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Repertoires of distinction : exploring patterns of weekend polydrug use within local leisure scenes across the English night time economy (2009)
Journal Article
Measham, F., & Moore, K. (2009). Repertoires of distinction : exploring patterns of weekend polydrug use within local leisure scenes across the English night time economy. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 9(4), 437-464. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895809343406

Presented here are the first findings of self report surveys of prevalence of illicit drug use by customers in the night time economy of a large English city. Five random sample surveys conducted with dance club customers and three similar surveys wi... Read More about Repertoires of distinction : exploring patterns of weekend polydrug use within local leisure scenes across the English night time economy.

Attachment style and alliance in patients with diabetes and healthcare professionals (2009)
Journal Article
Morris, L., Berry, K., Wearden, A., Jackson, N., Dornan, T., & Davies, R. (2009). Attachment style and alliance in patients with diabetes and healthcare professionals. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 14(5), 585-590. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548500903193838

Avoidant attachment has been found to impair attendance at appointments and treatment adherence of patients with diabetes, but the role of staff–patient relationships has not been explored. This study investigates whether attachment influences the qu... Read More about Attachment style and alliance in patients with diabetes and healthcare professionals.

Polish Yers and Lexical Syllabicity (2009)
Journal Article
Bekerman, M., Spencer, A., & Roca, I. (2009). Polish Yers and Lexical Syllabicity. Linguistic Review, 9(1), 27-68. https://doi.org/10.1515/tlir.1992.9.1.27

The article examines vowel alternations in Slavic languages on the basis of Polish CVC - CC alternations mostly involving the vowel 'e'. It links the phenomenon to prosodic structures of Slavic languages and tries to resolve the issue by employing a... Read More about Polish Yers and Lexical Syllabicity.

Ultrabroad emission from a bismuth doped chalcogenide glass (2009)
Journal Article
Hughes, M., Akada, T., Suzuki, T., Ohishi, Y., & Hewak, D. (2009). Ultrabroad emission from a bismuth doped chalcogenide glass. Optics express, 17(22), 19345-19355. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.019345

We report emission from a bismuth doped chalcogenide glass
which is flattened, has a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 600 nm,
peaks at 1300 nm and covers the entire telecommunications window. At
cryogenic temperatures the FWHM reaches 850 nm.... Read More about Ultrabroad emission from a bismuth doped chalcogenide glass.

Compositional optimization of bismuth-doped yttria–alumina–silica glass (2009)
Journal Article
Hughes, M., Suzuki, T., & Ohishi, Y. (2009). Compositional optimization of bismuth-doped yttria–alumina–silica glass. Optical Materials, 32(2), 368-373. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2009.09.004

We fabricated three series of glasses in which the Y2O3, Bi2
O3 and Al2O3 contents of Bi-doped
Y2O3:Al2O3:SiO2 glass were varied. We optimized the content of each component based on quantum efficiency
(QE) and other optical properties. The strengt... Read More about Compositional optimization of bismuth-doped yttria–alumina–silica glass.

GAPs in the study of zoo and wild animal welfare (2009)
Journal Article
Goulart, V., Azevedo, P., van de Schepop, J., Teixeira, C., Barcante, L., Azevedo, C., & Young, R. (2009). GAPs in the study of zoo and wild animal welfare. Zoo Biology, 28(6), 561-573. https://doi.org/10.1002/zoo.20285

To investigate the science of animal welfare for zoo and wild animals in the period from 1966 to 2007, we conducted a bibliometric analysis of abstracts downloaded from The Web of Science© database using the keyword combination “Animal welfare, Zoo*... Read More about GAPs in the study of zoo and wild animal welfare.

‘Crippled with nerves’: popular music and polio, with particular reference to Ian Dury (2009)
Journal Article
McKay, G. (2009). ‘Crippled with nerves’: popular music and polio, with particular reference to Ian Dury. Popular Music, 28(3), 341-365. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143009990109

This article looks at a remarkable cluster of popular musicians who contracted and survived poliomyelitis (‘infantile paralysis’) epidemics through the twentieth century, and ways in which they managed and, to varying extents, explored their polio-re... Read More about ‘Crippled with nerves’: popular music and polio, with particular reference to Ian Dury.

Credit scoring and decision making in Egyptian public sector banks (2009)
Journal Article
banks. International Journal of Managerial Finance, 5(4), 391-406. https://doi.org/10.1108/17439130910987549

Purpose – The main aims of this paper are: first, to investigate how decisions are currently made within the Egyptian public sector environment; and, second, to determine whether the decision making can be significantly improved through the use of cr... Read More about Credit scoring and decision making in Egyptian public sector banks.

Molecular epidemiology of African sleeping sickness (2009)
Journal Article
Hide, G., & Tait, A. (2009). Molecular epidemiology of African sleeping sickness. Parasitology, 136(12), 1491-500. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182009990333

Human sleeping sickness in Africa, caused by Trypanosoma brucei spp. raises a number of questions. Despite the widespread distribution of the tsetse vectors and animal trypanosomiasis, human disease is only found in discrete foci which periodically g... Read More about Molecular epidemiology of African sleeping sickness.

