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Meta-analysis of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors effect on walking ability and ankle brachial pressure index in patients with intermittent claudication (2013)
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Shahin, Y., Barnes, R., Barakat, H., & Chetter, I. C. (2013). Meta-analysis of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors effect on walking ability and ankle brachial pressure index in patients with intermittent claudication. Atherosclerosis, 231(2), 283-290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2013.09.037

Objective The aim of this meta-analysis was to investigate the effect of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors on maximum walking distance (MWD), pain-free walking distance (PFWD) and ankle brachial pressure index (ABPI) in patients with in... Read More about Meta-analysis of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors effect on walking ability and ankle brachial pressure index in patients with intermittent claudication.

Centennial-scale climate change in Ireland during the Holocene (2013)
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Swindles, G. T., Lawson, I. T., Matthews, I. P., Blaauw, M., Daley, T. J., Charman, D. J., …Armit, I. (2013). Centennial-scale climate change in Ireland during the Holocene. Earth-Science Reviews, 126, 300-320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.08.012

We examine mid- to late Holocene centennial-scale climate variability in Ireland using proxy data from peatlands, lakes and a speleothem. A high degree of between-record variability is apparent in the proxy data and significant chronological uncertai... Read More about Centennial-scale climate change in Ireland during the Holocene.

Maximising gain for minimal pain: Utilising natural game mechanics (2013)
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Gordon, N., Brayshaw, M., & Grey, S. (2013). Maximising gain for minimal pain: Utilising natural game mechanics. Innovation in teaching and learning in information and computer sciences, 12(1), 27-38. https://doi.org/10.11120/ital.2013.00004

This paper considers the application of natural games mechanics within higher education as a vehicle to encourage student engagement and achievement of desired learning outcomes. It concludes with desiderata of features for a learning environment whe... Read More about Maximising gain for minimal pain: Utilising natural game mechanics.

Active fault tolerant control for nonlinear systems with simultaneous actuator and sensor faults (2013)
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Sami, M., & Patton, R. J. (2013). Active fault tolerant control for nonlinear systems with simultaneous actuator and sensor faults. International journal of control, automation, and systems, 11(6), 1149-1161. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12555-013-0227-1

The goal of this paper is to describe a novel fault tolerant tracking control (FTTC) strategy based on robust fault estimation and compensation of simultaneous actuator and sensor faults. Within the framework of fault tolerant control (FTC) the chall... Read More about Active fault tolerant control for nonlinear systems with simultaneous actuator and sensor faults.

Environments and morphologies of red sequence galaxies with residual star formation in massive clusters (2013)
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Crossett, J. P., Pimbblet, K. A., Stott, J. P., & Jones, D. H. (2014). Environments and morphologies of red sequence galaxies with residual star formation in massive clusters. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 437(3), 2521-2530. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2065

We present a photometric investigation into recent star formation in galaxy clusters at z ∼ 0.1. We use spectral energy distribution templates to quantify recent star formation in large Xray-selected clusters from the LARCS survey using matched GALEX... Read More about Environments and morphologies of red sequence galaxies with residual star formation in massive clusters.

Prevalence and characterization of human mecC methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates in England (2013)
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Paterson, G. K., Morgan, F. J. E., Harrison, E. M., Cartwright, E. J. P., Török, M. E., Zadoks, R. N., …Holmes, M. A. (2014). Prevalence and characterization of human mecC methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates in England. The journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, 69(4), 907-910. https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkt462

Objectives There are limited data available on the epidemiology and prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the human population that encode the recently described mecA homologue, mecC. To address this knowledge gap we und... Read More about Prevalence and characterization of human mecC methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates in England.

