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On the functional overlap between complement and anti-microbial peptides (2015)
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Stover, C. M., Hobkirk, J., Browning, M. J., Mohamed, F., & Zimmer, J. (2015). On the functional overlap between complement and anti-microbial peptides. Frontiers in immunology, 5(JAN), Article 689. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2014.00689

Intriguingly, activated complement and anti-microbial peptides share certain functionalities; lytic, phagocytic, and chemo-attractant activities and each may, in addition, exert cell instructive roles. Each has been shown to have distinct LPS detoxif... Read More about On the functional overlap between complement and anti-microbial peptides.

Model transformation for multi-objective architecture optimisation of dependable systems (2015)
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Mian, Z., Bottaci, L., Papadopoulos, Y., Sharvia, S., & Mahmud, N. (2015). Model transformation for multi-objective architecture optimisation of dependable systems. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 307, 91-110. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08964-5_6

The promise of model-based engineering is that by use of an integrated and coherent system model both functional and non-functional requirements may be analysed, implemented and tested in a rigorous and cost-effective manner. An important part of mod... Read More about Model transformation for multi-objective architecture optimisation of dependable systems.

Older people, the natural environment and common mental disorders: Cross-sectional results from the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (2015)
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Wu, Y. T., Prina, A. M., Jones, A., Matthews, F. E., & Brayne, C. (2015). Older people, the natural environment and common mental disorders: Cross-sectional results from the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study. BMJ open, 5(9), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-007936

Objectives: To explore the hypothesis that higher exposure to natural environments in local areas is associated with a lower odds of depression and anxiety in later life. Design: A cross-sectional study based on the year-10 interview of the Medical R... Read More about Older people, the natural environment and common mental disorders: Cross-sectional results from the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study.

Disturbance-observer-based robust control of a Serial-link robotic manipulator using SMC and PBC techniques (2015)
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Ajwad, S. A., Iqbal, J., Khan, A. A., & Mehmood, A. (2015). Disturbance-observer-based robust control of a Serial-link robotic manipulator using SMC and PBC techniques. Studies in Informatics and Control, 24(4), 401-408. https://doi.org/10.24846/v24i4y201504

Robotic manipulators deployed in automation industry require high speed with precision and accuracy to perform sophisticated control tasks. Whereas, the factors like highly coupled dynamics, internal and external perturbation forces, joint friction a... Read More about Disturbance-observer-based robust control of a Serial-link robotic manipulator using SMC and PBC techniques.

⁹⁹ᵐTc SPECT imaging agent based on cFLFLFK for the detection of FPR1 in inflammation (2015)
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Stasiuk, G. J., Holloway, P. M., Rivas, C., Trigg, W., Luthra, S. K., Morrison Iveson, V., …Long, N. J. (2015). ⁹⁹ᵐTc SPECT imaging agent based on cFLFLFK for the detection of FPR1 in inflammation. Dalton Transactions : an international journal of inorganic chemistry, 44(11), 4986-4993. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4dt02980a

Non-invasive imaging of the inflammatory process can provide a great deal of insight into a wide variety of diseases states, aiding diagnosis, evaluation and effective targeted treatment. During inflammation, blood borne leukocytes are recruited, thr... Read More about ⁹⁹ᵐTc SPECT imaging agent based on cFLFLFK for the detection of FPR1 in inflammation.

Differential modulation of performance in insight and divergent thinking tasks with tDCS (2015)
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Eimontaite, I., Goel, V., Schindler, I., & Goel, A. (2015). Differential modulation of performance in insight and divergent thinking tasks with tDCS. Journal of Problem Solving, 8(1), 23-35. https://doi.org/10.7771/1932-6246.1172

While both insight and divergent thinking tasks are used to study creativity, there are reasons to believe that the two may call upon very different mechanisms. To explore this hypothesis, we administered a verbal insight task (riddles) and a diverge... Read More about Differential modulation of performance in insight and divergent thinking tasks with tDCS.

Locating post-16 professionalism: public spaces as dissenting spaces (2015)
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Dennis, C. A. (2015). Locating post-16 professionalism: public spaces as dissenting spaces. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 20(1), 64-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2015.993875

Locating post-16 professionalism explores the ways in which teachers in the UK and the USA engaged in digitally mediated communication incidentally narrate their professional selves during extended exchanges about the process of post-qualification re... Read More about Locating post-16 professionalism: public spaces as dissenting spaces.

Symphony of sirens: uses and problems of sound in teaching and learning about music and politics (2015)
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Baker, C. (2015). Symphony of sirens: uses and problems of sound in teaching and learning about music and politics. Radical history review, 2015(121), 197-208. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2800108

I have been teaching courses about music and politics since 2011, firstly as a part-time instructor replacing a faculty member during her research leave and later at a different institution as a faculty member myself. This piece considers some of the... Read More about Symphony of sirens: uses and problems of sound in teaching and learning about music and politics.

EDITORIAL: Aesthetics and participation … (2015)
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Conroy, C. (2015). EDITORIAL: Aesthetics and participation …. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 20(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2014.1000631

Does it ever happen that a theoretical perspective is articulated, accepted and then sealed from further debate? There is a process of development, application, critique and assessment. Among other things, scholarly journals offer their communities o... Read More about EDITORIAL: Aesthetics and participation ….

