Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, 2006
Objective An initial audit was conducted in 2001 to monitor all women referred for female sterili... more Objective An initial audit was conducted in 2001 to monitor all women referred for female sterilisation. This reaudit in 2003 set out to investigate those women who initially chose alternative reversible contraception and ascertain whether they were still using that method or if they or their partner had requested sterilisation.
The European wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) is an introduced species in Britain, and populat... more The European wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) is an introduced species in Britain, and populations have been profoundly in¯uenced by both man and disease. In stable environmental conditions, distinct social behaviour is observed, and this social structure leads to signi®cant genetic structuring at the intrapopulation level. In this study, European wild rabbits were sampled from 17 sites across the East Anglian region of Britain and genotyped with nine microsatellite loci. Genotypical proportions deviated signi®cantly from Hardy±Weinberg equilibrium, re¯ecting a degree of population subdivision and non-random mating. Several estimates of measures of population genetic structure revealed that populations are genetically distinct and have small eective population sizes. These distinctive properties are seen to be the combined eects of the social structure and random drift acting on bottlenecked populations after myxomatosis. It is concluded that the genetic structure seen in rabbit populations today is unlikely to re¯ect historical structuring present before myxomatosis, but that it results from recent events.
It is well known that children's language development lays the foundation for their literacy deve... more It is well known that children's language development lays the foundation for their literacy development, though it is difficult for preschool teachers alone to consistently engage in the individual interactions necessary to boost children's language skills. Given that parents are their children's first teachers, it is imperative to consider how parents can help improve their children's language and emergent literacy development prior to formal schooling. This article reviews parent-training studies of children's language and literacy in three contexts: parent-child book-reading; parent-child conversations; and parent-child writing. Parent training in each of these contexts has the capacity to improve children's language and literacy, with the effects being specific to the targeted skill. All three contexts are potentially valuable sites for training parents to help their children's language and literacy. In conclusion, parents are an undertapped resource for improving children's language and literacy.
Background: Capecitabine and oxaliplatin are both active anticancer agents in the treatment of pa... more Background: Capecitabine and oxaliplatin are both active anticancer agents in the treatment of patients with advanced colorectal cancer. The aim of this phase II study is to determine the efficacy and tolerability of combining oxaliplatin with capecitabine in the treatment of advanced non-pretreated colorectal cancer.
... Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brooks. View all references; Miller 200323. Miller, SD 2003. ... Full ... more ... Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brooks. View all references; Miller 200323. Miller, SD 2003. ... Full details about each of the studies referred to in Table 1 are available in the full EPPI review (Alborz et al. 20091. Alborz, A., Farrell, P., Howes, A. and Pearson, D. 2009. ...
The DO detector at Fermilab has been collecting data with its new, Ethernet-based Data Acquisitio... more The DO detector at Fermilab has been collecting data with its new, Ethernet-based Data Acquisition (DAQ) System since spring 2002. The system was built almost exclusively with commercially available components, and designed to read in event fragments at a rate of 1 kHz from about 70 VME crates, assemble the events with a typical size of 250 kB and pass them to the Level 3 trigger farm, composed of about 160 CPUs, for final event selection. Accepted events are sent to the online system to he stored on tape at an average rate of 50 Hz. The event fragments are read out over VME using Single Board Computers (SBCs) and sent to the trigger farm through 100 Mb/s and 1 Gb/s Ethernet connections via a series of Ethernet switches. This paper gives an overview of the main components of the DAQ and trigger system and reports on its performance during the first year of operation.
Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, 2006
Objective An initial audit was conducted in 2001 to monitor all women referred for female sterili... more Objective An initial audit was conducted in 2001 to monitor all women referred for female sterilisation. This reaudit in 2003 set out to investigate those women who initially chose alternative reversible contraception and ascertain whether they were still using that method or if they or their partner had requested sterilisation.
The European wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) is an introduced species in Britain, and populat... more The European wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) is an introduced species in Britain, and populations have been profoundly in¯uenced by both man and disease. In stable environmental conditions, distinct social behaviour is observed, and this social structure leads to signi®cant genetic structuring at the intrapopulation level. In this study, European wild rabbits were sampled from 17 sites across the East Anglian region of Britain and genotyped with nine microsatellite loci. Genotypical proportions deviated signi®cantly from Hardy±Weinberg equilibrium, re¯ecting a degree of population subdivision and non-random mating. Several estimates of measures of population genetic structure revealed that populations are genetically distinct and have small eective population sizes. These distinctive properties are seen to be the combined eects of the social structure and random drift acting on bottlenecked populations after myxomatosis. It is concluded that the genetic structure seen in rabbit populations today is unlikely to re¯ect historical structuring present before myxomatosis, but that it results from recent events.
It is well known that children's language development lays the foundation for their literacy deve... more It is well known that children's language development lays the foundation for their literacy development, though it is difficult for preschool teachers alone to consistently engage in the individual interactions necessary to boost children's language skills. Given that parents are their children's first teachers, it is imperative to consider how parents can help improve their children's language and emergent literacy development prior to formal schooling. This article reviews parent-training studies of children's language and literacy in three contexts: parent-child book-reading; parent-child conversations; and parent-child writing. Parent training in each of these contexts has the capacity to improve children's language and literacy, with the effects being specific to the targeted skill. All three contexts are potentially valuable sites for training parents to help their children's language and literacy. In conclusion, parents are an undertapped resource for improving children's language and literacy.
Background: Capecitabine and oxaliplatin are both active anticancer agents in the treatment of pa... more Background: Capecitabine and oxaliplatin are both active anticancer agents in the treatment of patients with advanced colorectal cancer. The aim of this phase II study is to determine the efficacy and tolerability of combining oxaliplatin with capecitabine in the treatment of advanced non-pretreated colorectal cancer.
... Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brooks. View all references; Miller 200323. Miller, SD 2003. ... Full ... more ... Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brooks. View all references; Miller 200323. Miller, SD 2003. ... Full details about each of the studies referred to in Table 1 are available in the full EPPI review (Alborz et al. 20091. Alborz, A., Farrell, P., Howes, A. and Pearson, D. 2009. ...
The DO detector at Fermilab has been collecting data with its new, Ethernet-based Data Acquisitio... more The DO detector at Fermilab has been collecting data with its new, Ethernet-based Data Acquisition (DAQ) System since spring 2002. The system was built almost exclusively with commercially available components, and designed to read in event fragments at a rate of 1 kHz from about 70 VME crates, assemble the events with a typical size of 250 kB and pass them to the Level 3 trigger farm, composed of about 160 CPUs, for final event selection. Accepted events are sent to the online system to he stored on tape at an average rate of 50 Hz. The event fragments are read out over VME using Single Board Computers (SBCs) and sent to the trigger farm through 100 Mb/s and 1 Gb/s Ethernet connections via a series of Ethernet switches. This paper gives an overview of the main components of the DAQ and trigger system and reports on its performance during the first year of operation.
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