Laurence W. Knowles

ORCID: 0000-0003-2316-4676
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Research Areas
  • Legal Issues in Education
  • Legal Systems and Judicial Processes
  • Law, Rights, and Freedoms
  • Legal Education and Practice Innovations
  • Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases
  • Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis
  • Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning
  • Innovative Teaching Methods
  • Academic Freedom and Politics
  • Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling
  • Diverse Education Studies and Reforms
  • American Constitutional Law and Politics
  • Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Education Discipline and Inequality
  • Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders

University of Exeter
2021-2024

Health & Life (Taiwan)
2024

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
2020

Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
2000

There is scant information on tuberculosis symptoms from a population-based perspective. We prospectively identified 526 cases reported in Los Angeles County over 6-month period. Of 313 persons who completed our questionnaire, 72.7% had cough, 48.2% for >2 weeks, and 52.3% fever, 29.4% weeks. Among those with pulmonary disease, only 52.4% cough In multivariate model, significant typical of disease (defined as or fever weight loss, hemoptysis) were associated lack medical insurance, negative...

10.1086/313651 article EN Clinical Infectious Diseases 2000-02-01

Myelin, once thought of as a simple insulating sheath, is now known to be complex, dynamic structure. It has multiple functions in addition increasing conduction velocity, including reducing the energetic cost action potentials, saving space, and metabolic functions. Myelin also notable for likely having arisen independently at least three times over course evolutionary history. This article reviews available evidence about evolution myelin proposes hypothesis how it arose vertebrates. then...

10.4303/jem/235996 article EN Journal of Evolutionary Medicine 2017-01-01

Aims For most of us, visual imagery is a fundamental feature day-to-day subjective experience. It thought to play multiple cognitive roles. 1 However, there widespread variation in the intensity imagery, ranging from extreme vividness complete absence. The term aphantasia was coined recently describe latter, which usually lifelong. While rarer, cases acquired can provide mechanistic insight. Isolated have long been reported, 2 with some attempts at theoretical synthesis. 3 4 We give...

10.1136/jnnp-2021-bnpa.17 article EN Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 2021-07-16

<h3>Introduction</h3> End of life care (EOLC) refers to given patients who are likely be within their last year life. Death related advanced chronic liver disease (ACLD) is often heralded by a prolonged decline. Clinical encounters therefore represent key opportunities for planning (ACP) and optimised EOLC in this cohort, supported specialist palliative services (SPCS). However, the limitations current provision increasingly recognised. We reviewed practice across South West England identify...

10.1136/gutjnl-2022-basl.79 article EN Abstracts 2022-09-01
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