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Breast cancer surveillance in women with intellectual disabilities (2008)
Journal Article
Willis, D., Kennedy, C., Kilbride, L., Satge, D., & Sullivan, S. G. (2008). Breast cancer surveillance in women with intellectual disabilities. International Journal on Disability and Human Development, 7, 405-412. https://doi.org/10.1515/IJDHD.2008.7.4.405

Breast cancer is the most frequent malignant neoplasm observed among women. For the subgroup of women with learning/intellectual disability, it is unclear whether their risk for breast cancer is as high as it is for the general population.

Object... Read More about Breast cancer surveillance in women with intellectual disabilities.

Breast cancer screening in women with learning disabilities: current knowledge and considerations (2008)
Journal Article
Willis, D., Kennedy, C., & Kilbride, L. (2008). Breast cancer screening in women with learning disabilities: current knowledge and considerations. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 36, 171-184. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-3156.2008.00520.x

This paper looks at what has been written about breast screening in women with learning disabilities. Breast screening checks for lumps in your breast that might be cancer. Breast screening is done in a special clinic and machines are used to take a... Read More about Breast cancer screening in women with learning disabilities: current knowledge and considerations.

A decade on, what have we learnt about supporting women with intellectual disabilities through the menopause? (2008)
Journal Article
Willis, D. (2008). A decade on, what have we learnt about supporting women with intellectual disabilities through the menopause?. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 12, 9-23

Carr and Hollins highlighted the paucity of research on the menopause in women with intellectual disabilities and, 10
years on, this area still remains poorly researched. Work exploring the age of onset of the menopause has suggested that the menopa... Read More about A decade on, what have we learnt about supporting women with intellectual disabilities through the menopause?.

Dialogue, speech and images: the Companions project data set. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilks, Y., Benyon, D., Brewster, C., Ircing, P., & Mival, O. (2008, May). Dialogue, speech and images: the Companions project data set

This paper describes part of the corpus collection efforts underway in the EC funded Companions project. The Companions project is
collecting substantial quantities of dialogue a large part of which focus on reminiscing about photographs. The texts... Read More about Dialogue, speech and images: the Companions project data set..

Reflexology for symptom relief in patients with cancer (2008)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, S., Lockhart, K., Gambles, M., & Storey, L. (2008). Reflexology for symptom relief in patients with cancer. Cancer Nursing, 31, 354-360. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.NCC.0000305756.58615.81

Complementary therapies are increasingly being used in hospices and hospitals alongside orthodox treatments in an attempt to improve patients' emotional, spiritual, psychological, and physical well-being. An average of 31% of UK patients with cancer... Read More about Reflexology for symptom relief in patients with cancer.

A remote marriage: The theory and practice of being apart and staying together. (2008)
Book Chapter
Wigan, M. (2008). A remote marriage: The theory and practice of being apart and staying together. In S. Holland (Ed.), Remote relationships in a small world (277-284). Peter Land

Small children, a time consuming job, and remote living are not conducive to a happy life. Why does one choose to do it? If one has to, how can one arrange one's life to make a family work? What can communications do to help? It is easy to ask the qu... Read More about A remote marriage: The theory and practice of being apart and staying together..

Governance and evidence based policy under a National Security framework. (2008)
Book Chapter
Wigan, M. (2008). Governance and evidence based policy under a National Security framework. In K. Michael, & M. Michael (Eds.), Australia and the new technologies: Evidence based policy on public administration. [Proceedings of the] Third RSNA Workshop on the Social Implications of National Security: Evidence based policy on public administration 23-24 July 2008 Canberra (49-58). Australian Homeland Security Research Centre

This paper addresses the conflicts of the inherent strains between evidence based policy and contestable evidence based policy under the strictures of a National Security
framework. The shifts in attitudes as to what is acceptable in the applicatio... Read More about Governance and evidence based policy under a National Security framework..

Contestable evidence based policy-the role of information sharing. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wigan, M. (2008, May). Contestable evidence based policy-the role of information sharing

There are three elements required for public policy to be both credible and effective. These
are not necessarily the factors that all parties would agree to, but provide a common ground
on which constructive disagreements can be founded.
The first... Read More about Contestable evidence based policy-the role of information sharing..

