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The kinin–kallikrein system: physiological roles, pathophysiology and its relationship to cancer biomarkers (2013)
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Kashuba, E., Bailey, J., Allsup, D., & Cawkwell, L. (2013). The kinin–kallikrein system: physiological roles, pathophysiology and its relationship to cancer biomarkers. Biomarkers, 18(4), 279-296. https://doi.org/10.3109/1354750x.2013.787544

The kinin–kallikrein system (KKS) is an endogenous multiprotein cascade, the activation of which leads to triggering of the intrinsic coagulation pathway and enzymatic hydrolysis of kininogens with the consequent release of bradykinin-related peptide... Read More about The kinin–kallikrein system: physiological roles, pathophysiology and its relationship to cancer biomarkers.

Pupil Mobility: Using Students' Voices to Explore their Experiences of Changing Schools (2013)
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Messiou, K., & Jones, L. (2015). Pupil Mobility: Using Students' Voices to Explore their Experiences of Changing Schools. Children & society, 29(4), 255-265. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12026

© 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd and National Children's Bureau. This article explores the ways in which students' voices can be used to analyse the process of moving schools, at a time outside of those that young people normally change schools. The pa... Read More about Pupil Mobility: Using Students' Voices to Explore their Experiences of Changing Schools.

Prevalence of autism in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2013)
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Sun, X., Allison, C., Matthews, F. E., Sharp, S. J., Auyeung, B., Baron-Cohen, S., & Brayne, C. (2013). Prevalence of autism in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Molecular Autism, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/2040-2392-4-7

Background: The prevalence of autism spectrum conditions (ASC) is 1% in developed countries, but little data are available from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. This study synthesizes evidence relating to the prevalence of ASC in these areas and... Read More about Prevalence of autism in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Chronic cough hypersensitivity syndrome (2013)
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Morice, A. H. (2013). Chronic cough hypersensitivity syndrome. Cough, 9(1), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-9974-9-14

Chronic cough has been suggested to be due to three conditions, asthma, post nasal drip, and reflux disease. A different paradigm has evolved in which cough is viewed as the primary condition characterised by afferent neuronal hypersensitivity and di... Read More about Chronic cough hypersensitivity syndrome.

Identifying individual psychosocial and adherence support needs in patients with psoriasis: a multinational two-stage qualitative and quantitative study (2013)
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Bewley, A., Burrage, D. M., Ersser, S. J., Hansen, M., & Ward, C. (2014). Identifying individual psychosocial and adherence support needs in patients with psoriasis: a multinational two-stage qualitative and quantitative study. Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, 28(6), 763-770. https://doi.org/10.1111/jdv.12174

Background Psoriasis has a serious impact on patients' lives. However, adherence to medications is often poor, potentially compounding the burden of disease. Identifying patients who need support with psychosocial problems, or issues with adherence,... Read More about Identifying individual psychosocial and adherence support needs in patients with psoriasis: a multinational two-stage qualitative and quantitative study.

Fuzzy rule-based system applied to risk estimation of cardiovascular patients (2013)
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Bohacik, J., & Davis, D. N. (2013). Fuzzy rule-based system applied to risk estimation of cardiovascular patients. Journal of Multiple-Valued Logic and Soft Computing, 20(5-6), 445-466

Cardiovascular decision support is one area of increasing research interest. On-going collaborations between clinicians and computer scientists are looking at the application of knowledge discovery in databases to the area of patient diagnosis, based... Read More about Fuzzy rule-based system applied to risk estimation of cardiovascular patients.

Air-cushioning in impact problems (2013)
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Moore, M. R., Ockendon, J. R., & Oliver, J. M. (2013). Air-cushioning in impact problems. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, 78(4), 818-838. https://doi.org/10.1093/imamat/hxt026

This paper concerns the displacement potential formulation of the post-impact influence of an air-cushioning layer on the 2D impact of a liquid half-space by a rigid body. The liquid and air are both ideal and incompressible and attention is focussed... Read More about Air-cushioning in impact problems.

