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Improving immunity to Haemophilus influenzae in children with chronic suppurative lung diseaseEndobronchial infections related to non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) are common in children and adults with suppurative airway disease...
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Effect of antecedent moderate-intensity exercise on the glycemia-increasing effect of a 30-sec maximal sprint: a sex comparisonThis study investigated whether a prior bout of moderate-intensity exercise attenuates the glycemia-increasing effect of a maximal 30-sec sprint.
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Risk perception in pregnancyDespite huge advances in obstetric management and technology in recent decades, there has not been an accompanying decrease in patients' perception of risk...
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Poly-arginine and arginine-rich peptides are neuroprotective in stroke modelsUsing cortical neuronal cultures and glutamic acid excitotoxicity and oxygen-glucose deprivation (OGD) stroke models, we demonstrated that poly-arginine and...
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Maternal vitamin D status during pregnancy and bone mass in offspring at 20 years of age: A prospective cohort studyThis longitudinal, prospective study investigated the association between maternal vitamin D status and peak bone mass of offspring in 341 mother and...
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Early Vocabulary Development of Australian Indigenous Children: Identifying StrengthsThe current study sought to increase our understanding of the factors involved in the early vocabulary development of Australian Indigenous children.
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Common variation near ROBO2 is associated with expressive vocabulary in infancyIn this paper we conduct a genome-wide screen and follow-up study of expressive vocabulary in toddlers of European descent from up to four studies of the...
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Resilience amongst Australian Aboriginal youth: An ecological analysis of factors associated with psychosocial functioningWe investigate whether the profile of factors protecting psychosocial functioning of high risk exposed Australian Aboriginal youth are the same as those...
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Confirmation of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia Variants, ARID5B and IKZF1, and interaction with parental environmental exposuresThe polygenic nature of childhood ALL predisposition together with the timing of environmental triggers may hold vital clues for disease etiology.
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Reliability and Validity of a Short Version of the General Functioning Subscale of the McMaster Family Assessment DeviceThe findings of this study support the use of a GF6+ subscale from the FAD, as a quick and effective tool to assess the overall functioning of families