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Perioperative serum inflammatory response and the development of atrial fibrilation after coronary artery bypass surgery
(BMJ, 2005)Atrial fibrillation (AF) remains the most common cardiac arrhythmia and is associated with an increase in both morbidity and mortality. Some data in both the surgical and non-surgical settings suggest that inflammation has ... -
Caffeic acid phenethyl ester modulates Helicobacter pylori-induced nuclear factor-kappa B and activator protein-1 expression in gastric epithelial cells
(Nature, 2005)Caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE), an active component of propolis from honeybee hives (honeybee resin), has anti-inflammatory, anti-carcinogenic and anti-bacterial properties. This study was designed to investigate the ... -
Sequence and phylogenetic analysis of the gene for surface layer protein, slpA, from 14 PCR ribotypes of Clostridium difficile
(Society for General Microbiology, 2006)Clostridium difficile is the commonest cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea, with the hospitalized elderly being at particular risk. The organism makes a crystalline surface protein layer (S-layer), encoded by the slpA ... -
Septic shock is correlated with asymmetrical dimethyl arginine levels, which may be influenced by a polymorphism in the dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase II gene: a prospective observational study.
(BioMed Central, 2006)INTRODUCTION: Asymmetrical dimethyl arginine (ADMA) is an endogenous non-selective inhibitor of nitric oxide synthase that may influence the severity of organ failure and the occurrence of shock secondary to an infectious ... -
Childhood Helicobacter pylori infection and growth impairment in developing countries: a vicious cycle?
(American Academy of Paediatrics, 2007)We hypothesize that infection with the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori in children in developing countries is the initiator of a vicious cycle of events that result ultimately in malnutrition and growth impairment. ... -
Deoxycholate induces COX-2 expression via Erk1/2-, p38-MAPK and AP-1-dependent mechanisms in esophageal cancer cells
(BioMed Central, 2009)Background The progression from Barrett's metaplasia to adenocarcinoma is associated with the acquirement of an apoptosis-resistant phenotype. The bile acid deoxycholate (DCA) has been proposed to play an important role ... -
Loss of viral fitness and cross-recognition by CD8+ T cells limit HCV escape from a protective HLA-B27-restricted human immune response
(American Society for Clinical Investigation, 2009)There is an association between expression of the MHC class I molecule HLA-B27 and protection following human infection with either HIV or HCV. In both cases, protection has been linked to HLA-B27 presentation of a single ... -
'The future isn't what it used to be': Technology in counselling and psychotherapy
(2008)Change is prefigured in the articulation by Dr Rick Satavas: `the future isn?t what it used to be?. Its sentiment rings true; recently psychotherapy practitioners and researchers have begun investigating the potential of ... -
Monitoring of Cognitive Processes in Older Persons
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Acquisition of Human EEG Data during linear Self-Motion on a Stewart Platform
(IEEE, 2009)The present study investigated the feasibility of acquiring electroencephalography (EEG) data during self-motion in human subjects. Subjects performed a visual oddball task ? designed to evoke a P3 event-related potential ... -
Brain-computer interfaces, virtual reality, and videogames
(IEEE, 2008)Major challenges must be tackled for brain-computer interfaces to mature into an established communications medium for VR applications, which will range from basic neuroscience studies to developing optimal peripherals and ... -
Extracting Separate Responses to Simultaneously Presented Continuous Auditory Stimuli: An Auditory Attention Study
(2009)Auditory Evoked Potentials (AEPs) have been used extensively in the study of auditory attention. Some weaknesses of standard AEP paradigms include (i) stimulation is discrete in nature and thus not very ecological and ... -
Serial and parallel implementations of model-based clustering via parsimonious Gaussian mixture models
(2009)Model-based clustering using a family of Gaussian mixture models, with parsimonious factor analysis like covariance structure, is described and an efficient algorithm for its implementation is presented. This algorithm ... -
The determinants and effects of training at work : bringing the workplace back in
(Economic and Social Research Institute, 2009-04-23)This paper brings together two research fields: on work-related training and high performance work practices (HPWP), respectively. We estimate models of both the determinants and the impact of training using the NCPP/ESRI ... -
Carrier-density dependence of the photoluminescence lifetimes in ZnCdSe/ZnSSe quantum wells at room temperature
(American Institute of Physics, 1999)Photoluminescence lifetimes have been measured at room temperature as a function of carrier density in ZnCdSe/ZnSSe quantum wells. We show that, at low carrier density (5 ? 109?5 ? 1010 cm ? 2), nonradiative recombination ... -
Calculated Threshold Currents of Nitride- and. Phosphide-Based Quantum-Well Lasers
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Priorities in process algebras.
(IEEE Computer Society, 1988)An operational semantics for an algebraic theory of concurrency is developed that incorporates a notion of priority into the definition of the execution of actions. An equivalence based on strong observational equivalences ... -
Towards action-refinement in process algebras.
(IEEE Computer Society Press., 1989)A simple process algebra which supports a form of refinement of an action by a process is presented and the question of an appropriate equivalence relation for it is addressed. The main result is that an adequate equivalence ...