Synthesis and fluorescence emission properties of 1,3,6,8-tetraarylpyrenes (2013)
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Hu, J. Y., Feng, X., Tomiyasu, H., Seto, N., Rayhan, U., Elsegood, M. R., …Yamato, T. (2013). Synthesis and fluorescence emission properties of 1,3,6,8-tetraarylpyrenes. Journal of molecular structure, 1047, 194-203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2013.04.074

Three types of stable pyrene-based highly fluorescence (blue) compounds, 1-, 1,6-bis, 1,8-bis and 1,3,6,8-tetrakis(7-tert-butylpyrenyl)pyrenes and 1,3,6,8-tetrakis[9,9-bis(3-methylbutyl)-9H-fluoren-2-yl]pyrene, were successfully synthesized via a Pd/... Read More about Synthesis and fluorescence emission properties of 1,3,6,8-tetraarylpyrenes.

Phase field simulation of binary alloy dendrite growth under thermal- and forced-flow fields: An implementation of the parallel-multigrid approach (2013)
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Guo, Z., Mi, J., Xiong, S., & Grant, P. S. (2013). Phase field simulation of binary alloy dendrite growth under thermal- and forced-flow fields: An implementation of the parallel-multigrid approach. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 44(4), 924-937. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11663-013-9861-5

Dendrite growth and morphology evolution during solidification have been studied using a phase field model incorporating melt convection effects, which was solved using a robust and efficient parallel, multigrid computing approach. Single dendrite gr... Read More about Phase field simulation of binary alloy dendrite growth under thermal- and forced-flow fields: An implementation of the parallel-multigrid approach.

Polycystic ovary syndrome has no independent effect on vascular, inflammatory or thrombotic markers when matched for obesity (2013)
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Kahal, H., Aburima, A., Ungvari, T., Rigby, A. S., Dawson, A. J., Coady, A. M., …Atkin, S. L. (2013). Polycystic ovary syndrome has no independent effect on vascular, inflammatory or thrombotic markers when matched for obesity. Clinical Endocrinology, 79(2), 252-258. https://doi.org/10.1111/cen.12137

Introduction Previous studies investigating cardiovascular (CV) risk in obese women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) have been potentially confounded by not adequately accounting for body weight. Objective To assess if PCOS increases CV risk ind... Read More about Polycystic ovary syndrome has no independent effect on vascular, inflammatory or thrombotic markers when matched for obesity.

Differential cytotoxic activity of a novel palladium-based compound on prostate cell lines, primary prostate epithelial cells and prostate stem cells (2013)
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Ulukaya, E., Frame, F. M., Cevatemre, B., Pellacani, D., Walker, H., Mann, V. M., …Maitland, N. J. (2013). Differential cytotoxic activity of a novel palladium-based compound on prostate cell lines, primary prostate epithelial cells and prostate stem cells. PLoS ONE, 8(5), Article e64278. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064278

The outcome for patients with advanced metastatic and recurrent prostate cancer is still poor. Therefore, new chemotherapeutics are required, especially for killing cancer stem cells that are thought to be responsible for disease recurrence. In this... Read More about Differential cytotoxic activity of a novel palladium-based compound on prostate cell lines, primary prostate epithelial cells and prostate stem cells.

The opportunities and challenges of empirical work: Housing possession in theory and in practice (2013)
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Bright, S., & Whitehouse, L. (in press). The opportunities and challenges of empirical work: Housing possession in theory and in practice. University of Oxford Legal Research Paper Series, 50, https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2262709

This paper explains how empirical enquiry of the kind unburdened by the pursuit of a particular hypothesis or strict adherence to scientific methods, has much to offer in terms of developing our understanding of law and, in particular, the traditiona... Read More about The opportunities and challenges of empirical work: Housing possession in theory and in practice.

