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Impact of international financial reporting standards on the profit and equity of AIM listed companies in the UK (2015)
Journal Article
Ali, A., Akbar, S., & Ormrod, P. (2016). Impact of international financial reporting standards on the profit and equity of AIM listed companies in the UK. Accounting Forum, 40(1), 45-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accfor.2015.12.001

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. This study examines the extent to which the change from UK GAAP to IFRS has affected companies listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in the UK. The results suggest that, on average, profit reported under IFRS is highe... Read More about Impact of international financial reporting standards on the profit and equity of AIM listed companies in the UK.

Becoming plant and posthumanism in Jeff Noon's Pollen (1995) (2015)
Journal Article
Cockin, K. (2016). Becoming plant and posthumanism in Jeff Noon's Pollen (1995). Critique, 57(1), 94-104. https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2015.1019405

This article examines Jeff Noon’s cyberpunk novel Pollen (1995), arguing for its innovative treatment of spatial and species identities. In addition to the challenging representations of gender and feminism identified by Val Gough, there are other ki... Read More about Becoming plant and posthumanism in Jeff Noon's Pollen (1995).

Mining frequent biological sequences based on bitmap without candidate sequence generation (2015)
Journal Article
Wang, Q., Davis, D. N., & Ren, J. (2016). Mining frequent biological sequences based on bitmap without candidate sequence generation. Computers in biology and medicine, 69, 152-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2015.12.016

Biological sequences carry a lot of important genetic information of organisms. Furthermore, there is an inheritance law related to protein function and structure which is useful for applications such as disease prediction. Frequent sequence mining i... Read More about Mining frequent biological sequences based on bitmap without candidate sequence generation.

18F-FLT PET imaging of cellular proliferation in pancreatic cancer (2015)
Journal Article
Lamarca, A., Asselin, M. C., Manoharan, P., McNamara, M. G., Trigonis, I., Hubner, R., Saleem, A., & Valle, J. W. (2016). 18F-FLT PET imaging of cellular proliferation in pancreatic cancer. Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology, 99, 158-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.critrevonc.2015.12.014

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is known for its poor prognosis. Since the development of computerized tomography, magnetic resonance and endoscopic ultrasound, novel imaging techniques have struggled to get established in the management of patients... Read More about 18F-FLT PET imaging of cellular proliferation in pancreatic cancer.

Microfluidically fabricated pH-responsive anionic amphiphilic microgels for drug release (2015)
Journal Article
Lu, B., Tarn, M. D., Pamme, N., & Georgiou, T. K. (2016). Microfluidically fabricated pH-responsive anionic amphiphilic microgels for drug release. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 4(18), 3086-3093. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5tb02378e

© 2016 The Royal Society of Chemistry. Amphiphilic microgels of different composition based on the hydrophilic, pH-responsive acrylic acid (AA) and the hydrophobic, non-ionic n-butyl acrylate (BuA) were synthesised using a lab-on-a-chip device. Hydro... Read More about Microfluidically fabricated pH-responsive anionic amphiphilic microgels for drug release.

Identifying Success Factors in Construction Projects: A Case Study (2015)
Journal Article
Williams, T. (2016). Identifying Success Factors in Construction Projects: A Case Study. Project management journal, 47(1), 97-112. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmj.21558

© 2015 by the Project Management Institute. Published online in Wiley Online Library. Defining "project success" has been of interest for many years, and recent developments combine multiple measurable and psychosocial factors that add to this defini... Read More about Identifying Success Factors in Construction Projects: A Case Study.

A newly identified population of Gambusia affinis (Baird and Girard, 1853), a non-native invasive species, in Lake Kenyir, Malaysia: Implications for management (2015)
Journal Article
Walton, S. E., Ahmad, A. B., Gan, H. M., & Bolland, J. D. (2016). A newly identified population of Gambusia affinis (Baird and Girard, 1853), a non-native invasive species, in Lake Kenyir, Malaysia: Implications for management. BioInvasions Records, 5(2), 107-114. https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2016.5.2.08

Gambusia affinis (Baird and Girard, 1853), a notorious non-native invasive fish species, has negatively impacted aquatic ecosystems around the world. This species was recently identified in Lake Kenyir, one of the largest impoundments in SouTheast As... Read More about A newly identified population of Gambusia affinis (Baird and Girard, 1853), a non-native invasive species, in Lake Kenyir, Malaysia: Implications for management.

s-process production in rotating massive stars at solar and low metallicities (2015)
Journal Article
Frischknecht, U., Hirschi, R., Pignatari, M., Maeder, A., Meynet, G., Chiappini, C., Thielemann, F.-K., Rauscher, T., Georgy, C., & Ekström, S. (2016). s-process production in rotating massive stars at solar and low metallicities. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456(2), 1803-1825. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2723

Rotation was shown to have a strong impact on the structure and light element nucleosynthesis in massive stars. In particular, models including rotation can reproduce the primary nitrogen observed in halo extremely metal poor (EMP) stars. Additional... Read More about s-process production in rotating massive stars at solar and low metallicities.

