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An intelligent information forwarder for healthcare big data systems with distributed wearable sensors (2014)
Journal Article
Jiang, P., Winkley, J., Zhao, C., Munnoch, R., Min, G., & Yang, L. T. (2016). An intelligent information forwarder for healthcare big data systems with distributed wearable sensors. IEEE systems journal, 10(3), 1147-1159. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSYST.2014.2308324

© 2016 IEEE. An increasing number of the elderly population wish to live an independent lifestyle, rather than rely on intrusive care programmes. A big data solution is presented using wearable sensors capable of carrying out continuous monitoring of... Read More about An intelligent information forwarder for healthcare big data systems with distributed wearable sensors.

Amplification of bacteria-induced platelet activation is triggered by FcγRIIA, integrin αiIbβ3, and platelet factor 4 (2014)
Journal Article
Arman, M., Krauel, K., Tilley, D. O., Weber, C., Cox, D., Greinacher, A., Kerrigan, S. W., & Watson, S. P. (2014). Amplification of bacteria-induced platelet activation is triggered by FcγRIIA, integrin αiIbβ3, and platelet factor 4. Blood, 123(20), 3166-3174. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2013-11-540526

Bacterial adhesion to platelets is mediated via a range of strain-specific bacterial surface proteins that bind to a variety of platelet receptors. It is unclear how these interactions lead to platelet activation. We demonstrate a critical role for t... Read More about Amplification of bacteria-induced platelet activation is triggered by FcγRIIA, integrin αiIbβ3, and platelet factor 4.

MST1 is a key regulator of beta cell apoptosis and dysfunction in diabetes (2014)
Journal Article
Ardestani, A., Paroni, F., Azizi, Z., Kaur, S., Khobragade, V., Yuan, T., Frogne, T., Tao, W., Oberholzer, J., Pattou, F., Kerr Conte, J., & Maedler, K. (2014). MST1 is a key regulator of beta cell apoptosis and dysfunction in diabetes. Nature Medicine, 20(4), 385-397. https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.3482

Apoptotic cell death is a hallmark of the loss of insulin-producing beta cells in all forms of diabetes mellitus. Current treatments fail to halt the decline in functional beta cell mass, and strategies to prevent beta cell apoptosis and dysfunction... Read More about MST1 is a key regulator of beta cell apoptosis and dysfunction in diabetes.

Learning To Teach (2014)
Book
Glazzard, J., Denby, N., & Price, J. (2014). Learning To Teach. Open University Press

Estimating liquidity risk using the exposure-based cash-flow-at-risk approach: an application to the UK banking sector (2014)
Journal Article
Yan, M., Hall, M. J., & Turner, P. (2014). Estimating liquidity risk using the exposure-based cash-flow-at-risk approach: an application to the UK banking sector. International journal of finance & economics : IJFE, 19(3), 225-238. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.1495

This paper uses a relatively new quantitative model for estimating UK banks' liquidity risk. The model is called the exposure-based cash-flow-at-risk (CFaR) model, which not only measures a bank's liquidity risk tolerance but also helps to improve li... Read More about Estimating liquidity risk using the exposure-based cash-flow-at-risk approach: an application to the UK banking sector.

Collingwood's logic of question and answer against the relativization of reason (2014)
Book Chapter
Fear, C. (2014). Collingwood's logic of question and answer against the relativization of reason. In A. Skodo (Ed.), Other logics: alternatives to formal logic in the history of thought and contemporary philosophy (81-100). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004270183_007

Low temperature plasma: a novel focal therapy for localized prostate cancer? (2014)
Journal Article
Hirst, A. M., Frame, F. M., Maitland, N. J., & O’Connell, D. (2014). Low temperature plasma: a novel focal therapy for localized prostate cancer?. Biomed research international, 2014, Article 878319. https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/878319

Despite considerable advances in recent years for the focal treatment of localized prostate cancer, high recurrence rates and detrimental side effects are still a cause for concern. In this review, we compare current focal therapies to a potentially... Read More about Low temperature plasma: a novel focal therapy for localized prostate cancer?.

What factors underlie children's susceptibility to semantic and phonological false memories? Investigating the roles of language skills and auditory short-term memory (2014)
Journal Article
McGeown, S. P., Gray, E. A., Robinson, J. L., & Dewhurst, S. A. (2014). What factors underlie children's susceptibility to semantic and phonological false memories? Investigating the roles of language skills and auditory short-term memory. Cognition, 131(3), 323-329. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.02.005

Two experiments investigated the cognitive skills that underlie children's susceptibility to semantic and phonological false memories in the Deese/Roediger-McDermott procedure (Deese, 1959; Roediger & McDermott, 1995). In Experiment 1, performance... Read More about What factors underlie children's susceptibility to semantic and phonological false memories? Investigating the roles of language skills and auditory short-term memory.

