A. Jacobs

Publication List Details

Period

1918 - 2009

Number

76

Co-Authors

What Should Be Done To Tackle Ghostwriting in the Medical Literature? (2009)

Gotzsche, P C, Kassirer, J P, Woolley, K L, Wager, E, Jacobs, A, Gertel, A, ...

Background to the debate: Ghostwriting occurs when someone makes substantial contributions to a manuscript without attribution or disclosure. It is considered bad publication practice in the medical...

Impact of opioid rescue medication for breakthrough pain on the efficacy and tolerability of long-acting opioids in patients with chronic non-malignant pain (2009)

Devulder, J., Jacobs, A., Richarz, U., Wiggett, H.

BackgroundThere is little evidence that short-acting opioids as rescue medication for breakthrough pain is an optimal long-term treatment strategy in chronic non-malignant pain. We compared clinical...

Production of eicosapentaenoic acid by representatives of the genus Mortierella on brewers’ spent grain (2009)

Jacobs, A, Van Zyl, WH, Botha, A

Copyright: 2009 Springer. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Springer for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in...

Development of a novel whole egg pasteurisation system (2008)

Erasmus, C, Jacobs, A

Science real and relevant: 2nd CSIR Biennial Conference. Pretoria, South Africa, 17-18 November 2008

Production of highly unsaturated fatty acids using agro-processing by-products (2008)

Jacobs, A, Reddy, J

Science Real and Relevant: 2nd CSIR Biennial Conference, CSIR International Convention Centre Pretoria, 17 & 18 November 2008

Characterization of the pitch canker fungus, Fusarium circinatum, from Chile (2007)

Jacobs, A., Coutinho, Teresa A., Wingfield, Michael J., Ahumada, R., Wingfield, Brenda D.

Fusarium circinatum is the causal agent of the pine disease commonly referred to as pitch canker. During 2001, a Fusarium species was isolated from dying Pinus radiata clonal hedges in various...

Immunization with the biologically active lectin domain of PapGII induces strong adhesion-inhibiting antibody responses but no protection against avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (2006)

Abuaboud, O, VanderMeer, E, Jacobs, A

The aim of this study was to investigate whether immunization with the sugar binding domain of PapGII (PapGII196) was able to protect chickens against avian pathogenic Escherichia coli. PapGII196 was...

Production of eicosapentaenoic acid by mortierella spp on barley spent grain (2006)

Jacobs, A, Du Plessis, LM, Nxumalo, N, Combrink, A

CSIR Research and Innovation Conference: 1st CSIR Biennial Conference, CSIR International Convention Centre Pretoria, 27-28 February 2006

Recovery of regional but not global contractile function by the direct intramyocardial autologous bone marrow transplantation - Results from a randomized controlled clinical trial (2006)

HENDRIKX, Marc, Hensen, K., Clijsters, C., Jongen, H., KONINCKX, Remco, Bijnens, E., ...

Background-Recent trials have shown that intracoronary infusion of bone marrow cells (BMCs) improves functional recovery after acute myocardial infarction. However, whether this treatment is...

The gelation mechanism of solutions of isotactic polystyrene in cis-decalin (2001)

De Rudder, Jan; U0010863, Berghmans, Hugo; U0006852, Roels, T, Jacobs, A

The gelation of isotactic polystyrene in cis-decalin was investigated with calorimetric, infrared and theological measurements. At temperatures above 30 degreesC a crystalline structure similar to...

Caveolin-1 modulates the activity of the volume-regulated chloride channel (1999)

Jacobs, A, Remacle, C

1. Caveolae are small invaginations of the plasma membrane that have recently been implicated in signal transduction. In the present study, we have investigated whether caveolins, the principal...

Bioimpedance: Is it a predictor of true water volume? (1999)

Thomas, BJ, Cornish, BH, Ward, LC, Jacobs, A

Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) has been reported to be insensitive to changes in water volumes in individual subjects, This study was designed to investigate the effect on the intra- and...

Optimizing electrode sites for segmental bioimpedance measurements (1999)

Cornish, BH, Jacobs, A, Thomas, BJ, Ward, LC

Recent advances in the application of bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) have indicated that a more accurate approach to the estimation of total body water is to consider the impedance of the...

Bioimpedance: Is it a predictor of true water volume? (1999)

Thomas, BJ, Cornish, BH, Ward, LC, Jacobs, A

Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) has been reported to be insensitive to changes in water volumes in individual subjects, This study was designed to investigate the effect on the intra- and...

Optimizing electrode sites for segmental bioimpedance measurements (1999)

Cornish, B. H., Jacobs, A., Thomas, B. J., Ward, L. C.

Recent advances in the application of bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) have indicated that a more accurate approach to the estimation of total body water is to consider the impedance of the...

SIERRA: A Spatial Data System for Neuronal Data (1998)

Louis Glassy, J. Denbigh, Starkey Gwen, A. Jacobs

Neuroinformatics requires the manipulation and querying of data in a spatial, visual, and relational milieu. SIERRA is a system for storing and querying neuronal data within a relational data...

Cellular neural network realizations of neuron models with diverse spiking patterns (1996)

Jacobs, A, Werblin, F, Roska, T, Vidnyanszky, Z, ...

