Landscape influence on small-scale water temperature variations in a moorland catchment

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The Contribution of Agriculture, Forestry and other Land Use activities to Global Warming, 1990-2012

Date of Acceptance: 16/12/2014 Acknowledgements: This work was carried out with generous funding by the Governments of Germany (GCP/GLO/286/GER) and Norway (GCP/GLO/325/NOR) to the ‘Monitoring and Assessment of GHG Emissions and Mitigation Potential from Agriculture’ Project of the FAO Climate, Energy and Tenure Division. P. Smith is a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award holder, and his input contributes to the University of Aberdeen Environment and Food Security Theme and to Scotland's ClimateXChange. J. House was funded by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. The FAO Statistics Division maintains the FAOSTAT Emissions database with regular program funds allocated through Strategic Objective 6. © 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Long term resilience decline in plant ecosystems across the Danian Dan-C2 hyperthermal event, Boltysh crater, Ukraine

Acknowledgements and Funding The authors are extremely grateful for the receipt of NERC award NE/ D005043/1, which funded the initial Boltysh impact crater study. R. Spicer and J. Leake are thanked for interesting discussions. C. Wellman, W. Gosling and M. Donovan are thanked for constructively critical reviews of the paper. Scientific editing by Quentin Crowley

A systematic review of the cost-effectiveness of non-surgical obesity interventions in men

Crown Copyright © 2015. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Identification of the salmonid IL-17A/F1a/b, IL-17A/F2b, IL-17A/F3 and IL-17N genes and analysis of their expression following in vitro stimulation and infection

Date of Acceptance: 15/04/2015

Influence of rurality, deprivation and distance from clinic on uptake in men invited for abdominal aortic aneurysm screening

Acknowledgements This study received no specific funding. The study involved the analysis of data collected routinely as part of the national AAA screening programme in Scotland.

Genetic and Metabolic Determinants of Human Epigenetic Variation

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Somatostatin agonist pasireotide promotes a physiological state resembling short-day acclimatization in the photoperiodic male Siberian hamster (Phodopus sungorus)

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New lower bounds for the topological complexity of aspherical spaces

Date of Acceptance: 5/04/2015 15 pages, 4 figures

Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) parr as a model to predict the optimum inclusion of air classified faba bean protein concentrate in feeds for seawater salmon

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Is the present the key to the past? : A global characterization of modern sedimentary basins

Date of Acceptance: 06/05/2015 We thank the FORCE Consortium for funding this research, Rob Butler and Walter Wheeler for quality control on the global basin classification, and David MacDonald for reviewing an earlier draft of this manuscript. We also thank Gary Weissmann, Andrew Miall, Raymond Ingersoll, John Holbrook, Stephen Flint, and editor Ellen Thomas for their constructive reviews.

Recombinant interleukin-1β dilates steelhead trout coronary microvessels : effect of temperature and role of the endothelium, nitric oxide and prostaglandins

© 2015. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd. Acknowledgements We thank Wenjuan Xu and Xin Xu (Hein Lab) for their excellent instruction in microvessel techniques, Dr David Heeley (Biochemistry Department, MUN) for assistance with selecting an appropriate (non-vasoactive) protein stabilizer, Dr Zou (SFIRC, Aberdeen) for advice with regards to the use of rIL-1β and Gordon Nash (Gamperl Lab) for his assistance with the rIL-1β purification protocol. Funding This research was supported by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant [RGPIN249926] and Accelerator Supplement [RGPAS412325-2011] to A.K.G. a National Institutes of Health Grant [EY018420] to T.W.H., and a doctoral fellowship from Fundaçã o para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal [SFRH/BD/27497/2006] to I.A.S.F.C. Deposited in PMC for release after 12 months.

Derivation and Validation of a Novel Prognostic Scale (Modified–Stroke Subtype, Oxfordshire Community Stroke Project Classification, Age, and Prestroke Modified Rankin) to Predict Early Mortality in Acute Stroke

© 2015 American Heart Association, Inc.

Host-Imposed Copper Poisoning Impacts Fungal Micronutrient Acquisition during Systemic Candida albicans Infections

This work was supported by the European Research Council (http://erc.europa.eu/: STRIFE Advanced Grant ERC-2009-AdG-249793). A.J.P.B. was also supported by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Research Council (www.bbsrc.ac.uk: Research Grants BB/F00513X/1, BB/K017365/1), the UK Medical Research Council (www.mrc.ac.uk: Programme Grant MR/M026663/1; Centre Grant MR/ N006364/1), and the Wellcome Trust (www.wellcome.ac.uk: Strategic Award 097377)

GRADE Evidence to Decision (EtD) frameworks : a systematic and transparent approach to making well informed healthcare choices. 2: Clinical practice guidelines

Funding: Work on this article has been partially funded by the European Commission FP7 Program (grant agreement 258583) as part of the DECIDE project. Sole responsibility lies with the authors; the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.