Jordanian nurses' knowledge and responsibility for enteral nutrition in the critically ill (2013)
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Al Kalaldeh, M., Watson, R., & Hayter, M. (2015). Jordanian nurses' knowledge and responsibility for enteral nutrition in the critically ill. Nursing in Critical Care, 20(5), 229-241. https://doi.org/10.1111/nicc.12065

Background Poor nursing adherence to evidence-based guidelines has negative consequences leading to higher mortality rates, delayed recovery and longer length of stay. Evidence-based practice has the potential to minimize complications and discrepan... Read More about Jordanian nurses' knowledge and responsibility for enteral nutrition in the critically ill.

Training Mental Health Nurses to Assess the Physical Health Needs of Mental Health Service Users: A Pre- and Post-test Analysis (2013)
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White, J., Hemingway, S., & Stephenson, J. (2014). Training Mental Health Nurses to Assess the Physical Health Needs of Mental Health Service Users: A Pre- and Post-test Analysis. Perspectives in psychiatric care, 50(4), 243-250. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppc.12048

© 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Purpose: The aim of this project was to develop, deliver, and evaluate a brief evidenced-based education package to enhance physical health literacy in mental health nurses. Design and Methods: Pre- and post-test survey... Read More about Training Mental Health Nurses to Assess the Physical Health Needs of Mental Health Service Users: A Pre- and Post-test Analysis.

Colonization and dispersal patterns of the invasive American brine shrimp Artemia franciscana (Branchiopoda: Anostraca) in the Mediterranean region (2013)
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Muñoz, J., Gómez, A., Figuerola, J., Amat, F., Rico, C., & Green, A. J. (2014). Colonization and dispersal patterns of the invasive American brine shrimp Artemia franciscana (Branchiopoda: Anostraca) in the Mediterranean region. Hydrobiologia, 726(1), 25-41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-013-1748-6

Cysts of the brine shrimp Artemia franciscana are harvested from the Great Salt Lake (GSL) and San Francisco Bay (SFB) saltworks in the USA, and marketed worldwide to provide live food for aquaculture. This species has become invasive across several... Read More about Colonization and dispersal patterns of the invasive American brine shrimp Artemia franciscana (Branchiopoda: Anostraca) in the Mediterranean region.

Water-in-water emulsions based on incompatible polymers and stabilized by triblock copolymers-templated polymersomes (2013)
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Buzza, D. M. A., Fletcher, P. D. I., Georgiou, T. K., & Ghasdian, N. (2013). Water-in-water emulsions based on incompatible polymers and stabilized by triblock copolymers-templated polymersomes. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 29(48), 14804-14814. https://doi.org/10.1021/la403356j

Aqueous solutions containing a mixture of polyethylene glycol (PEG) and dextran homopolymers form an aqueous two-phase system which can be emulsified to give a water-in-water emulsion. We show how these emulsions can be stabilized using triblock poly... Read More about Water-in-water emulsions based on incompatible polymers and stabilized by triblock copolymers-templated polymersomes.

The intergenerational effect of parental education on child health: evidence from the UK (2013)
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Silles, M. A. (2015). The intergenerational effect of parental education on child health: evidence from the UK. Education Economics, 23(4), 455-469. https://doi.org/10.1080/09645292.2013.858660

While many earlier studies have shown a positive correlation between parents' education and children health, little attempt has been made to address the possibility that unobserved characteristics underlie this intergenerational relationship. This pa... Read More about The intergenerational effect of parental education on child health: evidence from the UK.

Does one cigarette make an adolescent smoker, and is it influenced by age and age of smoking initiation? Evidence of association from the U.S. Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (2011) (2013)
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Reidpath, D. D., Davey, T. M., Kadirvelu, A., Soyiri, I. N., & Allotey, P. (2014). Does one cigarette make an adolescent smoker, and is it influenced by age and age of smoking initiation? Evidence of association from the U.S. Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (2011). Preventive Medicine, 59(1), 37-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2013.11.011

Objectives: Evidence that age of smoking initiation represents a risk factor for regular smoking in adolescence is complicated by inconsistencies in the operational definition of smoking initiation and simultaneous inclusion of age as an explanatory... Read More about Does one cigarette make an adolescent smoker, and is it influenced by age and age of smoking initiation? Evidence of association from the U.S. Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (2011).

