Association between hospital-diagnosed tinnitus and suicide by Molhave, M, Udholm, S, Hawton, K, Ovesen, T, Erlangsen, A

“…Increased suicide rates were linked to a higher number of hospital contacts and to recent hospital contacts, suggesting dose-response and temporal associations.…”

Unraveling the drivers of MERS-CoV transmission. by Cauchemez, S, Nouvellet, P, Cori, A, Jombart, T, Garske, T, Clapham, H, Moore, S, Mills, H, Salje, H, Collins, C, Rodriquez-Barraquer, I, Riley, S, Truelove, S, Algarni, H, Alhakeem, R, AlHarbi, K, Turkistani, A, Aguas, R, Cummings, D, Van Kerkhove, M, Donnelly, C, Lessler, J, Fraser, C, Al-Barrak, A, Ferguson, N

“…We estimate that 12% [95% credible interval (CI): 9%, 15%] of cases were infected from the reservoir, the rest via human-to-human transmission in clusters (60%; CI: 57%, 63%), within (23%; CI: 20%, 27%), or between (5%; CI: 2%, 8%) regions. The reproduction number at the start of a cluster was 0.45 (CI: 0.33, 0.58) on average, but with large SD (0.53; CI: 0.35, 0.78). …”

Giovanni Baglione by O'Neil, M, Maryvelma Smith O'Neil

“…His very personal style can be seen in a number of drawings from the 1620s and 1630s that attain a remarkable pictorial aspect and a Baroque quality of sensual presence. …”

The acute wheezy adult with airways disease in the emergency department: a retrospective case-note review of exacerbations of COPD by Russell, R, Beer, S, Pavord, I, Pullinger, R, Bafadhel, M

“…They were older, reported an increased number of exacerbations and higher levels of total leukocytes and neutrophils. …”

Resistance of regulatory T cells to glucocorticoid-induced [corrected] TNFR family-related protein (GITR) during Plasmodium yoelii infection. by Hisaeda, H, Hamano, S, Mitoma-Obata, C, Tetsutani, K, Imai, T, Waldmann, H, Himeno, K, Yasutomo, K

“…Infection with PyL increased the number of CD4+CD25+ T cells, in which expression of Foxp3 mRNA is up-regulated. …”

HIV/Aids epidemic in India and predicting the impact of the national response: mathematical modeling and analysis by Rao, A, Thomas, K, Sudhakar, K, Maini, P

“…Our focus here is to predict the number of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) in India so that the results can assist the NACP III planning team to determine appropriate targets to be activated during the project period (2007-2012). …”

Outsourcing and children's social care: a longitudinal analysis of inspection outcomes among English children's homes and local authorities by Bach-Mortensen, AM, Goodair, B, Barlow, J

“…For-profit children's homes also violate a greater number of requirements and receive more recommendations compared to other ownership types. …”

Neuropsychological prediction of conversion to dementia from questionable dementia: statistically significant but not yet clinically useful. by Tian, J, Bucks, R, Haworth, J, Wilcock, G

“…Despite statistically significant differences in some cognitive tasks between those who did and those who did not go on to dement, Cox regression analyses failed to improve prediction rates markedly above base rates and were unstable. CONCLUSION: A large number of studies claim good prediction of conversion to dementia using cognitive test scores. …”

Cloud computing for seizure detection in implanted neural devices by Baldassano, S, Zhao, X, Brinkmann, B, Kremen, V, Bernabei, J, Cook, M, Denison, T, Worrell, G, Litt, B

“…Objective: Closed-loop implantable neural stimulators are an exciting treatment option for patients with medically refractory epilepsy, with a number of new devices in or nearing clinical trials. …”

The role of non verbal communication in effective teaching and learning by Papadopoulos, R

“…Despite this, due to the demands of the school term, only a small number of teachers were able to implement information from the intervention with considerable success over the course of the study, while others showed the ability to reflect more fully on the behaviours they currently employ.…”

Frictional half-plane contacts in partial slip in the steady-state by Andresen, HN

“…<p>This thesis aims to understand how a number of real contact problems respond to local contact loads during cyclic loading and which combination of loads will give rise to a state of partial slip. …”

Union of light ion therapy centers in Europe (ULICE EC FP7) – Objectives and achievements of joint research activities by Pötter, R, Balosso, J, Baumann, M, Bert, C, Davies, J, Enghardt, W, Fossati, P, Harris, S, Jones, B, Krämer, M, Mayer, R, Mock, U, Pullia, M, Schreiner, T, Dosanjh, M, Debus, J, Orecchia, R, Georg, D, Ulice Collaborative Research Group

“…Together with the continuous increase in the number of particle therapy centers in the last years ULICE results and proposals may contribute to the further growth of the overall particle therapy field as foreseen with ENLIGHT and new joint initiatives such as the European Particle Therapy Network (EPTN) within the overall radiotherapy community.…”

SyROCCo: enhancing systematic reviews using machine learning by Fang, Z, Arana-Catania, M, van Lier, F-A, Outes Velarde, J, Bregazzi, H, Airoldi, M, Carter, E, Proctor, R

“…The sheer number of research outputs published every year makes systematic reviewing increasingly time- and resource-intensive. …”

The macroeconomics of developing countries by Fielding, D, David Fielding

“…The thesis examines the impact of CFA membership on the macroeconomic performance of member states, assessing the claim that CFA institutions have influenced capital and labour markets, and have modified short run adjustment to external shocks.</p> <p>There are a number of reasons why CFA membership could facilitate higher investment, (i) The rules governing money creation may lead to greater monetary prudence, and so lower inflation and price variability, and less uncertainty for investors, (ii) Guaranteed convertibility means that firms will never be prevented from importing capital goods by a lack of foreign exchange, (iii) Convertibility may encourage a greater degree of integration between French and CFA capital markets, so that domestic investment is not entirely dependant on domestic saving. …”

Structural studies of prokaryotic surface layer proteins by Von Kügelgen, AIB

“…SLPs are often the highest copy-number macromolecules in these cells, playing key roles in essential cellular functions including cell-shape maintenance, protection against predators and interaction with the environment. …”

Constructing South East Europe by Bechev, D, Dimitar Bechev

“…This study addresses the puzzle of why the Balkan states have engaged in a number of multilateral schemes in fields such as military security, trade, infrastructure development, energy, despite the region's divisive historical legacies and political instability.…”

The roles of FMRP-Regulated genes in autism spectrum disorder: Single- and multiple-hit genetic etiologies by Steinberg, J, Webber, C

“…The Trend test provides rigorous support for a multiple-hit genetic etiology in a subset of autism cases and is easily extendible to combining information from multiple types of genetic variation (i.e., copy-number and exome variants), increasing its value to next-generation sequencing approaches. © 2013 by The American Society of Human Genetics. …”

Systematic qualitative review of the literature on data monitoring committees for randomized controlled trials. by Sydes, MR, Spiegelhalter, D, Altman, D, Babiker, AB, Parmar, M

“…CONCLUSIONS: There is a consensus in the published literature in a number of areas, although there are many different models for structure and functions of a DMC. …”

Community structure of ants in Brunei rain forest by Levy, R

“…</p> <p>The first experimental chapter establishes the importance of ants as the numerically dominant taxon of the forest floor litter arthropod community, how many species were found in a hectare of forest, and the probable minimum asymptotic number of species for each of four sampling methods. …”

Spoken letter recognition with neural networks by Reynolds, J, James Henry Reynolds

“…A value for the optimal number of kernel functions is suggested, and methods for determining the positions of the centres and the values of the width parameters are provided. …”