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Nicholas M. Hobson

University of Toronto, Potential Project
Verified email at utoronto.ca
Cited by 6928

Interventions for enhancing medication adherence

…, N Wilczynski, T Navarro, N Hobson… - Cochrane database …, 2014 - cochranelibrary.com
Background People who are prescribed self administered medications typically take only
about half their prescribed doses. Efforts to assist patients with adherence to medications …

The psychology of rituals: An integrative review and process-based framework

NM Hobson, J Schroeder, JL Risen… - Personality and …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Traditionally, ritual has been studied from broad sociocultural perspectives, with little
consideration of the psychological processes at play. Recently, however, psychologists have …

Microbial detection

NS Hobson, I Tothill, APF Turner - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 1996 - Elsevier
There is a widespread need for commercial instrumentation for the rapid and inexpensive
detection of microbial contamination of food, industrial waste water and clinical samples. A …

Irritable bowel syndrome: relationship of disorders in the transit of a single solid meal to symptom patterns.

PA Cann, NW Read, C Brown, N Hobson… - Gut, 1983 - gut.bmj.com
The time taken for a solid meal to pass through the stomach, small intestine, and colon was
measured in 61 patients with irritable bowel syndrome, subdivided according to their …

The genome of flax (Linum usitatissimum) assembled de novo from short shotgun sequence reads

Z Wang, N Hobson, L Galindo, S Zhu, D Shi… - The Plant …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Flax (Linum usitatissimum) is an ancient crop that is widely cultivated as a source of fiber, oil
and medicinally relevant compounds. To accelerate crop improvement, we performed whole …

Endothelial TLR4 and the microbiome drive cerebral cavernous malformations

…, JP Choi, JJ Kotzin, Y Yang, CC Hong, N Hobson… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs) are a cause of stroke and seizure for which no
effective medical therapies yet exist. CCMs arise from the loss of an adaptor complex that …

PIK3CA and CCM mutations fuel cavernomas through a cancer-like mechanism

…, CC Hong, M Castro, AT Tang, MR Detter, N Hobson… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Vascular malformations are thought to be monogenic disorders that result in dysregulated
growth of blood vessels. In the brain, cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs) arise owing …

Development of cellulosic secondary walls in flax fibers requires β-galactosidase

…, A Badhan, AV Snegireva, N Hobson… - Plant …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Bast (phloem) fibers, tension wood fibers, and other cells with gelatinous-type secondary
walls are rich in crystalline cellulose. In developing bast fibers of flax (Linum usitatissimum) …

Evaluation of a radial basis function neural network for the determination of wheat quality from electronic nose data

…, AS McNeish, RW Sneath, N Hobson… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2000 - Elsevier
Odorous contaminants in wheat have been detected using a conducting polymer array. A
radial basis function artificial neural network (RBFann) was used to correlate sensor array …

Interventions for enhancing adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART): a systematic review of high quality studies

…, B Sivaramalingam, T Navarro, N Hobson… - AIDS patient care and …, 2015 - liebertpub.com
We sought to review the effectiveness of interventions designed to improve adherence to
antiretroviral therapy (ART) from studies included in a recent Cochrane review that reported …