Barriers to modelling sustainable transport. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wigan, M. (2008, October). Barriers to modelling sustainable transport. Presented at European Transport Conference 2008

Sustainable transport is a malleable and changing concept which needs addressing before the questions of shortfalls in current modelling practice in addressing these issues can reasonably be assessed. It is tempting to take one of the simplest defini... Read More about Barriers to modelling sustainable transport..

Investigating the effects of predator removal and habitat management on nest success and breeding population size of a farmland passerine: a case study (2008)
Journal Article
White, P. J. C., Stoate, C., Szczur, J., & Norris, K. (2008). Investigating the effects of predator removal and habitat management on nest success and breeding population size of a farmland passerine: a case study. Ibis, 150, 178-190. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00858.x

Passerines are especially vulnerable to predation at the pre-independence stage. Although the role of nest success in British farmland passerine declines is contentious, improvement in nest success through sympathetic management could play a role in... Read More about Investigating the effects of predator removal and habitat management on nest success and breeding population size of a farmland passerine: a case study.

Identification in rats of a programming window for reproductive tract masculinization, disruption of which leads to hypospadias and cryptorchidism (2008)
Journal Article
Welsh, M., Saunders, P. T. K., Fisken, M., Scott, H. M., Hutchison, G. R., Smith, L. B., & Sharpe, R. M. (2008). Identification in rats of a programming window for reproductive tract masculinization, disruption of which leads to hypospadias and cryptorchidism. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 118(4), 1479-1490. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI34241

Becoming a phenotypic male is ultimately determined by androgen-induced masculinization. Disorders of fetal masculinization, resulting in hypospadias or cryptorchidism, are common, but their cause remains unclear. Together with the adult-onset disord... Read More about Identification in rats of a programming window for reproductive tract masculinization, disruption of which leads to hypospadias and cryptorchidism.

CFAR Adaptive PN Code acquisition for DSSS Systems (2008)
Journal Article
Wei, B., Sharif, M., Binnie, D., & Almaini, A. E. A. (2008). CFAR Adaptive PN Code acquisition for DSSS Systems. The Mediterranean journal of electronics and communications, 4, 37-45

Constant false alarm rate (CFAR) techniques can be used in Pseudo-Noise (PN) code acquisition in Spread Spectrum (SS) communication systems, and all the CFAR techniques perform well in homogeneous background PN code acquisition. However, in non-homog... Read More about CFAR Adaptive PN Code acquisition for DSSS Systems.

Record keeping (2008)
Book Chapter
Waugh, A. (2008). Record keeping. In E. Mason-Whitehead, A. E. McIntosh, A. Bryan, & T. Mason (Eds.), Key Concepts in Nursing. SAGE Publications

Immuno-engineering (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Timmis, J., Hart, E., Hone, A., Neal, M., Robins, A., Stepney, S., & Tyrrell, A. (2008, September). Immuno-engineering. Presented at IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, Second IFIP TC 10 International Conference on Biologically-Inspired Collaborative Computing, Milano, Italy

In this position paper, we outline a vision for a new type of engineering: immuno-engineering, that can be used for the development of biologically grounded and theoretically understood Artificial Immune Systems (AIS). We argue that, like many bio-in... Read More about Immuno-engineering.

Modification of the inverse association between dietary vitamin D intake and colorectal cancer risk by aFokI variant supports a chemoprotective action of Vitamin D intake mediated through VDR binding (2008)
Journal Article
Theodoratou, E., Farrington, S. M., Tenesa, A., McNeill, G., Cetnarskyj, R., Barnetson, R. A., Porteous, M. E., Dunlop, M. G., & Campbell, H. (2008). Modification of the inverse association between dietary vitamin D intake and colorectal cancer risk by aFokI variant supports a chemoprotective action of Vitamin D intake mediated through VDR binding. International Journal of Cancer, 123, 2170-2179. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.23769

Vitamin D has anticarcinogenic properties and might influence colorectal cancer (CRC) risk, but the epidemiological evidence is inconsistent. Many mechanisms of action for vitamin D have been proposed, with some of them initiating via its binding to... Read More about Modification of the inverse association between dietary vitamin D intake and colorectal cancer risk by aFokI variant supports a chemoprotective action of Vitamin D intake mediated through VDR binding.