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Source of nitrogen associated with recovery of relative growth rate in Arabidopsis thaliana acclimated to sustained cold treatment (2014)
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Atkinson, L. J., Sherlock, D. J., & Atkin, O. K. (2015). Source of nitrogen associated with recovery of relative growth rate in Arabidopsis thaliana acclimated to sustained cold treatment. Plant, Cell and Environment, 38(6), 1023-1034. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.12460

To determine (1) whether acclimation of carbon metabolism to low temperatures results in recovery of the relative growth rate (RGR) of plants in the cold and (2) the source of N underpinning cold-acclimation in Arabidopsis thaliana, we supplied plant... Read More about Source of nitrogen associated with recovery of relative growth rate in Arabidopsis thaliana acclimated to sustained cold treatment.

Understanding the effects of one’s actions upon hidden objects and the development of search behaviour in 7-month-old infants (2014)
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O'Connor, R. J., & Russell, J. (2015). Understanding the effects of one’s actions upon hidden objects and the development of search behaviour in 7-month-old infants. Developmental Science, 18(5), 824-831. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12265

Infants' understanding of how their actions affect the visibility of hidden objects may be a crucial aspect of the development of search behaviour. To investigate this possibility, 7-month-old infants took part in a two-day training study. At the sta... Read More about Understanding the effects of one’s actions upon hidden objects and the development of search behaviour in 7-month-old infants.

Relationships between mental toughness and psychological wellbeing in undergraduate students (2014)
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Stamp, E., Crust, L., Swann, C., Perry, J., Clough, P., & Marchant, D. (2015). Relationships between mental toughness and psychological wellbeing in undergraduate students. Personality and individual differences, 75, 170-174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.11.038

This study examined relationships between mental toughness (MT) and psychological wellbeing (PWB) in undergraduate students. Following previous research that identified significant and positive relations between MT and academic performance, it was hy... Read More about Relationships between mental toughness and psychological wellbeing in undergraduate students.

Phenomenal regression to the real object in physical and virtual worlds (2014)
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Elner, K. W., & Wright, H. (2015). Phenomenal regression to the real object in physical and virtual worlds. Virtualreality : the journal of the Virtual Reality Society, 19(1), 21-31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-014-0257-x

© 2014, Springer-Verlag London. In this paper, we investigate a new approach to comparing physical and virtual size and depth percepts that captures the involuntary responses of participants to different stimuli in their field of view, rather than re... Read More about Phenomenal regression to the real object in physical and virtual worlds.

Structural and functional correlates of hypnotic depth and suggestibility (2014)
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McGeown, W. J., Mazzoni, G., Vannucci, M., & Venneri, A. (2015). Structural and functional correlates of hypnotic depth and suggestibility. Neuroimaging. Psychiatry research, 231(2), 151-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2014.11.015

This study explores whether self-reported depth of hypnosis and hypnotic suggestibility are associated with individual differences in neuroanatomy and/or levels of functional connectivity. Twenty-nine people varying in suggestibility were recruited a... Read More about Structural and functional correlates of hypnotic depth and suggestibility.

Comparative study of a novel liquid-vapour separator incorporated gravitational loop heat pipe against the conventional gravitational straight and loop heat pipes - Part I: Conceptual development and theoretical analyses (2014)
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Zhang, X., Shen, J., He, W., Xu, P., Zhao, X., & Tan, J. (2015). Comparative study of a novel liquid-vapour separator incorporated gravitational loop heat pipe against the conventional gravitational straight and loop heat pipes - Part I: Conceptual development and theoretical analyses. Energy Conversion and Management, 90, 409-426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2014.11.041

Aim of the paper is to investigate the thermal performance of a novel liquid-vapour separator incorporated gravity-assisted loop heat pipe (GALHP) (T1), against a conventional GALHP (T2) and a gravitational straight heat pipe (T3), from the conceptua... Read More about Comparative study of a novel liquid-vapour separator incorporated gravitational loop heat pipe against the conventional gravitational straight and loop heat pipes - Part I: Conceptual development and theoretical analyses.

Measuring patient-perceived continuity of care for patients with long-term conditions in primary care (2014)
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Hill, K. M., Twiddy, M., Hewison, J., & House, A. O. (2014). Measuring patient-perceived continuity of care for patients with long-term conditions in primary care. BMC family practice, 15(1), Article 191. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-014-0191-8

Background: Continuity of care is widely acknowledged as important for patients with multi-morbidity but simple,
service-orientated indices cannot capture the full impact of continuity in complex care delivery systems. The patient’s
perspective is im... Read More about Measuring patient-perceived continuity of care for patients with long-term conditions in primary care.

