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Visual Representation of Safety Cases

open access: yesMeasurement + Control, 2012
Historically, safety cases in the nuclear industry have tended to follow a visually similar approach; descriptive text using a (gradually evolving) template driven in part by a desire to minimise the scope of changes to legacy safety cases.
Jennifer Brain
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Reconstituting the Urban Commons: Public Space, Social Capital and the Project of Urbanism

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2019
This article outlines a framework for connecting design-oriented research on accommodating and encouraging social interaction in public space with investigation of broader questions regarding civic engagement, social justice and democratic governance ...
David Brain
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The blood–brain barrier: Structure, regulation and drug delivery

open access: yesSignal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 2023
Blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a natural protective membrane that prevents central nervous system (CNS) from toxins and pathogens in blood. However, the presence of BBB complicates the pharmacotherapy for CNS disorders as the most chemical drugs and ...
Di Wu   +5 more
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Field observation on lizards (Scincidae: Mabuya) in the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park

open access: yesKoedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 1969
Field observation on lizards (Scincidae: Mabuya) in the Kalahari Gemsbok National ...
C. K. Brain
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The Vascular-Dependent and -Independent Actions of Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide in Cardiovascular Disease

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology, 2022
The treatment of hypertension and heart failure remains a major challenge to healthcare providers. Despite therapeutic advances, heart failure affects more than 26 million people worldwide and is increasing in prevalence due to an ageing population ...
Fulye Argunhan, Susan D. Brain
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The association between blood pressure variability (BPV) with dementia and cognitive function: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

open access: yesSystematic Reviews, 2018
Background A body of empirical work demonstrates that wide fluctuations in a person’s blood pressure across consecutive measures, known as blood pressure variability (BPV), hold prognostic value to predict stroke and transient ischemic attack.
VARIABLE BRAIN consortium
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Left brain, right brain: One brain, two brains [PDF]

open access: yesBrain, 2010
It is an odd assignment, this one: not as a non-neuroscientist the request to write a review of a book on the structure and functioning of the left and right hemispheres of the brain, for The master and his emissary is after all aimed at the intelligent general reader, and in this context I can at least lay claim to being a general reader; but rather ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Histamine in the brain [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2014
Brain aminergic pathways are organized in parallel and interacting systems, which support a range of functions, from homoeostatic regulations to cognitive, and motivational processes. Despite overlapping functional influences, dopamine, serotonin, noradrenaline and histamine systems provide different contributions to these processes.
Pertti Panula   +2 more
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El barrio como motor del valor de la vivienda social en Chile: evidencia a partir de la Encuesta Panel de Vivienda 2010

open access: yesPersona y Sociedad, 2012
La Encuesta Panel de Vivienda (EPV), en su primera medición del año 2010, consideró los principales aspectos tanto de las viviendas como de sus entornos que pueden explicar su valorización o desvalorización en el tiempo, tanto desde una perspectiva ...
Isabel Brain, Pía Mora
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