Seeing triggers acting, hearing does not trigger saying: Evidence from children's weak inhibition (2013)
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Simpson, A., Cooper, N. R., Gillmeister, H., & Riggs, K. J. (2013). Seeing triggers acting, hearing does not trigger saying: Evidence from children's weak inhibition. Cognition, 128(2), 103-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2013.03.015

There is evidence to suggest action imitation is automatic in adults and children. Children's weak inhibitory control means that automatic activation can have dramatic effects on behaviour. In three developmental studies, we investigated whether verb... Read More about Seeing triggers acting, hearing does not trigger saying: Evidence from children's weak inhibition.

Priority-based scheduling in flexible system using AIS with FLC approach (2013)
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Chan, F. T., Prakash, A., & Mishra, N. (2013). Priority-based scheduling in flexible system using AIS with FLC approach. International Journal of Production Research, 51(16), 4880-4895. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2013.774500

In the present paper, an extensive decision-making problem of scheduling in flexible environment has been discussed. The novelty of the research is to allocate the machines to the operations on the basis of the priority. The highly prioritised machin... Read More about Priority-based scheduling in flexible system using AIS with FLC approach.

Sediment routing hypothesis for pool-riffle maintenance (2013)
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Milan, D. J. (2013). Sediment routing hypothesis for pool-riffle maintenance. Earth surface processes and landforms : the journal of the British Geomorphological Research Group, 38(14), 1623-1641. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.3395

This paper provides comprehensive evidence that sediment routing around pools is a key mechanism for pool-riffle maintenance in sinuous upland gravel-bed streams. The findings suggest that pools do not require a reversal in energy for them to scour o... Read More about Sediment routing hypothesis for pool-riffle maintenance.

Contagious scratching: shared feelings but not shared body locations (2013)
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Ward, J., Burckhardt, V., & Holle, H. (2013). Contagious scratching: shared feelings but not shared body locations. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 7(122), Article ARTN 122. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00122

A commentary on: The neural basis of contagious itch and why some people are more prone to it by Holle, H., Warne, K., Seth, A. K., Critchley, H. D., and Ward, J. (2012). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 109, 19816–19821.

Electrostatically gated membrane permeability in inorganic protocells (2013)
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Li, M., Harbron, R. L., Weaver, J. V., Binks, B. P., & Mann, S. (2013). Electrostatically gated membrane permeability in inorganic protocells. Nature Chemistry, 5(6), 529-536. https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1644

Although several strategies are now available to produce functional microcompartments analogous to primitive cell-like structures, little progress has been made in generating protocell constructs with self-controlled membrane permeability. Here we de... Read More about Electrostatically gated membrane permeability in inorganic protocells.

Model based evaluation of six energy integration schemes applied to a small-scale gasification process for power generation (2013)
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Font Palma, C., & Martin, A. D. (2013). Model based evaluation of six energy integration schemes applied to a small-scale gasification process for power generation. Biomass & bioenergy, 54, 201-210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2013.03.024

This work considers the use of spent poultry litter as a fuel for on-site power generation. On-site use eliminates the need for the transportation of biomass to centralised plants and the associated bio-security issues. This work utilised process sim... Read More about Model based evaluation of six energy integration schemes applied to a small-scale gasification process for power generation.

Comparison of 12-W versus 14-W endovenous laser ablation in the treatment of great saphenous varicose veins: 5-year outcomes from a randomized controlled trial (2013)
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Samuel, N., Wallace, T., Carradice, D., Mazari, F. A., & Chetter, I. C. (2013). Comparison of 12-W versus 14-W endovenous laser ablation in the treatment of great saphenous varicose veins: 5-year outcomes from a randomized controlled trial. Vascular and endovascular surgery, 47(5), 346-352. https://doi.org/10.1177/1538574413487265

Introduction: Endovenous laser ablation (EVLA) has been demonstrated to be an effective treatment for lower limb varicose veins in the short and midterm results. This study reports the 5-year outcomes of EVLA technique at different power settings. Me... Read More about Comparison of 12-W versus 14-W endovenous laser ablation in the treatment of great saphenous varicose veins: 5-year outcomes from a randomized controlled trial.