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Tinker, tailor, policy-maker: can the UK government’s teaching excellence framework deliver its objectives? (2017)
Journal Article
Barkas, L. A., Scott, J. M., Poppitt, N. J., & Smith, P. J. (2019). Tinker, tailor, policy-maker: can the UK government’s teaching excellence framework deliver its objectives?. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 43(6), 801-813. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2017.1408789

The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), originally proposed in the UK government’s Higher Education White Paper, now the Higher Education and Research Act 2017, is a national mechanism to assess teaching quality in universities. This article provide... Read More about Tinker, tailor, policy-maker: can the UK government’s teaching excellence framework deliver its objectives?.

A user's guide to coping with estuarine management bureaucracy: An Estuarine Planning Support System (EPSS) tool (2017)
Journal Article
Lonsdale, J., Nicholson, R., Weston, K., Elliott, M., Birchenough, A., & Sühring, R. (2018). A user's guide to coping with estuarine management bureaucracy: An Estuarine Planning Support System (EPSS) tool. Marine pollution bulletin, 127, 463-477. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.12.032

© 2017 Estuaries are amongst the most socio-economically and ecologically important environments however, due to competing and conflicting demands, management is often challenging with a complex legislative framework managed by multiple agencies. To... Read More about A user's guide to coping with estuarine management bureaucracy: An Estuarine Planning Support System (EPSS) tool.

Viscoelastically prestressed polymeric matrix composites – Effects of temperature on Charpy impact behaviour (2017)
Journal Article
Qin, Y., & Fancey, K. S. (2018). Viscoelastically prestressed polymeric matrix composites – Effects of temperature on Charpy impact behaviour. Composites. Part B, Engineering, 141, 265-270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2017.12.036

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd By applying tensile creep to polymeric fibres, a viscoelastically prestressed polymeric matrix composite (VPPMC) can be produced by removing the creep load before the fibres are moulded into a resin matrix. The viscoelastically st... Read More about Viscoelastically prestressed polymeric matrix composites – Effects of temperature on Charpy impact behaviour.

Climate change, the green economy and reimagining the city: the case of structurally disadvantaged European maritime port cities (2017)
Journal Article
Jonas, A. E. G., Wurzel, R. K., Monaghan, E., & Osthorst, W. (2017). Climate change, the green economy and reimagining the city: the case of structurally disadvantaged European maritime port cities. Die Erde : Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin, 148(4), 197-211. https://doi.org/10.12854/erde-148-49

The concept of the New Environmental Politics of Urban Development (NEPUD) examines the impact of international and national environmental regulation on the politics of urban development. The NEPUD concept emerged from case studies of environmental g... Read More about Climate change, the green economy and reimagining the city: the case of structurally disadvantaged European maritime port cities.

An efficient and intelligent solar charge controller: Design and prototyping (2017)
Journal Article
Akram, I., Awais, M., & Iqbal, J. (2017). An efficient and intelligent solar charge controller: Design and prototyping. University of Wah Journal of Science and Technology, 1(1), 1-7

Demand for alternative energy sources has increased incredibly due to the energy crisis in Pakistan. Photo voltaic system is one of the best solutions to cope with this crisis. Battery is a component of primary... Read More about An efficient and intelligent solar charge controller: Design and prototyping.

Teilhard de Chardin’s oeuvre within an ongoing discussion of a gene drive release for public health reasons (2017)
Journal Article
Čartolovni, A. (2017). Teilhard de Chardin’s oeuvre within an ongoing discussion of a gene drive release for public health reasons. Life Sciences, society and policy, 13, Article 18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40504-017-0064-8

© 2017, The Author(s). Within the domain of public health, vector-borne diseases are among the most vehemently discussed issues. Recent scientific breakthroughs in genome editing technology provided a solution to this issue in the form of a gene driv... Read More about Teilhard de Chardin’s oeuvre within an ongoing discussion of a gene drive release for public health reasons.

Liquidity skewness in the London Stock Exchange (2017)
Journal Article
Hsieh, T. H., Li, Y., McKillop, D. G., & Wu, Y. (2018). Liquidity skewness in the London Stock Exchange. International review of financial analysis, 56, 12-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2017.12.006

We study liquidity on the London Stock Exchange. We find that the average bid-ask spread declines, but that the skewness of the spread increases. These results are robust to firm size, trading volume and price level. Our findings hold when the bid-as... Read More about Liquidity skewness in the London Stock Exchange.