The fuel cell model of abiogenesis: A new approach to origin-of-life simulations (2014)
Journal Article
Barge, L. M., Kee, T. P., Doloboff, I. J., Hampton, J. M., Ismail, M., Pourkashanian, M., Zeytounian, J., Baum, M. M., Moss, J. A., Lin, C. K., Kidd, R. D., & Kanik, I. (2014). The fuel cell model of abiogenesis: A new approach to origin-of-life simulations. Astrobiology, 14(3), 254-270. https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2014.1140

In this paper, we discuss how prebiotic geo-electrochemical systems can be modeled as a fuel cell and how laboratory simulations of the origin of life in general can benefit from this systems-led approach. As a specific example, the components of wha... Read More about The fuel cell model of abiogenesis: A new approach to origin-of-life simulations.

Electrical stimulation vs. standard care for chronic ulcer healing: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (2014)
Journal Article
Barnes, R., Shahin, Y., Gohil, R., & Chetter, I. (2014). Electrical stimulation vs. standard care for chronic ulcer healing: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. European Journal of Clinical Investigation, 44(4), 429-440. https://doi.org/10.1111/eci.12244

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We conducted a systematic review to investigate the effect of electrical stimulation on ulcer healing compared to usual treatment and/or sham stimulation. This systematic review also aimed to investigate the effect of different types of... Read More about Electrical stimulation vs. standard care for chronic ulcer healing: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

Selective ethylene trimerization by titanium complexes bearing phenoxy-imine ligands: NMR and EPR Spectroscopic studies of the reaction intermediates (2014)
Journal Article
Soshnikov, I. E., Semikolenova, N. V., Ma, J., Zhao, K.-Q., Zakharov, V. A., Bryliakov, K. P., Redshaw, C., & Talsi, E. P. (2014). Selective ethylene trimerization by titanium complexes bearing phenoxy-imine ligands: NMR and EPR Spectroscopic studies of the reaction intermediates. Organometallics, 33(6), 1431-1439. https://doi.org/10.1021/om500017r

The catalyst systems (FI)TiCl₃/MAO (FI = phenoxyimine ligand with an additional aryl–O–CH₃ donor) display exceptionally high activity in selective ethylene trimerization. By means of NMR and EPR spectroscopy, the nature of the Ti species formed in th... Read More about Selective ethylene trimerization by titanium complexes bearing phenoxy-imine ligands: NMR and EPR Spectroscopic studies of the reaction intermediates.

Vanadyl complexes bearing bi-dentate phenoxyimine ligands: Synthesis, structural studies and ethylene polymerization capability (2014)
Journal Article
Ma, J., Zhao, K.-Q., Walton, M. J., Wright, J. A., Frese, J. W. A., Elsegood, M. R. J., Xing, Q., Sun, W.-H., & Redshaw, C. (2014). Vanadyl complexes bearing bi-dentate phenoxyimine ligands: Synthesis, structural studies and ethylene polymerization capability. Dalton Transactions : an international journal of inorganic chemistry, 43(22), 8300-8310. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4dt00021h

Reaction of [VO(OnPr)₃] with the Schiff bases 3,5-(tBu)₂-2-OH-C₆H₂CH(N(x-OR-C₆H₄)) (R = Me; x = 2, L¹H; x = 3, L²H; x = 4, L³H; R = Et (L⁴H), CF₃ (L⁵H), Ph (L⁶H)) or 4-methyl-3-(R)-2-(OH)-C₆H₄C=N(2′-(2′′-(OR₁)C₆H₄)C₆H₄) (R = adamantyl, R¹ = Ph (L⁷H)... Read More about Vanadyl complexes bearing bi-dentate phenoxyimine ligands: Synthesis, structural studies and ethylene polymerization capability.

Ising critical exponents on random trees and graphs (2014)
Journal Article
Dommers, S., Giardinà, C., & van der Hofstad, R. (2014). Ising critical exponents on random trees and graphs. Communications in mathematical physics, 328(1), 355-395. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-014-1992-2

We study the critical behavior of the ferromagnetic Ising model on random trees as well as so-called locally tree-like random graphs. We pay special attention to trees and graphs with a power-law offspring or degree distribution whose tail behavior i... Read More about Ising critical exponents on random trees and graphs.

