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Quantitative PCR analysis of blood- and saliva-specific microRNA markers following solid-phase DNA extraction (2013)
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Omelia, E. J., Uchimoto, M. L., & Williams, G. (2013). Quantitative PCR analysis of blood- and saliva-specific microRNA markers following solid-phase DNA extraction. Analytical Biochemistry, 435(2), 120-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ab.2012.12.024

The use of mRNA for the identification of body fluids is of particular interest in forensic science, and increasing support has been demonstrated for the use of microRNA (miRNA) analysis. MiRNA is more stable than mRNA and has been shown to be differ... Read More about Quantitative PCR analysis of blood- and saliva-specific microRNA markers following solid-phase DNA extraction.

Neural bases for individual differences in the subjective experience of short durations (less than 2 seconds) (2013)
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Tipples, J., Brattan, V., & Johnston, P. (2013). Neural bases for individual differences in the subjective experience of short durations (less than 2 seconds). PLoS ONE, 8(1), e54669. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054669

The current research was designed to establish whether individual differences in timing performance predict neural activation in the areas that subserve the perception of short durations ranging between 400 and 1600 milliseconds. Seventeen participan... Read More about Neural bases for individual differences in the subjective experience of short durations (less than 2 seconds).

Law, politics and the governance of English and Scottish joint-stock companies, 1600-1850 (2013)
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Freeman, M., Pearson, R., & Taylor, J. (2013). Law, politics and the governance of English and Scottish joint-stock companies, 1600-1850. Business history, 55(4), 636-652. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2012.741971

This article examines the impact of law on corporate governance by means of a case study of joint-stock enterprise in England and Scotland before 1850. Based on a dataset of over 450 company constitutions together with qualitative information on gove... Read More about Law, politics and the governance of English and Scottish joint-stock companies, 1600-1850.

Effect of vibration after filling on mechanical reliability in thin wall investment casting with fillability filling regime—part 1 (2013)
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Abdul-Karem, W., Green, N., Al-Raheem, K. F., & Hasan, A. H. A. (2013). Effect of vibration after filling on mechanical reliability in thin wall investment casting with fillability filling regime—part 1. International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 67(9-12), 2075-2082. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-012-4632-z

A vibration technique is used in this study to explore the effect of low frequency vibration on the mechanical reliability of Al-7Si-Mg castings. The quality of castings is related to the number and the size of porosity and oxide film in thin wall in... Read More about Effect of vibration after filling on mechanical reliability in thin wall investment casting with fillability filling regime—part 1.

“Funerals aren’t nice but it couldn’t have been nicer”. The makings of a good funeral (2013)
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Holloway, M., Adamson, S., Argyrou, V., Draper, P., & Mariau, D. (2013). “Funerals aren’t nice but it couldn’t have been nicer”. The makings of a good funeral. Mortality, 18(1), 30-53. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2012.755505

There is growing comment in both academic and popular writing about the shape and content of funerals today, with general agreement that we are seeing marked changes with a growing trend towards secularisation and personalisation. Despite this, there... Read More about “Funerals aren’t nice but it couldn’t have been nicer”. The makings of a good funeral.

Development and deployment of an intelligent kite aerial photography platform (iKAPP) for site surveying and image acquisition (2013)
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Murray, J. C., Neal, M. J., & Labrosse, F. (2013). Development and deployment of an intelligent kite aerial photography platform (iKAPP) for site surveying and image acquisition. Journal of field robotics, 30(2), 288-307. https://doi.org/10.1002/rob.21448

Aerial photographs and images are used by a variety of industries, including farming, landscaping, surveying, and agriculture, as well as academic researchers including archaeologists and geologists. Aerial imagery can provide a valuable resource for... Read More about Development and deployment of an intelligent kite aerial photography platform (iKAPP) for site surveying and image acquisition.

Nanoantibiotic particles for shape and size recognition of pathogens (2013)
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Borovicka, J., Paunov, V., & Stoyanov, S. D. (2013). Nanoantibiotic particles for shape and size recognition of pathogens. MRS Online Proceedings Library, 1498, 127 - 132. https://doi.org/10.1557/opl.2013.14

We have developed a novel class of colloidal particles capable of shape and size recognition as well as specific binding to the target cells. These colloid particles were fabricated using a nanoimprinting technology which yields inorganic imprints of... Read More about Nanoantibiotic particles for shape and size recognition of pathogens.

Empowering the smart grid: Can redox batteries be matched to renewable energy systems for energy storage? (2013)
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Halls, J. E., Hawthornthwaite, A., Hepworth, R. J., Roberts, N. A., Wright, K. J., Zhou, Y., …Wadhawan, J. D. (2013). Empowering the smart grid: Can redox batteries be matched to renewable energy systems for energy storage?. Energy & environmental science, 6(3), 1026-1041. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3ee23708g

The charging of an undivided cerium-zinc redox battery by various current waveforms some of which mimic the output of renewable energy (solar, wind, tidal, biofuel burning) to electricity transducers is considered in this work, where the battery oper... Read More about Empowering the smart grid: Can redox batteries be matched to renewable energy systems for energy storage?.

Religion, Political Thought and the English Civil War (2013)
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Prior, C. W. (2013). Religion, Political Thought and the English Civil War. History compass, 11(1), 24-42. https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12025

Religion has always been central to explanations of the political and ideological causes and course of the English civil war. Where historians once privileged aspects of the conflict that associated it with a broader narrative about the historic deve... Read More about Religion, Political Thought and the English Civil War.

The role of inhibitory control in the development of human figure drawing in young children (2013)
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Riggs, K. J., Jolley, R. P., & Simpson, A. (2013). The role of inhibitory control in the development of human figure drawing in young children. Journal of experimental child psychology, 114(4), 537-542. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2012.10.003

We investigated the role of inhibitory control in young children's human figure drawing. We used the Bear-Dragon task as a measure of inhibitory control and used the classification system devised by Cox and Parkin to measure the development of human... Read More about The role of inhibitory control in the development of human figure drawing in young children.

