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Predicting Glass Transition Temperatures of Polyarylethersulphones Using QSPR Methods
No full textThe technique of Quantitative Structure Property Relationships has been applied to the glass transition temperatures of polyarylethersulphones. A general equation is reported that calculates the glass transition temperatures with acceptable accuracy (correlation coefficients of between 90–67%, indicating an error of 10–30% with regard to experimentally determined values) for a series of 42 reported polyarylethersulphones. This method is quite simple in assumption and relies on a relatively small number of parameters associated with the structural unit of the polymer: the number of rotatable bonds, the dipole moment, the heat of formation, the HOMO eigenvalue, the molar mass and molar volume. For smaller subsets of the main group (based on families of derivatives containing different substituents) the model can be simplified further to an equation that uses the volume of the substituents as the principal variable
Syndrome specific modules to enhance the Stepping Stones Triple P public health intervention (Corrigendum)
No full textBezzina, L. A., Rice, L. J., Howlin, P., Tonge, B. J., and Einfeld, S. L. (2017) Syndrome specific modules to enhance the Stepping Stones Triple P public health intervention. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 61: 836–842. doi: 10.1111/jir.12405.
In the article detailed above, the authors would like to advise readers that the MHYPEDD study group should appear in the author list and Acknowledgement section as below.
L. A. Bezzina, L. J. Rice, P. Howlin, B. J. Tonge, S. L. Einfeld & MHYPEDD Study Group*
*Authors' contributions:
LB, LR, PH, BT, SE participated in manuscript preparation. All authors have read and approved the content of the manuscript. The Mental Health of Young People with Developmental Disabilities ‘MHYPEDD’ study group provided assistance in developing the study protocols and the syndrome specific modules.
Acknowledgements:
The ‘MHYPEDD’ study group comprises of Matt Sanders, Kate Sofronoff, Kylie Gray, Caroline Keating, Sian Horstead, Rebecca Wilson, and Kristina Clarke.No Full Tex
Developing improved models of oxidatively treated carbon fibre surfaces, using molecular simulation
No full textAPJ76: RD Allington, D Attwood, I Hamerton (25%), JN Hay, BJ Howlin. Developing improved models of oxidatively treated carbon fibre surfaces, using molecular simulation, Composites (A) (2004) 35, 1161-1163 [13 citations]
Studies on a dicyanate containing four phenylene rings and polycyanurate blends. 1. Synthesis and polymerisation of the monomers and thermo-mechanical analysis of the polymer blends
No full textI Hamerton*, BJ Howlin, P Klewpatinond, S Taked
Syndrome specific modules to enhance the Stepping Stones Triple P public health intervention
No full textBackground: Service responses to behaviour phenotypes include care by expert clinicians, syndrome-specific clinics, disability-specific mental health services and generic mental health services. While these services contribute to care, they are often of limited accessibility.
Methods: We describe a population-wide public health intervention aimed at increasing the accessibility of services to the target population. Stepping Stones Triple P (SSTP) is a public health intervention of known efficacy in reducing behaviour problems when delivered to parents of children aged 0-12 with mixed developmental disabilities.
Results: The strategy we discuss involves enhancing SSTP with modules for specific causes of developmental disabilities including Down, Fetal Alcohol, Fragile X, Prader-Willi and Williams syndromes.
Conclusions: We propose that enhancing SSTP with syndrome specific modules will increase the accessibility of support to families who have a child with a specific behaviour phenotype. We suggest that future research should confirm the public health impact of the modified SSTP programme using the RE-AIM framework.No Full Tex
Peer Review #1 of "A complete, multi-level conformational clustering of antibody complementarity-determining regions (v0.1)"
No full textOregon serious crime survey
No full textauthor, survey administration and data processing: Stan WoodwellCaption titleThis archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposesBureau of Justice Statistics, United States Department of Justice 80-BJ-CX-K009 82-BJ-CX-0002 82-BJ-CX-0014Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications CollectionText in Englis
BJ-TSA-9, a Novel Human Tumor-Specific Gene, Has Potential as a Biomarker of Lung Cancer
No full textAbstractUsing bioinformatics, we have identified a novel tumorspecific gene BJ-TSA-9, which has been validated by Northern blot analysis and reverse transcriptionpolymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). BJ-TSA-9 mRNA was expressed in 52.5% (21 of 40) of human lung cancer tissues and was especially higher in lung adenocarcinoma (68.8%). To explore the potential application of BJ-TSA-9 for the detection of circulating cancer cells in lung cancer patients, nested RT-PCR was performed. The overall positive detection rate was 34.3% (24 of 70) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of patients with various types of lung cancers and was 53.6% (15 of 28) in PBMCs of lung adenocarcinoma patients. In combination with the detection of two known marker genes SCC and LUNX, the detection rate was increased to 81.4%. A follow-up study was performed in 37 patients after surgical removal of tumor mass. Among nine patients with persistent detection of two to three tumor marker transcripts in PBMCs, six patients had recurrence/metastasis. In contrast, 28 patients with transient detection of one tumor marker or without detection of any tumor marker were all in remission. Thus, BJ-TSA-9 may serve as a marker for lung cancer diagnosis and as a marker, in combination with two other tumor markers, for the prediction of the recurrence and prognosis of lung cancer patients
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Estimation of the number of periodic orbits
No full textThe main theme of this paper is to estimate, for self-maps f : X --> X of compact polyhedra, the asymptotic Nielsen number N-infinity(f) which is defined to be the growth rate of the sequence {N(f(n))} of the Nielsen numbers of the iterates of f. The asymptotic Nielsen number provides a homotopy invariant lower bound to the topological entropy h(f). To introduce our main tool, the Lefschetz zeta function, we develop the Nielsen theory of periodic orbits. Compared to the existing Nielsen theory of periodic points, it features the mapping torus approach, thus brings deeper geometric insight and simpler algebraic formulation. The important cases of homeomorphisms of surfaces and punctured surfaces are analysed. Examples show that the computation involved is straightforward and feasible. Applications to dynamics, including improvements of several results in the recent literature, demonstrate the usefulness of the asymptotic Nielsen number.MathematicsSCI(E)19ARTICLE1151-18517
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