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Increased platelet binding to circulating monocytes in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. (2014)
Journal Article
Fahim, A., Crooks, M. G., Morice, A. H., & Hart, S. P. (2014). Increased platelet binding to circulating monocytes in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Lung, 192(2), 277-284. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00408-013-9546-5

Purpose Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is the most common idiopathic interstitial pneumonia and its prognosis is poor. Epidemiological evidence suggests an association of IPF with vascular disease and thrombotic tendency, which may be related to... Read More about Increased platelet binding to circulating monocytes in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis..

Psychological and educational interventions for atopic eczema in children (2014)
Journal Article
Flohr, C., Thompson, A. R., Drury, A., Cowdell, F., Ware, F., Farasat, H., Jackson, K., Thomas, P., Ersser, S. J., Latter, S., & Gardiner, E. (2014). Psychological and educational interventions for atopic eczema in children. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2017(5), 0 - 0. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD004054.pub3

© 2017 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Background: Psychological and educational interventions have been used as an adjunct to conventional therapy for children with atopic eczema to enhance the effectiveness of top... Read More about Psychological and educational interventions for atopic eczema in children.

Teacher and student perceptions of the development of learner autonomy : a case study in the biological sciences (2014)
Journal Article
Scott, G. W., Furnell, J., Murphy, C. M., & Goulder, R. (2015). Teacher and student perceptions of the development of learner autonomy : a case study in the biological sciences. Studies in higher education, 40(6), 945-956. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2013.842216

Biology teachers in a UK university expressed a majority view that student learning autonomy increases with progression through university. A minority suggested that pre-existing diversity in learning autonomy was more important and that individuals... Read More about Teacher and student perceptions of the development of learner autonomy : a case study in the biological sciences.

Greater than the sum of the parts? Unpacking ethics of care within a community supported agriculture scheme (2014)
Book Chapter
Cox, R., Kneafsey, M., Holloway, L., Dowler, E., & Venn, L. (2014). Greater than the sum of the parts? Unpacking ethics of care within a community supported agriculture scheme. In M. K. Goodman, & C. Sage (Eds.), Food Transgressions: Making Sense of Contemporary Food Politics (61-81). Farnham: Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315582702

The concept of the moral economy directs attention to the moral and ethical frameworks through which everyday decisions are framed and enacted. This chapter shows that by exposing the very real differences in the priorities and actions of EarthShare... Read More about Greater than the sum of the parts? Unpacking ethics of care within a community supported agriculture scheme.

A new stellar chemo-kinematic relation reveals the merger history of the milky way disk (2014)
Journal Article
Minchev, I., Chiappini, C., Martig, M., Steinmetz, M., De Jong, R. S., Boeche, C., Scannapieco, C., Zwitter, T., Wyse, R. F. G., Binney, J. J., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Bienaymé, O., Famaey, B., Freeman, K. C., Gibson, B. K., Grebel, E. K., Gilmore, G., Helmi, A., Kordopatis, G., Lee, Y. S., …Williams, M. (2014). A new stellar chemo-kinematic relation reveals the merger history of the milky way disk. Astrophysical journal. Letters, 781(1), L20. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/781/1/l20

The velocity dispersions of stars near the Sun are known to increase with stellar age, but age can be difficult to determine, so a proxy like the abundance of α elements (e.g., Mg) with respect to iron, [α/Fe], is used. Here we report an unexpected b... Read More about A new stellar chemo-kinematic relation reveals the merger history of the milky way disk.

'Picturesque and dramatic' or 'dull recitals of threadbare fare': good practice in history teaching in elementary schools in England, 1872-1905 (2014)
Journal Article
Smith, J. T. (2014). 'Picturesque and dramatic' or 'dull recitals of threadbare fare': good practice in history teaching in elementary schools in England, 1872-1905. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 46(1), 93-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2014.856873

This article draws on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century teaching manuals, reports of Her Majesty's Inspectors, history textbooks ('readers'), other administrators' and teachers' accounts, policy documents and pupils' reminiscences to refut... Read More about 'Picturesque and dramatic' or 'dull recitals of threadbare fare': good practice in history teaching in elementary schools in England, 1872-1905.

Making meat collectivities : entanglements of geneticisation, integration and contestation in livestock breeding (2014)
Book Chapter
Gibbs, D., Holloway, L., Gilna, B., & Morris, C. (2014). Making meat collectivities : entanglements of geneticisation, integration and contestation in livestock breeding. In M. K. Goodman, & C. Sage (Eds.), Food Transgressions : Making Sense of Contemporary Food Politics (155-180). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315582702

To explore some of the contours of this meat ‘supply chain integration’ - ‘the phrase of the moment’ according to Farmers Weekly - this chapter draws on research conducted as part of a project exploring the effects of the emergence of particular type... Read More about Making meat collectivities : entanglements of geneticisation, integration and contestation in livestock breeding.

