Making the governance of public bodies work : chair-chief executive relationships in practice

The authors gratefully acknowledge a grant from the British Academy (SG10591) and an award from the University of Aberdeen Knowledge Exchange and Transfer Fund.

Investing in Peace : Foreign Direct Investment as Economic Restoration in Sierra Leone?

Peer reviewed

Urinary incontinence persisting after childbirth : extent, delivery history, and effects in a 12-year longitudinal cohort study

© 2015 Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Funded by •Wellbeing of Women/Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists •Health Research Council of New Zealand

Seafood inclusion in commercial main meal early years' food products

Acknowledgement We are grateful to the food manufacturers for answering queries and supplying missing nutritional information. Source of funding The study was funded by the Seafish and Interface Food and Drink as part of a Doctorate Scholarship undertaken at the University of Aberdeen. © 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Tensions beneath the surface : The Swedish mainstream parties and the immigration issue

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Is Scotland a Westminster-style Majoritarian Democracy or a Scandinavian-style Consensus Democracy? A Comparison of Scotland, the UK and Sweden

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Motor complications in an incident Parkinson’s disease cohort

Funded by •Parkinson's UK •Scottish Chief Scientist Office •BMA Doris Hillier Award •RS Macdonald Trust •BUPA Foundation •NHS Grampian Endowments •SPRING •National Institute of Health Research, and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

On string topology of classifying spaces

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Looking to the future : Predicting renal replacement outcomes in a large community cohort with chronic kidney disease

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Costs and effects of new professional roles : Evidence from a literature review

“The authors wish to thank the European Commission for funding this research programme ‘Health Care Reform: The iMpact on practice, oUtcomes and cost of New ROles for health profeSsionals (MUNROS), under the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7 HEALTH-2012-INNOVATION-1) grant agreement number HEALTH-F3-2012-305467EC. The authors also wish to thank all those who supported and guided this work both within the MUNROS research project team and as external associates. In particular we would like to thank Mathijs Kelder for his valuable contribution in the review process. The authors also wish to thank all the MUNROS research and project partners for their continuing collaboration in this research”.

Life history of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in Scottish (UK) waters

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L’esprit, le cœur et les bras’ : Rethinking Art as Labour in George Sand

Date of Acceptance: 13/04/2015

A framework for reliability assessment of ship hull damage under ship bow impact

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“Back to the future?” Cuban–Russian relations under Raúl Castro

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A key role for PTP1B in dendritic cell maturation, migration and T cell activation

Acknowledgements We thank the Iain Fraser Flow Cytometry Centre and the Medical Research Facility of the University of Aberdeen. We are grateful to Drs West, Zaru, and Davidson (University of Dundee) for the scientific discussion and technical assistance. Wethank Derek Mitchell (University of Dundee) for aiding with the quantification of focal contacts. Funding This work was supported by Saving Sight in Grampian and the Development Trust of the UoA (both to J.V.F.). Work on this project was partly funded by project grants from British Heart Foundation and European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes/Lilly diabetes programme grant (to M.D.).