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Extracting fetal heart beats from maternal abdominal recordings: Selection of the optimal principal components (2014)
Journal Article
Di Maria, C., Liu, C., Zheng, D., Murray, A., & Langley, P. (2014). Extracting fetal heart beats from maternal abdominal recordings: Selection of the optimal principal components. Physiological Measurement, 35(8), 1649-1664. https://doi.org/10.1088/0967-3334/35/8/1649

This study presents a systematic comparison of different approaches to the automated selection of the principal components (PC) which optimise the detection of maternal and fetal heart beats from non-invasive maternal abdominal recordings. A public d... Read More about Extracting fetal heart beats from maternal abdominal recordings: Selection of the optimal principal components.

A convenient tandem one-pot synthesis of donor-acceptor-type triphenylene 2,3-dicarboxylic esters from diarylacetylene (2014)
Journal Article
Feng, C., Tian, X.-L., Zhou, J., Xiang, S.-K., Yu, W.-H., Wang, B.-Q., Hu, P., Redshaw, C., & Zhao, K.-Q. (2014). A convenient tandem one-pot synthesis of donor-acceptor-type triphenylene 2,3-dicarboxylic esters from diarylacetylene. Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 12(36), 6977-6981. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4ob01503g

A tandem one-pot method for the direct synthesis of polysubstituted triphenylene 2,3-dicarboxylic esters with different substitution patterns was developed by enyne metathesis of diarylacetylene, followed by Diels–Alder, aromatization and a cyclizati... Read More about A convenient tandem one-pot synthesis of donor-acceptor-type triphenylene 2,3-dicarboxylic esters from diarylacetylene.

The descriptive epidemiology of delirium symptoms in a large population-based cohort study: Results from the Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC CFAS) (2014)
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Davis, D. H., Barnes, L. E., Stephan, B. C., Maclullich, A. M., Meagher, D., Copeland, J., …Brayne, C. (2014). The descriptive epidemiology of delirium symptoms in a large population-based cohort study: Results from the Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC CFAS). BMC Geriatrics, 14(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-14-87

Background: In the general population, the epidemiological relationships between delirium and adverse outcomes are not well defined. The aims of this study were to: (1) construct an algorithm for the diagnosis of delirium using the Geriatric Mental S... Read More about The descriptive epidemiology of delirium symptoms in a large population-based cohort study: Results from the Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC CFAS).

The mediating role of illness perceptions in psychological outcomes in overactive bladder (2014)
Journal Article
Pretorius, S., Kinsey, D., Alexander, T., Glover, L., Kraus, S., & Duggan, P. (2014). The mediating role of illness perceptions in psychological outcomes in overactive bladder. International Journal of Urological Nursing, 8(3), 151-160. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijun.12054

Overactive bladder (OAB) is condition, characterized by urinary urgency, frequency and incontinence, which has the potential to disrupt everyday life considerably. Although there is evidence that antimuscarinic treatment is effective at treating phys... Read More about The mediating role of illness perceptions in psychological outcomes in overactive bladder.

Ethyleneglycol tungsten complexes of calix[6 and 8]arenes: Synthesis, characterization and ROP of ε-caprolactone (2014)
Journal Article
Li, Y., Zhao, K.-Q., Feng, C., Elsegood, M. R., Prior, T. J., Sun, X., & Redshaw, C. (2014). Ethyleneglycol tungsten complexes of calix[6 and 8]arenes: Synthesis, characterization and ROP of ε-caprolactone. Dalton Transactions : an international journal of inorganic chemistry, 43(36), 13612-13619. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4dt01936a

By varying the reaction conditions, the reaction of [W(eg)₃] (eg = 1,2-ethanediolato) with p-tert-butylcalix[n]areneHn (n = 6 or 8) in refluxing toluene affords, following work-up, a number of products which have been fully characterized. From the re... Read More about Ethyleneglycol tungsten complexes of calix[6 and 8]arenes: Synthesis, characterization and ROP of ε-caprolactone.

Wire mesh design (2014)
Journal Article
Garg, A., Sageman-Furnas, A. O., Deng, B., Yue, Y., Grinspun, E., Pauly, M., & Wardetzky, M. (2014). Wire mesh design. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 33(4), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1145/2601097.2601106

We present a computational approach for designing wire meshes, i.e., freeform surfaces composed of woven wires arranged in a regular grid. To facilitate shape exploration, we map material properties of wire meshes to the geometric model of Chebyshev... Read More about Wire mesh design.

