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Chemodynamics of a simulated disc galaxy: Initial mass functions and Type Ia supernova progenitors (2014)
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Few, C. G., Courty, S., Gibson, B. K., Michel-Dansac, L., & Calura, F. (2014). Chemodynamics of a simulated disc galaxy: Initial mass functions and Type Ia supernova progenitors. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 444(4), 3845-3862. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1709

We trace the formation and advection of several elements within a cosmological adaptive mesh refinement simulation of an L⋆ galaxy. We use nine realizations of the same initial conditions with different stellar initial mass functions (IMFs), mass lim... Read More about Chemodynamics of a simulated disc galaxy: Initial mass functions and Type Ia supernova progenitors.

Provenance of the upper Miocene–Pliocene Red Clay deposits of the Chinese loess plateau (2014)
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Nie, J., Peng, W., Möller, A., Song, Y., Stockli, D. F., Stevens, T., …Fang, X. (2014). Provenance of the upper Miocene–Pliocene Red Clay deposits of the Chinese loess plateau. Earth and planetary science letters, 407, 35-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2014.09.026

© 2014 Elsevier B.V. A clear understanding of the provenance of late Cenozoic Chinese loess and the underlying Red Clay deposits will shed light on the history and mechanisms of Asian aridification. Although much progress has been made in understandi... Read More about Provenance of the upper Miocene–Pliocene Red Clay deposits of the Chinese loess plateau.

Marine legislation - the ultimate 'horrendogram': international law, European directives and national implementation (2014)
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Boyes, S. J., & Elliott, M. (2014). Marine legislation - the ultimate 'horrendogram': international law, European directives and national implementation. Marine pollution bulletin, 86(1-2), 39-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.06.055

The EU is a pre-eminent player in sustainable development, adopting more than 200 pieces of legislation that have direct repercussions for marine environmental policy and management. Over five decades, measures have aimed to protect the marine enviro... Read More about Marine legislation - the ultimate 'horrendogram': international law, European directives and national implementation.

Apolipoprotein E ε4 allele modulates the immediate impact of acute exercise on prefrontal function (2014)
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De Marco, M., Clough, P. J., Dyer, C. E., Vince, R. V., Waby, J. S., Midgley, A. W., & Venneri, A. (2015). Apolipoprotein E ε4 allele modulates the immediate impact of acute exercise on prefrontal function. Behavior Genetics, 45(1), 106-116. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10519-014-9675-5

The difference between Apolipoprotein E ε4 carriers and non-carriers in response to single exercise sessions was tested. Stroop and Posner tasks were administered to young untrained women immediately after walking sessions or moderately heavy exercis... Read More about Apolipoprotein E ε4 allele modulates the immediate impact of acute exercise on prefrontal function.

RASSF1A–LATS1 signalling stabilizes replication forks by restricting CDK2-mediated phosphorylation of BRCA2 (2014)
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Pefani, D., Latusek, R., Pires, I., Grawenda, A. M., Yee, K. S., Hamilton, G., …O'Neill, E. (2014). RASSF1A–LATS1 signalling stabilizes replication forks by restricting CDK2-mediated phosphorylation of BRCA2. Nature Cell Biology, 16(10), 962-971. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncb3035

Genomic instability is a key hallmark of cancer leading to tumour heterogeneity and therapeutic resistance. ​BRCA2 has a fundamental role in error-free DNA repair but also sustains genome integrity by promoting ​RAD51 nucleofilament formation at stal... Read More about RASSF1A–LATS1 signalling stabilizes replication forks by restricting CDK2-mediated phosphorylation of BRCA2.

The amidine based colorimetric sensor for Fe³⁺, Fe²⁺, and Cu²⁺ in aqueous medium (2014)
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Nandre, J., Patil, S., Patil, P., Sahoo, S., Redshaw, C., Mahulikar, P., & Patil, U. (2014). The amidine based colorimetric sensor for Fe³⁺, Fe²⁺, and Cu²⁺ in aqueous medium. Journal of fluorescence, 24(6), 1563-1570. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10895-014-1438-4

An amidine based chemosensor AM-1 was synthesized and characterized by various spectroscopic (FT-IR, 1H-NMR and mass) data and elemental analyses. Sensor AM-1 exhibited high selectivity and sensitivity towards Fe³⁺, Fe²⁺ and Cu²⁺ in the presence of o... Read More about The amidine based colorimetric sensor for Fe³⁺, Fe²⁺, and Cu²⁺ in aqueous medium.

