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A combined Y/Ho, high field strength element (HFSE) and Nd isotope perspective on basalt weathering, Deccan Traps, India (2014)
Journal Article
Babechuk, M. G., Widdowson, M., Murphy, M., & Kamber, B. S. (2015). A combined Y/Ho, high field strength element (HFSE) and Nd isotope perspective on basalt weathering, Deccan Traps, India. Chemical Geology, 396, 25-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2014.12.017

High-precision high field strength element (HFSE: Zr, Hf, Nb, Ta, Th, U, W, Mo), Y/Ho, and Nd isotope chemostratigraphy of two contrasting Deccan Traps weathering profiles - an ancient, deeply weathered laterite, and a younger (Quaternary), more mode... Read More about A combined Y/Ho, high field strength element (HFSE) and Nd isotope perspective on basalt weathering, Deccan Traps, India.

Sensitivity to model geometry in finite element analyses of reconstructed skeletal structures: Experience with a juvenile pelvis (2014)
Journal Article
Watson, P. J., Fagan, M. J., & Dobson, C. A. (2015). Sensitivity to model geometry in finite element analyses of reconstructed skeletal structures: Experience with a juvenile pelvis. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 229(1), 9-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954411914564476

Biomechanical analysis of juvenile pelvic growth can be used in the evaluation of medical devices and investigation of hip joint disorders. This requires access to scan data of healthy juveniles, which are not always freely available. This article an... Read More about Sensitivity to model geometry in finite element analyses of reconstructed skeletal structures: Experience with a juvenile pelvis.

Getting more from getting out : increasing achievement in literacy and science through ecological fieldwork (2014)
Journal Article
Scott, G., & Boyd, M. (2014). Getting more from getting out : increasing achievement in literacy and science through ecological fieldwork. Education 3-13, 44(6), 661-670. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004279.2014.996242

This paper demonstrates the positive impact of learning through ecological fieldwork upon children's ability to write, and to write about science. Specifically we have carried out a relatively large-scale study (involving 379 children aged 9–11 years... Read More about Getting more from getting out : increasing achievement in literacy and science through ecological fieldwork.

AGE-modified basement membrane cooperates with Endo180 to promote epithelial cell invasiveness and decrease prostate cancer survival (2014)
Journal Article
Rodriguez-Teja, M., Gronau, J. H., Breit, C., Zhang, Y. Z., Minamidate, A., Caley, M. P., McCarthy, A., Cox, T. R., Erler, J. T., Gaughan, L., Darby, S., Robson, C., Mauri, F., Waxman, J., & Sturge, J. (2015). AGE-modified basement membrane cooperates with Endo180 to promote epithelial cell invasiveness and decrease prostate cancer survival. Journal of Pathology, 235(4), 581-592. https://doi.org/10.1002/path.4485

Biomechanical strain imposed by age-related thickening of the basal lamina and augmented tissue stiffness in the prostate gland coincides with increased cancer risk. Here we hypothesized that the structural alterations in the basal lamina associated... Read More about AGE-modified basement membrane cooperates with Endo180 to promote epithelial cell invasiveness and decrease prostate cancer survival.

The habitat use of young-of-the-year fishes during and after floods of varying timing and magnitude in a constrained lowland river (2014)
Journal Article
Bolland, J. D., Nunn, A. D., Lucas, M. C., & Cowx, I. G. (2015). The habitat use of young-of-the-year fishes during and after floods of varying timing and magnitude in a constrained lowland river. Ecological engineering, 75(February), 434-440. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2014.12.009

Globally, channelisation and artificial levee construction have reduced rivers to single-thread channels isolated from their floodplains. These modifications may be particularly detrimental to fish during floods, because of increased severity of cond... Read More about The habitat use of young-of-the-year fishes during and after floods of varying timing and magnitude in a constrained lowland river.

How strategic focus relates to the delivery of leadership training and development (2014)
Journal Article
Clarke, N., & Higgs, M. (2016). How strategic focus relates to the delivery of leadership training and development. Human Resource Management, 55(4), 541-565. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21683

Despite progress in the development of leadership development models over recent years, these models fail to account for the differentiation in leadership training and development (LTD) practices found between organizations. We conducted an explorato... Read More about How strategic focus relates to the delivery of leadership training and development.

Accuracy of alcohol use disorders identification test for detecting problem drinking in 18-35 year-olds in England: Method comparison study (2014)
Journal Article
Foxcroft, D. R., Smith, L. A., Thomas, H., & Howcutt, S. (2015). Accuracy of alcohol use disorders identification test for detecting problem drinking in 18-35 year-olds in England: Method comparison study. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 50(2), 244-250. https://doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agu095

Aims: To assess the accuracy of Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) scores for problem drinking in males and females aged 18–35 in England. Methods: A method comparison study with 420 primary care patients aged 18–35. Test measures were... Read More about Accuracy of alcohol use disorders identification test for detecting problem drinking in 18-35 year-olds in England: Method comparison study.

c-MYC is a radiosensitive locus in human breast cells (2014)
Journal Article
Wade, M. A., Sunter, N. J., Fordham, S. E., Long, A., Masic, D., Russell, L. J., Harrison, C. J., Rand, V., Elstob, C., Bown, N., Rowe, D., Lowe, C., Cuthbert, G., Bennett, S., Crosier, S., Bacon, C. M., Onel, K., Scott, K., Scott, D., Travis, L. B., …Allan, J. M. (2015). c-MYC is a radiosensitive locus in human breast cells. Oncogene, 34(38), 4985-4994. https://doi.org/10.1038/onc.2014.427

Ionising radiation is a potent human carcinogen. Epidemiological studies have shown that adolescent and young women are at increased risk of developing breast cancer following exposure to ionising radiation compared with older women, and that risk is... Read More about c-MYC is a radiosensitive locus in human breast cells.

