Unified underpinning of human mobility in the real world and cyberspace

Acknowledgments This work is supported by National Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61573064, 61074116 and 11547188), the Youth Scholars Program of Beijing Normal University (grant No. 2014NT38), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities Beijing Nova Programme, China. XYY acknowledges the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61304177) and the Fundamental Research Funds of BJTU (Grant No. 2015RC042).

Leading birds by their beaks : the response of flocks to external perturbations

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Coupled transport in rotor models

Acknowledgement One of us (AP) wishes to acknowledge S. Flach for enlightening discussions about the relationship between the DNLS equation and the rotor model.

A minimal model of partial synchrony

We wish to acknowledge A Pikovsky and M Zaks for useful discussions. This work has been financially supported by the EU project COSMOS (642563).

Activation of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor by a component of cigarette smoke reduces germ cell proliferation in the human fetal ovary

This work was funded by the Medical ResearchCouncil (G1100357).We are grateful to Anne Saunderson, Joan Creiger and the staff of the Bruntsfield Suite, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, for their considerable assistance in patient recruitment. Funding to pay the Open Access publication charges for this article was provided by MRC grant G1100357.

Underuse of beta-blockers in heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Acknowledgments The data in this article have been partly presented in preliminary abstract form as a poster at the winter meeting of the British Thoracic Society, London, 2 December 2015 (10.1136/thoraxjnl-2015-207770.161).

Prevalence of chronic pain in the UK : a systematic review and meta-analysis of population studies

Acknowledgements The authors are grateful for the input of Professor Blair Smith (University of Dundee): his counsel early in the project, and his advice and comments regarding the search strategy; and Professor Danielle van der Windt (Keele University) for helpful advice and comments. Funding The British Pain Society provided financial assistance to AF with the costs of this project. PC was partly supported by an Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre grant (reference: 18139).

Simultaneous optimisation of structural topology and material grading using level set method

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Designing for Safety : Implications of a Fifteen Year Review of Swallowed and Aspirated Dentures

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A reductionist approach to model photosynthetic self-regulation in eukaryotes in response to light

© 2015 Authors; published by Portland Press Limited. This work was supported by the Marie Curie Initial Training Network AccliPhot financed by the European Union [grant number PITN-GA-2012-316427 (to A.M. and O.E.)]; and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences, CEPLAS (EXC 1028) (to O.E.)].

Body composition and basal metabolic rate in pre-school children : no sex difference

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Patterns of weight change after the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes in Scotland and their relationship with glycaemic control, mortality and cardiovascular outcomes: a retrospective cohort study

Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the Scottish Diabetes Research Network Epidemiology Group for granting permission to use this database. They also thank the data management team in the University of Aberdeen who were the initial conduit for access to these data and also provided validation to the various data cleaning criteria applied. Jeremy J Walker, University of Edinburgh, was invaluable for the original funding application and initial exploration of data. HSRU is funded by the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates. Funding Chief Scientist Office (CSO) reference number: CZG/2/571.