Neuronal human BACE1 knock-in induces systemic diabetes in mice

Funding We would like to thank R. Simcox, Romex Oilfield Chemicals, for financial support for KP, and acknowledge additional contributions from the Scottish Alzheimer’s Research UK network for the lipidomics work. The College of Life Science and Medicine, University of Aberdeen, sponsored the imaging study. MD was funded by British Heart Foundation and Diabetes UK; NM was funded by a British Heart Foundation Intermediate Fellowship; KS was funded by a European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes/Lilly programme grant; and RD was funded by an Institute of Medical Sciences PhD studentship.

Vaginal progesterone prophylaxis for preterm birth (the OPPTIMUM study) : a multicentre, randomised, double-blind trial

Acknowledgments We thank the members of the Trial Steering and Data Monitoring Committee and all the people who helped in the conduct of the study (including the OPPTIMUM collaborative group and other clinicians listed in the appendix). We are grateful to Paul Piette (Besins Healthcare Corporate, Brussels, Belgium) and Besins Healthcare for their kind donation of active and placebo drug for use in the study, and to staff of the pharmacy and research and development departments of the participating hospitals. We are also grateful to the many people who helped in this study but who we have been unable to name, and in particular all the women (and their babies) who participated in OPPTIMUM. OPPTIMUM was funded by the Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) Programme, a Medical Research Council (MRC) and National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) partnership, award number G0700452, revised to 09/800/27. The EME Programme is funded by the MRC and NIHR, with contributions from the Chief Scientist Office in Scotland and National Institute for Social Care and Research in Wales. The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the MRC, National Health Service, NIHR, or the Department of Health. The funder had no involvement in data collection, analysis or interpretation, and no role in the writing of this manuscript or the decision to submit for publication.

Additional evidence for fisheries acoustics : small cameras and angling gear provide tilt angle distributions and other relevant data for mackerel surveys

Acknowledgements This work received funding from the Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS) pooling initiative and their support is gratefully acknowledged. MASTS is funded by the Scottish Funding Council (grant reference HR09011) and contributing institutions. We thank Joshua Lawrence and Niall Fallon for their assistance in collecting some of the video data.

Prior Antithrombotic Use is Associated with Favorable Mortality and Functional Outcomes in Acute Ischemic Stroke

Sources of Funding The GWTG-Stroke program is currently supported in part by a charitable contribution from Bristol-Myers Squibb/Sanofi Pharmaceutical Partnership and the American Heart Association Pharmaceutical Roundtable. GWTG-Stroke has been funded in the past through support from Boehringer-Ingelheim and Merck. These funding agencies did not participate in design or analysis, manuscript preparation, or approval of this study.

Breads Fortified with Freeze-Dried Vegetables : Quality and Nutritional Attributes. Part II: Breads Not Containing Oil as an Ingredient

Acknowledgments: Funds for the study were provided by the Scottish Government's Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division and conducted as part of the Scottish Government Strategic Research programme (Diet and Health Theme of the Food Land & People Programme). The authors are grateful to Phillip Morrice, Vivian Buchan, and Donna Henderson for helping with the nutritional analysis of the breads. The authors declare no conflicts of interest.