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Predicting fatty acid profiles in blood based on food intake and the FADS1 rs174546 SNP
(2015-12)SCOPE: A high intake of n-3 PUFA provides health benefits via changes in the n-6/n-3 ratio in blood. In addition to such dietary PUFAs, variants in the fatty acid desaturase 1 (FADS1) gene are also associated with altered ... -
Application of dried blood spots to determine vitamin D status in a large nutritional study with unsupervised sampling : the Food4Me project
(2016-01)An efficient and robust method to measure vitamin D (25-hydroxy vitamin D3 (25(OH)D3) and 25-hydroxy vitamin D2 in dried blood spots (DBS) has been developed and applied in the pan-European multi-centre, internet-based, ... -
What is “policy” and what is “policy response”? : An illustrative study of the implementation of the Leadership Standards for Social Justice in Scotland
(2016-01)This paper examines ‘policy’ and ‘policy response’ through documentary analysis and an illustrative study of policy implementation. Our approach is informed by Foucault’s (2009) theory that power relations in society are ... -
Forma e concetto : il lavoro di Giuseppe Vultaggio
(2010)This article examines the work of the Italian architect Giuseppe Vultaggio and his projects in Europe and South America. Characteristic of Vultaggio’s architecture is the research on how to confer meaning to a shape and ... -
Good top-down design methodologies tend to produce fully normalised designs anyway
(2003-06-15)Many database curricula both in University and in As and A2 examining boards teach normalisation by decomposition as a method of arriving at a suitable set of tables for implementation in a relational database. This paper ... -
Grundschulforschung zwischen allgemeinen und fachdidaktischen Fragestellungen
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Microblogs global: Englisch
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Building national initiatives of compulsory licences : reflecting on the Indian jurisprudence as a model for developing countries
(2015)The focus of this article is only on developing countries. The author reflects on the Indian patent jurisprudence regarding the operational relationship between the general principles applicable to working of patented ... -
Deploying pre-grant patent opposition mechanisms in Africa to monitor abuse of the patent system
(2015)This article examines the extent to which African countries could deploy pre-grant patent opposition provisions in their domestic patent regimes to mitigate the abuse of the patent system. The author argues that the public ... -
Examining the legality of affordability requirements as a substantive condition for granting compulsory licences pursuant to the TRIPS agreement
(2015-11-01)This article examines whether the so-called reasonably affordable requirements of the public remains a valid condition under TRIPS on which World Trade Organisation members can grant compulsory licences. This article frames ... -
Self-defeating reasons for signing the African Growth and Opportunity Act : analysing the pressure on African countries to enact UPOV Convention Plant Breeders’ Rights as opposed to effective sui generis regimes under TRIPS
(2015-03)In the absence of domestic standard-setting, it seems that the legislative landscapes of poor countries are subject to the policy direction of key developed countries which seek the highest returns from transnational trade ... -
Exploring a regional pharmaceutical innovation network as a possible solution to the market failure in the innovation of essential medicines for tropical diseases in sub-Saharan Africa
(2014)From an economic reasoning perspective, pharmaceutical research and development operates as a pure market activity. This viewpoint suggests innovations are receptive to questions of commerce. It is on this basis the ... -
Locally working patents and the grant of compulsory licences : the need for stronger statutory provisions in Africa
(2014)According to a well-established legislative tradition of patent law, failure to work patents while exercising any rights over the patented inventions constitutes an abuse. Consequently, several countries impose affirmative ... -
Changes in gene expression profiles as they relate to the adult plant leaf rust resistance in the wheat cv. Toropi
(2015-01)Leaf rust, caused by the foliar pathogen Puccinia triticina is a major disease of wheat in the southern region of Brazil and invariably impacts on production, being responsible for high yield losses. The Brazilian wheat ... -
Supportive communication with parents moderates the negative effects of electronic media use on life satisfaction during adolescence
(2015-02-01)Objectives To examine the impact of electronic media (EM) use on teenagers’ life satisfaction (LS) and to assess the potential moderating effect of supportive communication with parents (SCP). Methods Data were drawn from ...