Browsing by Subject "age"

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    • Ageing octopods from stylets: development of a technique for permanent preparations 

      Barratt, I. M.; Allcock, A. Louise (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2010-05-25)
      Previous attempts at ageing octopods from stylets have relied on preparations that deteriorate with time. Some techniques require an immediate photographic record, others allow real-time enumeration but do not provide a ...

    • An epigenome-wide association study meta-analysis of educational attainment 

      Karlsson Linnér, R; Marioni, R E; Rietveld, C A; Simpkin, A J; Davies, N M; Watanabe, K; Armstrong, N J; Auro, K; Baumbach, C; Bonder, M J; Buchwald, J; Fiorito, G; Ismail, K; Iurato, S; Joensuu, A; Karell, P; Kasela, S; Lahti, J; McRae, A F; Mandaviya, P R; Seppälä, I; Wang, Y; Baglietto, L; Binder, E B; Harris, S E; Hodge, A M; Horvath, S; Hurme, M; Johannesson, M; Latvala, A; Mather, K A; Medland, S E; Metspalu, A; Milani, L; Milne, R L; Pattie, A; Pedersen, N L; Peters, A; Polidoro, S; Räikkönen, K; Severi, G; Starr, J M; Stolk, L; Waldenberger, M; Eriksson, J G; Esko, T; Franke, L; Gieger, C; Giles, G G; Hägg, S; Jousilahti, P; Kaprio, J; Kähönen, M; Lehtimäki, T; Martin, N G; van Meurs, J B C; Ollikainen, M; Perola, M; Posthuma, D; Raitakari, O T; Sachdev, P S; Taskesen, E; Uitterlinden, A G; Vineis, P; Wijmenga, C; Wright, M J; Relton, C; Davey Smith, G; Deary, I J; Koellinger, P D; Benjamin, D J (Springer Nature, 2017-10-31)
      The epigenome is associated with biological factors, such as disease status, and environmental factors, such as smoking, alcohol consumption and body mass index. Although there is a widespread perception that environmental ...

    • Are boys and girls that different? an analysis of traumatic brain injury in children 

      Collins, Niamh C; Molcho, Michal; Carney, Peter; McEvoy, Linda; Geoghegan, Lourda; Phillips, Jack P; Nicholson, Alf J (BMJ, 2012-09-08)
      Introduction The Phillips Report on traumatic brain injury (TBI) in Ireland found that injury was more frequent in men and that gender differences were present in childhood. This study determined when gender differences ...

    • Comparing approaches to optimize cut-off scores for short cognitive screening instruments in mild cognitive impairment and dementia 

      O’Caoimh, Rónán; Gao, Yang; Svendovski, Anton; Gallagher, Paul; Eustace, Joseph; Molloy, D. William (IOS Press, 2017-03-04)
      Background: Although required to improve the usability of cognitive screening instruments (CSIs), the use of cut-off scores is controversial yet poorly researched. Objective: To explore cut-off scores for two short CSIs: ...

    • Disturbance of the re-os chronometer of molybdenites from the late-caledonian galway granite, ireland, by hydrothermal fluid circulation. 

      Suzuki, Katsuhiko; Feely, Martin; O'Reilly, Cian (Geochemical Society of Japan, 2001-01-01)
      Re-Os ages were determined for molybdenites from the late-Caledonian Galway Granite in the west of Ireland. Molybdenites from three localities within the batholith, Mace Head, Murvey, and Travore, yield respective Re-Os ...

    • Effects of age on the detection and management of breast cancer 

      McGuire, Andrew; Brown, James; Malone, Carmel; McLaughlin, Ray; Kerin, Michael (MDPI AG, 2015-05-22)
      Currently, breast cancer affects approximately 12% of women worldwide. While the incidence of breast cancer rises with age, a younger age at diagnosis is linked to increased mortality. We discuss age related factors affecting ...

    • Enhancing vestibular function in the elderly with imperceptible electrical stimulation 

      Serrador, Jorge M.; Deegan, Brian M.; Geraghty, Maria C.; Wood, Scott J. (Springer Nature, 2018-01-10)
      Age-related loss of vestibular function can result in decrements in gaze stabilization and increased fall risk in the elderly. This study was designed to see if low levels of electrical stochastic noise applied transcutaneously ...

    • First estimates of age, growth, and maturity of boarfish (capros aper): a species newly exploited in the northeast atlantic 

      White, E.; Minto, C.; Nolan, C. P.; King, E.; Mullins, E.; Clarke, M. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2010-10-08)
      Boarfish in the Northeast Atlantic have recently been exploited commercially for fishmeal. It is a sexually dimorphic species with an estimated maximum age of 26 years, late age at maturity (A(50) = 5.25 years), relatively ...