Efficient compact micro DBD plasma reactor for ozone generation for industrial application in liquid and gas phase systems (2014)
Journal Article
Kuvshinov, D., Lozano-Parada, J., Siswanto, A., & Zimmerman, W. (2014). Efficient compact micro DBD plasma reactor for ozone generation for industrial application in liquid and gas phase systems. International journal of chemical, molecular, nuclear, materials and metallurgical engineering, 8(1), 80-83. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1090542

Ozone is well known as a powerful, fast reacting oxidant. Ozone based processes produce no by-product residual as non-reacted ozone decomposes to molecular oxygen. Therefore an application of ozone is widely accepted as one of the main approaches for... Read More about Efficient compact micro DBD plasma reactor for ozone generation for industrial application in liquid and gas phase systems.

The Aden pivot? British counter-insurgency after Aden (2014)
Journal Article
Dingli, S., & Kennedy, C. (2014). The Aden pivot? British counter-insurgency after Aden. Civil Wars, 16(1), 86-104. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2014.904987

This article argues that the Aden Insurgency was a pivotal moment in the history of British counter-insurgency. We argue that it was in Aden where the newfound strength of human rights discourse, embodied in Amnesty International, and of anti-colonia... Read More about The Aden pivot? British counter-insurgency after Aden.

Huisgen-based conjugation of water-soluble porphyrins to deprotected sugars: Towards mild strategies for the labelling of glycans (2014)
Journal Article
Giuntini, F., Bryden, F., Daly, R., Scanlan, E. M., & Boyle, R. W. (2014). Huisgen-based conjugation of water-soluble porphyrins to deprotected sugars: Towards mild strategies for the labelling of glycans. Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 12(8), 1203-1206. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3ob42306a

Fully deprotected alkynyl-functionalised mono- and oligosaccharides undergo CuAAC-based conjugation with water-soluble porphyrin azides in aqueous environments. The mild reaction conditions are fully compatible with the presence of labile glycosidic... Read More about Huisgen-based conjugation of water-soluble porphyrins to deprotected sugars: Towards mild strategies for the labelling of glycans.

Users Guide to Ecohydraulic Modelling and Experimentation: Experience of the Ecohydraulic Research Team (PISCES) of the HYDRALAB Network (2014)
Book
Frostick, L., Thomas, R., Johnson, M., Rice, S., & McLelland, S. (Eds.). (2014). Users Guide to Ecohydraulic Modelling and Experimentation: Experience of the Ecohydraulic Research Team (PISCES) of the HYDRALAB Network. CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/b16630

Users Guide to Ecohydraulic Modelling and Experimentation has been compiled by the interdisciplinary team of expert ecologists, geomorphologists, sedimentologists, hydraulicists and engineers involved in HYDRALAB IV, the European Integrated Infrastru... Read More about Users Guide to Ecohydraulic Modelling and Experimentation: Experience of the Ecohydraulic Research Team (PISCES) of the HYDRALAB Network.

Education associated with a delayed onset of terminal decline (2014)
Journal Article
Terrera, G. M., Minett, T., Brayne, C., & Matthews, F. E. (2014). Education associated with a delayed onset of terminal decline. Age and ageing, 43(1), 26-31. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/aft150

Background: the terminal decline hypothesis suggests an acceleration in the rate of loss of cognitive function before death. Evidence about the association of educational attainment and the onset of terminal decline is scarce. Objective: to investiga... Read More about Education associated with a delayed onset of terminal decline.

Brain haemosiderin in older people: Pathological evidence for an ischaemic origin of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) microbleeds (2014)
Journal Article
Janaway, B. M., Simpson, J. E., Hoggard, N., Highley, J. R., Forster, G., Drew, D., …Ince, P. G. (2014). Brain haemosiderin in older people: Pathological evidence for an ischaemic origin of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) microbleeds. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology, 40(3), 258-269. https://doi.org/10.1111/nan.12062

Introduction: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) cerebral microbleeds (CMB) arise from ferromagnetic haemosiderin iron assumed to derive from extravasation of erythrocytes. Light microscopy of ageing brain frequently reveals foci of haemosiderin from s... Read More about Brain haemosiderin in older people: Pathological evidence for an ischaemic origin of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) microbleeds.

