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Showing 1 to 20 of 1576 for “"University of Edinburgh"”.
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Observations on anencephaly
… necessary at the outset for choosing the subject of this thesis from the ever seductive field of the extraordi.nary and the anomalous,when the medical curriculum abounds in 'suggestions of topics which might appear to have a greater claim on the attention, if. only from the standpoint of their …
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Bring Up the Bodies: The Resurrectionists and the Rise of the American Cadaver Trade
… deals with the cadaver trade, for purposes of medical education, and its pedagogical origins in North America. Historians have extensively studied the reorientation of medical training around anatomy in Western Europe and North American in the eighteenth century as the foundation for much of …
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The structure and function of TasA in the <i>Bacillus subtilis</i> biofilm matrix
Biofilms are communities of microorganisms attached to a surface and encompassed within a self-produced extracellular matrix. The matrix functions to shield the interior cells from biotic and abiotic stresses and to retain nutrients and signalling molecules. The multiple functions of the biofilm …
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Psychological safety... P.S. it'll be OK! Understanding senior medical students' experiences of psychological safety (PS) in simulation
… learners to experience the thoughts and emotions of treating patients, without patients present. The simulated clinical cases allow learners to practice managing situations when a delay in treatment or mismanagement may cause harm. By enabling the learning to happen away from real patients, it was …
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Adaptive Aberration Correction for Holographic Projectors
This work builds up on the greatest minds of Cambridge Holography: Adrian Cable, Edward Buckley, Jonathan Freeman, and Christoph Bay. Cable and Buckley, developed an OSPR algorithm which was the first to provide high-quality real-time hologram generation using general-purpose hardware while Freeman …
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HOT study: the development, management and results from phase IIB, randomised controlled trial of heme arginate in recipients of deceased donor renal transplants
… transplantation. IRI increases the likelihood of delayed graft function (DGF), which negatively impacts on the long-term survival of a transplanted kidney. One enzyme of interest, heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1), degrades heme and protects against the oxidative stress that occurs secondary to IRI. …
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Epidemiology of East Coast Fever in smallholder livestock systems of East Africa
The health and productivity of livestock are pivotal in rural livelihoods across sub-Saharan Africa, providing nutrition, income and employment. However, infectious diseases, particularly those caused by haemopathogens, pose a significant threat to their health and productivity. Haemopathogens …
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Danmarkshistorier: National Imagination and Novel in Late Twentieth Century Denmark
… in Late Twentieth-Century Denmark C.C.Thomson, University of Edinburgh, 2003 This thesis centres on the contemporary Danish novel as a conduit for national imagining. Chapter one begins with a discussion of Benedict Anderson's account of the ability of novels to facilitate an imagining of the …
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Generational differences in perceptions of medical student experiences of clinical attachments in surgery: an ethnographic study
For a number of years, the medical student feedback on clinical attachments in General Surgery at the University of Edinburgh Medical School was poor. This phenomenon was a reflection of medical students’ experiences on their surgical attachments in medical schools across the UK to varying degrees. …
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Desenvolvimento de regras de pronúncia para a síntese de fala em língua portuguesa
… tem recebido atenção da comunidade acadêmica e profissional por várias décadas. Ela envolve a conversão de um texto de entrada em fala, usando algoritmos e algumas formas de fala codificada. O texto pode ser digitado pelo teclado ou obtido por reconhecimento de caracteres ou, ainda, obtido de um …
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Investigating the cerebral/pulmonary axis following traumatic brain injury in a preclinical model
… Union every year and is the leading cause of death in individuals under 45 years of age in both Europe and the United States. This thesis examines the consequences to both the brain and lung following TBI using the lateral fluid percussion injury (FPI) in an in-vivo murine model. In the …
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Investigation of the physiological function of TTBK2 (tau tubulin kinase 2), a protein kinase mutated in spinocerebellar ataxia type 11 (SCA11)
… in vivo. <br/><br/>The identification of TTBK2 truncating mutations as the cause of spinocerebellar ataxia type 11 (SCA11), in 2007, emphasised that TTBK2 has a prominent physiological role in the nervous system. When I started my PhD, there was little known about TTBK2 and many …
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An investigation of insulin-like growth factor binding protein-5 (IGFBP-5) as a biomarker for the detection of early liver disease
With mortality rates of both men and women increasing considerably over the last decade from liver disease, along with the number of patients on the active liver transplant list in the UK on the increase, new diagnostic tools would be welcomed by hepatologists. This trend is possibly mirroring the …
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Development of registration methods for cardiovascular anatomy and function using advanced 3T MRI, 320-slice CT and PET imaging
… information. One increasingly important use of such information is in the clinical management of cardiovascular disease. Multi-modality data is helping improve diagnosis accuracy, and individualize treatment. The Clinical Research Imaging Centre at the University of Edinburgh, has been …
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Hidden curriculum of undergraduate surgical education
… surgical patients, who account for one quarter of hospital attendances. Medical school programmes are increasingly congested, meaning that it is necessary to deliver undergraduate surgical education as efficiently as possible. Curricular reform in isolation is unlikely to ensure that students …
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Complexity in measuring the higher education institution scope 3 emissions.
… scopes: scope 1, scope 2, and scope 3. Reporting of scope 1 and scope 2 emissions has become more streamlined, and many organisations report them consistently year after year, making it mandatory. However, the methodology for reporting scope 3 emissions is often ambiguous, with undefined boundary …
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Anatomical, biomechanical and histological evaluation of the glenoid labrum
The glenoid labrum is an integral part of the highly mobile glenohumeral joint. Labral injury can be detrimental to the movement and function of the shoulder. Therefore, an in-depth investigation of glenoid labrum microanatomy may improve our understanding of its roles and functions in the …
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Psychological distress and psychiatric symptoms in Edinburgh University medical students
… has been accumulating for some years. Much of the data obtained relates to the prevalence of serious psychiatric illness. Less is known about rates of minor psychological complaints which nonetheless may have important effects on an individuals adjustment to university life, his or her …
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Determining the endometrial phenotype of women with abnormal uterine bleeding
… women and has a debilitating impact on quality of life. It is a symptom which can be caused by several possible conditions. These conditions have been grouped together under the International Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecology (FIGO) AUB classification system, and can be divided into …
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Information Quality Frames: An Information Product Perspective and A Socio-cognitive Approach to Perceiving Quality of Information in Organisations
There has been much advancement in the field of data and information quality (DIQ) since two decades ago. However, despite a large number of the theoretical and empirical studies in this field, there is a lack of understanding about the mechanisms and dynamics of forming, adjusting and changing …
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