Variability of automated carotid intima-media thickness measurements by novice operators (2014)
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Nichols, S., Milner, M., Meijer, R., Carroll, S., & Ingle, L. (2016). Variability of automated carotid intima-media thickness measurements by novice operators. Clinical physiology and functional imaging, 36(1), 25-32. https://doi.org/10.1111/cpf.12189

Carotid intima-media thickness (C-IMT) measurements provide a non-invasive assessment of sub-clinical atherosclerosis. The aim of the study was to assess the inter- and intra-observer variability of automated C-IMT measurements undertaken by two novi... Read More about Variability of automated carotid intima-media thickness measurements by novice operators.

Development and validation of a system of assimilation indices: A mixed method approach to understand change in psychotherapy (2014)
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Neto, D. D., Baptista, T. M., & Dent-Brown, K. (2015). Development and validation of a system of assimilation indices: A mixed method approach to understand change in psychotherapy. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 54(2), 147-162. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12066

Objectives Assimilation is an important process in understanding change in psychotherapy. Similar to other psychological processes, assimilation may be traceable in the speech of clients by attending to its signs or indices. In the present research,... Read More about Development and validation of a system of assimilation indices: A mixed method approach to understand change in psychotherapy.

Deliberate self-harm among adults in prisons (2014)
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Bennett, L., & Dyson, J. (2014). Deliberate self-harm among adults in prisons. Mental health practice, 18(1), 14-20. https://doi.org/10.7748/mhp.18.1.14.e931

This article explores barriers that prevent or interfere with the implementation of policies for reducing deliberate self-harm in adults in prisons and the levers that aid implementation. An integrative literature review was conducted of 12 studies o... Read More about Deliberate self-harm among adults in prisons.

Directive emission of red conjugated polymer embedded within zero index metamaterials (2014)
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Cao, T., Zou, Y., Adawi, A., & Cryan, M. J. (2014). Directive emission of red conjugated polymer embedded within zero index metamaterials. Optics express, 22(19), 22699-22706. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.22.022699

Abstract: We numerically demonstrate an impedance-matched multilayer stacked fishnet metamaterial that has zero index with flat high transmittance from 600nm to 620nm. The effective refractive index(𝑛𝑒𝑓𝑓) is calculated to be −0.045 + 0.466i and the n... Read More about Directive emission of red conjugated polymer embedded within zero index metamaterials.

Remaking working-class community: sociability, belonging and “affluence” in a small town, 1930-1980 (2014)
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Ramsden, S. (2015). Remaking working-class community: sociability, belonging and “affluence” in a small town, 1930-1980. Contemporary British History, 29(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2014.951338

Historians' interest in the ways locality shapes and constrains working-class culture has until recently tended to end with the post-war demise of the ‘traditional working-class communities’ thought to have coalesced in British industrial localities... Read More about Remaking working-class community: sociability, belonging and “affluence” in a small town, 1930-1980.

Working with schools in identifying and overcoming emotional barriers to learning (2014)
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Nash, P., & Schlösser, A. (2015). Working with schools in identifying and overcoming emotional barriers to learning. Educational studies, 41(1-2), 143-155. https://doi.org/10.1080/03055698.2014.955738

This paper reports a case study on working closely with a secondary school, to enhance understanding of disruptive behaviour, through the use of bespoke Continuing Professional Development (CPD) materials. This project evolved from the researchers’ p... Read More about Working with schools in identifying and overcoming emotional barriers to learning.

The Evolution of Tyrosine-Recombinase Elements in Nematoda (2014)
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Szitenberg, A., Koutsovoulos, G., Blaxter, M. L., & Lunt, D. H. (2014). The Evolution of Tyrosine-Recombinase Elements in Nematoda. PLoS ONE, 9(9), Article e106630. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0106630

Transposable elements can be categorised into DNA and RNA elements based on their mechanism of transposition. Tyrosine recombinase elements (YREs) are relatively rare and poorly understood, despite sharing characteristics with both DNA and RNA elemen... Read More about The Evolution of Tyrosine-Recombinase Elements in Nematoda.