Detection limits of organic compounds achievable with intense, short-pulse lasers (2015)
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Miles, J., De Camillis, S., Alexander, G., Hamilton, K., Kelly, T. J., Costello, J. T., …Greenwood, J. B. (2015). Detection limits of organic compounds achievable with intense, short-pulse lasers. Analyst, 140(12), 4270-4276. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5an00529a

Many organic molecules have strong absorption bands which can be accessed by ultraviolet short pulse lasers to produce efficient ionization. This resonant multiphoton ionization scheme has already been exploited as an ionization source in time-of-fli... Read More about Detection limits of organic compounds achievable with intense, short-pulse lasers.

A situation that we had never imagined: Post-Fukushima virtual collaborations for determining robot task metrics (2015)
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Martin, S., Naamani, C., & Vallance, M. (2015). A situation that we had never imagined: Post-Fukushima virtual collaborations for determining robot task metrics. International Journal of Learning Technology, 10(1), 30-49. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJLT.2015.069453

There is no consensus regarding a common set of metrics for robot task complexity in associated human-robot interactions. This paper is an attempt to address this issue by proposing a new metric so that the educational potential when using robots can... Read More about A situation that we had never imagined: Post-Fukushima virtual collaborations for determining robot task metrics.

AMS radiocarbon dating from the Neolithic of eastern Ukraine casts doubts on existing chronologies (2015)
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Lillie, M., Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute, G., & Telizhenko, S. (2015). AMS radiocarbon dating from the Neolithic of eastern Ukraine casts doubts on existing chronologies. Radiocarbon, 57(4), 657-664. https://doi.org/10.2458/azu_rc.57.18438

The Seversky Donets River (Northern Donets) basin in eastern Ukraine and the Lower Don River valley in Russia were inhabited by populations that have been considered to be one of the earliest pottery-using cultures in Europe. The early pottery sites... Read More about AMS radiocarbon dating from the Neolithic of eastern Ukraine casts doubts on existing chronologies.

Ideal negative measurements in quantum walks disprove theories based on classical trajectories (2015)
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Robens, C., Alt, W., Meschede, D., Emary, C., & Alberti, A. (2015). Ideal negative measurements in quantum walks disprove theories based on classical trajectories. Physical Review X, 5(1), Article 011003. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.5.011003

We report on a stringent test of the nonclassicality of the motion of a massive quantum particle, which propagates on a discrete lattice. Measuring temporal correlations of the position of single atoms performing a quantum walk, we observe a 6σ viola... Read More about Ideal negative measurements in quantum walks disprove theories based on classical trajectories.

On the Gaussian behavior of marginals and the mean width of random polytopes (2015)
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Alonso-Gutiérrez, D., & Prochno, J. (2015). On the Gaussian behavior of marginals and the mean width of random polytopes. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 143(2), 821-832. https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-2014-12401-4

© 2014 American Mathematical Society. We show that the expected value of the mean width of a random polytope generated by N random vectors (n ≤ N ≤ e√n) uniformly distributed in an isotropic convex body in ℝnis of the order√logNLK. This completes a r... Read More about On the Gaussian behavior of marginals and the mean width of random polytopes.

Uniform estimates for averages of order statistics of matrices (2015)
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Lechner, R., Passenbrunner, M., & Prochno, J. (2015). Uniform estimates for averages of order statistics of matrices. Electronic Communications in Probability, 20, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1214/ECP.v20-3992

We prove uniform estimates for the expected value of averages of order statistics of matrices interms of their largest entries. As an application, we obtain similar probabilistic estimates for ℓp norms via real interpolation.

Screening out the East: the playing out of inter-German relations at the Cannes film festival (2015)
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Ward, E. M. (2015). Screening out the East: the playing out of inter-German relations at the Cannes film festival. German life and letters, 68(1), 37-53. https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12067

This article examines the previously unexplored role of the Cannes Film Festival as an alternative arena for Cold War politics and the playing out of the West German Hallstein Doctrine in 1957 and 1959. The Hallstein Doctrine was an important strateg... Read More about Screening out the East: the playing out of inter-German relations at the Cannes film festival.

Cognitive function in a general population of men and women: A cross sectional study in the European Investigation of Cancer-Norfolk cohort (EPIC-Norfolk) (2015)
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Hayat, S. A., Luben, R., Moore, S., Dalzell, N., Bhaniani, A., Anuj, S., …Brayne, C. (2015). Cognitive function in a general population of men and women: A cross sectional study in the European Investigation of Cancer-Norfolk cohort (EPIC-Norfolk). BMC Geriatrics, 14(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-14-142

Background: Although ageing is strongly associated with cognitive decline, a wide range of cognitive ability is observed in older populations with varying rates of change across different cognitive domains. Methods: Cognitive function was measured as... Read More about Cognitive function in a general population of men and women: A cross sectional study in the European Investigation of Cancer-Norfolk cohort (EPIC-Norfolk).