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Feral cat eradication on Dirk Hartog Island, Western Australia
Feral cats are known to drive numerous extinctions of endemic species on islands. Predation by feral cats also currently threatens many species listed as critically endangered. Island faunas that have evolved ...
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Open AccessAchieving Self-Directed Integrated Cancer Aftercare (ASICA) in melanoma: protocol for a randomised patient-focused pilot trial of delivering the ASICA intervention as a means to earlier detection of recurrent and second primary melanoma
Melanoma is common; 15,906 people in the UK were diagnosed with melanoma in 2015 and incidence has increased fivefold in 30 years. Melanoma affects old and young people, with poor prognosis once metastatic. UK...
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A systematic review of minimally invasive surgery for retrorectal tumors
Retrorectal tumors are rare tumors that require resection for symptoms, malignancy and potential malignant transformation. Traditional approaches have included laparotomy, perineal excision or a combination. ...
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Open AccessEHMTI-0316. Exam findings predict outcome of C1 block for migraine treatment
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Open AccessMultidisciplinary approach to improving documentation of visual acuity in patients presenting with ocular trauma
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Open AccessPain referral patterns of the C1-C3 nerve roots: implications for headache disorders and the development of new therapies
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Open AccessChronic preoperative pain and psychological robustness predict acute postoperative pain outcomes after surgery for breast cancer
Few epidemiological studies have prospectively investigated preoperative and surgical risk factors for acute postoperative pain after surgery for breast cancer. We investigated demographic, psychological, pain...
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Open AccessModifiable and fixed factors predicting quality of life in people with colorectal cancer
People with colorectal cancer have impaired quality of life (QoL). We investigated what factors were most highly associated with it.
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Knowledge May Not Be the Best Target for Strategies to Influence Evidence-Based Practice: Using Psychological Models to Understand RCT Effects
Interventions to enhance the implementation of evidence-based practice have a varied success rate. This may be due to a lack of understanding of the mechanism by which interventions achieve results.
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The interrater reliability of rating non-exercise activity of inpatients with eating disorders using a visual analogue scale
BACKGROUND: Non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT) is the energy expended by body movement, other than slee**, eating or sports-like activities. The obese have been reported to have a lower NEAT (walking...
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Lymph, lymphocytes, and lymphatics
This is a summary of recent developments regarding the role of the lymphatic system in immune responses. Emphasis is on physiological considerations from experiments in sheep. Cell-and tissue-specific lymphocy...
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The agreement between the MedGem® indirect calorimeter and a standard indirect calorimeter in anorexia nervosa
Objectives: Measurement of the basal metabolic rate (BMR) can be used to estimate the calories required for weight gain during refeeding in anorexia nervosa (AN). The reference method for measuri...
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Neither baseline tests of molecular hypercoagulability nor D-dimer levels predict deep venous thrombosis in critically ill medical-surgical patients
Predicting patients who are harboring asymptomatic deep venous thrombosis (DVT), or who are at particular risk of develo** DVT, is a desirable clinical goal since prevention or early treatment of DVT might r...
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Effectiveness of strategies to disseminate and implement clinical guidelines for the management of impacted and unerupted third molars in primary dental care, a cluster randomised controlled trial
Systematic reviews of implementation trials in medicine have shown that implementation strategies are not effective under all circumstances and few studies hav...
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Reassessment of the pathways responsible for cerebrospinal fluid absorption in the neonate
In neonatal lambs, the quantitative evidence suggests that a significant volume of cranial CSF drainage is associated with transport along olfactory nerves with absorption primarily into extracranial lymphatic...
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Can psychological models bridge the gap between clinical guidelines and clinicians' behaviour? A randomised controlled trial of an intervention to influence dentists' intention to implement evidence-based practice
Systematic reviews of guideline implementation trials have shown that increasing knowledge and skills through audit or education is generally insufficient to a...
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Interventions to prevent weight gain: a systematic review of psychological models and behaviour change methods
OBJECTIVE: To identify and review published interventions aimed at the prevention of weight gain.
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The Yeast Genome Directory
This directory was made possible by a unique international collaboration between the 633 scientists whose names appear below. It represents both the first published description of the complete sequence of most...
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The nucleotide sequence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosome XII
The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the pre-eminent organism for the study of basic functions of eukaryotic cells1. All of the genes of this simple eukaryotic cell have recently been revealed by an internationa...
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The nucleotide sequence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosome XVI
The nucleotide sequence of the 948,061 base pairs of chromosome XVI has been determined, completing the sequence of the yeast genome. Chromosome XVI was the last yeast chromosome identified1, and some of the gene...
