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The influence of oxidised low density lipoproteins on platelet activation (2013)
Thesis
Wraith, K. S. (2013). The influence of oxidised low density lipoproteins on platelet activation. (Thesis). Hull York Medical School, the University of Hull and the University of York. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4214678

The oxidation of low density lipoproteins (LDL) may contribute to platelet hyperactivity and thrombotic events in cardiovascular diseases. Although these pathological particles are known to stimulate platelet activation, the exact signalling mechanis... Read More about The influence of oxidised low density lipoproteins on platelet activation.

Do committees make a difference? : an examination of the viscosity of legislative committees in the British House of Commons (2013)
Thesis
Thompson, L. (2013). Do committees make a difference? : an examination of the viscosity of legislative committees in the British House of Commons. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4214520

Public bill committees in the British House of Commons play a crucial role in the scrutiny of government legislation. The reform of the bill committee system in 2006 and the introduction of oral evidence taking as a standard procedure significantly r... Read More about Do committees make a difference? : an examination of the viscosity of legislative committees in the British House of Commons.

Halonickel 2,4-di-t-butyl-6-(quinolin-8-yliminomethyl)phenolates: Synthesis, characterization and ethylene reactivity (2013)
Journal Article
Shi, Q. S., Hao, X., Redshaw, C., & Sun, W. H. (2013). Halonickel 2,4-di-t-butyl-6-(quinolin-8-yliminomethyl)phenolates: Synthesis, characterization and ethylene reactivity. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 31(5), 769-777. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10118-013-1266-z

A series of nickel halides bearing 2,4-di-t-butyl-6-(quinolin-8- yliminomethyl) phenolate ligands was synthesized and characterized by IR spectroscopy and elemental analysis. Molecular structures of C1 (R = H, X = Br) and C2 (R = H, X = Cl) were furt... Read More about Halonickel 2,4-di-t-butyl-6-(quinolin-8-yliminomethyl)phenolates: Synthesis, characterization and ethylene reactivity.

Secondary bone tumors in prostate cancer: New treatments on the horizon (2013)
Book Chapter
Sturge, J. (2013). Secondary bone tumors in prostate cancer: New treatments on the horizon. In M. Berhouma (Ed.), Bone tumors: Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment (145-175). Nova Science Publishers

Secondary bone tumors associated with the advancement of solid tumors of the prostate and other tissue sites result in the increased risk of intractable bone pain, pathological skeletal fracture and spinal-cord compression. In addition to increasing... Read More about Secondary bone tumors in prostate cancer: New treatments on the horizon.

A caspase-3 'death-switch' in colorectal cancer cells for induced and synchronous tumor apoptosis in vitro and in vivo facilitates the development of minimally invasive cell death biomarkers (2013)
Journal Article
Simpson, K. L., Cawthorne, C., Zhou, C., Hodgkinson, C. L., Walker, M. J., Trapani, F., Kadirvel, M., Brown, G., Dawson, M. J., MacFarlane, M., Williams, K. J., Whetton, A. D., & Dive, C. (2013). A caspase-3 'death-switch' in colorectal cancer cells for induced and synchronous tumor apoptosis in vitro and in vivo facilitates the development of minimally invasive cell death biomarkers. Cell Death and Disease, 4(5), e613-e613. https://doi.org/10.1038/cddis.2013.137

Novel anticancer drugs targeting key apoptosis regulators have been developed and are undergoing clinical trials. Pharmacodynamic biomarkers to define the optimum dose of drug that provokes tumor apoptosis are in demand; acquisition of longitudinal t... Read More about A caspase-3 'death-switch' in colorectal cancer cells for induced and synchronous tumor apoptosis in vitro and in vivo facilitates the development of minimally invasive cell death biomarkers.

Exploring individual differences in scenario planning workshops: A cognitive style framework (2013)
Journal Article
Franco, L. A., Meadows, M., & Armstrong, S. J. (2013). Exploring individual differences in scenario planning workshops: A cognitive style framework. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 80(4), 723-734. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2012.02.008

In recent years, scenario planning has enjoyed wide acceptance among practitioners and academics as a decision support aid in the strategy formulation process. Although different approaches to scenario planning are possible, most of them are usually... Read More about Exploring individual differences in scenario planning workshops: A cognitive style framework.

Contextual match and cue-independence of retrieval-induced forgetting: testing the prediction of the model by Norman, Newman, and Detre (2007). (2013)
Journal Article
Hanczakowski, M., & Mazzoni, G. (2013). Contextual match and cue-independence of retrieval-induced forgetting: testing the prediction of the model by Norman, Newman, and Detre (2007). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39(3), 953-958. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030531

Retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) is the finding of impaired memory performance for information stored in long-term memory due to retrieval of a related set of information. This phenomenon is often assigned to operations of a specialized mechanism r... Read More about Contextual match and cue-independence of retrieval-induced forgetting: testing the prediction of the model by Norman, Newman, and Detre (2007)..

Safety Analysis of a Remote Patient Monitoring System with a Guideline Based Decision Support (2013)
Book Chapter
Al-Qora'n, L., Sharvia, S., Papadopoulos, Y., & Gordon, N. (2013). Safety Analysis of a Remote Patient Monitoring System with a Guideline Based Decision Support. In Global Telemedicine and eHealth Updates: Knowledge Resources (527 - 531). International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth

Home Telehealth systems are used to help in the management of chronic conditions by patients themselves. Effective safety analysis tools are needed to ensure reliability and safety of these high risk systems. We hereby explain how Hierarchically-Perf... Read More about Safety Analysis of a Remote Patient Monitoring System with a Guideline Based Decision Support.

