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    • Association of blood pressure lowering with incident dementia or cognitive impairment: A systematic review and meta-analysis 

      Hughes, Diarmaid; Judge, Conor; Murphy, Robert; Loughlin, Elaine; Costello, Maria; Whiteley, William; Bosch, Jackie; O'Donnell, Martin J.; Canavan, Michelle (American Medical Association (AMA), 2020-05-19)
      The benefit of blood pressure lowering for the prevention of dementia or cognitive impairment is unclear. To determine the association of blood pressure lowering with dementia or cognitive impairment. Search of PubMed, ...

    • Association of foreign dna with porcine spermatozoa 

      Horan, R.; Powell, R.; McQuaid, S.; Gannon, F.; Houghton, J. A. (Informa UK Limited, 1991-01-01)
      The aim of this project was to establish if DNA molecules bind to procine spermatozoa after incubation in vitro. In an initial experiment, the DNA was mixed with porcine spermatozoa to test for the presence of DNases. ...

    • Association of high-sensitivity c-reactive protein with de novo major depression 

      Pasco, J. A.; Nicholson, G. C.; Williams, L. J.; Jacka, F. N.; Henry, M. J.; Kotowicz, M. A.; Schneider, H. G.; Leonard, B. E.; Berk, M. (Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2010-10-29)
      Background Although there is cross-sectional evidence that changes in the immune system contribute to the pathophysiology of depression, longitudinal data capable of elucidating cause and effect relationships are ...

    • The association of white matter volume in psychotic disorders with genotypic variation in NRG1, MOG and CNP: a voxel-based analysis in affected individuals and their unaffected relatives 

      Cannon, Dara (Nature Publishing Group, 2012)
      We investigated the role of variation in putative psychosis genes coding for elements of the white matter system by examining the contribution of genotypic variation in three single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) neuregulin ...

    • Associations between cms's clinical performance measures project benchmarks, profit structure, and mortality in dialysis units 

      Szczech, L.A.; Klassen, P.S.; Chua, B.; Hedayati, S.S.; Flanigan, M.; McClellan, W.M.; Reddan, D.N.; Rettig, R.A.; Frankenfield, D.L.; Owen, W.F. (Elsevier BV, 2006-06-01)
      Prior studies observing greater mortality in for-profit dialysis units have not captured information about benchmarks of care. This study was undertaken to examine the association between profit status and mortality while ...

    • Associations between non-parental adult support and youths’ individual and contextual characteristics 

      Mirković, Barbara; Brady, Bernadine; Silke, Charlotte (Routledge, 2021-01-15)
      While the role parents play in supporting young people is well established, support from other caring adults also becomes important during adolescence, particularly when young people are facing problems in their lives. ...

    • Associations between psychosis endophenotypes across brain functional, structural, and cognitive domains 

      Blakey, R.; Ranlund, S.; Zartaloudi, E.; Cahn, W.; Calafato, S.; Colizzi, M.; Crespo-Facorro, B.; Daniel, C.; Díez-Revuelta, Á.; Di Forti, M.; Iyegbe, C.; Jablensky, A.; Jones, R.; Hall, M.-H.; Kahn, R.; Kalaydjieva, L.; Kravariti, E.; Lin, K.; McDonald, C.; McIntosh, A. M.; Picchioni, M.; Powell, J.; Presman, A.; Rujescu, D.; Schulze, K.; Shaikh, M.; Thygesen, J. H.; Toulopoulou, T.; Van Haren, N.; Van Os, J.; Walshe, M.; Murray, R. M.; Bramon, E.; , (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2017-11-02)
      Background. A range of endophenotypes characterise psychosis, however there has been limited work understanding if and how they are inter-related. Methods. This multi-centre study includes 8754 participants: 2212 people ...

    • Associations of breast cancer risk factors with tumor subtypes: a pooled analysis from the breast cancer association consortium studies 

