A review of postoperative pain management and the challenges

A Taylor, L Stanbury - Current Anaesthesia & Critical Care, 2009 - Elsevier
Inadequate postoperative pain management is an international problem and the need to
improve its management is well documented. This review outlines some of the commonly …

Domestic animals' fear of humans and its effect on their welfare

J Rushen, AA Taylor, AM De Passillé - Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 1999 - Elsevier
Many studies on pigs, poultry, and dairy cattle have shown that rough or aversive handling
of farm animals by people can substantially reduce the animals' productivity and welfare …

Impulse control of Brownian motion

JM Harrison, TM Sellke… - Mathematics of Operations …, 1983 - pubsonline.informs.org
Consider a storage system, such as an inventory or cash fund, whose content fluctuates as a
(μ, σ2) Brownian motion in the absence of control. Holding costs are continuously incurred at …

Vocal responses of piglets to castration: identifying procedural sources of pain

AA Taylor, DM Weary - Applied animal behaviour science, 2000 - Elsevier
The aims of this study were to identify which aspects of castration are painful to piglets, and
to determine if less painful methods are available. Previous work has shown that piglets …

Behavioural responses of piglets to castration: the effect of piglet age

AA Taylor, DM Weary, M Lessard… - Applied Animal Behaviour …, 2001 - Elsevier
It has long been assumed that neonatal animals are less sensitive than older animals to
pain, and this reasoning has been used to recommend that routine surgical procedures be …

Predictors of poor outcomes among patients treated for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis at DOTS-plus projects

EV Kurbatova, A Taylor, VM Gammino, J Bayona… - Tuberculosis, 2012 - Elsevier
The Objective of this analysis was to identify predictors of death, failure, and default among
MDR-TB patients treated with second-line drugs in DOTS-plus projects in Estonia, Latvia …

Multicenter evaluation of the tolerability of combined treatment with PD-1 and CTLA-4 immune checkpoint inhibitors and palliative radiation therapy

A Bang, TJ Wilhite, LRG Pike, DN Cagney… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Purpose To analyze immune-related adverse events (ir-AEs) in patients treated with
radiation and immune checkpoint blockade. Methods and Materials We retrospectively …

Extensive drug resistance acquired during treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

JP Cegielski, T Dalton, M Yagui… - Clinical Infectious …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Background. Increasing access to drugs for the treatment of multidrug-resistant (MDR)
tuberculosis is crucial but could lead to increasing resistance to these same drugs. In 2000 …

The impact of radiation therapy on lymphocyte count and survival in metastatic cancer patients receiving PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitors

LRG Pike, A Bang, BA Mahal, A Taylor… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Purpose Therapeutic radiation has conflicting immune effects: radiation therapy (RT)-
induced immunogenic cell death can contribute to immune response, but lymphocytes are …

Identification of the cyclin D1 gene as a target of activating transcription factor 2 in chondrocytes

F Beier, RJ Lee, AC Taylor… - Proceedings of the …, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
Endochondral bone growth is regulated by the rates of chondrocyte proliferation and
differentiation. However, the intracellular mechanisms regulating these processes are poorly …