Comparison between a Mandarin Chinese version of the Childhood Autism Spectrum Test and the Clancy Autism Behaviour Scale in mainland China (2014)
Journal Article
Sun, X., Allison, C., Auyeung, B., Matthews, F. E., Zhang, Z., Baron-Cohen, S., & Brayne, C. (2014). Comparison between a Mandarin Chinese version of the Childhood Autism Spectrum Test and the Clancy Autism Behaviour Scale in mainland China. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 35(7), 1599-1608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2014.02.005

A Mandarin Chinese version of the Childhood Autism Spectrum Test (CAST) and Clancy Autism Behaviour Scale (CABS) were applied to 150 children aged 4-11 years old from clinical settings and mainstream schools in Beijing. All the children were further... Read More about Comparison between a Mandarin Chinese version of the Childhood Autism Spectrum Test and the Clancy Autism Behaviour Scale in mainland China.

Grouping of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (2014)
Journal Article
Van Der Linde, R. M., Dening, T., Matthews, F. E., & Brayne, C. (2014). Grouping of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia. International journal of geriatric psychiatry, 29(6), 562-568. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.4037

Objective A wide range of behavioural and psychological symptoms (BPSD) are common in dementia, and it has been suggested that groups of correlated symptoms should be studied together. Here, we describe the groups of BPSD that have been identified in... Read More about Grouping of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.

Cognitive lifestyle jointly predicts longitudinal cognitive decline and mortality risk (2014)
Journal Article
Marioni, R. E., Proust-Lima, C., Amieva, H., Brayne, C., Matthews, F. E., Dartigues, J. F., & Jacqmin-Gadda, H. (2014). Cognitive lifestyle jointly predicts longitudinal cognitive decline and mortality risk. European Journal of Epidemiology, 29(3), 211-219. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-014-9881-8

Cognitive lifestyle measures such as education, occupation, and social engagement are commonly associated with late-life cognitive ability although their associations with cognitive decline tend to be mixed. However, longitudinal analyses of cognitio... Read More about Cognitive lifestyle jointly predicts longitudinal cognitive decline and mortality risk.

Investigating healthy life expectancy using a multi-state model in the presence of missing data and misclassification (2014)
Journal Article
van den Hout, A., Ogurtsova, E., Gampe, J., & Matthews, F. E. (2014). Investigating healthy life expectancy using a multi-state model in the presence of missing data and misclassification. Demographic Research, 30(1), 1219-1244. https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2014.30.42

Background: A continuous-time three-state model can be used to describe change in cognitive function in the older population. State 1 corresponds to normal cognitive function, state 2 to cognitive impairment, and state 3 to dead. For statistical infe... Read More about Investigating healthy life expectancy using a multi-state model in the presence of missing data and misclassification.

Psychometric properties of the Mandarin version of the Childhood Autism Spectrum Test (CAST): An exploratory study (2014)
Journal Article
Sun, X., Allison, C., Auyeung, B., Matthews, F. E., Norton, S., Baron-Cohen, S., & Brayne, C. (2014). Psychometric properties of the Mandarin version of the Childhood Autism Spectrum Test (CAST): An exploratory study. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 44(7), 1565-1576. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-013-2024-3

Limited studies have investigated the latent autistic traits in the mainland Chinese population for autism spectrum conditions (ASC). This study explored the psychometric properties of a Mandarin Chinese version of the CAST in a sample consisting of... Read More about Psychometric properties of the Mandarin version of the Childhood Autism Spectrum Test (CAST): An exploratory study.

Potential for primary prevention of Alzheimer's disease: An analysis of population-based data (2014)
Journal Article
Norton, S., Matthews, F. E., Barnes, D. E., Yaffe, K., & Brayne, C. (2014). Potential for primary prevention of Alzheimer's disease: An analysis of population-based data. Lancet Neurology, 13(8), 788-794. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422%2814%2970136-X

Background: Recent estimates suggesting that over half of Alzheimer's disease burden worldwide might be attributed to potentially modifiable risk factors do not take into account risk-factor non-independence. We aimed to provide specific estimates of... Read More about Potential for primary prevention of Alzheimer's disease: An analysis of population-based data.

Drivers of inequality in disability-free expectancy at birth and age 85 across space and time in Great Britain (2014)
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Wohland, P., Rees, P., Gillies, C., Alvanides, S., Matthews, F. E., O'Neill, V., & Jagger, C. (2014). Drivers of inequality in disability-free expectancy at birth and age 85 across space and time in Great Britain. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 68(9), 826-833. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2014-204083

Background: Although mortality and health inequalities at birth have increased both geographically and in socioeconomic terms, little is known about inequalities at age 85, the fastest growing sector of the population in Great Britain (GB). Aim To de... Read More about Drivers of inequality in disability-free expectancy at birth and age 85 across space and time in Great Britain.