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Phytochemical Characterisation and Effects of the Native Plant Tabernanthe iboga in Models of Diabetes
(2019-10-03)Preparations of the root bark of Gabonese plants, T. iboga and G. tessmannii have long been used in Central and West African traditional medicine for the treatment of diabetes. In this thesis phytochemical characterisation ... -
Phytochemical characterization of Tabernanthe iboga root bark and its effects on dysfunctional metabolism and cognitive performance in high-fat-fed C57BL/6J mice
(2018-09-01)Preparations of the root bark of Tabernanthe iboga have long been used in Central and West African traditional medicine to combat fatigue, as a neuro-stimulant in rituals, and for treatment of diabetes. The principal ... -
A phytochemical comparison of saw palmetto products using gas chromatography and (1) H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy metabolomic profiling
(2014-06)Preparations containing saw palmetto berries are used in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). There are many products on the market, and relatively little is known about their chemical variability and ... -
PI3Kδ inhibition prevents IL33, ILC2s and inflammatory eosinophils in persistent airway inflammation
(2021-12-17)Background: Phosphoinositide-3-kinase-delta (PI3Kδ) inhibition is a promising therapeutic approach for inflammatory conditions due to its role in leucocyte proliferation, migration and activation. However, the effect of ... -
Pick Up Your Feelings
(Fourteen Publishing, 2024-01-01)Christopher Lloyd’s sensitive, voice-driven poems explore desire and disruption: “you make this other world,” he writes, “to hide in faceless”. In lightly turning stanzas or in seductive columns of prose, these poems seek ... -
Pico without public keys
(Springer Nature, 2015-11-25)Pico is a user authentication system that does not require remembering secrets. It is based on a personal handheld token that holds the user’s credentials and that is unlocked by a “personal aura” generated by digital ... -
Picture My World : Photography in Primary Education
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Pictures Can’t Lie under Oath
(2000)Because image manipulation by computer is so easy, it is hard to be sure that an image was indeed created at the date, time and place claimed, and that it has not been altered since. To gain this confidence requires a ... -
'Picturesque Irony: Brideshead Revisited as an Artist Programme'
(2010-06-04)Shot entirely on film and on location, Brideshead Revisited deploys a constellation of artworks to chart the story of a painter, Charles Ryder. At the centre of the programme’s aesthetic geography is Brideshead Castle ... -
Picturing Female Theatre Managers: the Iconology of Eliza Vestris and Sara Lane
(2017-02-01)Lucia Elizabeth Vestris (1797-1856) and Sara Lane (1822-1899) are two pioneering women in nineteenth-century theatrical history. Both were accomplished singers, initially made their names in comic and breeches roles, and, ... -
Picturing Myth: Double exposed realities
(2013)Down the rabbit hole, through the looking glass and into the wardrobe, all of these paths lead from the realm of the real, into the realm of wonder and myth. In Carolyn Lefley's project ‘Realm’ (2009-2012) constructed ... -
Piece of mind: Long-term memory structure in ACT-R and CHREST
(Cognitive Science Society, 2015)Creating a plausible Unified Theory of Cognition (UTC) requires considerable effort from large, potentially distributed, teams. Computational Cognitive Architectures (CCAs) provide researchers with a concrete medium for ... -
Piezoelectric effects on bone modeling for enhanced sustainability
(2023-09-01)Bone tissue possesses piezoelectric properties, allowing mechanical forces to be converted into electrical potentials. Piezoelectricity has been demonstrated to play a crucial role in bone remodelling and adaptability. ... -
The Pillars of Creation revisited with MUSE: gas kinematics and high-mass stellar feedback traced by optical spectroscopy
(2015-06-11)Integral field unit (IFU) data of the iconic Pillars of Creation in M16 are presented. The ionization structure of the pillars was studied in great detail over almost the entire visible wavelength range, and maps of the ... -
A pilot evaluation of a novel tool to assess risk of frailty in people living with a learning disability
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A pilot simulation-based theatre team training course to improve patient safety
(2009)We are about to start running scenario-based simulation sessions for the CPD of clinical teams from the local acute care NHS Trusts. A pilot session for theatre teams was organised to determine the participants’ views about ... -
A pilot study for the SCUBA-2 'All-Sky' Survey
(2011-08)We have carried out a pilot study for the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array 2 (SCUBA-2) 'All-Sky' Survey (SASSy), a wide and shallow mapping project at 850 mu m, designed to find rare objects, both Galactic and ... -
A pilot study of the epilepsy risk awareness checklist (ERAC) in people with epilepsy and learning disabilities
(2010)Purpose: People with epilepsy are at risk of injury, and protection from potential dangers must be balanced against the need for autonomy. We developed an epilepsy risk awareness checklist (ERAC) as a tool to assess potential ...