Modelling an off-grid integrated renewable energy system for rural electrification in India using photovoltaics and anaerobic digestion (2014)
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Castellanos, J., Walker, M., Poggio, D., Pourkashanian, M., & Nimmo, W. (2015). Modelling an off-grid integrated renewable energy system for rural electrification in India using photovoltaics and anaerobic digestion. Renewable energy, 74, 390-398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2014.08.055

This work describes the design optimisation and techno-economic analysis of an off-grid Integrated Renewable Energy System (IRES) designed to meet the electrical demand of a rural village location in West Bengal – India with an overall electrical req... Read More about Modelling an off-grid integrated renewable energy system for rural electrification in India using photovoltaics and anaerobic digestion.

Positive allosteric binding behavior of pyrene-appended triazole-modified thiacalix[4]arene-based fluorescent receptors (2014)
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Tomiyasu, H., Shigyo, N., Ni, X.-L., Zeng, X., Redshaw, C., & Yamato, T. (2014). Positive allosteric binding behavior of pyrene-appended triazole-modified thiacalix[4]arene-based fluorescent receptors. Tetrahedron, 70(43), 7893-7899. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2014.08.068

The novel heteroditopic receptors 5a∼c have been synthesized, which bear a thiacalix[4]arene in the 1,3-alternate conformation. Two urea moieties possessing various aryl groups with either electron-donating or -withdrawing groups at their p-positions... Read More about Positive allosteric binding behavior of pyrene-appended triazole-modified thiacalix[4]arene-based fluorescent receptors.

Lattice gerbe theory (2014)
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Lipstein, A. E., & Reid-Edwards, R. A. (2014). Lattice gerbe theory. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014(9), Article ARTN 034. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09%282014%29034

We formulate the theory of a 2-form gauge field on a Euclidean spacetime lattice. In this approach, the fundamental degrees of freedom live on the faces of the lattice, and the action can be constructed from the sum over Wilson surfaces associated wi... Read More about Lattice gerbe theory.

Worldwide survey of chronic cough: A manifestation of enhanced somatosensory response (2014)
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Morice, A. H., Jakes, A. D., Faruqi, S., Birring, S. S., Mcgarvey, L., Canning, B., …Dicpinigaitis, P. (2014). Worldwide survey of chronic cough: A manifestation of enhanced somatosensory response. European respiratory journal, 44(5), 1149-1155. https://doi.org/10.1183/09031936.00217813

© ERS 2014. Reports from individual centres suggest a preponderance of females with chronic cough. Females also have heightened cough reflex sensitivity. Here we have reviewed the age and sex of unselected referrals to 11 cough clinics. To investigat... Read More about Worldwide survey of chronic cough: A manifestation of enhanced somatosensory response.

Kinematic modeling of the milky way using the rave and GCS stellar surveys (2014)
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Sharma, S., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Binney, J., Freeman, K. C., Steinmetz, M., Boeche, C., …Zwitter, T. (2014). Kinematic modeling of the milky way using the rave and GCS stellar surveys. The Astrophysical journal, 793(1), 51. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/793/1/51

© 2014. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.. We investigate the kinematic parameters of the Milky Way disk using the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) and Geneva-Copenhagen Survey (GCS) stellar surveys. We do this by fitting a kin... Read More about Kinematic modeling of the milky way using the rave and GCS stellar surveys.

Efficacy of β blockers in patients with heart failure plus atrial fibrillation: An individual-patient data meta-analysis (2014)
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Kotecha, D., Holmes, J., Krum, H., Altman, D. G., Manzano, L., Cleland, J. G., …Flather, M. D. (2014). Efficacy of β blockers in patients with heart failure plus atrial fibrillation: An individual-patient data meta-analysis. Lancet, 384(9961), 2235-2243. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2814%2961373-8

Background: Atrial fibrillation and heart failure often coexist, causing substantial cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. β blockers are indicated in patients with symptomatic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction; however, the efficacy of... Read More about Efficacy of β blockers in patients with heart failure plus atrial fibrillation: An individual-patient data meta-analysis.

The Anglo-American 'special relationship' and the Middle East, 1945-1973 (2014)
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Smith, S. C. (2014). The Anglo-American 'special relationship' and the Middle East, 1945-1973. Asian Affairs, 45(3), 425-448. https://doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2014.951567

It is widely recognised that the Anglo-American ‘special relationship’ fluctuated following the Second World War. A “Persistent rivalry” was especially evident in policy towards the Middle East and its oil. Immediately after the war, the American att... Read More about The Anglo-American 'special relationship' and the Middle East, 1945-1973.