Western Mediterranean climate and environment since Marine Isotope Stage 3: a 50,000-year record from Lake Banyoles, Spain (2015)
Journal Article
Lacey, J. H., Leng, M. J., Höbig, N., Reed, J. M., Valero-Garcés, B., & Reicherter, K. (2016). Western Mediterranean climate and environment since Marine Isotope Stage 3: a 50,000-year record from Lake Banyoles, Spain. Journal of paleolimnology, 55(2), 113-128. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-015-9868-9

We present new stable isotope (δ¹⁸Ocalcite and δ¹³ Ccalcite) and diatom data from a 67-m sediment core (BAN II) from Lake Banyoles, northeastern Spain. We reassessed the chronology of the sequence by correlating stable isotope data with a shorter U-s... Read More about Western Mediterranean climate and environment since Marine Isotope Stage 3: a 50,000-year record from Lake Banyoles, Spain.

Action or attention in social inhibition of return? (2015)
Journal Article
Doneva, S. P., Atkinson, M. A., Skarratt, P. A., & Cole, G. G. (2017). Action or attention in social inhibition of return?. Psychological research, 81(1), 43-54. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-015-0738-x

When two individuals alternate reaching responses to targets located in a visual display, reaction times are longer when responses are directed to where the co-actor just responded. Although an abundance of work has examined the many characteristics... Read More about Action or attention in social inhibition of return?.

Prognostic value of the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in patients with laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (2015)
Journal Article
Wong, B. Y. W., Stafford, N. D., Green, V. L., & Greenman, J. (2016). Prognostic value of the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in patients with laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma. Head & neck, 38(S1), E1903-E1908. https://doi.org/10.1002/hed.24346

© 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.. Background The neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR) has been found to be predictive of survival outcome in a range of tumors. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prognostic value of pretreatment (NLR) in pati... Read More about Prognostic value of the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in patients with laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma.

Robust fault estimation using an LPV reference model : ADDSAFE benchmark case study (2015)
Journal Article
Chen, L., Patton, R., & Goupil, P. (2016). Robust fault estimation using an LPV reference model : ADDSAFE benchmark case study. Control engineering practice, 49, 194-203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conengprac.2015.12.006

This paper investigates a mixed H−/H∞ linear parameter varying (LPV) fault estimator using an LPV reference estimator. LMIs are used to calculate the affine parameter-dependent gains of the LPV fault estimator. The design strategy is applied to a hig... Read More about Robust fault estimation using an LPV reference model : ADDSAFE benchmark case study.

Insight into tube-building behaviour and palaeoecology of some agglutinating worms from the Upper Devonian of Nevada, USA (2015)
Journal Article
Zatoń, M., & Bond, D. P. G. (2016). Insight into tube-building behaviour and palaeoecology of some agglutinating worms from the Upper Devonian of Nevada, USA. Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 445, 138-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.12.020

Agglutinated worm tubes from the Upper Devonian of the Devils Gate section in Nevada, USA are reported for the first time, filling a major gap in their Palaeozoic fossil record. Two small (5 mm and 6.7 mm in length) tubes are composed entirely of ten... Read More about Insight into tube-building behaviour and palaeoecology of some agglutinating worms from the Upper Devonian of Nevada, USA.

Rho Signaling in Dictyostelium discoideum (2015)
Journal Article
Rivero Crespo, F., & Xiong, H. (2016). Rho Signaling in Dictyostelium discoideum. International review of cell and molecular biology, 322, 61-181. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.ircmb.2015.10.004

© 2016 Elsevier Inc. Small GTPases of the Rho family are ubiquitous molecular switches involved in the regulation of most actin cytoskeleton dependent processes and many other processes not directly linked to actin. D. discoideum is a well-establishe... Read More about Rho Signaling in Dictyostelium discoideum.