In this paper we show cellular neural network (CNN) models of some basic types of cells characterized by diverse spiking patterns. After presenting some preliminary models (ion channels, neurons),...

Task Decomposition through Competition in a Modular Connectionist Architecture: The What and Where Vision Tasks (1991)

Robert A. Jacobs, A. Jacobs, Michael I. Jordan

The influence of Andrew Barto and Michael Jordan on my thinking is evidenced throughout this dissertation. They provided technical training, constructive criticism, guidance, and inspiration...

Lärmminderungsmaßnahmen an einem teilumschlossenen Schießstand (1989)

Jacobs, A., Ackermann, U.

Da die Immissionspegel in der Nachbarschaft eines teilumschlossenen Schießstandes zu hoch waren, wurde dem Betreiber die Auflage gemacht, Lärmminderungsmaßnahmen durchzuführen. Dazu wurden im...

Lärmminderung an Dachventilatoren (1988)

Jacobs, A., Ackermann, U., Fuchs, H.V.

Bei der Entwicklung eines neuen Dachventilators wurde durch Integration von Membran-Absorbern die Schallabstrahlung verringert. Es konnte eine Minderung des A-bewerteten Summenpegels von über 10...

Kassettendecke aus Membran-Absorbern für Schießstände (1987)

Ackermann, U., Jacobs, A.

Eine Moeglichkeit fuer Schallschutzmassnahmen an Schiessstaenden ist der Einbau von Kassettendecken (1). Darunter versteht man eine kassettenartige Kulissenanordnung im Dachbereich, die licht- und...

Evolutionary divergence of genes for ornithine and aspartate carbamoyl-trasferases-complete sequence and mode of regulatio of the Escherichia coli argF gene; comparison of argF with argI and pyrB (1984)

Van Vliet, F., Cunin, R., Jacobs, A., Piette, J., Gigot, D., Lauwereys, M., ...

The complete nucleotide sequence of argF is presented, together with that of an operator-constitutive mutant. ArgF is compared with the other gene coding for ornithine carbamoyltransferase (OTCase)...

Glutathione-s-transferase pi expression in leukaemia: a comparative analysis with mdr-1 data.

Holmes, J., Wareing, C., Jacobs, A., Hayes, J. D., Padua, R. A., Wolf, C. R.

Drug resistance in haemopoietic cells may be partly related to the expression of the glutathione-s-transferase (GST) pi and mdr-1 genes. We have used RNA slot blotting techniques to investigate the...

Iron Metabolism in Hodgkin's Disease

Beamish, M. R., Jones, P. Ashley, Trevett, D., Evans, I. Howell, Jacobs, A.

An evaluation of iron metabolism has been carried out in 23 untreated patients with Hodgkin's disease and 6 patients with other lymphomata. The reduction in red cell life span is related to the stage...

Ferritinaemia in Leukaemia and Hodgkin's Disease

Jones, P. A. E., Miller, F. M., Worwood, M., Jacobs, A.

The serum ferritin concentration is increased in both acute myeloblastic leukaemia and Hodgkin's disease. In acute leukaemia the mean concentration is about ten times the normal level and is...

Erythropoiesis and iron metabolism in Hodgkin's disease.

Al-Ismail, S., Cavill, I., Evans, I. H., Jacobs, A., Ricketts, C., Trevett, D., ...

Recently developed techniques for the investigation of iron kinetics were used to study the disturbance of iron metabolism in 19 untreated patients with Hodgkin's diseases (HD). The erythroid...

Anaemia in patients with myelomatosis.

Ting, W. C., Cavill, I., Jacobs, A., Kaaba, S., May, A., Smith, S., ...

Twenty-four untreated patients with myelomatosis were studied in order to characterize their anaemia, using standard haematological and ferrokinetic techniques, together with measurements of...

Serum ferritin concentration in untreated Hodgkin's disease.

Jacobs, A., Slater, A., Whittaker, J. A., Canellos, G., Wiernik, P. H.

Serum ferritin has been estimated in 125 untreated patients with Hodgkin's disease. Increasing concentrations are found at each advancing stage of the disease and high concentrations are found in...

Serum ferritin concentration in early breast cancer.

Jacobs, A., Jones, B., Ricketts, C., Bulbrook, R. D., Wang, D. Y.

The concentration of circulating ferritin was measured in 250 normal adult women and 229 women presenting with early breast cancer. Ferritin concentrations are higher in cancer patients than in...

Isoferritins in acute leukaemia.

Cragg, S. J., Jacobs, A., Parry, D. H., Wagstaff, M., Worwood, M.

Leucocytes containing a high proportion of blast cells were obtained from 11 patients with acute myeloid leukaemia, and leucocytes were also obtained from 2 normal subjects. Ferritin was partially...

Ferritin-bearing T-lymphocytes and serum ferritin in patients with breast cancer.

Pattanapanyasat, K., Hoy, T. G., Jacobs, A., Courtney, S., Webster, D. J.

Flow cytometric studies of T-lymphocytes in breast cancer patients show that the number of cells bearing ferritin on their surface is significantly greater than normal. The number of ferritin-bearing...