The impact of anoxia on pelagic macrofauna during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Early Jurassic) (2014)
Journal Article
Caswell, B. A., & Coe, A. L. (2014). The impact of anoxia on pelagic macrofauna during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Early Jurassic). Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 125(4), 383-391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2014.06.001

Extreme environmental change during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event had widespread impacts on marine biota. This study provides new evidence, from the Yorkshire coast sections, UK, that the event was associated with periods of elevated fish and amm... Read More about The impact of anoxia on pelagic macrofauna during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Early Jurassic).

Alcohol screening and brief interventions for offenders in the probation setting (SIPS trial): A pragmatic multicentre cluster randomized controlled trial (2014)
Journal Article
Newbury-Birch, D., Coulton, S., Bland, M., Cassidy, P., Dale, V., Deluca, P., Gilvarry, E., Godfrey, C., Heather, N., Kaner, E., McGovern, R., Myles, J., Oyefeso, A., Parrott, S., Patton, R., Perryman, K., Phillips, T., Shepherd, J., & Drummond, C. (2014). Alcohol screening and brief interventions for offenders in the probation setting (SIPS trial): A pragmatic multicentre cluster randomized controlled trial. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 49(5), 540-548. https://doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agu046

Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of different brief intervention strategies at reducing hazardous or harmful drinking in the probation setting. Offender managers were randomized to three interventions, each of which built on the previous one: feedb... Read More about Alcohol screening and brief interventions for offenders in the probation setting (SIPS trial): A pragmatic multicentre cluster randomized controlled trial.

Rhodamine-triazine based probes for Cu²⁺ in aqueous media and living cells (2014)
Journal Article
Zhang, Y., Zeng, X., Mu, L., Chen, Y., Zhang, J.-X., Redshaw, C., & Wei, G. (2014). Rhodamine-triazine based probes for Cu²⁺ in aqueous media and living cells. Sensors and actuators. B, Chemical, 204(December), 24-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2014.06.125

The performance of a number of rhodamine-triazine derivatives（probe R1~R4) which utilize rhodamine as the fluorophore with cyanuric chloride as the molecular platform have been evaluated. Spectroscopic analysis revealed that differing structural subs... Read More about Rhodamine-triazine based probes for Cu²⁺ in aqueous media and living cells.

Mental time travel in dysphoria: Differences in the content and subjective experience of past and future episodes (2014)
Journal Article
Anderson, R. J., & Evans, G. L. (2015). Mental time travel in dysphoria: Differences in the content and subjective experience of past and future episodes. Consciousness and cognition, 37, 237-248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2014.05.006

Previous research has shown that depressed individuals demonstrate a number of biases in their ability to retrieve past events and simulate future events. The current study investigated the content and phenomenological experience of past and future e... Read More about Mental time travel in dysphoria: Differences in the content and subjective experience of past and future episodes.

'These peaceable times are the devil': Royal Navy officers in the post-war slump, 1815-1825 (2014)
Journal Article
Wilcox, M. (2014). 'These peaceable times are the devil': Royal Navy officers in the post-war slump, 1815-1825. International Journal of Maritime History, 26(3), 471-488. https://doi.org/10.1177/0843871414543445

© The Author(s) 2014. During the Napoleonic War, the Royal Navy grew to an unprecedented size, but with the return of peace it dispensed with the services of an also unprecedented 124,000 men. By 1818, around 90% of commissioned officers were unemplo... Read More about 'These peaceable times are the devil': Royal Navy officers in the post-war slump, 1815-1825.

PGC1β activates an antiangiogenic program to repress neoangiogenesis in muscle ischemia (2014)
Journal Article
Yadav, V., Matsakas, A., Lorca, S., & Narkar, V. A. (2014). PGC1β activates an antiangiogenic program to repress neoangiogenesis in muscle ischemia. Cell reports, 8(3), 783-797. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2014.06.040

Revascularization of ischemic skeletalmuscle is governed by a balance between pro- and antiangiogenic factors in multiple cell types but particularly in myocytes and endothelial cells. Whereas the regulators of proangiogenic factors are well defined... Read More about PGC1β activates an antiangiogenic program to repress neoangiogenesis in muscle ischemia.

Is opiate action in cough due to sedation? (2014)
Journal Article
Dickinson, R. S., Morjaria, J. B., Wright, C. E., & Morice, A. H. (2014). Is opiate action in cough due to sedation?. Therapeutic Advances in Chronic Disease, 5(5), 200-205. https://doi.org/10.1177/2040622314543220

Opiates have been used for cough suppression for centuries. It is unclear whether this antitussive action is due to their known sedative effects. We aimed to assess correlation between cough suppression and opiate usage. Methods: We performed a post... Read More about Is opiate action in cough due to sedation?.