'Thinking of Spain in a flat way:' visiting Spain and Spanish cultural heritage through contemporary Japanese anime (2017)
Journal Article
Hernandez-Perez, M. (2017). 'Thinking of Spain in a flat way:' visiting Spain and Spanish cultural heritage through contemporary Japanese anime. Mutual Images, 3, 43-69

This article contextualizes the representation of Spain and Spanish culture among Japanese cultural producers, particularly through the production of Japanese commercial animation (commonly named anime). Toward that goal, it provides a historical bac... Read More about 'Thinking of Spain in a flat way:' visiting Spain and Spanish cultural heritage through contemporary Japanese anime.

Lipase immobilised on silica monoliths as continuous-flow microreactors for triglyceride transesterification (2017)
Journal Article
Alotaibi, M., Manayil, J. C., Greenway, G. M., Haswell, S. J., Kelly, S. M., Lee, A. F., Wilson, K., & Kyriakou, G. (2017). Lipase immobilised on silica monoliths as continuous-flow microreactors for triglyceride transesterification. Reaction Chemistry and Engineering, 3(1), 68-74. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7re00162b

Lipase immobilised on silica monoliths has been prepared and applied as biocatalytic continuous-flow microreactors for the transesterification of tributyrin as a model bio-oil component. Candida antarctica lipase was trapped within the pores of silic... Read More about Lipase immobilised on silica monoliths as continuous-flow microreactors for triglyceride transesterification.

Depravity, abuse and homoerotic desire in Billy Budd and the 'Prussian officer' (2017)
Journal Article
Jones, B. (in press). Depravity, abuse and homoerotic desire in Billy Budd and the 'Prussian officer'. Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies, 4(2), 47-72

In their resonant and evocative stories – Billy Budd, Sailor and ‘The Prussian Officer’ – Herman Melville and D. H. Lawrence adopt military settings for a personal drama. In both tales, two men come into close and dangerous proximity, resulting ultim... Read More about Depravity, abuse and homoerotic desire in Billy Budd and the 'Prussian officer'.

Identification of survivin as a promising target for the immunotherapy of adult B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (2017)
Journal Article
Boullosa, L. F., Savaliya, P., Bonney, S., Orchard, L., Wickenden, H., Lee, C., Smits, E., Banham, A. H., Mills, K. I., Orchard, K., & Guinn, B. A. (2018). Identification of survivin as a promising target for the immunotherapy of adult B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Oncotarget, 9(3), 3853-3866. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.23380

B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) is a rare heterogeneous disease characterized by a block in lymphoid differentiation and a rapid clonal expansion of immature, non-functioning B cells. Adult B-ALL patients have a poor prognosis with less t... Read More about Identification of survivin as a promising target for the immunotherapy of adult B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Predicting calvarial growth in normal and craniosynostotic mice using a computational approach (2017)
Journal Article
Marghoub, A., Libby, J., Babbs, C., Pauws, E., Fagan, M. J., & Moazen, M. (2018). Predicting calvarial growth in normal and craniosynostotic mice using a computational approach. Journal of anatomy, 232(3), 440-448. https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.12764

© 2017 Anatomical Society During postnatal calvarial growth the brain grows gradually and the overlying bones and sutures accommodate that growth until the later juvenile stages. The whole process is coordinated through a complex series of biological... Read More about Predicting calvarial growth in normal and craniosynostotic mice using a computational approach.

Integrating multiple stressors in aquaculture to build the blue growth in a changing sea (2017)
Journal Article
Sarà, G., Mangano, M. C., Johnson, M., & Mazzola, A. (2018). Integrating multiple stressors in aquaculture to build the blue growth in a changing sea. Hydrobiologia, 809(1), 5-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-017-3469-8

Fisheries currently represent the main source of animal protein intake worldwide, although catches of most commercial species are at or beyond maximum sustainable yields. Increasing production would require an excess of exploitation levels and aquacu... Read More about Integrating multiple stressors in aquaculture to build the blue growth in a changing sea.

Scarborough based study on bodies’ affective capacities (2017)
Journal Article
Saxena, G. (2017). Scarborough based study on bodies’ affective capacities. Annals of Tourism Research, 68, 100-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2017.12.002

This paper conceptualises leisure-seekers’ sociality using Deleuze and Guattari’s framework of Body without organs (BwO). Data, collected in Yorkshire’s coastal town of Scarborough, indicate how the ‘beach’ acts both as a magnet and a protective shel... Read More about Scarborough based study on bodies’ affective capacities.

Nursing and surgery: Professionalisation, education and innovation (2017)
Book Chapter
Wall, R., & Hallett, C. E. (2017). Nursing and surgery: Professionalisation, education and innovation. In T. Schlich (Ed.), The Palgrave handbook of the history of surgery (153-174). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95260-1_8

Nurses played an essential role in the major developments in surgery between the mid-nineteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries. This chapter focuses on the Anglo-American world, weaving in original research with a historiographical review. Three str... Read More about Nursing and surgery: Professionalisation, education and innovation.