw… in Archives of Virology (1988)

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Geochronology, stratigraphy and geochemistry of Cindery Tuff in Pliocene hominid-bearing sediments of the Middle Awash, Ethiopia

Cindery Tuff is a subalkaline, rhyolitic air-fall deposit that was probably produced by a mixed-magma eruption. It is a distinctive, datable, regional isochronous marker bed within the Pliocene sediments of th...

C. M. Hall, R. C. Walter, J. A. Westgate, D. York in Nature (1984)

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Oldest reliable ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages for terrestrial rocks: Barberton Mountain komatiites

We report here the first ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages for komatiites and komatiitic basalts from the Barberton Mountain Greenstone Belt on the Transvaal–Swaziland border in southern Africa¹. Both rock types display remarkable ...

M. Lopez Martinez, D. York, C. M. Hall, J. A. Hanes in Nature (1984)

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⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar age limit for an Acheulian site in Israel

The lake of Berekhat Ram fills a caldera which cuts the Pleistocene basalt flows that cover the Golan Heights¹ in Israel (Fig. 1). In the north-west wall of the crater a sequence of two basalt flows is exposed se...

G. Feraud, D. York, C. M. Hall, N. Goren, H. P. Schwarcz in Nature (1983)

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⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar ages of scandinavian impact structures: I Mien and Siljan

⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar ages have been obtained on samples of impact melt from the Lake Mien and Siljan hypervelocity impact structures in Sweden. Two samples of “rhyolite” from Lake Mien yield a plateau age of 118.7±2.3 m.y....

R. J. Bottomley, D. York, R. A. F. Grieve in Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (1978)

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Book reviews

L. J. P. Duncan, C. N. Hales, D. York, P. Petrides in Diabetologia (1978)

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Significance of Strontium Isotope Ratios in Theories of Carbonatite Genesis

RECENTLY, several investigators^1–3 have compared the ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratios of carbonate rocks from carbonatite complexes with those of sedimentary limestones. Powell et al.¹ quote a mean value of 0.7035 for carbonatit...

A. HAYATSU, D. YORK, R. M. FARQUHAR, J. GITTINS in Nature (1965)

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Potassium–Argon Ages of the Dartmoor and Shap Granites using the Total Volume and Isotopic Dilution Techniques of Argon Measurement

EARLY in 1960, J. L. Kulp and others reported potassium–argon and rubidium–strontium ages for a number of granites from Great Britain and Eire¹. The argon measurements were made at the Lamont Geological Observato...

M. H. DODSON, J. A. MILLER, D. YORK in Nature (1961)

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How old is the Cambrian System?

PROF. C. F. DAVIDSON has presented no new evidence free from unambiguous interpretation which would refute our proposed extension of the Holmes B time-scale; or indeed on which an alternative scale could be based...

K. I. MAYNE, R. ST. J. LAMBERT, D. YORK in Nature (1959)

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The Geological Time-Scale

DR. K. I. MAYNE, DR. R. St. J. LAMBERT, D. YORK in Nature (1959)