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Factors influencing health-related quality of life in patients with type 1 diabetes
(Springer Nature, 2018-02-02)
Aims: Generic, preference-based measures of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are a common input to the economic evaluation of new health technologies. As such, it is important to explore what characteristics of ...
A lifetime of stress: atf6 in development and homeostasis
(Springer Nature, 2018-05-25)
Background: Activating transcription factor 6 (ATF6) is an endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-localised protein and member of the leucine zipper family of transcription factors. Best known for its role in transducing signals linked ...
Trial forge guidance 1: what is a study within a trial (swat)?
(Springer Nature, 2018-02-23)
Randomised trials are a central component of all evidence-informed health care systems and the evidence coming from them helps to support health care users, health professionals and others to make more informed decisions ...
Positive solutions for a system of nonlinear semipositone boundary value problems with riemann-liouville fractional derivatives
(Hindawi Limited, 2018-01-01)
We study the existence of positive solutions for the system of nonlinear semipositone boundary value problems with RiemannLiouville fractional derivatives D(0+)(alpha)D(0+)(alpha)u = f(1)(t,u,u',v,v'), 0 < t < ...
Do mothers accurately identify their child’s overweight/obesity status during early childhood? evidence from a nationally representative cohort study
(Springer Nature, 2018-06-19)
Background: Maternal recognition of overweight/obesity during early childhood is a key determinant in achieving healthy weight status in children. The aim of this study is to 1) investigate maternal perceptions of their ...
Process evaluation for optibirth, a randomised controlled trial of a complex intervention designed to increase rates of vaginal birth after caesarean section
(Springer Nature, 2018-01-05)
Background: Complex interventions encompassing several interconnecting and interacting components can be challenging to evaluate. Examining the underlying trial processes while an intervention is being tested can assist ...
High sample throughput genotyping for estimating c-lineage introgression in the dark honeybee: an accurate and cost-effective snp-based tool
(Springer Nature, 2018-06-04)
The natural distribution of the honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) has been changed by humans in recent decades to such an extent that the formerly widest-spread European subspecies, Apis mellifera mellifera, is threatened by ...
Designing real-world laboratories for the reduction of residential energy use: articulating theories of change
(Oekom Publishers GmbH, 2018-01-01)
Reducing residential energy use and carbon dioxide emissions is a policy concern across Europe. One of the approaches to address this problem, real-world laboratories (RwLs), has recently gained prominence as a means to ...
Sea bass angling in ireland: a structural equation model of catch and effort
(Elsevier BV, 2018-07-01)
The relationship between angling effort and catch is well-recognised, in particular that effort influences catch rates. But increased catch, which can be considered an attribute of fishery quality, may influence effort in ...
Development and psychometric evaluation of the adaptive functions of music listening scale
(Frontiers Media SA, 2018-04-12)
Music listening may serve many adaptive functions in everyday life. However, studies examining the relationship between the functions of music listening (FML) and wellbeing outcomes have produced mixed findings. The purpose ...