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Variation over time in the association between polypharmacy and mortality in the older population (2011)
Journal Article
Richardson, K., Ananou, A., Lafortune, L., Brayne, C., & Matthews, F. E. (2011). Variation over time in the association between polypharmacy and mortality in the older population. Drugs and Aging, 28(7), 547-560. https://doi.org/10.2165/11592000-000000000-00000

Background: In the older population, multimorbidity is common and best practice may invite the prescription of multiple medications. Objective: To examine the association between polypharmacy, defined as the concurrent use of five or more prescriptio... Read More about Variation over time in the association between polypharmacy and mortality in the older population.

The value of an egg: Resource reallocation in ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) infected with male-killing bacteria (2011)
Journal Article
Elnagdy, S., Majerus, M., & Lawson Handley, L.-J. (2011). The value of an egg: Resource reallocation in ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) infected with male-killing bacteria. Journal of evolutionary biology, 24(10), 2164-2172. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02346.x

Male‐killing bacteria are thought to persist in host populations by vertical transmission and conferring direct and/or indirect fitness benefits to their hosts. Here, we test the role of indirect fitness benefits accrued from resource reallocation in... Read More about The value of an egg: Resource reallocation in ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) infected with male-killing bacteria.

'It's like there are two people in my head': a phenomenological exploration of anorexia nervosa and its relationship to the self (2011)
Journal Article
Williams, S., & Reid, M. (2012). 'It's like there are two people in my head': a phenomenological exploration of anorexia nervosa and its relationship to the self. Psychology & health, 27(7), 798-815. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2011.595488

This study explores the lived experience of anorexia nervosa from the perspective of those who use pro-recovery websites for eating disorders. Fourteen people participated in an online focus group or an e-interview. Data were analysed using interpret... Read More about 'It's like there are two people in my head': a phenomenological exploration of anorexia nervosa and its relationship to the self.

Protein profiling of angiogenesis-related growth factors in laryngeal carcinoma: Pattern of protein expression in relation to tumour progression (2011)
Journal Article
Korampalli, T. S., Green, V. L., Greenman, J., & Stafford, N. D. (2011). Protein profiling of angiogenesis-related growth factors in laryngeal carcinoma: Pattern of protein expression in relation to tumour progression. International Journal of Oncology, 39(4), 1033-1039. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.2011.1117

The expression of angiogenesis-related proteins was determined in laryngeal tumour tissue, associated tumour involved lymph nodes, apparently normal mucosa and control tissue and were related to tumour stage. Both laryngeal tumour tissue and associat... Read More about Protein profiling of angiogenesis-related growth factors in laryngeal carcinoma: Pattern of protein expression in relation to tumour progression.

England's wars of religion, revisited (2011)
Book
Burgess, G., & Prior, C. W. A. (2011). C. Prior, & G. Burgess (Eds.), England's wars of religion, revisited. Routledge

The causes and nature of the civil wars that gripped the British Isles in the mid-seventeenth century remain one of the most studied yet least understood historical conundrums. Religion, politics, economics and affairs local, national and internation... Read More about England's wars of religion, revisited.

In vitro gene expression and enzyme catalysis in bio-inorganic protocells (2011)
Journal Article
Li, M., Green, D. C., Anderson, J. L. R., Binks, B. P., & Mann, S. (2011). In vitro gene expression and enzyme catalysis in bio-inorganic protocells. Chemical science, 2(9), 1739-1745. https://doi.org/10.1039/c1sc00183c

Silica nanoparticles with a balance of hydrophilic and hydrophobic surface properties exhibit surfactant-like behaviour, and as a consequence can strongly adsorb at oil/water interfaces to stabilize the formation of water micro-droplets. Here we expl... Read More about In vitro gene expression and enzyme catalysis in bio-inorganic protocells.

An Al-Si-Ti hierarchical metal-metal composite manufactured by co-spray forming (2011)
Journal Article
Kelly, A. J., Mi, J., Sinha, G. V., Krug, P., Crosa, F., Audebert, F., & Grant, P. S. (2011). An Al-Si-Ti hierarchical metal-metal composite manufactured by co-spray forming. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 211(12), 2045-2049. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2011.07.001

Spray forming with co-injection of a solid particulate phase to form a homogeneous distribution within the final spray formed billet has been studied as a new route to manufacturing metal-metal composites at large scale with negligible oxide. 12 wt%T... Read More about An Al-Si-Ti hierarchical metal-metal composite manufactured by co-spray forming.

Crystallographically amorphous ferrimagnetic alloys: Comparing a localized atomistic spin model with experiments (2011)
Journal Article
Ostler, T. A., Evans, R. F., Chantrell, R. W., Atxitia, U., Chubykalo-Fesenko, O., Radu, I., …Kimel, A. (2011). Crystallographically amorphous ferrimagnetic alloys: Comparing a localized atomistic spin model with experiments. Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics, 84(2), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.84.024407

We present a computational model of crystallographically amorphous ferrimagnetic alloys using a stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation of motion for atomistic spins and an atomistic spin Hamiltonian with Heisenberg exchange. The spontaneous equi... Read More about Crystallographically amorphous ferrimagnetic alloys: Comparing a localized atomistic spin model with experiments.