      Yang, Xiaohong R.; Chang-Claude, Jenny; Goode, Ellen L.; Couch, Fergus J.; Nevanlinna, Heli; Milne, Roger L.; Gaudet, Mia; Schmidt, Marjanka K.; Broeks, Annegien; Cox, Angela; Fasching, Peter A.; Hein, Rebecca; Spurdle, Amanda B.; Blows, Fiona; Driver, Kristy; Flesch-Janys, Dieter; Heinz, Judith; Sinn, Peter; Vrieling, Alina; Heikkinen, Tuomas; Aittomäki, Kristiina; Heikkilä, Päivi; Blomqvist, Carl; Lissowska, Jolanta; Peplonska, Beata; Chanock, Stephen; Figueroa, Jonine; Brinton, Louise; Hall, Per; Czene, Kamila; Humphreys, Keith; Darabi, Hatef; Liu, Jianjun; Van ‘t Veer, Laura J.; van Leeuwen, Flora E.; Andrulis, Irene L.; Glendon, Gord; Knight, Julia A.; Mulligan, Anna Marie; O’Malley, Frances P.; Weerasooriya, Nayana; John, Esther M.; Beckmann, Matthias W.; Hartmann, Arndt; Weihbrecht, Sebastian B.; Wachter, David L.; Jud, Sebastian M.; Loehberg, Christian R.; Baglietto, Laura; English, Dallas R.; Giles, Graham G.; McLean, Catriona A.; Severi, Gianluca; Lambrechts, Diether; Vandorpe, Thijs; Weltens, Caroline; Paridaens, Robert; Smeets, Ann; Neven, Patrick; Wildiers, Hans; Wang, Xianshu; Olson, Janet E.; Cafourek, Victoria; Fredericksen, Zachary; Kosel, Matthew; Vachon, Celine; Cramp, Helen E.; Connley, Daniel; Cross, Simon S.; Balasubramanian, Sabapathy P.; Reed, Malcolm W. R.; Dörk, Thilo; Bremer, Michael; Meyer, Andreas; Karstens, Johann H.; Ay, Aysun; Park-Simon, Tjoung-Won; Hillemanns, Peter; Arias Pérez, Jose Ignacio; Rodríguez, Primitiva Menéndez; Zamora, Pilar; Benítez, Javier; Ko, Yon-Dschun; Fischer, Hans-Peter; Hamann, Ute; Pesch, Beate; Brüning, Thomas; Justenhoven, Christina; Brauch, Hiltrud; Eccles, Diana M.; Tapper, William J.; Gerty, Sue M.; Sawyer, Elinor J.; Tomlinson, Ian P.; Jones, Angela; Kerin, Michael; Miller, Nicola; McInerney, Niall; Anton-Culver, Hoda; Ziogas, Argyrios; Shen, Chen-Yang; Hsiung, Chia-Ni; Wu, Pei-Ei; Yang, Show-Lin; Yu, Jyh-Cherng; Chen, Shou-Tung; Hsu, Giu-Cheng; Haiman, Christopher A.; Henderson, Brian E.; Le Marchand, Loic; Kolonel, Laurence N.; Lindblom, Annika; Margolin, Sara; Jakubowska, Anna; Lubiński, Jan; Huzarski, Tomasz; Byrski, Tomasz; Górski, Bohdan; Gronwald, Jacek; Hooning, Maartje J.; Hollestelle, Antoinette; van den Ouweland, Ans M. W.; Jager, Agnes; Kriege, Mieke; Tilanus-Linthorst, Madeleine M. A.; Collée, Margriet; Wang-Gohrke, Shan; Pylkäs, Katri; Jukkola-Vuorinen, Arja; Mononen, Kari; Grip, Mervi; Hirvikoski, Pasi; Winqvist, Robert; Mannermaa, Arto; Kosma, Veli-Matti; Kauppinen, Jaana; Kataja, Vesa; Auvinen, Päivi; Soini, Ylermi; Sironen, Reijo; Bojesen, Stig E.; Dynnes Ørsted, David; Kaur-Knudsen, Diljit; Flyger, Henrik; Nordestgaard, Børge G.; Holland, Helene; Chenevix-Trench, Georgia; Manoukian, Siranoush; Barile, Monica; Radice, Paolo; Hankinson, Susan E.; Hunter, David J.; Tamimi, Rulla; Sangrajrang, Suleeporn; Brennan, Paul; McKay, James; Odefrey, Fabrice; Gaborieau, Valerie; Devilee, Peter; Huijts, P.E.A.; Tollenaar, RAEM.; Seynaeve, C.; Dite, Gillian S.; Apicella, Carmel; Hopper, John L.; Hammet, Fleur; Tsimiklis, Helen; Smith, Letitia D.; Southey, Melissa C.; Humphreys, Manjeet K.; Easton, Douglas; Pharoah, Paul; Sherman, Mark E.; Garcia-Closas, Montserrat (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2010-12-29)
      Background Previous studies have suggested that breast cancer risk factors are associated with estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) expression status of the tumors. Methods We pooled tumor marker and ...