High glucose enhances store-operated calcium entry by upregulating ORAI/STIM via calcineurin-NFAT signalling (2014)
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Daskoulidou, N., Xu, S. Z., Zeng, B., Gomez, M. F., Berglund, L. M., Atkin, S. L., Jiang, H., Griffin, S., Ayoola, J., Bhandari, S., Kotova, O., Chen, G. L., Griffin, S., Jiang, H., Berglund, L. M., Zeng, B., & Daskoulidou, N. (2015). High glucose enhances store-operated calcium entry by upregulating ORAI/STIM via calcineurin-NFAT signalling. Journal of Molecular Medicine, 93(5), 511-521. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00109-014-1234-2

© 2014, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Abstract: ORAI and stromal interaction molecule (STIM) are store-operated channel molecules that play essential roles in human physiology through a coupling mechanism of internal Ca 2+ store to Ca 2+ influx.... Read More about High glucose enhances store-operated calcium entry by upregulating ORAI/STIM via calcineurin-NFAT signalling.

Later prehistoric vegetation dynamics and Bronze Age agriculture at Hobbister, Orkney, Scotland (2014)
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Farrell, M. (2015). Later prehistoric vegetation dynamics and Bronze Age agriculture at Hobbister, Orkney, Scotland. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 24(4), 467-486. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-014-0507-6

The Bronze Age in Britain was a time of major social and cultural changes, reflected in the division of the landscape into field systems and the establishment of new belief systems and ritual practices. Several hypotheses have been advanced to explai... Read More about Later prehistoric vegetation dynamics and Bronze Age agriculture at Hobbister, Orkney, Scotland.

An accurate new method of calculating absolute magnitudes and K-corrections applied to the Sloan filter set (2014)
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Beare, R., Brown, M. J. I., & Pimbblet, K. (2014). An accurate new method of calculating absolute magnitudes and K-corrections applied to the Sloan filter set. The Astrophysical journal, 797(2), Article ARTN 104. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/797/2/104

We describe an accurate new method for determining absolute magnitudes, and hence also K-corrections, that is simpler than most previous methods, being based on a quadratic function of just one suitably chosen observed color. The method relies on the... Read More about An accurate new method of calculating absolute magnitudes and K-corrections applied to the Sloan filter set.

Use of the enhanced frog embryo teratogenesis assay-Xenopus (FETAX) to determine chemically-induced phenotypic effects (2014)
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Hu, L., Zhu, J., Rotchell, J. M., Wu, L., Gao, J., & Shi, H. (2015). Use of the enhanced frog embryo teratogenesis assay-Xenopus (FETAX) to determine chemically-induced phenotypic effects. The Science of the total environment, 508, 258-265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.11.086

The frog embryo teratogenesis assay-Xenopus (FETAX) is an established method for the evaluation of the developmental toxicities of chemicals. To develop an enhanced FETAX that is appropriate for common environmental contaminants, we exposed Xenopus t... Read More about Use of the enhanced frog embryo teratogenesis assay-Xenopus (FETAX) to determine chemically-induced phenotypic effects.

Iron(III) bromide catalyzed bromination of 2-tert-butylpyrene and corresponding position-dependent aryl-functionalized pyrene derivatives (2014)
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Feng, X., Hu, J.-Y., Tomiyasu, H., Tao, Z., Redshaw, C., Elsegood, M. R. J., Horsburgh, L., Teat, S. J., Wei, X.-F., & Yamato, T. (2014). Iron(III) bromide catalyzed bromination of 2-tert-butylpyrene and corresponding position-dependent aryl-functionalized pyrene derivatives. RSC advances, 5(12), 8835-8848. https://doi.org/10.1039/C4RA12216J

The present work probes the bromination mechanism of 2-tert-butylpyrene (1), which regioselectively affords mono-, di-, tri- and tetra-bromopyrenes, by theoretical calculation and detailed experimental methods. The bromine atom may be directed to the... Read More about Iron(III) bromide catalyzed bromination of 2-tert-butylpyrene and corresponding position-dependent aryl-functionalized pyrene derivatives.

