Sex differences in listening vocabulary

JP Boyle - Language learning, 1987 - Wiley Online Library
Not enough attention has been paid in the past to the variable of sex differences in language‐learning
research. This may be because it is taken as proven that girls are superior to boys …

Factors affecting listening comprehension

JP Boyle - ELT journal, 1984 - academic.oup.com
Any study of listening comprehension must take into account the factors involved. This Hong
Kong study began with a survey of the factors most frequently mentioned in the literature on …

[HTML][HTML] Pathogen sensing by nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-containing protein 2 (NOD2) is mediated by direct binding to muramyl dipeptide and ATP

J Mo, JP Boyle, CB Howard, TP Monie, BK Davis… - Journal of Biological …, 2012 - ASBMB
Nucleotide binding and oligomerization domain-containing protein 2 (NOD2/Card15) is an
intracellular protein that is involved in the recognition of bacterial cell wall-derived muramyl …

Insights into the molecular basis of the NOD2 signalling pathway

JP Boyle, R Parkhouse, TP Monie - Open biology, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The cytosolic pattern recognition receptor NOD2 is activated by the peptidoglycan fragment
muramyl dipeptide to generate a proinflammatory immune response. Downstream effects …

Guide to bone health and disease in cystic fibrosis

…, CS Haworth, MF Holick, PM Joseph… - The Journal of …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most common genetic disease within the Caucasian population and
leads to premature respiratory failure. Approximately 60,000 individuals are currently living …

International union of basic and clinical pharmacology. XCVI. Pattern recognition receptors in health and disease

…, S Orr, B Ferguson, MF Symmons, JP Boyle… - Pharmacological …, 2015 - ASPET
Since the discovery of Toll, in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, as the first described
pattern recognition receptor (PRR) in 1996, many families of these receptors have been …

[PDF][PDF] Evolutionary loss of inflammasomes in the Carnivora and implications for the carriage of zoonotic infections

Z Digby, P Tourlomousis, J Rooney, JP Boyle… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Zoonotic pathogens, such as COVID-19, reside in animal hosts before jumping species to
infect humans. The Carnivora, like mink, carry many zoonoses, yet how diversity in host …

[HTML][HTML] Blau syndrome polymorphisms in NOD2 identify nucleotide hydrolysis and helical domain 1 as signalling regulators

R Parkhouse, JP Boyle, TP Monie - FEBS letters, 2014 - Elsevier
Understanding how single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) lead to disease at a molecular
level provides a starting point for improved therapeutic intervention. SNPs in the innate …

The effect of accent differences on comprehension

C Ortmeyer, JP Boyle - RELC Journal, 1985 - journals.sagepub.com
Several research studies, for example Brown (1968), Wilcox (1978), and Ekong (1982), support
the position that the accent which is best understood in ESL/EFL situations is the accent …

Intelligence, reasoning, and language proficiency

JP Boyle - The Modern Language Journal, 1987 - JSTOR
THOUGH LINKS CLEARLY EXIST BETWEEN INTELLI-gence, reasoning, and language
proficiency, the extent and nature of these links is not clear. An opinion which has been …