    • Associations of common variants at 1p11.2 and 14q24.1 (rad51l1) with breast cancer risk and heterogeneity by tumor subtype: findings from the breast cancer association consortium† 

      Figueroa, Jonine D.; Garcia-Closas, Montserrat; Humphreys, Manjeet; Platte, Radka; Hopper, John L.; Southey, Melissa C.; Apicella, Carmel; Hammet, Fleur; Schmidt, Marjanka K.; Broeks, Annegien; Tollenaar, Rob A.E.M.; Van't Veer, Laura J.; Fasching, Peter A.; Beckmann, Matthias W.; Ekici, Arif B.; Strick, Reiner; Peto, Julian; dos Santos Silva, Isabel; Fletcher, Olivia; Johnson, Nichola; Sawyer, Elinor; Tomlinson, Ian; Kerin, Michael; Burwinkel, Barbara; Marme, Federik; Schneeweiss, Andreas; Sohn, Christof; Bojesen, Stig; Flyger, Henrik; Nordestgaard, Børge G.; Benítez, Javier; Milne, Roger L.; Ignacio Arias, Jose; Zamora, M. Pilar; Brenner, Hermann; Müller, Heiko; Arndt, Volker; Rahman, Nazneen; Turnbull, Clare; Seal, Sheila; Renwick, Anthony; Brauch, Hiltrud; Justenhoven, Christina; Brüning, Thomas; Chang-Claude, Jenny; Hein, Rebecca; Wang-Gohrke, Shan; Dörk, Thilo; Schürmann, Peter; Bremer, Michael; Hillemanns, Peter; Nevanlinna, Heli; Heikkinen, Tuomas; Aittomäki, Kristiina; Blomqvist, Carl; Bogdanova, Natalia; Antonenkova, Natalia; Rogov, Yuri I.; Karstens, Johann Hinrich; Bermisheva, Marina; Prokofieva, Darya; Hanafievich Gantcev, Shamil; Khusnutdinova, Elza; Lindblom, Annika; Margolin, Sara; Chenevix-Trench, Georgia; Beesley, Jonathan; Chen, Xiaoqing; Mannermaa, Arto; Kosma, Veli-Matti; Soini, Ylermi; Kataja, Vesa; Lambrechts, Diether; Yesilyurt, Betül T.; Chrisiaens, Marie-Rose; Peeters, Stephanie; Radice, Paolo; Peterlongo, Paolo; Manoukian, Siranoush; Barile, Monica; Couch, Fergus; Lee, Adam M.; Diasio, Robert; Wang, Xianshu; Giles, Graham G.; Severi, Gianluca; Baglietto, Laura; Maclean, Catriona; Offit, Ken; Robson, Mark; Joseph, Vijai; Gaudet, Mia; John, Esther M.; Winqvist, Robert; Pylkäs, Katri; Jukkola-Vuorinen, Arja; Grip, Mervi; Andrulis, Irene; Knight, Julia A.; Marie Mulligan, Anna; O'Malley, Frances P.; Brinton, Louise A.; Sherman, Mark E.; Lissowska, Jolanta; Chanock, Stephen J.; Hooning, Maartje; Martens, John W.M.; van den Ouweland, Ans M.W.; Collée, J. Margriet; Hall, Per; Czene, Kamila; Cox, Angela; Brock, Ian W.; Reed, Malcolm W.R.; Cross, Simon S.; Pharoah, Paul; Dunning, Alison M.; Kang, Daehee; Yoo, Keun-Young; Noh, Dong-Young; Ahn, Sei-Hyun; Jakubowska, Anna; Lubinski, Jan; Jaworska, Katarzyna; Durda, Katarzyna; Sangrajrang, Suleeporn; Gaborieau, Valerie; Brennan, Paul; McKay, James; Shen, Chen-Yang; Ding, Shian-ling; Hsu, Huan-Ming; Yu, Jyh-Cherng; Anton-Culver, Hoda; Ziogas, Argyrios; Ashworth, Alan; Swerdlow, Anthony; Jones, Michael; Orr, Nick; Trentham-Dietz, Amy; Egan, Kathleen; Newcomb, Polly; Titus-Ernstoff, Linda; Easton, Doug; Spurdle, Amanda B. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2011-08-18)
      A genome-wide association study (GWAS) identified single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at 1p11.2 and 14q24.1 (RAD51L1) as breast cancer susceptibility loci. The initial GWAS suggested stronger effects for both loci for ...

    • Associations of urinary sodium excretion with cardiovascular events in individuals with and without hypertension: a pooled analysis of data from four studies 

      Mente, Andrew; O'Donnell, Martin; Sumathy Rangarajan, Sumathy; Dagenais, Gilles; Lear, Scott; McQueen, Matthew; Diaz, Rafael; Avezum, Alvaro; Lopez-Jaramillo, Patricio; Lanas, Fernando; Li, Wei; Lu, Yin; Yi, Sun; Rensheng, Lei; Iqbal, Romaina; Mony, Prem; Yusuf, Rita; Yusoff, Khalid; Szuba, Andrzej; Oguz, Aytekin; Rosengren, Annika; Bahonar, Ahmad; Yusufali, Afzalhussein; Schutte, Aletta Elisabeth; Chifamba, Jephat; Mann, Johannes F. E.; Anand, Sonia S.; Teo, Koon; Yusuf, S. (Elsevier, 2016-05-20)
      Background Several studies reported a U-shaped association between urinary sodium excretion and cardiovascular disease events and mortality. Whether these associations vary between those individuals with and without ...

