Effect of in vitro maturation of mouse oocytes on the health and lifespan of adult offspring (2009)
Eppig, J.J., O'Brien, M.J., Wigglesworth, K., Nicholson, A., Zhang, W., King, B.A.
BACKGROUND In vitro maturation of oocytes can, in some circumstances, provide an alternative approach to gonadotrophin-induced maturation in clinical settings. However, the consequences of these...
Incident Management Modelling Using Microsimulation with Adaptive Signal Control (2009)
McMillan, S., Koorey, G., Nicholson, A.
This paper demonstrates the use of microsimulation modelling as a test-bed to evaluate various incident management strategies using adaptive signal control. S-Paramics is the microsimulation tool...
The effectiveness of incident management on network reliability (2008)
Koorey, G., McMillan, S., Nicholson, A.
This report summarises preliminary research undertaken in New Zealand during 2006–07 to investigate the ability of intelligent transport system (ITS) treatments, such as adaptive signal control...
Status of this Memo Dynamically Switched Link Control Protocol (2007)
Request Comments, A. Nicholson, This Experimental, Protocol Internet
community. Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested. Please refer to the current edition of the "IAB Official Protocol Standards " for the standardization state and...
Wu, O., Briggs, A.H., Dutton, S., Hirst, A., Maresh, M., Nicholson, A., ...
Objectives To evaluate the relative cost-effectiveness of uterine artery embolisation (UAE) and hysterectomy in women with symptomatic uterine fibroids from the perspective of the UK NHS. Design...
Physiological responses to increased housing density in C57BL/6J mice (2007)
Nicholson, A., Malcolm, R., Russ, P., Cough, K., Palme, R., Touma, C., ...
Andrade, K., Kagaya, S., Uchida, K., Dantas, A., Nicholson, A.
Developing precise travel behavior models and testing its forecasting capability are essential when planning transportation systems. However, emphasis is observed in estimating while forecasting...
Nicholson, A., Kuper, H., Hemingway, H.
Aims: With negative treatment trials, the role of depression as an aetiological or prognostic factor in coronary heart disease (CHD) remains controversial. We quantified the effect of depression on...
The widening gap in mortality by educational level in the Russian Federation, 1980-2001 (2006)
Murphy, M., Bobak, M., Nicholson, A., Rose, R., Marmot, M.
Objectives: We examined trends in the relation between educational level and adult mortality in the Russian Federation in the period 1989 through 2001. Methods: We used a convenience cohort based on...
A GA-based transport modal choice model (2006)
Andrade, K., Uchida, K., Kagaya, S., Dantas, A., Nicholson, A.
This paper presents a hybrid transport modal choice model in which the genetic algorithm is applied for estimating parameters of a Multinomial Logit Model. The model has a simple decision structure...
Information sharing during disaster: Can we do better? (2006)
Dantas, A, Seville, E., Nicholson, A.
This report presents a critical review and analysis of issues involved in implementing electronic data and information sharing frameworks for organisations involved in emergency response and recovery...
BMC Medical Research Methodology (2006)
Biomed Central, Hannah Kuper, A Nicholson, Harry Hemingway, Open Access, Harry Hemingway
Research article Searching for observational studies: what does citation tracking add to PubMed? A case study in depression and coronary heart disease
Nicholson, A., Bobak, M., Murphy, M., Marmot, M.
Socio-economic differentials in health in Russia are not well understood and the life course approach has been relatively neglected. This paper examines the influence of socio-economic risk factors...
Nicholson, A., Bobak, M., Murphy, M., Rose, R., Marmot, M.
Objectives: To examine the relationships between frequency of alcohol consumption and of binge drinking and adult mortality in Russian men and women. Methods : Using modified indirect demographic...
Nicholson, A., Fuhrer, R., Marmot, M.
Objective: This paper examines the role of psychological distress in the etiology of coronary heart disease (CHD), with particular reference to the persistence of distress symptoms, the contribution...
Cost externalities and road pricing evaluation: experimental findings from network analysis (2005)
Dantas, A., Mao, J., Nicholson, A.
The analysis of cost externalities in the evaluation of road pricing schemes based upon a network analysis in Christchurch (New Zealand) is presented. Results indicate that current practices do not...
Development of criteria for simplifying ecological risk models (2005)
Thomas, C., Hart, B., Nicholson, A., Grace, M., Brodie, J., Pollino, C.
Tropical seagrass habitats of the Great Barrier Reef are influenced by a complex suite of parameters. Recently there has been particular interest in the impact of land-derived runoff to the long-term...
Is the benefit of road pricing reliable? (2004)
Mao, J., Dantas, A., Nicholson, A.
This paper presents a study of the benefits and costs of road pricing projects considering the current practices of project evaluation in the New Zealand context. A method for estimating the benefits...