How to measure mood in nutrition research (2014)
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Hammersley, R., Reid, M., & Atkin, S. L. (2014). How to measure mood in nutrition research. Nutrition research reviews, 27(2), 284-294. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954422414000201

© 2014 The Authors. Mood is widely assessed in nutrition research, usually with rating scales. A core assumption is that positive mood reinforces ingestion, so it is important to measure mood well. Four relevant theoretical issues are reviewed: (i) t... Read More about How to measure mood in nutrition research.

Rethinking how we understand individual healthcare needs for people living with long-term conditions: a qualitative study (2014)
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Reeve, J., & Cooper, L. (2016). Rethinking how we understand individual healthcare needs for people living with long-term conditions: a qualitative study. Health and Social Care in the Community, 24(1), 27-38. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12175

It has been suggested that we need to ‘Think Differently’ about how we organise care for people with long‐term conditions. Current approaches prioritise reducing population disease burden, meaning health need is defined predominantly in terms of dise... Read More about Rethinking how we understand individual healthcare needs for people living with long-term conditions: a qualitative study.

Why are we not flooded by involuntary autobiographical memories? Few cues are more effective than many (2014)
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Vannucci, M., Pelagatti, C., Hanczakowski, M., Mazzoni, G., & Paccani, C. R. (2015). Why are we not flooded by involuntary autobiographical memories? Few cues are more effective than many. Psychological research, 79(6), 1077-1085. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-014-0632-y

Recent research on involuntary autobiographical memories (IAMs) has shown that these memories can be elicited and studied in the laboratory under controlled conditions. Employing a modified version of a vigilance task developed by Schlagman and Kvavi... Read More about Why are we not flooded by involuntary autobiographical memories? Few cues are more effective than many.

Attributions of cancer 'alarm' symptoms in a community sample (2014)
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Whitaker, K. L., Scott, S. E., Winstanley, K., Macleod, U., & Wardle, J. (2014). Attributions of cancer 'alarm' symptoms in a community sample. PLoS ONE, 9(12), Article e114028. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0114028

© 2014 Whitaker et al. Background: Attribution of early cancer symptoms to a non-serious cause may lead to longer diagnostic intervals. We investigated attributions of potential cancer 'alarm' and non-alarm symptoms experienced in everyday life in a... Read More about Attributions of cancer 'alarm' symptoms in a community sample.

DNA damage response and senescence in endothelial cells of human cerebral cortex and relation to Alzheimer's neuropathology progression: A population-based study in the Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC-CFAS) cohort (2014)
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Garwood, C. J., Simpson, J. E., Al Mashhadi, S., Axe, C., Wilson, S., Heath, P. R., …Wharton, S. B. (2014). DNA damage response and senescence in endothelial cells of human cerebral cortex and relation to Alzheimer's neuropathology progression: A population-based study in the Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC-CFAS) cohort. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology, 40(7), 802-814. https://doi.org/10.1111/nan.12156

Aims: Abnormalities of the brain microvasculature in Alzheimer's disease have led to the vascular hypothesis of the disease, which predicts that vascular changes precede neuronal dysfunction and degeneration. To determine the spectrum of endothelial... Read More about DNA damage response and senescence in endothelial cells of human cerebral cortex and relation to Alzheimer's neuropathology progression: A population-based study in the Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC-CFAS) cohort.

Period, birth cohort and prevalence of dementia in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: A meta-analysis (2014)
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Wu, Y. T., Lee, H. Y., Norton, S., Prina, A. M., Fleming, J., Matthews, F. E., & Brayne, C. (2014). Period, birth cohort and prevalence of dementia in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: A meta-analysis. International journal of geriatric psychiatry, 29(12), 1212-1220. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.4148

Objective: There have been dramatic societal changes in East Asia over the last hundred years. Several of the established risk factors could have important period and cohort effects. This study explores temporal variation of dementia prevalence in ma... Read More about Period, birth cohort and prevalence of dementia in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: A meta-analysis.

From Integration to inclusive Education in England: illuminating the issues through a life history account (2014)
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Glazzard, J. (2014). From Integration to inclusive Education in England: illuminating the issues through a life history account. International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research, 9(1), 107-116

This paper provides a life history account of one teacher’s
determination to make inclusion work. The account reflects on the
policy discourses of integration and inclusion and demonstrates ways in which these were translated into practice within... Read More about From Integration to inclusive Education in England: illuminating the issues through a life history account.