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Assessing the Association Between Pre-operative Feeding and the Development of Oral Feeding Skills in Infants with Single Ventricle Heart Disease: An Analysis of the NPC-QIC Dataset
Pre-operative feeding may improve long-term feeding outcomes in single ventricle patients, including weaning from supplemental tube feedings in infancy. This study examines the association between pre-operativ...
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Breeding wheat for weed-competitive ability: II–measuring gains from selection and local adaptation
Although the effect of local adaptation is well documented in evolutionary biology, few studies have quantified the impact of local adaptation in plant breeding. Decentralized plant breeding programs have the ...
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Open AccessMen’s experiences of radiotherapy treatment for localized prostate cancer and its long-term treatment side effects: a longitudinal qualitative study
To investigate men’s experiences of receiving external-beam radiotherapy (EBRT) with neoadjuvant Androgen Deprivation Therapy (ADT) for localized prostate cancer (LPCa) in the ProtecT trial.
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Open AccessSecurity attacks on smart grid scheduling and their defences: a game-theoretic approach
The introduction of advanced communication infrastructure into the power grid raises a plethora of new opportunities to tackle climate change. This paper is concerned with the security of energy management sys...
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Laser geodetic satellites: a high-accuracy scientific tool
Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) began in the mid-1960s on satellites of opportunity with retro-reflectors intended as a part of intercomparison tests of satellite tracking techniques. Shortly thereafter, data fr...
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Open AccessStreet-level diplomacy and local enforcement for meat safety in northern Tanzania: knowledge, pragmatism and trust
With increasing demand for red meat in Tanzania comes heightened potential for zoonotic infections in animals and humans that disproportionately affect poor communities. A range of frontline government employe...
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Open AccessExploring the behavioural drivers of veterinary surgeon antibiotic prescribing: a qualitative study of companion animal veterinary surgeons in the UK
Multi-drug resistant bacteria are an increasing concern in both human and veterinary medicine. Inappropriate prescribing and use of antibiotics within veterinary medicine may be a contributory factor to antimi...
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Management of Warm- and Cool-Season Grasses for Biomass on Marginal Lands: I. Yield and Soil Fertility Status
Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.), tall fescue [Lolium arundinaceum (Schreb.)], and reed canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea L.) are known for high biomass productivity and for various traits that make these specie...
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Management of Warm- and Cool-Season Grasses for Biomass on Marginal Lands: II. Composition and Nutrient Balance
Organic fertilizers can improve soil health while providing nutrients for perennial grass growth for bioenergy feedstock, particularly under marginal soil conditions. The impact of organic fertilizer applicati...
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Open AccessComparison of optimised endovaginal vs external array coil T2-weighted and diffusion-weighted imaging techniques for detecting suspected early stage (IA/IB1) uterine cervical cancer
To compare sensitivity and specificity of endovaginal versus external-array coil T2-W and T2-W + DWI for detecting and staging small cervical tumours.
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Adaptation decision-making in the Nordic countries: assessing the potential for joint action
In a global context, the outlook for the Nordic region is relatively favourable, given its relatively stronger resiliency to climate change impacts in comparison to many other geo-political regions of the wor...
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Open AccessDesign and preliminary recruitment results of the Cluster randomised triAl of PSA testing for Prostate cancer (CAP)
Screening for prostate cancer continues to generate controversy because of concerns about over-diagnosis and unnecessary treatment. We describe the rationale, design and recruitment of the Cluster randomised t...
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Effects of continuously enhanced corticotropin releasing factor expression within the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis on conditioned and unconditioned anxiety
The lateral division of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST), which forms part of the circuitry regulating fear and anxiety, contains a large number of neurons expressing corticotropin releasing fact...
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Open AccessSuitability of PSA-detected localised prostate cancers for focal therapy: experience from the ProtecT study
Contemporary screening for prostate cancer frequently identifies small volume, low-grade lesions. Some clinicians have advocated focal prostatic ablation as an alternative to more aggressive interventions to m...
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Open AccessAssociation of obesity with prostate cancer: a case-control study within the population-based PSA testing phase of the ProtecT study
Obesity has been inconsistently linked to prostate cancer, mainly with mortality rather than incidence. Few large-scale studies exist assessing obesity in relation to prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-detected p...
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Representation theorems for recursively enumerable sets and a conjecture related to poonen’s large subring of \(\bf \mathbb{Q} \)
It is remarked that unsolvability results can often be extended to yield novel “representation” theorems for the set of all recursively enumerable sets. In particular, it is shown that an analysis of the proof...
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Pyramiding QTL increases seedling resistance to crown rot (Fusarium pseudograminearum) of wheat (Triticum aestivum)
Crown rot of wheat (Triticum aestivum), predominantly caused by the fungus Fusarium pseudograminearum, has become an increasingly important disease constraint in many winter cereal production regions in Australia...
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High molecular gas fractions in normal massive star-forming galaxies in the young Universe
Star formation requires the presence of cold molecular gas, which makes up only a small fraction of the total mass of the Milky Way and nearby galaxies where only a few new stars are formed per year. To establ...
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Open AccessSimilar progression of diabetic retinopathy with insulin glargine and neutral protamine Hagedorn (NPH) insulin in patients with type 2 diabetes: a long-term, randomised, open-label study. Reply to Chantelau E [letter] and Currie CJ [letter]
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Elevated Serum PTH Is Independently Associated with Poor Outcomes in Older Patients with Hip Fracture and Vitamin D Inadequacy
To determine whether serum 25(OH)D and/or PTH levels in older patients with hip fracture (HF) could predict short-term clinical outcomes, we conducted a prospective observational study of 287 consecutive HF pa...