Food security risk level assessment: A fuzzy logic-based approach (2013)
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Abdul Kadir, M. K., Hines, E. L., Qaddoum, K., Collier, R., Dowler, E., Grant, W., …Napier, R. (2013). Food security risk level assessment: A fuzzy logic-based approach. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 27(1), 50-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/08839514.2013.747372

A fuzzy logic (FL)-based food security risk level assessment system is designed and is presented in this article. Three inputs - yield, production, and economic growth - are used to predict the level of risk associated with food supply. A number of p... Read More about Food security risk level assessment: A fuzzy logic-based approach.

Riverine Flux of Metals from Historically Mined Orefields in England and Wales (2013)
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Mayes, W. M., Potter, H. A. B., & Jarvis, A. P. (2013). Riverine Flux of Metals from Historically Mined Orefields in England and Wales. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 224(2), Article 1425. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-012-1425-9

The flux of metals at the tidal limits of major rivers are an important metric of freshwater contaminant transfer to marine habitats, reported in Northeast Atlantic bordering countries under the 1992 Oslo-Paris (OSPAR) Convention. This paper presents... Read More about Riverine Flux of Metals from Historically Mined Orefields in England and Wales.

Action simulation plays a critical role in deceptive action recognition (2013)
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Tidoni, E., Borgomaneri, S., di Pellegrino, G., & Avenanti, A. (2013). Action simulation plays a critical role in deceptive action recognition. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(2), 611-623. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2228-11.2013

The ability to infer deceptive intents from nonverbal behavior is critical for social interactions. By combining single-pulse and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in healthy humans, we provide both correlational and causative eviden... Read More about Action simulation plays a critical role in deceptive action recognition.

Effectiveness of screening and brief alcohol intervention in primary care (SIPS trial): Pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial (2013)
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Kaner, E., Bland, M., Cassidy, P., Coulton, S., Dale, V., Deluca, P., …Drummond, C. (2013). Effectiveness of screening and brief alcohol intervention in primary care (SIPS trial): Pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ, 346(7892), e8501-e8501. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e8501

Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of different brief intervention strategies at reducing hazardous or harmful drinking in primary care. The hypothesis was that more intensive intervention would result in a greater reduction in hazardous or harm... Read More about Effectiveness of screening and brief alcohol intervention in primary care (SIPS trial): Pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial.

Revealing influence: the forgotten daughters of Frances Sheridan (2013)
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Fitzer, A. M. (2013). Revealing influence: the forgotten daughters of Frances Sheridan. Women's Writing, 20(1), 64-81. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2013.754258

This article adopts a literal and metaphorical conceptualization of progeny to explore influence in relation to the works of the novelist and dramatist Frances Sheridan (1724-66) and her youngest daughter Elizabeth Sheridan, afterwards LeFanu (1758-1... Read More about Revealing influence: the forgotten daughters of Frances Sheridan.

Neutron capture cross section of unstable Ni63: Implications for stellar nucleosynthesis (2013)
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Wallner, A., Vlastou, R., Vlachoudis, V., Vermeulen, M. J., Versaci, R., Ventura, A., …Variale, V. (2013). Neutron capture cross section of unstable Ni63: Implications for stellar nucleosynthesis. Physical review letters, 110(2), Article 022501. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.110.022501

The Ni63(n,γ) cross section has been measured for the first time at the neutron time-of-flight facility n-TOF at CERN from thermal neutron energies up to 200 keV. In total, capture kernels of 12 (new) resonances were determined. Maxwellian averaged c... Read More about Neutron capture cross section of unstable Ni63: Implications for stellar nucleosynthesis.

A Novel Missense Mutation, I890T, in the Pore Region of Cardiac Sodium Channel Causes Brugada Syndrome (2013)
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Tarradas, A., Selga, E., Beltran-Alvarez, P., Pérez-Serra, A., Riuró, H., Picó, F., …Brugada, R. (2013). A Novel Missense Mutation, I890T, in the Pore Region of Cardiac Sodium Channel Causes Brugada Syndrome. PLoS ONE, 8(1), Article e53220. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0053220

Brugada syndrome (BrS) is a life-threatening, inherited arrhythmogenic syndrome associated with autosomal dominant mutations in SCN5A, the gene encoding the cardiac Na+ channel alpha subunit (Nav1.5). The aim of this work was to characterize the func... Read More about A Novel Missense Mutation, I890T, in the Pore Region of Cardiac Sodium Channel Causes Brugada Syndrome.

A commentary on studies presenting projections of the future prevalence of dementia (2013)
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Norton, S., Matthews, F. E., & Brayne, C. (2013). A commentary on studies presenting projections of the future prevalence of dementia. BMC public health, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-1

Background: Population ageing over the first half of this century is likely to lead to dramatic increases in the prevalence of dementia. This will affect all regions of the world, but particularly developing regions. Dementia projections have been us... Read More about A commentary on studies presenting projections of the future prevalence of dementia.

The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: probing the epoch of radiation domination using large-scale structure (2013)
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Poole, G. B., Blake, C., Parkinson, D., Brough, S., Colless, M., Contreras, C., …Yee, H. K. C. (2013). The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: probing the epoch of radiation domination using large-scale structure. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 429(3), 1902-1912. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sts431

We place the most robust constraint to date on the scale of the turnover in the cosmological matter power spectrum using data from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. We find this feature to lie at a scale of k 0 = 0.0160 +0.0035 -0.0041 (h Mpc -1 ) (6... Read More about The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: probing the epoch of radiation domination using large-scale structure.