Medical jargon during pregnancy and birth: does this
affect the birth experience? | Madeleine Shackelton
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Throughout the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal
periods, women and their partners learn a great
deal about pregnancy, birth and the female body.
Midwives encourage women to read up on different
topics to enable the women to make choices about
their own care. Although women are understanding
more about this period in their lives, they often have
many questions. Healthcare professionals are still
using medical language when discussing women’s
cases and often are not explaining this to the
women. Communication plays such an important role
throughout this highly emotional time but is the use
of medical jargon affecting women’s experience of
birth?
The pre-eruptive magma plumbing system of the
Lower Pollara eruption, Salina, Aeolian Islands | Jade
Shannon
The Pollara deposits are found on the island of
Salina, located in the Aeolian archipelago, north of
Sicily. Petrographical and bulk rock geochemical data
from the juvenile components of the proximal Lower
Pollara succession has been obtained, spanning
the entire stratigraphic sequence of the eruption.
This data will be used in conjunction with new
petrographical information on the magmatic cumulate
rocks and crustal xenoliths in the succession to
provide new insights on the pre-eruptive magmatic
processes and the magma plumbing system of one of
the most powerful eruptions in the geological history
of Salina.
Clinical Indicator of Infection, Human C-Reactive
Protein (hCRP), and It’s Role in Immune System;
A Structural Bioinformatics Study on Binding
Interactions of hCRP | Soner Tehelcioglu
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Human C - Reactive Protein (hCRP) is a protein that
is synthesised in the liver in response to infection
and inflammation. Clinically it is used as an indicator
of infection and it is thought to be a predictor of
cardiovascular diseases. Structurally, hCRP is made
up of 5 sub units and it is known to have binding
interactions with Calcium, C-Polysaccharide and C1q
of innate immune system. Bioinformatic investigation
of hCRP focused on these binding interactions of
hCRP through its amino acid sequence in order to
gain a better structural understanding of the protein
and its role in human body. The study was carried out
alongside the independent undergraduate research
project of Natural Sciences course which involved
crystallisation of hCRP for further crystallography
studies.
Using Flinder's sensitive line rats as a model for
human depression | Imaan Waqar
The Flinder's sensitive line rats are studied to find
out if they can be competent models of depression in
humans. Two behavioural tests are used with control
rats and FSL rats to test this, . the Double-H maze
and a forced swim task. The results show that the
FSL rat displays similar behaviour to that of a human
with depression and can be subject to experiment to
produce significant data.
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