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P33. Optimising student experience: an innovative and integrated tutor support and development programme (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hammond, A., & Henderson, J. (2013, May). P33. Optimising student experience: an innovative and integrated tutor support and development programme. Poster presented at Fifth International Clinical Skills Conference: Clinical Skills Education - Building Bridges between Simulation and Practice, Prato, Italy

Background The curriculum of the five year MBBS course at HYMS is integrated and student–centred with regular clinical skills sessions throughout the first two years. The clinical skills tutors are practising clinicians who deliver their teaching rol... Read More about P33. Optimising student experience: an innovative and integrated tutor support and development programme.

Simultaneous analysis of micro-RNA and DNA for determining the body fluid origin of DNA profiles (2013)
Journal Article
van der Meer, D., Uchimoto, M. L., & Williams, G. (2013). Simultaneous analysis of micro-RNA and DNA for determining the body fluid origin of DNA profiles. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 58(4), 967-971. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.12160

Micro-RNAs (miRNAs) can be specifically expressed in forensically relevant body fluids such as blood or saliva. The aim of the study was to develop a simultaneous extraction and analysis protocol that allows for the acquisition of a DNA profile and t... Read More about Simultaneous analysis of micro-RNA and DNA for determining the body fluid origin of DNA profiles.

Symptoms of airway reflux predict exacerbations and quality of life in bronchiectasis (2013)
Journal Article
Mandal, P., Morice, A. H., Chalmers, J. D., & Hill, A. T. (2013). Symptoms of airway reflux predict exacerbations and quality of life in bronchiectasis. Respiratory medicine, 107(7), 1008-1013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2013.04.006

Aim We have explored the association of the upper airway symptoms related to cough with exacerbation frequency, sputum microbiology and inflammatory markers in patients with non cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis. Methods Patients with bronchiectasis com... Read More about Symptoms of airway reflux predict exacerbations and quality of life in bronchiectasis.

Intravenous or nebulised magnesium sulphate versus standard therapy for severe acute asthma (3Mg trial): a double-blind, randomised controlled trial (2013)
Journal Article
Goodacre, S., Cohen, J., Bradburn, M., Gray, A., Benger, J., & Coats, T. (2013). Intravenous or nebulised magnesium sulphate versus standard therapy for severe acute asthma (3Mg trial): a double-blind, randomised controlled trial. The lancet. Respiratory medicine, 1(4), 293-300. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600%2813%2970070-5

Background: Previous studies suggested intravenous or nebulised magnesium sulphate (MgSO4) might improve respiratory function in patients with acute asthma. We aimed to determine whether intravenous or nebulised MgSO4 improve symptoms of breathlessne... Read More about Intravenous or nebulised magnesium sulphate versus standard therapy for severe acute asthma (3Mg trial): a double-blind, randomised controlled trial.

Repeated supra-maximal sprint cycling with and without sodium bicarbonate supplementation induces endothelial microparticle release (2013)
Journal Article
Kirk, R. J., Peart, D. J., Madden, L. A., & Vince, R. V. (2014). Repeated supra-maximal sprint cycling with and without sodium bicarbonate supplementation induces endothelial microparticle release. European journal of sport science : the official journal of the European College of Sport Science, 14(4), 345-352. https://doi.org/10.1080/17461391.2013.785600

Under normal homeostatic conditions, the endothelium releases microparticles (MP), which are known to increase under stressful conditions and in disease states. CD105 (endoglin) and CD106 (vascular cell adhesion molecule-1) are expressed on the surfa... Read More about Repeated supra-maximal sprint cycling with and without sodium bicarbonate supplementation induces endothelial microparticle release.

Advanced diagnostics applied to fish liver tumours: Relating pathology to underlying molecular aetiology (2013)
Journal Article
Lerebours, A., Bignell, J. P., Stentiford, G. D., Feist, S. W., Lyons, B. P., & Rotchell, J. M. (2013). Advanced diagnostics applied to fish liver tumours: Relating pathology to underlying molecular aetiology. Marine pollution bulletin, 72(1), 94-98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.04.016

Liver tumours in flatfish have been diagnosed using histopathology for decades in order to monitor the impacts of marine pollution in coastal and estuarine environments. This traditional method has been coupled with molecular analyses of tumours in t... Read More about Advanced diagnostics applied to fish liver tumours: Relating pathology to underlying molecular aetiology.

