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Living on the margin : Understanding the experience of living and dying with frailty in old age
(2012-10)
Within policy and practice there is an increasing interest in the care of frail elders. However understanding of the experience and challenges of living and dying with frailty in older age is currently undeveloped. Frailty ...
Trustworthiness and Authentication in Ubiquitous Computing
(ACM Press, 2012-10)
In a pervasive computing environment, principle authentication veries if a person is the one he claims to be. However, being sure that you are talking to the expected entity does not mean this entity is trusted to do what ...
IRAS 20050+2720 : Anatomy of a young stellar cluster
(2012-10-01)
IRAS 20050+2720 is young star-forming region at a distance of 700 pc without apparent high-mass stars. We present results of our multi-wavelength study of IRAS 20050+2720 which includes observations by Chandra and Spitzer, ...
Neutron-induced fission cross section measurement of U-233, Am-241 and Am-243 in the energy range 0.5 MeV
(2012-10)
Neutron-induced fission cross section measurements of U-233, Am-243 and Am-241 relative to U-235 have been carried out at the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF at CERN. A fast ionization chamber has been employed. All ...
TV's Betty Goes Global : From Telenovela to International Brand
(I.B. Tauris, 2012-10-01)
Premiering in 2006, Ugly Betty, the award-winning US hit show about unglamorous Betty Suarez is the latest incarnation of a worldwide phenomenon that started life as a Colombian telenovela, Yo soy Betty, la fea, back in ...
Analysing virulent and avirulent Leptosphaeria maculans isolates to understand R gene-mediated resistance in Brassica napus
(2012-10)
Phoma stem canker (Leptosphaeria maculans) is a major disease on oilseed rape (Brassica napus) in Europe (e.g. it causes losses to UK farmers of > £100M p.a.). Single major gene resistance (R) in B. napus against L. maculans ...
Suspected and confirmed fatalities associated with mephedrone (4-methylmethcathinone, meow meow) in the United Kingdom
(2012-10)
Background: International media have been reporting about fatalities allegedly related to mephedrone, a popular recreational stimulant, but now a proportion of them have been confirmed. We aimed here at analyzing information ...
Risk owners and risk managers : Dealing with the complexity of feeding children with neurodevelopmental disability: Negotiating and communicating health risk
(2012-10-01)
This paper illustrates negotiations around risk between lay people and clinicians in relation to gastrostomy interventions for disabled children. These negotiations centre on differing interpretations of what constitutes ...
Evaluation of layers of the rat airway epithelial cell line RL-65 for permeability screening of inhaled drug candidates.
(2012-09-29)
A rat respiratory epithelial cell culture system for in vitro prediction of drug pulmonary absorption is currently lacking. Such a model may however enhance the understanding of interspecies differences in inhaled drug ...
Dysphoric mood states are related to sensitivity to temporal changes in contingency
(2012-09-27)
A controversial finding in the field of causal learning is that mood contributes to perceptions of uncorrelated relationships. When people are asked to report the degree of control they have, people with dysphoria or ...