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Aspirin related platelet reactivity as a determinant of ten year survival in high risk non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) patients
(2020-09-10)Aspirin, the most commonly prescribed antiplatelet agent in clinical practice, forms a cornerstone of management in patients with established cardiovascular disease (CVD). The clinical efficacy and safety of aspirin when ... -
Aspirin triggered 15-epi-lipoxin A4 predicts cyclo-oxygenase-2 in the lungs of LPS treated mice but not in the circulation : implications for a clinical test
(2013-10)Inhibition of cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 increases cardiovascular deaths. Identifying a biomarker of COX-2 is desirable but difficult, since COX-1 and COX-2 ordinarily catalyze formation of an identical product, prostaglandin ... -
Assaying Proteasomal Degradation in a Cell-free System in Plants
(2014-03-26)The ubiquitin-proteasome pathway for protein degradation has emerged as one of the most important mechanisms for regulation of a wide spectrum of cellular functions in virtually all eukaryotic organisms. Specifically, in ... -
Assembling a high-precision abundance catalogue of solar twins in GALAH for phylogenetic studies
(2024-04-15)Stellar chemical abundances have proved themselves a key source of information for understanding the evolution of the Milky Way, and the scale of major stellar surveys such as GALAH have massively increased the amount of ... -
Assertion and Accommodation: a Study of the Assertive Language in the Conversations of School-Age (5-13 Years) Girls
(2018-05-25)This study aimed to investigate the use of accommodation of assertive utterances (AUs) in the conversations of 49 girls aged 5;0-13;1. Based on the findings of earlier research that the use of such language is more closely ... -
An assertion concerning functionally complete algebras and NP-completeness
(2008)In a paper published in J. ACM in 1990, Tobias Nipkow asserted that the problem of deciding whether or not an equation over a nontrivial functionally complete algebra has a solution is NP-complete. However, close examination ... -
Assess Compassion in Higher Education? Why and How would we do that?
(2016-01-08)Abstract: This article reports the effects (on students' social and learning experiences) of supporting students in the use of explicitly compassionate interactional strategies during their weekly seminar interactions. ... -
Assessing a commercially available sports drink on exogenous carbohydrate oxidation, fluid delivery and sustained exercise performance.
(2014-03-04)Background: Whilst exogenous carbohydrate oxidation (CHOEXO) is influenced by mono- and disaccharide combinations, debate exists whether such beverages enhance fluid delivery and exercise performance. Therefore, this study ... -
Assessing and Improving Prognosis in Patients with High Risk Acute Coronary Syndrome
(2020-08-11)Endogenous fibrinolysis, if impaired, has been identified as a novel risk factor in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). However, in-depth understanding of endogenous fibrinolysis, whether it varies day to day ... -
Assessing availability and greenhouse gas emissions of lignocellulosic biomass feedstock supply – case study for a catchment in England
(2019-05-01)Feedstocks from lignocellulosic biomass (LCB) include crop residues and dedicated per¬ennial biomass crops. The latter are often considered superior in terms of climate change mitigation potential. Uncertainty remains over ... -
Assessing bias in online surveys using alternative survey modes
(2022-05-14)Due to concerns that respondents to online surveys are different from populations of interest, parallel offline surveys can be undertaken and results compared. In this article we create a set of principles to compare results ... -
Assessing carbon monoxide poisoning
(2013-03)Carbon monoxide (CO) is a toxic gas usually formed during the incomplete combustion of carbon-based fuels. Poisoning by CO can be fatal or lead to long-term debilitating cardiovascular, respiratory and neurological conditions. ... -
Assessing charities using data envelopment analysis.
(Cranfield, Centre for Business Performance, 2000)Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a technique that takes account of multiple inputs and outputs to assess the relative efficiency of organisational units. Unlike regression its assessments are not based on any average but ... -
Assessing Consumer Preference for Origin-Labelled Drinks and its Implications for the Food and Drinks Industry in Ghana
(2008-05-20)Country of produce label is an important factor that affects consumer evaluation of food and drinks on the market. The direction of international marketing for food and drink has shifted to emerging markets since developed ... -
Assessing deprescribing tools for implementation in care homes: A qualitative study of the views of care home staff
(2023-12-16)BACKGROUND: Care home residents often experience polypharmacy (defined as taking five or more regular medicines). Therefore, we need to ensure that residents only take the medications that are appropriate or provide value ... -
Assessing Fairtrade Marketing Drivers and Market Prospects for Commodity Producers in Developing Countries
(2013-05-14)Fairtrade has received considerable research attention but little is known about marketing factors driving sales and its potential implications for sustained market access for commodity producers. To provide objective ... -
Assessing Forensic Ballistics Three-Dimensionally through Graphical Reconstruction and Immersive VR Observation
(2022-10-21)A crime scene can provide valuable evidence critical to explain reason and modality of the occurred crime, and it can also lead to the arrest of criminals. The type of evidence collected by crime scene investigators or by ... -
Assessing human reactions to different robot attachment profiles
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2009)Emotional regulation is believed to be crucial for a balanced emotional and cognitive development in infants. Furthermore, during the first year of a child's life, the mother is playing a central role in shaping the ... -
Assessing Hypersensitivity to Difference in Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults
(2024-03-28)Current literature on autism has tended to examine individual traits and characteristics, or the link between two or three traits. This thesis will outline previous literature on the cognitive and perceptual theories of ...