The acute effects of heavy and light resistances on the flight time of a basketball push-pass during upper body complex training (2009)
Journal Article
Matthews, M., O'Conchuir, C., & Comfort, P. (2009). The acute effects of heavy and light resistances on the flight time of a basketball push-pass during upper body complex training. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 23(7), 1988-1995. https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0b013e3181b3e076

The aim of this study was to investigate the acute effect of high-load and low-load complex training on upper-body performance—determined by the flight time of a basketball push-pass. Twelve competitive male athletes
(21.8 6 4.5 years, 82.0 6 11.7 k... Read More about The acute effects of heavy and light resistances on the flight time of a basketball push-pass during upper body complex training.

T cell-based immunotherapy of metastatic renal cell carcinoma: modest success and future perspective. (2009)
Journal Article
Shablak, A., Hawkins, R., Rothwell, D., & Elkord, E. (2009). T cell-based immunotherapy of metastatic renal cell carcinoma: modest success and future perspective. Clinical Cancer Research, 15(21), 6503-6510. https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-09-1605

Metastatic renal cell carcinoma (MRCC) remains a challenging malignancy to treat. Cancer immunotherapies have been extensively explored in melanoma and RCC as they poorly respond to conventional cytotoxic agents but show responses to a variety of imm... Read More about T cell-based immunotherapy of metastatic renal cell carcinoma: modest success and future perspective..

Immune evasion mechanisms in colorectal cancer liver metastasis patients vaccinated with TroVax (MVA-5T4) (2009)
Journal Article
Elkord, E., Dangoor, A., Burt, D., & Southgate, T. (2009). Immune evasion mechanisms in colorectal cancer liver metastasis patients vaccinated with TroVax (MVA-5T4). Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy, 58(10), 1657-1667. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00262-009-0674-y

We have recently reported the results of a phase II trial in which two TroVax [modified vaccinia ankara (MVA) encoding the tumour antigen 5T4] vaccinations were given to patients both pre- and post-surgical resection of liver metastases secondary to... Read More about Immune evasion mechanisms in colorectal cancer liver metastasis patients vaccinated with TroVax (MVA-5T4).

Effect of boundary slip on the acoustical properties of microfibrous materials (2009)
Journal Article
Umnova, O., Tsiklauri, D., & Venegas Castillo, R. (2009). Effect of boundary slip on the acoustical properties of microfibrous materials. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 126(4), 1850-1861. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3204087

A variety of new porous materials with unusually small pores have been manufactured in the past decades. To predict their acoustical properties, the conventional models need to be modified. When pore size becomes comparable to the molecular mean free... Read More about Effect of boundary slip on the acoustical properties of microfibrous materials.

Drosophila male sex peptide inhibits siesta sleep and promotes locomotor activity in the post-mated female (2009)
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Isaac, R., Li, C., Leedale, A., & Shirras, A. (2009). Drosophila male sex peptide inhibits siesta sleep and promotes locomotor activity in the post-mated female. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277(1678), 65-70. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.1236

Quiescence, or a sleep-like state, is a common and important feature of the daily lives of animals from both invertebrate and vertebrate taxa, suggesting that sleep appeared early in animal evolution. Recently, Drosophila melanogaster has been shown... Read More about Drosophila male sex peptide inhibits siesta sleep and promotes locomotor activity in the post-mated female.

Association of functional outcome with both personal- and area-level socioeconomic inequalities in patients with inflammatory polyarthritis (2009)
Journal Article
Harrison, M. J., Farragher, T. M., Clarke-Cornwell, A. M., Manning, S. C., Bunn, D. K., & Symmons, D. P. (2009). Association of functional outcome with both personal- and area-level socioeconomic inequalities in patients with inflammatory polyarthritis. Arthritis Care and Research, 61(10), 1297-1304. https://doi.org/10.1002/art.24830

Objective
To describe the relationship between baseline area- and person-level social inequalities and functional disability at 3 years in patients with early inflammatory polyarthritis (IP).

Methods
A total of 1,393 patients with new-onset IP w... Read More about Association of functional outcome with both personal- and area-level socioeconomic inequalities in patients with inflammatory polyarthritis.

Ideology and total war : military intellectuals and the analysis of the Spanish Civil War in Britain, 1936-1943 (2009)
Journal Article
Searle, D. (2009). Ideology and total war : military intellectuals and the analysis of the Spanish Civil War in Britain, 1936-1943. Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift, 68(2), 321-344. https://doi.org/10.1524/mgzs.2009.0011

The recent historical interest in the analysis of the lessons of the Spanish Civil War by the European powers has tended to focus very strongly on the tactical experiences and the study of new military technology. This has led to the implied assumpti... Read More about Ideology and total war : military intellectuals and the analysis of the Spanish Civil War in Britain, 1936-1943.