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Charge modified cowpea mosaic virus particles for templated mineralization (2011)
Journal Article
Aljabali, A. A. A., Barclay, J. E., Cespedes, O., Rashid, A., Staniland, S. S., Lomonossoff, G. P., & Evans, D. J. (2011). Charge modified cowpea mosaic virus particles for templated mineralization. Advanced Functional Materials, 21(21), 4137-4142. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201101048

Surface charge modification of wild-type Cowpea mosaic virus, a plant virus, is sufficient to promote the templated mineralization of metal and metal oxide. Surface negative charge is increased by the chemical introduction of succinamate on surface l... Read More about Charge modified cowpea mosaic virus particles for templated mineralization.

Seeds in farmland food-webs: Resource importance, distribution and the impacts of farm management (2011)
Journal Article
Pocock, M. J., Evans, D. M., Brooks, J., & Memmott, J. (2011). Seeds in farmland food-webs: Resource importance, distribution and the impacts of farm management. Biological Conservation, 144(12), 2941-2950. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2011.08.013

Whilst considerable research effort in Europe has linked agricultural intensification with dramaticdeclines of seed-feeding birds, surprisingly little is known about the wider importance of seeds in animalfood-webs. Moreover, understanding the dynami... Read More about Seeds in farmland food-webs: Resource importance, distribution and the impacts of farm management.

Keeping it in the Family: Conducting Research Interviews with your own Family Members (2011)
Book Chapter
Seymour, J. (2011). Keeping it in the Family: Conducting Research Interviews with your own Family Members. In Researching Families and Relationships: Reflections on Process (90 - 92). Palgrave Macmillan

As a family researcher I am writing about a project which came literally close to home; one that involved interviewing members of my own family.  I focus mostly on the process of interviewing them and the issues that emerged from this.  I also talk b... Read More about Keeping it in the Family: Conducting Research Interviews with your own Family Members.

Educational Research and Inquiry: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. Edited by D. Hartas (2011)
Journal Article
Lowing, K. (2011). Educational Research and Inquiry: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. Edited by D. Hartas. British journal of educational studies, 59(3), 350-351. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2011.611285

First paragraph: The main target audience of this text is that of students who are researching within the field of education at British universities. One of the main concerns of the text is to find an appropriate equilibrium between conveying to its... Read More about Educational Research and Inquiry: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. Edited by D. Hartas.

Integrated application of compositional and behavioural safety analysis (2011)
Book Chapter
Sharvia, S., & Papadopoulos, Y. (2011). Integrated application of compositional and behavioural safety analysis. In W. Zamojski, J. Kacprzyk, J. Mazurkiewicz, J. Sugier, & T. Walkowiak (Eds.), Dependable Computer Systems (179-192). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21393-9_14

The design complexity of modern safety critical systems presents various challenges for its safety assessment process. In recent years, Model-Based Safety Analysis (MBSA) has been proposed to achieve more-robust and effective safety assessment techni... Read More about Integrated application of compositional and behavioural safety analysis.

Early life stages of fishes as indicators of estuarine ecosystem health (2011)
Journal Article
Ramos, S., Amorim, E., Elliott, M., Cabral, H., & Bordalo, A. A. (2012). Early life stages of fishes as indicators of estuarine ecosystem health. Ecological Indicators, 19, 172-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.08.024

A major goal of current environmental policies is to preserve or return areas to a good ecological status, which should be assessed at the ecosystem level, using several biological elements, together with physical, chemical and pollution elements. Th... Read More about Early life stages of fishes as indicators of estuarine ecosystem health.

Chronic cough and esomeprazole: A double-blind placebo-controlled parallel study (2011)
Journal Article
Faruqi, S., Molyneux, I. D., Fathi, H., Wright, C., Thompson, R., & Morice, A. H. (2011). Chronic cough and esomeprazole: A double-blind placebo-controlled parallel study. Respirology : official journal of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology, 16(7), 1150-1156. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1843.2011.02014.x

Background and objective: Gastro-oesophageal reflux has been implicated in the pathogenesis of chronic cough. Guidelines on management suggest a therapeutic trial of anti-reflux medication. Esomeprazole is a proton pump inhibitor licensed for the lon... Read More about Chronic cough and esomeprazole: A double-blind placebo-controlled parallel study.

Characterisation, kinetics and modelling of gasification of poultry manure and litter: An overview (2011)
Journal Article
Font-Palma, C. (2012). Characterisation, kinetics and modelling of gasification of poultry manure and litter: An overview. Energy Conversion and Management, 53(1), 92-98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2011.08.017

Environmental implications of the disposal of waste from the poultry industry have created the need for proper waste management. As a result, poultry litter has been proposed as a potential fuel candidate for thermal conversion technologies since it... Read More about Characterisation, kinetics and modelling of gasification of poultry manure and litter: An overview.

