Differential attainment at national selection for higher surgical training: a retrospective cohort study by Amanda Lee, Jennifer Cleland, John Hines, Peter Brennan, Ricky Ellis, Yasin Al-Tawarah

“…The objective of this study was to characterise the relationship between candidate sociodemographic factors and performance at National Selection for HST in the UK.Design A retrospective cohort study.Setting National Selection for HST in the UK.Participants All UK graduates in the UKMED database (https://www.ukmed.ac.uk) who underwent selection for HST from 2012 to 2019.Outcomes and measures Performance at HST Selection for each surgical specialty is measured by assessment of the candidate’s academic portfolio and multiple objective structured clinical examination style stations testing knowledge and skills. …”
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Negative symptoms in schizophrenia: a study in a large clinical sample of patients using a novel automated method by Robert Stewart, Hitesh Shetty, Matthew Broadbent, Angus Roberts, Rashmi Patel, Philip McGuire, Richard D Hayes, Nishamali Jayatilleke, Genevieve Gorrell, Chin-Kuo Chang, Richard Jackson, Nadia Foskett, Caroline Johnston

“…Objectives To identify negative symptoms in the clinical records of a large sample of patients with schizophrenia using natural language processing and assess their relationship with clinical outcomes.Design Observational study using an anonymised electronic health record case register.Setting South London and Maudsley NHS Trust (SLaM), a large provider of inpatient and community mental healthcare in the UK.Participants 7678 patients with schizophrenia receiving care during 2011.Main outcome measures Hospital admission, readmission and duration of admission.Results 10 different negative symptoms were ascertained with precision statistics above 0.80. 41% of patients had 2 or more negative symptoms. …”
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Short-term abstinence from alcohol and changes in cardiovascular risk factors, liver function tests and cancer-related growth factors: a prospective observational study by Gautam Mehta, Rajiv Jalan, Matteo Rosselli, James Maurice, Stewart Macdonald, Alexandra Cronberg, Tanya Khera-Butler, Colin Sumpter, Safa Al-Khatib, Anjly Jain, Christos Charalambous, Amir Gander, Cynthia Ju, Talay Hakan, Roy Sherwood, Devaki Nair, Kevin P Moore

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Randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blinded, four-way crossover trial to demonstrate the comparative pharmacodynamic equivalence of a non-invasive diagnostic test for adrenal in... by Judith Cohen, Miguel Debono, Kathleen Baster, Richard J Ross, Charlotte J Elder, Kathryn L Date, Sharon L Caunt, Jane Fearnside, Trevor N Johnson, Rosie N Taylor

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Whole-genome sequencing surveillance of Siberian tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) identifies an additional lineage in Kyrgyzstan by Jake D'Addiego, Mollie Curran-French, Jack Smith, Asankadyr T Junushov, Irena Breininger, Barry Atkinson, John Hay, Roger Hewson

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Characterisation of HBV and co-infection with HDV and HIV through spatial transcriptomics by Upkar S Gill, Patrick T F Kennedy, Andrew Hall, Rageshri Dhairyawan, Alberto Quaglia, James M Harris, Colin Nixon, Fadi Issa, Amy Cross, Edward Arbe-Barnes, Jane A McKeating, Dimitra Peppa

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Germanyl triazoles as a platform for CuAAC diversification and chemoselective orthogonal cross-coupling by John M. Halford-McGuff, Thomas M. Richardson, Aidan P. McKay, Frederik Peschke, Glenn A. Burley, Allan J. B. Watson

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Pharmacological management of gambling disorder: A systematic review and network meta-analysis by Konstantinos Ioannidis, Cinzia Del Giovane, Charidimos Tzagarakis, Jeremy E. Solly, Samuel J. Westwood, Valeria Parlatini, Henrietta Bowden-Jones, Jon E. Grant, Samuele Cortese, Samuel R. Chamberlain