Analysis and evaluation of road pricing benefits and costs (2004)
Mao, J., Dantas, A., Nicholson, A.
A study of the benefits and costs of road pricing projects is presented. A method for estimating the benefits and costs of road pricing initiatives to examine the economic and social impacts created...
Mutations of the BRAF gene in human cancer (2002)
Davies, H., Bignell, G.R., Cox, C., Stephens, P., Edkins, S., Clegg, S., ...
Cancers arise owing to the accumulation of mutations in critical genes that alter normal programmes of cell proliferation, differentiation and death. As the first stage of a systematic genome-wide...
Mutations of the BRAF gene in human cancer (2002)
Davies, H., Bignell, G.R., Cox, C., Stephens, P., Edkins, S., Clegg, S., ...
Cancers arise owing to the accumulation of mutations in critical genes that alter normal programmes of cell proliferation, differentiation and death. As the first stage of a systematic genome-wide...
Mutations of the BRAF gene in human cancer (2002)
Davies, H., Bignell, G.R., Cox, C., Stephens, P., Edkins, S., Clegg, S., ...
Cancers arise owing to the accumulation of mutations in critical genes that alter normal programmes of cell proliferation, differentiation and death. As the first stage of a systematic genome-wide...
Mutations of the BRAF gene in human cancer (2002)
Davies, H., Bignell, G.R., Cox, C., Stephens, P., Edkins, S., Clegg, S., ...
Cancers arise owing to the accumulation of mutations in critical genes that alter normal programmes of cell proliferation, differentiation and death. As the first stage of a systematic genome-wide...
Inequalities in mortality and illness in Trent NHS region (1999)
Huff, N, Macleod, C, Ebdon, D, Phillips, D, Davies, L, Nicholson, A
Background: The Department of Health is encouraging health authorities to improve health status by tackling health inequalities. We defined ward level spatial health variations in Trent National...
Financial Markets: Very Noisy Information Processing (1998)
Malik Magdon-ismail, A. Nicholson, Y. Abu-Mostafa
We report new results about the impact of noise on information processing, with application to financial markets. These results quantify the tradeoff between the amount of data and the noise level in...
treeNets: A Framework for Anytime Evaluation of Belief Networks (1997)
Jitnah And, N. Jitnah, A. Nicholson
. We present a new framework for implementing evaluation of belief networks (BNs), which consists of two steps: (1) transforming a belief network into a tree structure called a treeNet (2) performing...
Dynamically Switched Link Control Protocol (1992)
Current status: EXPERIMENTAL
Experiences Supporting By-Request Circuit-Switched T3 Networks (1992)
Current status: INFORMATIONAL
Portrait of Daisy Kennedy wearing fur edged velvet cloak, [ca. 1920] [picture] / (1920)
Title devised by cataloguer.; Photographer's signature and copyright on l.r. corner of photograph.; Part of the Lady Viola Tait collection.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet...
Daisy Kennedy holding her violin, [ca. 1920] [picture] / (1920)
Title devised by cataloguer.; Photographer's signature and copyright on l.r. corner of photograph.; Part of the Lady Viola Tait collection.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet...
Portrait of Daisy Kennedy holding feather plume, [ca. 1920] [picture] / (1920)
Title devised by cataloguer.; Photographer's signature and copyright on l.r. corner of photograph.; Part of the Lady Viola Tait collection.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet...
Title devised by cataloguer.; Photographer's signature and copyright on l.r. corner of photograph.; Part of the Lady Viola Tait collection.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet...
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Hammer, C H, Nicholson, A, Mayer, M M
The doughnut hypothesis of cytolysis by complement [Mayer, M. M. (1972) Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 69, 2954-2958] describes an annular structure made up of C5b-9 (complement factors C5b, C6, C7, C8,...
Freydiere, A. M., Perry, J. D., Faure, O., Willinger, B., Tortorano, A. M., Nicholson, A., ...
When evaluated in six clinical laboratories from six countries with 1,174 fresh isolates, including 715 Candida glabrata and 459 non-C. glabrata strains, GLABRATA RTT (Fumouze Diagnostics, Levallois...
Hemingway, H, Nicholson, A, Stafford, M, Roberts, R, Marmot, M
OBJECTIVES: This study measured the association between socioeconomic status and the eight scale scores of the Medical Outcomes Study short form 36 (SF-36) general health survey in the Whitehall II...
Nicholson, A, Hendrix, M, Jinks-Robertson, S, Crouse, G F
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae homologs of the bacterial mismatch repair proteins MutS and MutL correct replication errors and prevent recombination between homeologous (nonidentical) sequences....
Hammer, C H, Nicholson, A, Mayer, M M
The doughnut hypothesis of cytolysis by complement [Mayer, M. M. (1972) Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 69, 2954-2958] describes an annular structure made up of C5b-9 (complement factors C5b, C6, C7, C8,...
