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Submonolayer Quantum-Dot Based Saturable Absorber for Femtosecond Pulse Generation

Semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAMs) enable passive modelocking of several ultrafast solid-state lasers. Conventionally, SESAMs in the 1-µm wavelength range have employed InGaAs quantum wells (QWs...

S. J. Addamane, A. Laurain, C. W. Baker, T. J. Rotter… in Journal of Electronic Materials (2021)

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Distribution of vertebral fractures varies among patients according to hip fracture type

This study explored the distribution of vertebral fractures in hip fracture patients. Unlike patients with intertrochanteric fractures, those with subcapital fractures were less likely to have vertebral fractu...

J. Watt, L. Cox, R. G. Crilly in Osteoporosis International (2015)

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Urban geochemistry: research strategies to assist risk assessment and remediation of brownfield sites in urban areas

Urban geochemical maps of Wolverhampton and Nottingham, based on multielement analysis of surface soils, have shown distribution patterns of “total” metals concentrations relating to past and present industria...

I. Thornton, M. E. Farago, C. R. Thums… in Environmental Geochemistry and Health (2008)

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Collision lesions of the sella: co-existence of craniopharyngioma with gonadotroph adenoma and of Rathke’s cleft cyst with corticotroph adenoma

Collision lesions of the sellar region are relatively uncommon. Most contributions include a pituitary adenoma or a cyst/cystic tumor, particularly a Rathke cleft cyst. The association of craniopharyngioma wit...

N. Karavitaki, B. W. Scheithauer, J. Watt, O. Ansorge, M. Moschopoulos… in Pituitary (2008)

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Contaminant Source Apportionment by Pimms Lead Isotope Analysis and Sem-Image Analysis

By combining scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image analysis and laser ablation plasma ionisation multi-collector mass spectrometry (LA-PIMMS), high precision lead isotope analyses can be obtained from indiv...

R.A.R. McGill, J.M. Pearce, N.J. Fortey, J. Watt… in Environmental Geochemistry and Health (2003)

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Inter-decadal patterns of population and dietary change in sea otters at Amchitka Island, Alaska

After having been hunted to near-extinction in the Pacific maritime fur trade, the sea otter population at Amchitka Island, Alaska increased from very low numbers in the early 1900s to near equilibrium density...

J. Watt, D. B. Siniff, J. A. Estes in Oecologia (2000)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Giving smokers what they want: Certainties, not probabilities

In preparation for Australia’s first national campaign on smoking, a comprehensive review of published and unpublished literature on smokers’ attitudes and behaviour was undertaken. The results showed consiste...

T. Cotter, D. Hill, J. Watt, J. Boulter in Tobacco: The Growing Epidemic (2000)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Effective use of the mass media for tobacco control

In this symposium, the co-chairs were Ms Katie Aston (Health Education Authority, United Kingdom) and Professor **gheng Huang (Shanghai Medical University, China). The speakers were Professor Rob Donovan (Uni...

J. Watt in Tobacco: The Growing Epidemic (2000)

Article

The Flame Research Project: Introduction and Methods

The FLAME (FLy-Ash and Metals in Europe: Implications for human and environmental health) research project funded by the EU COPERNICUS programme ran from 1994 to 1996. The main aims of the programme were to fu...

N.L. Rose, T. Alliksaar, J.J. Bowman, J. Boyle, B. Coles… in Water, Air, and Soil Pollution (1998)

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The FLAME Project: General Discussion and Conclusions

Detailed discussion of the FLAME data at individual country level is included in other papers in this volume but some aspects of the analyses and data interpretation are best discussed on a broader level and t...

N.L. Rose, T. Alliksaar, J.J. Bowman, J. Fott, S. Harlock… in Water, Air, and Soil Pollution (1998)

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Discrimination between aluminium held within vegetation and that contributed by soil contamination using a combination of Electron Probe Micro Analysis (EPMA) and Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectrometry (ICP-AES)

Aluminium concentrations in NIST (formally NBS) Standard Reference Material Tomato Leaves and Citrus Leaves were determined by ICP-AES after acid digestion. The normal ‘total’ acid attack (nitric and perchlori...

M. H. Ramsey, D. Dong, I. Thornton, J. Watt… in Environmental Geochemistry and Health (1991)

Chapter

Special Topics Concerning Interactions of Heavy Metals with the Environment

Most of the heavy metals and other trace elements are emitted to the atmosphere as fine elemental particles or oxides. At high temperature a few are also emitted as gases. With the important exception of Hg, t...

B. Ottar, S. E. Lindberg, E. Voldner… in Control and Fate of Atmospheric Trace Meta… (1989)

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A nationwide reconnaissance survey of metals in urban dusts and soils

E. Culbard, S. Moorcroft, J. Watt, I. Thornton… in Minerals and the Environment (1983)

Article

Ischemic colitis associated with carcinoma of the colon

Two cases of ischemic colitis occurring proximal to carcinoma of the colon are described, with special reference to the barium enema and pathological findings. The association of these two conditions is rare b...

Professor G. H. Whitehouse, J. Watt in Gastrointestinal Radiology (1977)