Defining and setting national goals for cardiovascular health promotion and disease reduction: the American Heart Association's strategic Impact Goal through 2020 …

…, PM Ho, MS Lauer, FA Masoudi, RM Robertson… - Circulation, 2010 - Am Heart Assoc
This document details the procedures and recommendations of the Goals and Metrics
Committee of the Strategic Planning Task Force of the American Heart Association, which …

[HTML][HTML] Chronic oxidative stress as a central mechanism for glucose toxicity in pancreatic islet beta cells in diabetes

RP Robertson - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2004 - ASBMB
Glucose in chronic excess causes toxic effects on structure and function of organs, including
the pancreatic islet. Multiple biochemical pathways and mechanisms of action for glucose …

Minireview: secondary β-cell failure in type 2 diabetes—a convergence of glucotoxicity and lipotoxicity

V Poitout, RP Robertson - Endocrinology, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Chronic hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia can exert deleterious effects on β-cell function,
respectively referred to as glucotoxicity and lipotoxicity. Over time, both contribute to the …

Direct evidence for neutrino flavor transformation from neutral-current interactions in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

…, A Roberge, BC Robertson, RGH Robertson… - Physical review …, 2002 - APS
Observations of neutral-current ν interactions on deuterium in the Sudbury Neutrino
Observatory are reported. Using the neutral current (NC), elastic scattering, and charged current …

Measurement of day and night neutrino energy spectra at SNO and constraints on neutrino mixing parameters

…, A Roberge, BC Robertson, RGH Robertson… - Physical Review Letters, 2002 - APS
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) has measured day and night solar neutrino energy
spectra and rates. For charged current events, assuming an undistorted 8 B spectrum, the …

[HTML][HTML] International trial of the Edmonton protocol for islet transplantation

…, R Lindblad, RP Robertson… - … England Journal of …, 2006 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Islet transplantation offers the potential to improve glycemic control in a subgroup
of patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus who are disabled by refractory hypoglycemia. We …

Glocalization: Time-space and homogeneity-heterogeneity

R Robertson - Global modernities, 1995 - books.google.com
… sites of the interpenetration of particularism and universalism (Robertson, 1992b). …
construction or reconstruction of tradition is closely tied to globalization (Robertson, 1992b: 146-63). …

Measurement of the Total Active Solar Neutrino Flux at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory with Enhanced Neutral Current Sensitivity

…, AWP Poon, BC Robertson, RGH Robertson… - Physical review …, 2004 - APS
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory has precisely determined the total active (ν x) B 8 solar
neutrino flux without assumptions about the energy dependence of the ν e survival probability…

[BOOK][B] Climate change: Impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation

GC Nelson, MW Rosegrant, J Koo, R Robertson… - 2009 - books.google.com
… Rosegrant is the division director, Jawoo Koo is a research fellow, Richard Robertson is a
research fellow, Timothy Sulser is a scientist, Tingju Zhu is a senior scientist, Claudia Ringler …

Glucose toxicity in β-cells: type 2 diabetes, good radicals gone bad, and the glutathione connection

RP Robertson, J Harmon, PO Tran, Y Tanaka… - Diabetes, 2003 - Am Diabetes Assoc
Chronic exposure to hyperglycemia can lead to cellular dysfunction that may become
irreversible over time, a process that is termed glucose toxicity. Our perspective about glucose …