Mental toughness in education: exploring relationships with attainment, attendance, behaviour and peer relationships (2014)
Journal Article
St Clair-Thompson, H., Bugler, M., Robinson, J., Clough, P., McGeown, S. P., & Perry, J. (2015). Mental toughness in education: exploring relationships with attainment, attendance, behaviour and peer relationships. Educational psychology, 35(7), 886-907. https://doi.org/10.1080/01443410.2014.895294

Mental toughness has frequently been associated with successful performance in sport; however, recent research suggests that it may also be related to academic performance in Higher Education. In a series of three exploratory studies, we examined the... Read More about Mental toughness in education: exploring relationships with attainment, attendance, behaviour and peer relationships.

Microwave-assisted hydrothermal synthesis of carbon monolith via a soft-template method using resorcinol and formaldehyde as carbon precursor and pluronic F127 as template (2014)
Journal Article
Elaigwu, S. E., Kyriakou, G., Prior, T. J., & Greenway, G. M. (2014). Microwave-assisted hydrothermal synthesis of carbon monolith via a soft-template method using resorcinol and formaldehyde as carbon precursor and pluronic F127 as template. Materials letters, 123, 198-201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2014.03.003

A new microwave-assisted hydrothermal synthesis of carbon monolith is reported in this work. The process uses microwave heating at 100 °C under acidic condition by employing a triblock copolymer F127 as the template, and resorcinol–formaldehyde as th... Read More about Microwave-assisted hydrothermal synthesis of carbon monolith via a soft-template method using resorcinol and formaldehyde as carbon precursor and pluronic F127 as template.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): testing galaxy formation models through the most massive galaxies in the Universe (2014)
Journal Article
Oliva-Altamirano, P., Brough, S., Lidman, C., Couch, W. J., Hopkins, A. M., Colless, M., Taylor, E., Robotham, A. S. G., Gunawardhana, M. L. P., Ponman, T., Baldry, I., Bauer, A. E., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Cluver, M., Cameron, E., Conselice, C. J., Driver, S., Edge, A. C., Graham, A. W., van Kampen, E., …Sharp, R. G. (2014). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): testing galaxy formation models through the most massive galaxies in the Universe. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 440(1), 762-775. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu277

We have analysed the growth of Brightest Group Galaxies and Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BGGs/BCGs) over the last 3 billion years using a large sample of 883 galaxies from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey. By comparing the stellar mass of BGGs and... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): testing galaxy formation models through the most massive galaxies in the Universe.

The effectiveness of nurture groups: a systematic review (2014)
Journal Article
Schlösser, A., & Hughes, N. K. (2014). The effectiveness of nurture groups: a systematic review. Emotional and behavioural difficulties : the journal of the Association of Workers for Children with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, 19(4), 386-409. https://doi.org/10.1080/13632752.2014.883729

Children with emotional difficulties often experience problems at school in terms of academic progress and within peer relationships. They are also more likely to continue to experience emotional problems in their adult lives. Nurture groups (NGs) we... Read More about The effectiveness of nurture groups: a systematic review.

Surveillance, capital and resistance: theorizing the surveillance subject (2014)
Book
McCahill, M., & Finn, R. L. (2014). Surveillance, capital and resistance: theorizing the surveillance subject. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203069974

Surveillance, Capital and Resistance is a major contribution to current debates on the subjective experience of surveillance. Based on a large research project undertaken in a Northern City in the UK and focusing mainly on the use of surveillance in... Read More about Surveillance, capital and resistance: theorizing the surveillance subject.

Inequality and violence: A re-appraisal of man, the state and war (2014)
Book
Beyer, A. C. (2014). Inequality and violence: A re-appraisal of man, the state and war. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315588452

With Theory of International Politics Kenneth Waltz established Neo-realism as a major school of thought in IR, which still remains a dominant approach within the discipline in the Anglo-American world and beyond. Man, the State and War - his first c... Read More about Inequality and violence: A re-appraisal of man, the state and war.

Harmful or helpful? The role of the internet in self-harming and suicidal behaviour in young people (2014)
Journal Article
Bell, J. (2014). Harmful or helpful? The role of the internet in self-harming and suicidal behaviour in young people. Mental Health Review Journal, 19(1), 61-71. https://doi.org/10.1108/mhrj-05-2013-0019

Purpose: The internet plays an important role in the lives of self-harming and suicidal young people yet little is known about how internet use influences this behaviour. The purpose of this paper is to examine the evidence base with a view to determ... Read More about Harmful or helpful? The role of the internet in self-harming and suicidal behaviour in young people.