    • Geometry-invariant grin lens: iso-dispersive contours 

      Bahrami, Mehdi; Goncharov, Alexander V. (The Optical Society, 2012-06-22)

    • Growth in nephrops norvegicus from a tag-recapture experiment 

      Haynes, Paula S.; Browne, Patricia; Fullbrook, Liam; Graham, Conor T.; Hancox, Lee; Johnson, Mark P.; Lauria, Valentina; Power, Anne Marie (Springer Nature, 2016-10-11)
      Nephrops norvegicus is a commercially valuable fishery in the EU but management of stocks is challenging due to difficulties in aging individuals and calculating growth and biomass production. Growth of N. norvegicus was ...

    • Human subcortical brain asymmetries in 15,847 people worldwide reveal effects of age and sex 

      Guadalupe, Tulio; Mathias, Samuel R.; vanErp, Theo G. M.; Whelan, Christopher D.; Zwiers, Marcel P.; Abe, Yoshinari; Abramovic, Lucija; Agartz, Ingrid; Andreassen, Ole A.; Arias-Vásquez, Alejandro; Aribisala, Benjamin S.; Armstrong, Nicola J.; Arolt, Volker; Artiges, Eric; Ayesa-Arriola, Rosa; Baboyan, Vatche G.; Banaschewski, Tobias; Barker, Gareth; Bastin, Mark E.; Baune, Bernhard T.; Blangero, John; Bokde, Arun L.W.; Boedhoe, Premika S.W.; Bose, Anushree; Brem, Silvia; Brodaty, Henry; Bromberg, Uli; Brooks, Samantha; Büchel, Christian; Buitelaar, Jan; Calhoun, Vince D.; Cannon, Dara M.; Cattrell, Anna; Cheng, Yuqi; Conrod, Patricia J.; Conzelmann, Annette; Corvin, Aiden; Crespo-Facorro, Benedicto; Crivello, Fabrice; Dannlowski, Udo; de Zubicaray, Greig I.; de Zwarte, Sonja M.C.; Deary, Ian J.; Desrivières, Sylvane; Doan, Nhat Trung; Donohoe, Gary; Dørum, Erlend S.; Ehrlich, Stefan; Espeseth, Thomas; Fernández, Guillén; Flor, Herta; Fouche, Jean-Paul; Frouin, Vincent; Fukunaga, Masaki; Gallinat, Jürgen; Garavan, Hugh; Gill, Michael; Suarez, Andrea Gonzalez; Gowland, Penny; Grabe, Hans J.; Grotegerd, Dominik; Gruber, Oliver; Hagenaars, Saskia; Hashimoto, Ryota; Hauser, Tobias U.; Heinz, Andreas; Hibar, Derrek P.; Hoekstra, Pieter J.; Hoogman, Martine; Howells, Fleur M.; Hu, Hao; Hulshoff Pol, Hilleke E.; Huyser, Chaim; Ittermann, Bernd; Jahanshad, Neda; Jönsson, Erik G.; Jurk, Sarah; Kahn, Rene S.; Kelly, Sinead; Kraemer, Bernd; Kugel, Harald; Kwon, Jun Soo; Lemaitre, Herve; Lesch, Klaus-Peter; Lochner, Christine; Luciano, Michelle; Marquand, Andre F.; Martin, Nicholas G.; Martínez-Zalacaín, Ignacio; Martinot, Jean-Luc; Mataix-Cols, David; Mather, Karen; McDonald, Colm; McMahon, Katie L.; Medland, Sarah E.; Menchón, José M.; Morris, Derek W.; Mothersill, Omar; Maniega, Susana Munoz; Mwangi, Benson; Nakamae, Takashi; Nakao, Tomohiro; Narayanaswaamy, Janardhanan C.; Nees, Frauke; Nordvik, Jan E.; Onnink, A. Marten H.; Opel, Nils; Ophoff, Roel; Paillère Martinot, Marie-Laure; Papadopoulos Orfanos, Dimitri; Pauli, Paul; Paus, Tomáš; Poustka, Luise; Reddy, Janardhan YC.; Renteria, Miguel E.; Roiz-Santiáñez, Roberto; Roos, Annerine; Royle, Natalie A.; Sachdev, Perminder; Sánchez-Juan, Pascual; Schmaal, Lianne; Schumann, Gunter; Shumskaya, Elena; Smolka, Michael N.; Soares, Jair C.; Soriano-Mas, Carles; Stein, Dan J.; Strike, Lachlan T.; Toro, Roberto; Turner, Jessica A.; Tzourio-Mazoyer, Nathalie; Uhlmann, Anne; Hernández, Maria Valdés; van den Heuvel, Odile A.; van der Meer, Dennis; van Haren, Neeltje E.M .; Veltman, Dick J.; Venkatasubramanian, Ganesan; Vetter, Nora C.; Vuletic, Daniella; Walitza, Susanne; Walter, Henrik; Walton, Esther; Wang, Zhen; Wardlaw, Joanna; Wen, Wei; Westlye, Lars T.; Whelan, Robert; Wittfeld, Katharina; Wolfers, Thomas; Wright, Margaret J.; Xu, Jian; Xu, Xiufeng; Yun, Je-Yeon; Zhao, JingJing; Franke, Barbara; Thompson, Paul M.; Glahn, David C.; Mazoyer, Bernard; Fisher, Simon E.; Francks, Clyde (Springer Nature, 2016-10-13)
      The two hemispheres of the human brain differ functionally and structurally. Despite over a century of research, the extent to which brain asymmetry is influenced by sex, handedness, age, and genetic factors is still ...