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Dietary fat quantity and composition influence hepatic lipid metabolism and metabolic disease risk in humans by Nikola Srnic, Felix Westcott, Eleanor Caney, Leanne Hodson

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The Company of Biologists: celebrating 100 years by Sarah J. Bray, Stephen J. Royle, Holly A. Shiels, Daniel St Johnston

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Existence of Periodic Solutions for a Class of Fourth-Order Difference Equation by Jia Wei, Xiaoling Han, Fumei Ye

“…We apply the continuation theorem of Mawhin to ensure that a fourth-order nonlinear difference equation of the form Δ4uk−2−akuαk+bkuβk=0 with periodic boundary conditions possesses at least one nontrivial positive solution, where Δuk=uk+1−uk is the forward difference operator, α>0,β>0 and α≠β, ak,bk are T-periodic functions and akbk>0. …”
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Some Conclusion on Unique k-List Colorable Complete Multipartite Graphs by Yanning Wang, Yanyan Wang, Xuguang Zhang

“…If a graph G admits a k-list assignment L such that G has a unique L-coloring, then G is called uniquely k-list colorable graph, or UkLC graph for short. In the process of characterizing UkLC graphs, the complete multipartite graphs K1*r,s(r,s∈N) are often researched. …”
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Extinction studies in focus: Reflections on photography at a time of ecological decline by Kate Simpson, Sarah Oakes, Aureja Stirbyte, Katie Prosser, Timothy M. Brown, Jonathan David Roberts, Amy J. Bartlett

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Neutrophil extracellular traps are associated with airways inflammation and increased severity of lung disease in cystic fibrosis by Sheonagh M. Law, Gareth Hardisty, Jonathan L. Gillan, Nicola J. Robinson, Donald J. Davidson, Moira K.B. Whyte, Ian Dransfield, Robert D. Gray

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Protocol for predicting host-microbe interactions and their downstream effect on host cells using MicrobioLink by Lejla Gul, Anna Julia Elias, Tanvi Tambaku, Marton Olbei, Emily Watters, Balazs Bohar, Dezso Modos, Matthew Madgwick, Tamas Korcsmaros

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“I definitely cannot afford to be feeling poorly if there’s no need to be”: a qualitative evaluation of antiviral uptake following suspected occupational exposure to avian influenz... by Riinu Pae, Lucy Findlater, Richard Amlôt, Fernando Capelastegui, Gavin Dabrera, Clare Humphreys, Jharna Kumbang, Isabel Oliver

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Interplay between physical activity volume and intensity with modeled life expectancy in women and men: A prospective cohort analysis by Francesco Zaccardi, Alex V. Rowlands, Paddy C. Dempsey, Cameron Razieh, Joe Henson, Jonathan Goldney, Benjamin D. Maylor, Atanu Bhattacharjee, Yogini Chudasama, Charlotte Edwardson, Jari A. Laukkanen, Ulf Ekelund, Melanie J. Davies, Kamlesh Khunti, Thomas Yates

“…Methods: Individuals from UK Biobank with wrist-worn accelerometer data were included. …”
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academic libraries embrace Web access

“…This article presents the lessons learned when six universitiesin the West Midlands, UK worked collaboratively within the eLib (<a href="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/">Electronic Libraries Programme</a>). …”
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Equation of the fixed membrane in the n-dimensional space: some remarks on the maxima of the eigenfunctions subjected to various norms by Yves Biollay

“…We show in this paper that the sequence {max|uk|}, where the uk are the eigenfunctions of the problem Δu+λu=0 in D⊂Rn and u=0 on ∂D, is not bounded generally if one imposes the norm ∫Du2p(x)dx=1, p=(1),2,3,…. …”
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Determination of the Effects of Camptothecin on Cell Cycling and Apoptosis in Human Leukaemic Cell Lines by Anne Cox, Dawn A. Bradbury, Tracy D. Simmons, Kevin J. Slater, Sharon P. M. Crouch

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