Highly active, thermally stable, ethylene-polymerisation pre-catalysts based on niobium/tantalum-imine systems (2013)
Journal Article
Redshaw, C., Walton, M., Clowes, L., Hughes, D. L., Fuller, A. M., Chao, Y., Walton, A., Sumerin, V., Elo, P., Soshnikov, I., Zhao, W., & Sun, W. H. (2013). Highly active, thermally stable, ethylene-polymerisation pre-catalysts based on niobium/tantalum-imine systems. Chemistry: a European journal, 19(27), 8884-8899. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201300453

The reactions of MCl 5 or MOCl 3 with imidazole-based pro-ligand L 1 H, 3,5-tBu 2 -2-OH-C 6 H 2 -(4,5-Ph 2 -1H-)imidazole, or oxazole-based ligand L 2 H, 3,5-tBu 2 -2-OH-C 6 H 2 (1H- phenanthro[9,10-d])oxazole, following work-up, afforded octahedral... Read More about Highly active, thermally stable, ethylene-polymerisation pre-catalysts based on niobium/tantalum-imine systems.

Measuring currency pressures: the cases of the Japanese yen, the Chinese yuan, and the UK pound (2013)
Journal Article
Hall, S. G., Kenjegaliev, A., Swamy, P. A. V. B., & Tavlas, G. S. (2013). Measuring currency pressures: the cases of the Japanese yen, the Chinese yuan, and the UK pound. Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 29(September), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jjie.2013.04.001

We investigate bilateral currency pressures against the US dollar for three currencies: the Japanese yen, the Chinese yuan, and the UK pound during the period 2000:Q1 to 2009:Q4. We employ a model-based methodology to measure exchange market pressure... Read More about Measuring currency pressures: the cases of the Japanese yen, the Chinese yuan, and the UK pound.

The kinin–kallikrein system: physiological roles, pathophysiology and its relationship to cancer biomarkers (2013)
Journal Article
Kashuba, E., Bailey, J., Allsup, D., & Cawkwell, L. (2013). The kinin–kallikrein system: physiological roles, pathophysiology and its relationship to cancer biomarkers. Biomarkers, 18(4), 279-296. https://doi.org/10.3109/1354750x.2013.787544

The kinin–kallikrein system (KKS) is an endogenous multiprotein cascade, the activation of which leads to triggering of the intrinsic coagulation pathway and enzymatic hydrolysis of kininogens with the consequent release of bradykinin-related peptide... Read More about The kinin–kallikrein system: physiological roles, pathophysiology and its relationship to cancer biomarkers.

Pupil Mobility: Using Students' Voices to Explore their Experiences of Changing Schools (2013)
Journal Article
Messiou, K., & Jones, L. (2015). Pupil Mobility: Using Students' Voices to Explore their Experiences of Changing Schools. Children & society, 29(4), 255-265. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12026

© 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd and National Children's Bureau. This article explores the ways in which students' voices can be used to analyse the process of moving schools, at a time outside of those that young people normally change schools. The pa... Read More about Pupil Mobility: Using Students' Voices to Explore their Experiences of Changing Schools.

Ending with a whimper, not a bang: The relationship between Atlantic history and the study of the nineteenth-century South (2013)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2013). Ending with a whimper, not a bang: The relationship between Atlantic history and the study of the nineteenth-century South. In B. Ward, M. Bone, & W. A. Link (Eds.), The American South and the Atlantic world (129-148). University Press of Florida. https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813044378.003.0007

This historiographical chapter argues that, for all its many achievements, Atlantic History’s early modern fixation has exacerbated an unhelpful division between American colonial historians, who have been increasingly committed to Atlanto-centric pe... Read More about Ending with a whimper, not a bang: The relationship between Atlantic history and the study of the nineteenth-century South.

Prevalence of autism in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2013)
Journal Article
Sun, X., Allison, C., Matthews, F. E., Sharp, S. J., Auyeung, B., Baron-Cohen, S., & Brayne, C. (2013). Prevalence of autism in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Molecular Autism, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/2040-2392-4-7

Background: The prevalence of autism spectrum conditions (ASC) is 1% in developed countries, but little data are available from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. This study synthesizes evidence relating to the prevalence of ASC in these areas and... Read More about Prevalence of autism in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Chronic cough hypersensitivity syndrome (2013)
Journal Article
Morice, A. H. (2013). Chronic cough hypersensitivity syndrome. Cough, 9(1), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-9974-9-14

Chronic cough has been suggested to be due to three conditions, asthma, post nasal drip, and reflux disease. A different paradigm has evolved in which cough is viewed as the primary condition characterised by afferent neuronal hypersensitivity and di... Read More about Chronic cough hypersensitivity syndrome.