Replication stress and chromatin context link ATM activation to a role in DNA replication (2013)
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Olcina, M. M., Foskolou, I. P., Anbalagan, S., Senra, J. M., Pires, I. M., Jiang, Y., …Hammond, E. M. (2013). Replication stress and chromatin context link ATM activation to a role in DNA replication. Molecular cell, 52(5), 758-766. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2013.10.019

ATM-mediated signaling in response to DNA damage is a barrier to tumorigenesis. Here we asked whether replication stress could also contribute to ATM signaling. We demonstrate that, in the absence of DNA damage, ATM responds to replication stress in... Read More about Replication stress and chromatin context link ATM activation to a role in DNA replication.

Does high frequency trading affect technical analysis and market efficiency? And if so, how? (2013)
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Manahov, V., Hudson, R., & Gebka, B. (2014). Does high frequency trading affect technical analysis and market efficiency? And if so, how?. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 28, 131-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2013.11.002

In this paper we investigate how high frequency trading affects technical analysis and market efficiency in the foreign exchange (FX) market by using a special adaptive form of the Strongly Typed Genetic Programming (STGP)-based learning algorithm. W... Read More about Does high frequency trading affect technical analysis and market efficiency? And if so, how?.

The exploitation of biomass for building space heating in Greece: Energy, environmental and economic considerations (2013)
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Michopoulos, A., Skoulou, V., Voulgari, V., Tsikaloudaki, A., & Kyriakis, N. A. (2014). The exploitation of biomass for building space heating in Greece: Energy, environmental and economic considerations. Energy Conversion and Management, 78, 276-285. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2013.10.055

The exploitation of forest and agricultural biomass residues for energy production may offer significant advantages to the energy policy of the relevant country, but it strongly depends on a number of financial, technological and political factors. T... Read More about The exploitation of biomass for building space heating in Greece: Energy, environmental and economic considerations.

Filamin-A is required for the incorporation of tissue factor into cell-derived microvesicles (2013)
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Collier, M. E. W., Ettelaie, C., & Maraveyas, A. (2014). Filamin-A is required for the incorporation of tissue factor into cell-derived microvesicles. Thrombosis and haemostasis, 111(4), 647-655. https://doi.org/10.1160/TH13-09-0769

We previously reported that the incorporation of tissue factor (TF) into cell-derived microvesicles (MVs) is regulated by the phosphorylation of the cytoplasmic domain of TF. Since the cytoskeletal protein filamin-A is known to bind to the cytoplasmi... Read More about Filamin-A is required for the incorporation of tissue factor into cell-derived microvesicles.

Two-magnon bound state causes ultrafast thermally induced magnetisation switching (2013)
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Barker, J., Atxitia, U., Ostler, T. A., Hovorka, O., Chubykalo-Fesenko, O., & Chantrell, R. W. (2013). Two-magnon bound state causes ultrafast thermally induced magnetisation switching. Scientific reports, 3, Article 3262. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep03262

There has been much interest recently in the discovery of thermally induced magnetisation switching using femtosecond laser excitation, where a ferrimagnetic system can be switched deterministically without an applied magnetic field. Experimental res... Read More about Two-magnon bound state causes ultrafast thermally induced magnetisation switching.

Priming by relational integration in perceptual identification and Stroop colour naming (2013)
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Mather, E., Estes, Z., & Jones, L. L. (2014). Priming by relational integration in perceptual identification and Stroop colour naming. Journal of Memory and Language, 71(1), 57-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2013.10.004

Integrative priming is the facilitated recognition of a target word following a prime word with which it can be combined to produce a sub-type of the target (e.g., a lake bird is a type of bird). Such priming occurs even in the absence of lexical ass... Read More about Priming by relational integration in perceptual identification and Stroop colour naming.