Artificial multicellular assemblies from cells interfaced with polymers and nanomaterials (2014)
Book Chapter
Das, A. A., Fakhrullin, R. F., & Paunov, V. N. (2014). Artificial multicellular assemblies from cells interfaced with polymers and nanomaterials. In R. Fakhrullin, I. Choi, & Y. Lvov (Eds.), Cell surface engineering: fabrication of functional nanoshells (162-184). Royal Society of Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1039/9781782628477-00162

In this chapter we review the recent developments in fabrication of multicellular assemblies from cells modified with polymers and nanomaterials. We focus on the specific properties of such “cyborg” cells that allow a variety of new methods to be use... Read More about Artificial multicellular assemblies from cells interfaced with polymers and nanomaterials.

The through-plane thermal conductivity and the contact resistance of the components of the membrane electrode assembly and gas diffusion layer in proton exchange membrane fuel cells (2014)
Journal Article
Alhazmi, N., Ingham, D. B., Ismail, M. S., Hughes, K., Ma, L., & Pourkashanian, M. (2014). The through-plane thermal conductivity and the contact resistance of the components of the membrane electrode assembly and gas diffusion layer in proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Journal of power sources, 270, 59-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2014.07.082

The thermal conductivity of the components of the membrane electrode assembly (MEA) and GDL must be accurately estimated in order to better understand the heat transfer processes in the proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells. In this study, an exp... Read More about The through-plane thermal conductivity and the contact resistance of the components of the membrane electrode assembly and gas diffusion layer in proton exchange membrane fuel cells.

Demonising 'the other': British Government complicity in the exploitation, social exclusion and vilification of new migrant workers (2014)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, M. (2014). Demonising 'the other': British Government complicity in the exploitation, social exclusion and vilification of new migrant workers. Citizenship Studies, 18(5), 499-515. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2014.923702

This article demonstrates the close and complex connection between the demonisation, exploitation and exclusion of new migrant workers. In so doing, it testifies to the blurred boundaries between the categories of severe labour exploitation, forced l... Read More about Demonising 'the other': British Government complicity in the exploitation, social exclusion and vilification of new migrant workers.

Adsorption of carboxylic modified latex particles at liquid interfaces studied by the gel trapping technique (2014)
Journal Article
Al-Shehri, H., Horozov, T. S., & Paunov, V. N. (2014). Adsorption of carboxylic modified latex particles at liquid interfaces studied by the gel trapping technique. Soft matter, 10(34), 6433-6441. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4sm01030b

We have studied how carboxylic modified latex (CML) microparticles adsorb at liquid surfaces and the preferred type of emulsion they can stabilise depending on the particle size and the surface density of carboxylic groups. We measured the particle c... Read More about Adsorption of carboxylic modified latex particles at liquid interfaces studied by the gel trapping technique.

Enhancing performance proficiency at the expert level: Considering the role of 'somaesthetic awareness' (2014)
Journal Article
Toner, J., & Moran, A. (2015). Enhancing performance proficiency at the expert level: Considering the role of 'somaesthetic awareness'. Psychology of sport and exercise, 16(P1), 110-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2014.07.006

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. Objectives: Traditional theories of motor learning (e.g., Fitts & Posner, 1967), along with certain contemporary psychological perspectives (e.g., Weiss & Reber, 2012; Wulf, 2013), postulate that expert performers must relinq... Read More about Enhancing performance proficiency at the expert level: Considering the role of 'somaesthetic awareness'.

Extended schools in England : emerging rationales (2014)
Journal Article
Dyson, A., & Jones, L. (2014). Extended schools in England : emerging rationales. International journal for research on extended education IJREE, 2(1), 5-19. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijree.v2i1.19531

Schools in many countries are beginning to take on extended roles, working with families and communities as well as with students. However, the rationales underpinning such developments are often unclear. This paper reports on case studies of 20 scho... Read More about Extended schools in England : emerging rationales.

A comprehensive examination of internet banking user behaviour: evidence from customers yet to adopt, currently using and stopped using (2014)
Journal Article
Wu, M., Jayawardhena, C., & Hamilton, R. (2014). A comprehensive examination of internet banking user behaviour: evidence from customers yet to adopt, currently using and stopped using. Journal of marketing management, 30(9-10), 1006-1038. https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2014.935459

Despite the surge in interest in research on customers’ adoption of internet banking (IB), how discontinued users can be brought back to IB has not received much attention. To respond to this question and to provide a comprehensive understanding of I... Read More about A comprehensive examination of internet banking user behaviour: evidence from customers yet to adopt, currently using and stopped using.