Research publications: Recent submissions
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L'éveil à la lecture et à ľécriture en France
(1999)This article is based on evidence gathered during work on the Early Literacy Links project which is exploring early literacy in France and England. Data was collected through questionnaires, observations in nursery and ... -
Accountability and legal issues in tissue viability nursing
(2010)Avoidable pressure ulcers are being increasingly used as an indicator of substandard care. Healthcare professionals may have to account for their actions when a pressure ulcer occurs. This article highlights accountability ... -
Key principles involved in applying and removing wound dressings
(2010)This article aims to help practitioners consider a variety of wound dressings and develop their knowledge about the use of dressings to ensure patients are protected and care is cost-effective. The article focuses on which ... -
Near-death states reported in a sample of 50 misusers
(2010)Increase in recreational ketamine use may be a cause for concern. We aimed here at assessing, in a sample of ketamine misusers, concordance between the typical near-death experience (NDE) features and the on-drug psychoactive ... -
X-shooting Herbig Ae/Be stars : accretion probed by near-infrared He I emission
(2011)The Herbig Ae/Be stars are intermediate mass pre-main sequence stars that bridge the gap between the low mass T Tauri stars and the Massive Young Stellar Objects. In this mass range, the acting star forming mechanism ... -
Towards an autopoietic redefinition of life
(2010)In this paper we develop the autopoietic approach to the definition of the living developed by Maturana and Varela in the Seventies. Starting from very simple observations concerning the phenomenology of life, we propose ... -
Performance comparison of high-order IFLF and LF linear phase lowpass OTA-C filters with and without gain boost
(2010)Design and performance comparison of high-order operational transconductance amplifier and capacitor (OTA-C) filters using leapfrog (LF) and inverse-follow-the-leader-feedback (IFLF) structures are investigated. The filters ... -
Intestinal lipid alterations occur prior to antibody-induced prostaglandin E2 production in a mouse model of ischemia/reperfusion
(2010)Ischemia/reperfusion (IR) induced injury results in significant tissue damage in wild-type, but not antibody-deficient, Rag-1−/− mice. However, Rag-1−/− mice sustain intestinal damage after administration of wild-type ... -
Fatalism and the Future
(Oxford University Press, 2011)I discuss how we should respond to the view that says that the truth of future-tensed statements entails that the future could not have been otherwise. Much fatalist reasoning of this type is rather uninteresting since it ... -
The CB1 cannabinoid receptor antagonist AM251 blocks amphetamine-induced behavioural sensitization together with monoamine changes in the mouse nucleus accumbens and hippocampus
(2007)Endogenous cannabinoids modulate the activity of dopamine reward pathways and may play a role in the development of behavioural sensitization to psychostimulants. Here, we investigated the effects of the CB1 cannabinoid ... -
Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception
(2010)In Merleau-Ponty's "Preface" to his Phenomenologie de la Perception (1945), he asks "What is phenomenology?" - and he suggests that it is still in a process of being defined. Not so untimely, this remains true today, and ... -
Controlling barrier penetration via exothermic iron oxidation
(2011-02-14)Exothermic iron oxidation is an elegant means to generate heat, with the potential to modulate barrier penetration if reaction kinetics can be controlled. This aim of this study was to gain a fundamental understanding of ... -
A fundamental investigation into the effects of eutectic formation on transmembrane transport
(2010-06-30)Eutectic systems enhance the permeation of therapeutic agents across biological barriers, but the mechanism by which this occurs has not previously been elucidated. Using human skin it has proven difficult to isolate the ... -
Correcting Errors in Optical Data Transmission Using Neural Networks
(2010)Optical data communication systems are prone to a variety of processes that modify the transmitted signal, and contribute errors in the determination of 1s from 0s. This is a difficult, and commercially important, problem ... -
Multimodal security enforcement framework for wireless ad hoc networks
(2009)Securing wireless ad hoc networks in an untrustworthy open environment is always a challenging problem. Lack of central auditing on security and weak incentive for cooperation among nodes in an open network scenario demand ... -
Evidence for both inverse agonism at the cannabinoid CB1 receptor and the lack of an endogenous cannabinoid tone in the rat and guinea-pig isolated ileum myenteric plexus-longitudinal muscle preparation
(2010)Background and purpose: Cannabinoid receptor agonists reduce intestinal propulsion in rodents through the CB1 receptor. In addition to its antagonistic activity at this receptor, rimonabant (N-(piperidino)-5-(4-chlorophe ... -
Minimum component high frequency Gm-C wavelet filters based on Maclaurin series and multiple loop feedback
(2010)A minimum component high frequency Gm-C wavelet filter structure is presented. A simple function from Maclaurin series approximation is used and the current-mode follow-the-leader feedback structure is employed. For the ... -
The bank directors' duties : time for the new enlightenment?
(2010)In the aftermath of the recent banking crisis, much of the debate on how to secure future financial stability has focused on forms of bespoke banking regulation and corporate governance. This article, however, considers ... -
A morphometric study of the human ear
(2010)Aims: We examined variations in the shape of the human ear according to age, sex and ethnic group with particular attention to ear prominence. Methods: 420 volunteers were recruited. Measurements included; head height and ... -
Can social interaction constitute social cognition?
(2010)An important shift is taking place in social cognition research, away from a focus on the individual mind and toward embodied and participatory aspects of social understanding. Empirical results already imply that social ...