Numerical comparison of two-digit numbers: How differences at encoding can involve differences in processing (2011)
Journal Article
Castronovo, J., & Crollen, V. (2011). Numerical comparison of two-digit numbers: How differences at encoding can involve differences in processing. Journal of cognitive psychology, 23(1), 8-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2011.445985

The study of two-digit numbers processing has recently gathered a growing interest. Here, we examine whether differences at encoding of two-digit oral verbal numerals induce differences in the type of processing involved. Twenty-four participants wer... Read More about Numerical comparison of two-digit numbers: How differences at encoding can involve differences in processing.

The way ahead: Strategic studies in the 21st century (2011)
Book Chapter
Lonsdale, D. J. (2011). The way ahead: Strategic studies in the 21st century. In R. Rotte, & C. Schwarz (Eds.), International Security and War: Politics and Grand Strategy in the 21st Century (55-64). Nova Science Publishers

Balancing the dilution and oddity effects: Decisions depend on body size (2011)
Journal Article
Morrell, L. J., Askwith, B., Rodgers, G. M., & Ward, J. R. (2011). Balancing the dilution and oddity effects: Decisions depend on body size. PLoS ONE, 6(7), e14819. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0014819

Background Grouping behaviour, common across the animal kingdom, is known to reduce an individual's risk of predation; particularly through dilution of individual risk and predator confusion (predator inability to single out an individual for attack)... Read More about Balancing the dilution and oddity effects: Decisions depend on body size.

Vibrationally assisted polariton-relaxation processes in strongly coupled organic-semiconductor microcavities (2011)
Journal Article
Coles, D. M., Michetti, P., Clark, C., Tsoi, W. C., Adawi, A. M., Kim, J. S., & Lidzey, D. G. (2011). Vibrationally assisted polariton-relaxation processes in strongly coupled organic-semiconductor microcavities. Advanced Functional Materials, 21(19), 3691-3696. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201100756

If a semiconductor with an electronic transition that approximates a two-level system is placed within an optical cavity, strong coupling can occur between the confined photons and the semiconductor excitons. This coupling can result in the formation... Read More about Vibrationally assisted polariton-relaxation processes in strongly coupled organic-semiconductor microcavities.

Nursing research capacity building in a Spanish hospital: an intervention study (2011)
Journal Article
Corchon, S., Portillo, M. C., Watson, R., & Saracíbar, M. (2011). Nursing research capacity building in a Spanish hospital: an intervention study. Journal of clinical nursing, 20(17-18), 2479-2489. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2702.2011.03744.x

Aims and objectives. To evaluate a contextually framed intervention to increase nursing research capacity among clinical nurses in a Spanish hospital. Background. In Spain, there has been a paucity of nursing research and a lack of nursing research c... Read More about Nursing research capacity building in a Spanish hospital: an intervention study.

The serious mental illness health improvement profile [HIP]: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial (2011)
Journal Article
White, J., Gray, R. J., Swift, L., Barton, G. R., & Jones, M. (2011). The serious mental illness health improvement profile [HIP]: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial. Trials, 12(167), https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-12-167

Background: The serious mental illness Health Improvement Profile [HIP] is a brief pragmatic tool, which enables mental health nurses to work together with patients to screen physical health and take evidence-based action when variables are identifie... Read More about The serious mental illness health improvement profile [HIP]: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial.

Why do we like the iPhone? The role of evaluative conditioning in attitude formation (2011)
Journal Article
Walther, E., Weil, R., & Langer, T. (2011). Why do we like the iPhone? The role of evaluative conditioning in attitude formation. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 5(7), 473-486. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2011.00366.x

Evaluative conditioning (EC) is the change in liking due to the paring of an affectively meaningful and a neutral stimulus. Starting with the exemplary question of why we like the iPhone, this article provides an overview of past and present research... Read More about Why do we like the iPhone? The role of evaluative conditioning in attitude formation.

Challenging paradigms in estuarine ecology and management (2011)
Journal Article
Elliott, M., & Whitfield, A. (2011). Challenging paradigms in estuarine ecology and management. Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 94(4), 306-314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2011.06.016

For many years, estuarine science has been the 'poor relation' in aquatic research - freshwater scientists ignored estuaries as they tended to get confused by salt and tides, and marine scientists were more preoccupied by large open systems. Estuarie... Read More about Challenging paradigms in estuarine ecology and management.

Occurrence of medical co-morbidity in mild cognitive impairment: Implications for generalisation of MCI research (2011)
Journal Article
Stephan, B. C., Brayne, C., Savva, G. M., & Matthews, F. E. (2011). Occurrence of medical co-morbidity in mild cognitive impairment: Implications for generalisation of MCI research. Age and ageing, 40(4), 501-507. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afr057

Background: diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) typically excludes individuals with medical co-morbidity. Interest in MCI screening raises the questions of what are the best criteria to identify a representative sample and what factors are a... Read More about Occurrence of medical co-morbidity in mild cognitive impairment: Implications for generalisation of MCI research.