Evidence from Rb–Sr mineral ages for multiple orogenic events in the Caledonides of Shetland, Scotland (2015)
Journal Article
Walker, S., Thirlwall, M. F., Strachan, R. A., & Bird, A. F. (2016). Evidence from Rb–Sr mineral ages for multiple orogenic events in the Caledonides of Shetland, Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, 173(3), 489-503. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2015-034

Shetland occupies a unique central location within the North Atlantic Caledonides. Thirty-three new high-precision Rb–Sr mineral ages indicate a polyorogenic history. Ages of 723–702 Ma obtained from the vicinity of the Wester Keolka Shear Zone indic... Read More about Evidence from Rb–Sr mineral ages for multiple orogenic events in the Caledonides of Shetland, Scotland.

The Indian Army in Europe, 1914–1918 (2015)
Book Chapter
Omissi, D. (2015). The Indian Army in Europe, 1914–1918. In E. Storm, & A. Al Tuma (Eds.), Colonial Soldiers in Europe, 1914-1945: "Aliens in Uniform" in wartime societies (119-139). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315658414-14

In January 1915, a wounded Punjabi Rajput soldier, recovering from injuries sustained on the Western Front, wrote a letter home from a hospital in Britain to a relative in India. ‘This is not war,’ he said, ‘it is the ending of the world. This is jus... Read More about The Indian Army in Europe, 1914–1918.

Conceptualising authentic mobile learning (2015)
Book Chapter
Burden, K., & Kearney, M. (2016). Conceptualising authentic mobile learning. In D. Churchill, J. Lu, T. K. Chiu, & B. Fox (Eds.), Mobile learning design: Theories and application (27-42). Springer Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0027-0_2

© Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016. Conventional accounts of authentic learning focus on contextual factors: tasks, processes, how situated the learning is and the extent to which learners engage in simulated or participative real-world... Read More about Conceptualising authentic mobile learning.

Vanadium(v) phenolate complexes for ring opening homo- and co-polymerisation of ε-caprolactone, L-lactide and rac-lactide (2015)
Journal Article
Ge, F., Dan, Y., Al-Khafaji, Y., Prior, T. J., Jiang, L., Elsegood, M. R. J., & Redshaw, C. (2016). Vanadium(v) phenolate complexes for ring opening homo- and co-polymerisation of ε-caprolactone, L-lactide and rac-lactide. RSC advances, 6(6), 4792-4802. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5ra24816g

The vanadyl complexes [VO(OtBu)L¹ ] (1) and {[VO(OiPr)]₂ (μ-p-L²ᵖ)} (2) {[VO(OR)]₂ (μ-p-L²ᵐ )} (R = iPr 3, tBu 4) have been prepared from [VO(OR)₃ ] (R = nPr, iPr or tBu) and the respective phenol, namely 2,2′-ethylidenebis(4,6-di-tert-butylphenol) (... Read More about Vanadium(v) phenolate complexes for ring opening homo- and co-polymerisation of ε-caprolactone, L-lactide and rac-lactide.

England’s Wars of Religion: A Reassessment (2015)
Book Chapter
Prior, C. W. (2015). England’s Wars of Religion: A Reassessment. In W. Palaver, H. Rudolph, & D. Regensburger (Eds.), The European wars of religion: An interdisciplinary reassessment of sources, interpretations and myths (119-138). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315558486

In 1983 John Morrill concluded a lecture before the Royal Historical Society in London with the observation that the English civil war was ‘the last of the wars of religion’. 1 is was profoundly suggestive, given the fact that religion had shaped pol... Read More about England’s Wars of Religion: A Reassessment.

Microwave-assisted and conventional hydrothermal carbonization of lignocellulosic waste material: comparison of the chemical and structural properties of the hydrochars (2015)
Journal Article
Elaigwu, S. E., & Greenway, G. M. (2016). Microwave-assisted and conventional hydrothermal carbonization of lignocellulosic waste material: comparison of the chemical and structural properties of the hydrochars. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 118, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaap.2015.12.013

This study compares the chemical and structural properties of the hydrochars prepared from microwave-assisted and conventional hydrothermal carbonizations of Prosopis africana shell, a waste plant material. The preparation involved heating the raw ma... Read More about Microwave-assisted and conventional hydrothermal carbonization of lignocellulosic waste material: comparison of the chemical and structural properties of the hydrochars.