National legal systems and globalization: New role, continuing relevance (2013)
Book
Larouche, P., & Cserne, P. (2013). P. Larouche, & P. Cserne (Eds.). National legal systems and globalization: New role, continuing relevance. TMC Asser Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-6704-885-9

This book sheds a new light on the fate of national legal systems in an era of globalization, with a more optimistic message than elsewhere in the literature This book was written by a team of experts in comparative law and law and economics, two per... Read More about National legal systems and globalization: New role, continuing relevance.

An overview of web-based school collaboration: a history of success or failure? (2013)
Journal Article
Gouseti, A. (2013). An overview of web-based school collaboration: a history of success or failure?. Cambridge Journal of Education, 43(3), 377-390. https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2013.792785

The notion of school collaboration has become widely recognised as an effective means of fostering cultural links and supporting communication between geographically separated schools. As shall be acknowledged in this paper, school collaboration foll... Read More about An overview of web-based school collaboration: a history of success or failure?.

Correlates of eye colour and pattern in mantellid frogs (2013)
Journal Article
Amat, F., Wollenberg, K. C., & Vences, M. (2013). Correlates of eye colour and pattern in mantellid frogs. Salamandra - German Journal of Herpetology, 49(1), 7-17

With more than 250 species, the Mantellidae is the most species-rich family of frogs in Madagascar. These frogs are highly diversified in morphology, ecology and natural history. Based on a molecular phylogeny of 248 mantellids, we here examine the d... Read More about Correlates of eye colour and pattern in mantellid frogs.

The structuration of relational space: implications for firm and regional competitiveness (2013)
Journal Article
Nicholson, J., Tsagdis, D., & Brennan, R. (2013). The structuration of relational space: implications for firm and regional competitiveness. Industrial marketing management, 42(3), 372-381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2013.02.013

The central contention is that there is a coincidence of research interests between industrial marketing and economic geography in relation to spatial embeddedness in business relationships. There are nuances in relational economic geography that hav... Read More about The structuration of relational space: implications for firm and regional competitiveness.

Social problem solving, social cognition, and mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's Disease (2013)
Journal Article
Anderson, R. J., Simpson, A. C., Channon, S., Samuel, M., & Brown, R. G. (2013). Social problem solving, social cognition, and mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's Disease. Behavioral Neuroscience, 127(2), 184-192. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030250

Cognitive impairment is a recognized feature of Parkinson's disease (PD), which, even if mild, can impact some aspects of a patient's ability to deal with everyday life. The current study examined the ability to solve social problems in three groups... Read More about Social problem solving, social cognition, and mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's Disease.

Effects of presentation format and list length on children's false memories (2013)
Journal Article
Swannell, E. R., & Dewhurst, S. A. (2013). Effects of presentation format and list length on children's false memories. Journal of cognition and development : official journal of the Cognitive Development Society, 14(2), 332-342. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2011.638689

The effect of list length on children's false memories was investigated using list and story versions of the Deese/Roediger-McDermott (DRM) procedure. Short (7 items) and long (14 items) sequences of semantic associates were presented to children age... Read More about Effects of presentation format and list length on children's false memories.

The in-plane thermal conductivity and the contact resistance of the components of the membrane electrode assembly in proton exchange membrane fuel cells (2013)
Journal Article
Alhazmi, N., Ismail, M. S., Ingham, D. B., Hughes, K. J., Ma, L., & Pourkashanian, M. (2013). The in-plane thermal conductivity and the contact resistance of the components of the membrane electrode assembly in proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Journal of power sources, 241, 136-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2013.04.100

Understanding the thermal properties of the materials which are used in a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEM) is essential for the thermal management of a PEM fuel cell and consequently for improving its performance. In this paper, the parallel... Read More about The in-plane thermal conductivity and the contact resistance of the components of the membrane electrode assembly in proton exchange membrane fuel cells.

Controlling factors on heavy mineral assemblages in Chinese loess and red clay (2013)
Journal Article
Nie, J., Peng, W., Pfaff, K., Möller, A., Garzanti, E., Andò, S., Stevens, T., Bird, A., Chang, H., Song, Y., Liu, S., & Ji, S. (2013). Controlling factors on heavy mineral assemblages in Chinese loess and red clay. Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 381-382, 110-118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.04.020

Heavy-mineral analysis is a sensitive technique in constraining provenance of sandstone, but has rarely been applied to loess. Here we report a heavy-mineral study of selected samples from the Luochuan, Xifeng and Caoxian loess-Red Clay sections on t... Read More about Controlling factors on heavy mineral assemblages in Chinese loess and red clay.

Soft OR in China: A critical report (2013)
Journal Article
Li, Y., & Zhu, Z. (2014). Soft OR in China: A critical report. European journal of operational research, 232(3), 427-434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2013.04.035

As China's reform steps into the 'deep water zone' where value complexity becomes paramount, general-purpose decision-making aids such as Operational Research (OR) are increasingly confronted with the challenge of dealing with interest conflicts. How... Read More about Soft OR in China: A critical report.

Forecasting asthma-related hospital admissions in London using negative binomial models (2013)
Journal Article
Soyiri, I. N., Reidpath, D. D., & Sarran, C. (2013). Forecasting asthma-related hospital admissions in London using negative binomial models. Chronic Respiratory Disease, 10(2), 85-94. https://doi.org/10.1177/1479972313482847

Health forecasting can improve health service provision and individual patient outcomes. Environmental factors are known to impact chronic respiratory conditions such as asthma, but little is known about the extent to which these factors can be used... Read More about Forecasting asthma-related hospital admissions in London using negative binomial models.