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Role of perioperative immune checkpoint inhibitors in muscle invasive bladder cancer
(2023-01-03)Objective To describe and highlight the current use of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in the muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) treatment landscape, particularly focusing on the perioperative setting. We provide a ... -
The role of personality traits in pension decisions: Findings and policy recommendations
(2019-06-09)Many countries need to stimulate pension participation and contribution to ensure their citizens are prepared adequately for retirement. Identifying at-risk groups with tendencies of not joining pension plans will help ... -
The Role of Physical Activity During Personal Recovery at a Voluntary Sector Mental Health Organisation
(2016-04-15)Research has shown that people who participate in regular physical activity (PA) can experience improved wellbeing and quality of life, including better physical health, cognitive function, positive affect, and self-esteem ... -
The role of price expectations in the UK housing market
(University of Hertfordshire, 2009)The objective of this paper is to explain and derive the non-linear, S-shaped diffusion path of price expectations and provide a forecasting model, three months ahead with the implications assessed. Bounded rationality ... -
Role of prostacyclin in pulmonary hypertension
(2014-12-31)Prostacyclin is a powerful cardioprotective hormone released by the endothelium of all blood vessels. Prostacyclin exists in equilibrium with other vasoactive hormones and a disturbance in the balance of these factors leads ... -
The Role of Publications and Other Artefacts in Submissions for the UK PhD
(UK Council for Graduate Education, 2015-02)The traditional examination format for PhD degrees in the UK is the chapter-based dissertation as the basis for oral examination. However pressures to publish prior to thesis submission and hence to allow incorporation of ... -
The role of pupils in developing student teachers’ knowledge of teaching
(2021-04-01)Teachers’ personal understanding of knowledge and how it is acquired has important implications for their approaches to teaching and engaging pupils in learning. This article extends learning about emergent teachers’ ... -
The role of rain in dispersal of pathogen inoculum
(1989)The importance of rain in the dispersal of micro-organisms was first demon strated in the 1880s, in the classic studies of Pierre Miquel (Figure 1) on the microflora of the Pare Montsouris in Paris. Collected rainwater ... -
The role of reality monitoring in anosognosia for hemiplegia
(2010)Anosognosia for hemiplegia (AHP) refers to a lack of awareness regarding paralysis after stroke. Despite attracting clinical interest for decades, empirical research into AHP has been relatively scarce, and there remains ... -
The Role of Referrals in New Client Capture Within the Field of Independent Financial Advice
(University of Hertfordshire, 2015-02-10)The field of regulated financial services has been ill-served by marketing theory. As a consequence: (1) the nature of marketing in this sector has been misunderstood; (2) the key mechanism for generating new business in ... -
The role of rehearsals in self-generated prospective memory tasks
(2011-10-01)In order to inquire into the nature of retrieval in prospective memory in a naturalistic context, we investigated the number and circumstances of rehearsals of different kinds of intentions to be pursued during a single ... -
The Role of Religion in the Educational Success of Young Black Christian Students: Towards a Concept of ‘Faith Capital’
(2019-02-04)This study provides new empirically based knowledge about Young Black Christian students’ (YBCS) perceptions of the contributory factors to their Educational Success. It also offers insights into a new emergent concept ... -
Role of RhoB in the regulation of pulmonary endothelial and smooth muscle cell responses to hypoxia
(2012-05-25)Rationale: RhoA and Rho kinase contribute to pulmonary vasoconstriction and vascular remodeling in pulmonary hypertension. RhoB, a protein homologous to RhoA and activated by hypoxia, regulates neoplastic growth and ... -
Role of rivaroxaban in the management of atrial fibrillation: insights from clinical practice.
(2018-01-08)Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia, and it leads to significant morbidity and mortality, predominantly from ischemic stroke. Vitamin K antagonists, mainly warfarin, have been used for ... -
The role of school-based health education in adolescent spiritual, moral, social and cultural development
(2019-08-01)Background: The broad nature of young people’s development is internationally acknowledged, which includes physical, mental, spiritual, moral and social elements. In England, schools have a legal obligation to promote ... -
The role of seeds and airborne inoculum in the initiation of leaf blotch (Rhynchosporium secalis) epidemics in winter barley
(2010-04)Both airborne spores of Rhynchosporium secalis and seed infection have been implied as major sources of primary inoculum for barley leaf blotch (scald) epidemics in fields without previous history of barley cropping. ... -
The role of sensory sensitivity in predicting food selectivity and food preferences in children with Tourette syndrome
(2019-04-01)Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by involuntary, repetitive and non-rhythmic motor and vocal tics. Despite suggestion that diet may affect tics, and the substantial research into ...