    • In vivo imaging of tau pathology using magnetic resonance imaging textural analysis 

      Colgan, Niall; Ganeshan, Balaji; Harrison, Ian F.; Ismail, Ozama; Holmes, Holly E.; Wells, Jack A.; Powell, Nick M.; O'Callaghan, James M.; O'Neill, Michael J.; Murray, Tracey K.; Ahmed, Zeshan; Collins, Emily C.; Johnson, Ross A.; Groves, Ashley; Lythgoe, Mark F. (Frontiers Media SA, 2017-11-06)
      Background: Non-invasive characterization of the pathological features of Alzheimer's disease (AD) could enhance patient management and the development of therapeutic strategies. Magnetic resonance imaging texture analysis ...

    • Including unsexed individuals in sex-specific growth models 

      Minto, Cóilín; Hinde, John; Coelho, Rui (Canadian Science Publishing, 2017-04-19)
      Sexually dimorphic growth models are typically estimated by fitting growth curves to individuals of known sex. Yet, macroscopically ascribing sex can be difficult, particularly for immature animals. As a result, sex-specific ...

    • Mixed effects: a unifying framework for statistical modelling in fisheries biology 

      Thorson, J. T.; Minto, C. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014-12-04)
      Fisheries biology encompasses a tremendous diversity of research questions, methods, and models. Many sub-fields use observational or experimental data to make inference about biological characteristics that are not directly ...

    • Oocyte development and maturity classification of boarfish (capros aper) in the northeast atlantic 

      Farrell, E. D.; Hussy, K.; Coad, J. O.; Clausen, L. W.; Clarke, M. W. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2012-04-09)
      This study presents the first detailed investigation of the oocyte development and maturity classification of boarfish, Capros aper, which has recently become the target of an industrial fishery in the Northeast Atlantic. ...

    • Oup accepted manuscript 

      Unknown author (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017-01-01)
      The upcoming NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will obtain space-based uninterrupted light curves for a large sample of bright white dwarfs distributed across the entire sky, providing a very rich resource ...

    • Perceived social support predicts lower cardiovascular reactivity to stress in older adults 

      Howard, Siobhán; Creaven, Ann-Marie; Hughes, Brian M.; O’Leary, Éanna D.; James, Jack E. (Elsevier BV, 2017-04-01)

    • Poor health and loneliness in later life: the role of depressive symptoms, social resources, and rural environments 

      Burholt, V.; Scharf, T. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013-12-10)
      Objectives. We draw on cognitive discrepancy theory to hypothesize and test a pathway from poor health to loneliness in later life. We hypothesize that poor health will have a negative influence on social participation and ...

    • Redox responses are preserved across muscle fibres with differential susceptibility to aging 

      Smith, Neil T.; Soriano-Arroquia, Ana; Goljanek-Whysall, Katarzyna; Jackson, Malcolm J.; McDonagh, Brian (Elsevier BV, 2018-02-01)
      Age-related loss of muscle mass and function is associated with increased frailty and loss of independence. The mechanisms underlying the susceptibility of different muscle types to age-related atrophy are not fully ...

    • Sexual dimorphism in size, age, maturation, and growth characteristics of boarfish (capros aper) in the northeast atlantic 

      Hussy, K.; Coad, J. O.; Farrell, E. D.; Clausen, L. W.; Clarke, M. W. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2012-09-17)
      Boarfish (Capros aper) have, in recent years, become of increasing commercial importance due to their apparent increase in abundance in the Northeast Atlantic. This study presents detailed biological information relevant ...