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Wendy O Baird

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Carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon‐DNA adducts and mechanism of action

WM Baird, LA Hooven… - Environmental and …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a class of widespread environmental
carcinogens. Most of our knowledge of their mechanisms of metabolic activation to DNA …

Natural products as a source of potential cancer chemotherapeutic and chemopreventive agents

JM Cassady, WM Baird, CJ Chang - Journal of natural products, 1990 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in the chemistry of novel bioactive natural products are re-ported. This
research is directed to the exploration of plants with confirmed activity in bioassays designed …

Public involvement at the design stage of primary health research: a narrative review of case examples

J Boote, W Baird, C Beecroft - Health policy, 2010 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To review published examples of public involvement in research design, to
synthesise the contributions made by members of the public, as well as the identified …

Interestingness—A neglected variable in discourse processing

S Hidi, W Baird - Cognitive science, 1986 - Elsevier
Symptomatic of a contemporary concern with affective factors in cognitive processing, a
corpus of research is now emerging on the role of interestingness in discourse processing …

Strategies for increasing text-based interest and students' recall of expository texts

S Hidi, W Baird - Reading research quarterly, 1988 - JSTOR
RECENT RESEARCH has indicated that how interesting a text is will affect students'
cognitive performance. This kind of" interestingness," or text-based interest, was the focus of …

Characterization of microsatellite markers in peach [Prunus persica (L.) Batsch]

B Sosinski, M Gannavarapu, LD Hager, LE Beck… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2000 - Springer
Microsatellites have emerged as an important system of molecular markers. We evaluated
the potential of microsatellites for use in genetic studies of peach [Prunus persica (L.) …

[BOOK][B] The natural history of the British Entomostraca

W Baird - 1850 - books.google.com
In the following pages I have adopted in great part the general arrangement of M. Milne
Edwards, and have adhered almost exclusively to the terminology used by him in his classic …

Selective ring opening of naphthenic molecules

GB McVicker, M Daage, MS Touvelle, CW Hudson… - Journal of …, 2002 - Elsevier
Ring opening as practiced in hydrocracking of naphthenic molecules results from multiple
cleavages of both endo-and exocyclic C–C bonds. Selective ring opening requires that only …

[HTML][HTML] Mosaic RAS/MAPK variants cause sporadic vascular malformations which respond to targeted therapy

…, R Knox, A Pittman, G Clark, W Baird… - The Journal of …, 2018 - Am Soc Clin Investig
BACKGROUND. Sporadic vascular malformations (VMs) are complex congenital anomalies
of blood vessels that lead to stroke, life-threatening bleeds, disfigurement, overgrowth …

Zero-reflectivity high spatial-frequency rectangular-groove dielectric surface-relief gratings

TK Gaylord, WE Baird, MG Moharam - Applied optics, 1986 - opg.optica.org
Using rigorous coupled-wave analysis, high spatial-frequency rectangular-groove surface-
relief phase gratings are shown to be capable of exhibiting zero reflectivity. Thus these …