    • Asteroid Day: a vehicle for raising public awareness of astronomy and space exploration among primary students in Ireland 

      Cardinot, Adriana; Shearer, Andy; Fairfield, Jessamyn A. (NUI Galway, 2018-03-24)
      Asteroid Day is a global awareness campaign which takes place annually to learn about asteroids, their impact and to increase awareness on how we can protect the Earth from future asteroid impacts. At the event students ...

    • Astronomy education in secondary school: An evaluation of conceptual and affective learning experiences with game-based learning 

      Ferreira de Souza Cardinot, Adriana (NUI Galway, 2021-07-14)
      The study of our universe has been inspiring humankind for thousands of years. The effective teaching of astronomy has been one of the longstanding pillars of worldwide civilization, but new technologies afford new ...

    • Asymmetric cortical surface area and morphology changes in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis 

      Alhusaini, Saud; Doherty, Colin P.; Palaniyappan, Lena; Scanlon, Cathy; Maguire, Sinead; Brennan, Paul; Delanty, Norman; Fitzsimons, Mary; Cavalleri, Gianpiero L. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-04-17)
      Purpose: To date, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)based studies of the cerebral cortex in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) have focused primarily on investigating cortical volume and thickness. However, volume is a ...

    • Asymmetric organocatalytic 1,6-conjugate addition of aldehydes to dienic sulfones 

      Murphy, John J.; Quintard, Adrien; McArdle, Patrick; Alexakis, Alexandre; Stephens, John C. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-04-28)

    • Asymptotic and other properties of a nonlinear diffusion model 

      Flavin, J.N; Rionero, S (Elsevier BV, 1998-12-01)

    • Asymptotic results for bifurcations in pure bending of rubber blocks 

      Destrade, Michel (Oxford Journals, 2008-03)
      The bifurcation of an incompressible neo-Hookean thick block with a ratio of thickness to length n, subject to pure bending, is considered. The two incremental equilibrium equations corresponding to a nonlinear pre-buckling ...

    • At a crossroads: investigating automobility and its implications for local urban transport policy design 

      Hynes, Mike (MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), 2017-05-05)
      More people than ever before are living in urban settlements, increasing competition for living space, employment, food, water, and energy. Urbanisation poses many challenges, most notably meeting the basic health and ...

    • At least three invariants are necessary to model the mechanical response of incompressible, transversely isotropic materials 

      Destrade, Michel; Mac Donald, B.; Murphy, J.G.; Saccomandi, Giuseppe (Springer, 2013-04-18)
      The modelling of off-axis simple tension experiments on transversely isotropic nonlinearly elastic materials is considered. A testing protocol is proposed where normal force is applied to one edge of a rectangular specimen ...

    • At the frontiers of scientific advancement: the factors that influence scientists to become or choose to become publicly funded principal investigators 

      Cunningham, James A.; Mangematin, Vincent; O’Kane, Conor; O’Reilly, Paul (Springer Nature, 2015-03-29)
      This paper aims to unearth the factors that influence scientists in becoming and choosing to become publicly funded principal investigators (PIs). PIs are the linchpins of knowledge transformation and bridging triple helix ...

    • At the frontiers of surgery: review 

      Upile, Tahwinder; Jerjes, Waseem K; Sterenborg, Henricus J; Wong, Brian J; El-Naggar, Adel K; Ilgner, Justus F; Sandison, Ann; Witjes, Max J; Biel, Merrill A; van Veen, Robert; Hamdoon, Zaid; Gillenwater, Ann; Mosse, Charles A; Robinson, Dominic J; Betz, Christian S; Stepp, Herbert; Bolotine, Lina; McKenzie, Gordon; Barr, Hugh; Chen, Zhongping; Berg, Kristian; D'Cruz, Anil K; Sudhoff, Holger; Stone, Nicholas; Kendall, Catherine; Fisher, Sheila; MacRobert, Alexander J; Leunig, Andreas; Olivo, Malini; Richards-Kortum, Rebecca; Soo, Khee C; Bagnato, Vanderlei; Choo-Smith, Lin-Ping; Svanberg, Katarina; Tan, I Bing; Wilson, Brian C; Wolfsen, Herbert; Bigio, Irving; Yodh, Arjun G; Hopper, Colin (Springer Nature, 2011-01-01)
      The complete surgical removal of disease is a desirable outcome particularly in oncology. Unfortunately much disease is microscopic and difficult to detect causing a liability to recurrence and worsened overall prognosis ...