Identifying individual psychosocial and adherence support needs in patients with psoriasis: a multinational two-stage qualitative and quantitative study (2013)
Journal Article
Bewley, A., Burrage, D. M., Ersser, S. J., Hansen, M., & Ward, C. (2014). Identifying individual psychosocial and adherence support needs in patients with psoriasis: a multinational two-stage qualitative and quantitative study. Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, 28(6), 763-770. https://doi.org/10.1111/jdv.12174

Background Psoriasis has a serious impact on patients' lives. However, adherence to medications is often poor, potentially compounding the burden of disease. Identifying patients who need support with psychosocial problems, or issues with adherence,... Read More about Identifying individual psychosocial and adherence support needs in patients with psoriasis: a multinational two-stage qualitative and quantitative study.

Fuzzy rule-based system applied to risk estimation of cardiovascular patients (2013)
Journal Article
Bohacik, J., & Davis, D. N. (2013). Fuzzy rule-based system applied to risk estimation of cardiovascular patients. Journal of Multiple-Valued Logic and Soft Computing, 20(5-6), 445-466

Cardiovascular decision support is one area of increasing research interest. On-going collaborations between clinicians and computer scientists are looking at the application of knowledge discovery in databases to the area of patient diagnosis, based... Read More about Fuzzy rule-based system applied to risk estimation of cardiovascular patients.

Air-cushioning in impact problems (2013)
Journal Article
Moore, M. R., Ockendon, J. R., & Oliver, J. M. (2013). Air-cushioning in impact problems. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, 78(4), 818-838. https://doi.org/10.1093/imamat/hxt026

This paper concerns the displacement potential formulation of the post-impact influence of an air-cushioning layer on the 2D impact of a liquid half-space by a rigid body. The liquid and air are both ideal and incompressible and attention is focussed... Read More about Air-cushioning in impact problems.

Synthesis and fluorescence emission properties of 1,3,6,8-tetraarylpyrenes (2013)
Journal Article
Hu, J. Y., Feng, X., Tomiyasu, H., Seto, N., Rayhan, U., Elsegood, M. R., Redshaw, C., & Yamato, T. (2013). Synthesis and fluorescence emission properties of 1,3,6,8-tetraarylpyrenes. Journal of molecular structure, 1047, 194-203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2013.04.074

Three types of stable pyrene-based highly fluorescence (blue) compounds, 1-, 1,6-bis, 1,8-bis and 1,3,6,8-tetrakis(7-tert-butylpyrenyl)pyrenes and 1,3,6,8-tetrakis[9,9-bis(3-methylbutyl)-9H-fluoren-2-yl]pyrene, were successfully synthesized via a Pd/... Read More about Synthesis and fluorescence emission properties of 1,3,6,8-tetraarylpyrenes.

Phase field simulation of binary alloy dendrite growth under thermal- and forced-flow fields: An implementation of the parallel-multigrid approach (2013)
Journal Article
Guo, Z., Mi, J., Xiong, S., & Grant, P. S. (2013). Phase field simulation of binary alloy dendrite growth under thermal- and forced-flow fields: An implementation of the parallel-multigrid approach. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 44(4), 924-937. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11663-013-9861-5

Dendrite growth and morphology evolution during solidification have been studied using a phase field model incorporating melt convection effects, which was solved using a robust and efficient parallel, multigrid computing approach. Single dendrite gr... Read More about Phase field simulation of binary alloy dendrite growth under thermal- and forced-flow fields: An implementation of the parallel-multigrid approach.

Polycystic ovary syndrome has no independent effect on vascular, inflammatory or thrombotic markers when matched for obesity (2013)
Journal Article
Kahal, H., Aburima, A., Ungvari, T., Rigby, A. S., Dawson, A. J., Coady, A. M., Vince, R. V., Ajjan, R. A., Kilpatrick, E. S., Naseem, K. M., & Atkin, S. L. (2013). Polycystic ovary syndrome has no independent effect on vascular, inflammatory or thrombotic markers when matched for obesity. Clinical Endocrinology, 79(2), 252-258. https://doi.org/10.1111/cen.12137

Introduction Previous studies investigating cardiovascular (CV) risk in obese women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) have been potentially confounded by not adequately accounting for body weight. Objective To assess if PCOS increases CV risk ind... Read More about Polycystic ovary syndrome has no independent effect on vascular, inflammatory or thrombotic markers when matched for obesity.