LARP1 post-transcriptionally regulates mTOR and contributes to cancer progression (2014)
Journal Article
Mura, M., Hopkins, T. G., Michael, T., Abd-Latip, N., Weir, J., Aboagye, E., Mauri, F., Jameson, C., Sturge, J., Gabra, H., Bushell, M., Willis, A. E., Curry, E., & Blagden, S. P. (2015). LARP1 post-transcriptionally regulates mTOR and contributes to cancer progression. Oncogene, 34(39), 5025-5036. https://doi.org/10.1038/onc.2014.428

RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) bind to and post-transcriptionally regulate the stability of mRNAs. La-related protein 1 (LARP1) is a conserved RBP that interacts with poly-A-binding protein and is known to regulate 5′-terminal oligopyrimidine tract (TOP... Read More about LARP1 post-transcriptionally regulates mTOR and contributes to cancer progression.

Correction: Flexoelectric behavior of bimesogenic liquid crystals in the nematic phase - Observation of a new self-assembly pattern at the twist-bend nematic and the nematic interface (2014)
Journal Article
Balachandran, R., Panov, V. P., Panarin, Y. P., Vij, J. K., Tamba, M. G., Mehl, G. H., & Song, J. K. (2014). Correction: Flexoelectric behavior of bimesogenic liquid crystals in the nematic phase - Observation of a new self-assembly pattern at the twist-bend nematic and the nematic interface. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2(47), 10217. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4tc90153c

Testing the dimensionality of the quality management construct (2014)
Journal Article
Elshaer, I. A., & Augustyn, M. M. (2016). Testing the dimensionality of the quality management construct. Total quality management & business excellence, 27(3-4), 353-367. https://doi.org/10.1080/14783363.2014.993964

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. Numerous empirical studies have conceptualised quality management (QM) as either a multidimensional or unidimensional construct. While few prior studies tested some aspects of the assumed dimensional structure of the constr... Read More about Testing the dimensionality of the quality management construct.

Financial deepening and economic growth (2014)
Journal Article
Bhattarai, K. (2015). Financial deepening and economic growth. Applied economics, 47(11), 1133-1150. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2014.993130

The core of Shapley-Shubik games and general equilibrium models with a Venn diagram is applied for a theory on the role of real finance in economic growth among advanced economies. Then the dynamic computable general equilibrium (DCGE) models for Ger... Read More about Financial deepening and economic growth.

Nests, arcs and cycles in the lifespan of a studio project (2014)
Journal Article
Slater, M. (2015). Nests, arcs and cycles in the lifespan of a studio project. Popular music, 34(1), 67-93. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143014000683

Middlewood Sessions produced a kind of popular music that infuses the timbral aesthetics of jazz and orchestral music with the driving rhythms of dance music. This studio project, lasting for almost eight years, provided a rich resource for gaining i... Read More about Nests, arcs and cycles in the lifespan of a studio project.

Towards understanding the design of dual-modal MR/fluorescent probes to sense zinc ions (2014)
Journal Article
Rivas, C., Stasiuk, G. J., Sae-Heng, M., & Long, N. J. (2015). Towards understanding the design of dual-modal MR/fluorescent probes to sense zinc ions. Dalton Transactions : an international journal of inorganic chemistry, 44(11), 4976-4985. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4dt02981j

A series of gadolinium complexes were synthesised in order to test the design of dual-modal probes that display a change in fluorescence or relaxivity response upon binding of zinc. A dansyl-DO3ATA gadolinium complex [GdL1] displayed an increase and... Read More about Towards understanding the design of dual-modal MR/fluorescent probes to sense zinc ions.

A target guided subband filter for acoustic event detection in noisy environments using wavelet packets (2014)
Journal Article
Feng, Z.-R., Zhou, Q., Zhang, J., Jiang, P., & Yang, X.-W. (2015). A target guided subband filter for acoustic event detection in noisy environments using wavelet packets. IEEE/ACM transactions on audio, speech, and language processing, 23(2), 361-372. https://doi.org/10.1109/taslp.2014.2381871

This paper deals with acoustic event detection (AED), such as screams, gunshots, and explosions, in noisy environments. The main aim is to improve the detection performance under adverse conditions with a very low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). A novel... Read More about A target guided subband filter for acoustic event detection in noisy environments using wavelet packets.

Continuity and change in parliamentarianism in twenty-first century European politics (2014)
Book Chapter
Norton, P. (2015). Continuity and change in parliamentarianism in twenty-first century European politics. In J. Magone (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of European Politics (328-345). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315755830

The nineteenth century was notable for the growth of national legislatures in Europe, both in number and in political significance. Although the development was not uniform – some nations lacked a legislature at the heart of their political system –... Read More about Continuity and change in parliamentarianism in twenty-first century European politics.

Food choice by people with intellectual disabilities at day centres: A qualitative study (2014)
Journal Article
Cartwright, L., Reid, M., Hammersley, R., Blackburn, C., & Glover, L. (2015). Food choice by people with intellectual disabilities at day centres: A qualitative study. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 19(2), 103-115. https://doi.org/10.1177/1744629514563423

People with intellectual disabilities experience a range of health inequalities. It is important to investigate possible contributory factors that may lead to these inequalities. This qualitative study identified some difficulties for healthy eating... Read More about Food choice by people with intellectual disabilities at day centres: A qualitative study.