Freydiere, A. M., Perry, J. D., Faure, O., Willinger, B., Tortorano, A. M., Nicholson, A., ...
When evaluated in six clinical laboratories from six countries with 1,174 fresh isolates, including 715 Candida glabrata and 459 non-C. glabrata strains, GLABRATA RTT (Fumouze Diagnostics, Levallois...
Hemingway, H, Nicholson, A, Stafford, M, Roberts, R, Marmot, M
OBJECTIVES: This study measured the association between socioeconomic status and the eight scale scores of the Medical Outcomes Study short form 36 (SF-36) general health survey in the Whitehall II...
Nicholson, A, Hendrix, M, Jinks-Robertson, S, Crouse, G F
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae homologs of the bacterial mismatch repair proteins MutS and MutL correct replication errors and prevent recombination between homeologous (nonidentical) sequences....
Transcatheter coil embolotherapy: a safe and effective option for major colonic haemorrhage
Nicholson, A, Ettles, D, Hartley, J, Curzon, I, Lee, P, Duthie, G, ...
a Department of Radiology, Hull Royal Infirmary, East Yorkshire, b University of Hull, Academic Surgical Unit, Castle Hill Hospital, Cottingham, East Yorkshire, UK
Perry, J D, Butterworth, L A, Nicholson, A, Appleby, M R, Orr, K E
Aims: To compare the performance of a new chromogenic medium, Uriselect 4, with cystine lactose electrolyte deficient (CLED) agar and an established chromogenic agar, CPS ID 2 medium, for detection...
Lymphocytes forming stable E-rosettes in acute and chronic hepatitis.
Wansbrough-Jones, M H, Scullard, G H, Nicholson, A, Eddleston, A L, Williams, R
Lymphocytes forming E-rosettes with sheep erythrocytes which do not disintegrate at 37 degrees C have been demonstrated in increased numbers in peripheral blood of patients with acute type B...
Uterine artery embolisation to treat symptomatic uterine fibroids
Women may now have another effective, safe, and minimally invasive treatment option for treating fibroids
Moon, J., Du Bois, R. M, Colby, T., Hansell, D., Nicholson, A.
BACKGROUND—Respiratory bronchiolitis-associated interstitial lung disease (RBILD) is a rare form of interstitial lung disease which may present in similar fashion to other types of chronic...
Intramural neurofibroma of the trachea treated by multiple stents
Cranshaw, J, Morgan, C, Knowles, G, Nicholson, A, Goldstraw, P
The case history is presented of a patient in whom an intramural tracheal neurofibroma developed, causing severe airway stenosis. The patient was treated with multiple stents over a period of 5 years...
The safety and quality of endobronchial biopsy in children under five years old
Saglani, S, Payne, D, Nicholson, A, Scallan, M, Haxby, E, Bush, A
Background: Little is known about the airway pathology of wheezing disorders in infants and preschool children, partly owing to the difficulty of undertaking invasive studies in this age group. The...
Investigation of mycobacterial colonisation and invasion of the respiratory mucosa
Middleton, A, Chadwick, M, Nicholson, A, Dewar, A, Feldman, C, Wilson, R
Methods: The interaction of M avium complex, M tuberculosis, and M smegmatis with human respiratory tissue was investigated in an organ culture model with an air interface. Tissue was infected for...
Inter-observer variation between pathologists in diffuse parenchymal lung disease
Nicholson, A, Addis, B, Bharucha, H, Clelland, C, Corrin, B, Gibbs, A, ...
Background: There have been few inter-observer studies of diffuse parenchymal lung disease (DPLD), but the recent ATS/ERS consensus classification provides a basis for such a study.
HRCT diagnosis of diffuse parenchymal lung disease: inter-observer variation
Aziz, Z, Wells, A, Hansell, D, Bain, G, Copley, S, Desai, S, ...
Background: This study was designed to measure inter-observer variation between thoracic radiologists in the diagnosis of diffuse parenchymal lung disease (DPLD) using high resolution computed...
Methodology for assessing patterns of interstitial pneumonia in children
NICHOLSON, A., BUSH, A., HACKING, D., SMYTH, R., SHAW, N., KOKAI, G., ...
Cerebral palsy--an increasing contributor to severe mental retardation?
It is estimated that the prevalence of nongenetic SMR associated with cerebral palsy has risen from 0.7 to about 0.9 per 1000 live births in the last decade. This is due to the predicted rise in...
Wu, O., Briggs, A.H., Dutton, S., Hirst, A., Maresh, M., Nicholson, A., ...
Objectives To evaluate the relative cost-effectiveness of uterine artery embolisation (UAE) and hysterectomy in women with symptomatic uterine fibroids from the perspective of the UK NHS. Design...