Post-transcriptional exon shuffling events in humans can be evolutionarily conserved and abundant (2011)
Journal Article
Al-Balool, H. H., Weber, D., Liu, Y., Wade, M., Guleria, K., Nam, P. L. P., Clayton, J., Rowe, W., Coxhead, J., Irving, J., Elliott, D. J., Hall, A. G., Santibanez-Koref, M., & Jackson, M. S. (2011). Post-transcriptional exon shuffling events in humans can be evolutionarily conserved and abundant. Genome research, 21(11), 1788-1799. https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.116442.110

In silico analyses have established that transcripts from some genes can be processed into RNAs with rearranged exon order relative to genomic structure (post-transcriptional exon shuffling, or PTES). Although known to contribute to transcriptome div... Read More about Post-transcriptional exon shuffling events in humans can be evolutionarily conserved and abundant.

Imitation and observational learning of hand actions: prefrontal involvement and connectivity (2011)
Journal Article
Higuchi, S., Holle, H., Roberts, N., Eickhoff, S. B., & Vogt, S. (2012). Imitation and observational learning of hand actions: prefrontal involvement and connectivity. NeuroImage, 59(2), 1668-1683. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.09.021

The first aim of this event-related fMRI study was to identify the neural circuits involved in imitation learning. We used a rapid imitation task where participants directly imitated pictures of guitar chords. The results provide clear evidence for t... Read More about Imitation and observational learning of hand actions: prefrontal involvement and connectivity.

A synthesis of bredinin (Mizoribine®) from an acyclic precursor (2011)
Journal Article
Humble, R. W., Middleton, D. F., Banoub, J., Ewing, D. F., Boa, A. N., & Mackenzie, G. (2011). A synthesis of bredinin (Mizoribine®) from an acyclic precursor. Tetrahedron letters; the international organ for the rapid publication of preliminary communications in organic chemistry, 52(47), 6223-6227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2011.09.085

Bredinin (4-carbamoyl-1-β-D-ribofuranosylimidazolium-5-olate, 1) was synthesised by the formation of amalonamate from 2,3-isopropylidene-D-ribofuranosylamine and ethyl malonyl chloride, followed by a sequence involving amination, via reduction of an... Read More about A synthesis of bredinin (Mizoribine®) from an acyclic precursor.

Non-uniform order mixed FEM approximation: Implementation, post-processing, computable error bound and adaptivity (2011)
Journal Article
Ainsworth, M., & Ma, X. (2012). Non-uniform order mixed FEM approximation: Implementation, post-processing, computable error bound and adaptivity. Journal of Computational Physics, 231(2), 436-453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2011.09.011

The present work provides a straightforward and focused set of tools and corresponding theoretical support for the implementation of an adaptive high order finite element code with guaranteed error control for the approximation of elliptic problems i... Read More about Non-uniform order mixed FEM approximation: Implementation, post-processing, computable error bound and adaptivity.

Prevalence of scarred and dysfunctional myocardium in patients with heart failure of ischaemic origin: A cardiovascular magnetic resonance study (2011)
Journal Article
Bourantas, C. V., Nikitin, N. P., Loh, H. P., Lukaschuk, E. I., Sherwi, N., de Silva, R., Tweddel, A. C., Alamgir, M. F., Wong, K., Gupta, S., Clark, A. L., & Cleland, J. G. (2011). Prevalence of scarred and dysfunctional myocardium in patients with heart failure of ischaemic origin: A cardiovascular magnetic resonance study. Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 13(53), Article ARTN 53. https://doi.org/10.1186/1532-429x-13-53

BackgroundCardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) with late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) can provide unique data on the transmural extent of scar/viability. We assessed the prevalence of dysfunctional myocardium, including partial thickness scar, whi... Read More about Prevalence of scarred and dysfunctional myocardium in patients with heart failure of ischaemic origin: A cardiovascular magnetic resonance study.

"This orphan play": Cardenio and the construction of the author (2011)
Journal Article
Meek, R., & Rickard, J. (2011). "This orphan play": Cardenio and the construction of the author. Shakespeare, 7(3), 269-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2011.589058

Critical and popular interest in Cardenio/Double Falsehood has focused largely on Shakespeare. Through a combination of Anglocentrism and Shakespeare-centrism, Shakespeare's collaborator, John Fletcher, and the Spanish author of their source, Miguel... Read More about "This orphan play": Cardenio and the construction of the author.