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Dietary Patterns and Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy: Secondary Analysis of Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (2017)
Journal Article
Coathup, V., Northstone, K., Gray, R., Wheeler, S., & Smith, L. (2017). Dietary Patterns and Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy: Secondary Analysis of Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 41(6), 1120-1128. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.13379

Background: Large general population surveys show that heavy regular and episodic alcohol consumption are associated with lower intakes of fruits and vegetables, and higher intakes of processed and fried meat. This is of particular concern regarding... Read More about Dietary Patterns and Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy: Secondary Analysis of Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children.

On the expectation of operator norms of random matrices (2017)
Book Chapter
Guédon, O., Hinrichs, A., Litvak, A. E., & Prochno, J. (2017). On the expectation of operator norms of random matrices. In Lecture Notes in Mathematics; Geometric Aspects of Functional Analysis (151-162). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45282-1_10

We prove estimates for the expected value of operator norms of Gaussian random matrices with independent (but not necessarily identically distributed) and centered entries, acting as operators from ℓnp∗ to ℓ q m , 1 ≤ p∗ ≤ 2 ≤ q  Read More about On the expectation of operator norms of random matrices.

The use of social media in the aftermath of a suicide: Findings from a qualitative study in England (2017)
Book Chapter
Bell, J., & Bailey, L. (2017). The use of social media in the aftermath of a suicide: Findings from a qualitative study in England. In T. Niederkrotenthaler, & S. Stack (Eds.), Media and Suicide International Perspectives on Research, Theory, and Policy (75-86). New York: Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351295246

e research draws on the experiences of bereaved individuals who utilize Facebook to memorialize loved ones who have died by suicide. Aspects of the research have been published elsewhere. In Bailey et al. (2014), we explore how the use of social medi... Read More about The use of social media in the aftermath of a suicide: Findings from a qualitative study in England.

Dietary niche partitioning between sympatric brown hares and rabbits (2017)
Journal Article
Lush, L., Ward, A. I., & Wheeler, P. (2017). Dietary niche partitioning between sympatric brown hares and rabbits. Journal of Zoology, 303(1), 36-45. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12461

© 2017 The Zoological Society of London Coexistence of ecologically similar species is sustained by niche partitioning, a fundamental element of which is diet. Overlapping of resource requirements between sympatric species can create interspecific co... Read More about Dietary niche partitioning between sympatric brown hares and rabbits.

Quality of life in patients with intermittent claudication (2017)
Journal Article
Harwood, A. E., Totty, J. P., Broadbent, E., Smith, G. E., & Chetter, I. C. (2017). Quality of life in patients with intermittent claudication. Gefässchirurgie, 22(3), 159-164. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00772-017-0269-4

© 2017, The Author(s). Background: Intermittent claudication (IC) is a common condition that causes pain in the lower limbs when walking and has been shown to severely impact the quality of life (QoL) of patients. The QoL is therefore often regarded... Read More about Quality of life in patients with intermittent claudication.

This patient is not breathing properly: is this COPD, heart failure, or neither? (2017)
Journal Article
Pellicori, P., Salekin, D., Pan, D., & Clark, A. L. (2017). This patient is not breathing properly: is this COPD, heart failure, or neither?. Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy, 15(5), 389-396. https://doi.org/10.1080/14779072.2017.1317592

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Introduction: Heart failure (HF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are two common, heterogeneous, long-term illnesses which cause significant morbidity and mortality. Alth... Read More about This patient is not breathing properly: is this COPD, heart failure, or neither?.

Translating class in Jonathan Coe (2017)
Journal Article
Chadderton, H. (2017). Translating class in Jonathan Coe. Translator: Studies in Intercultural Communication, 23(3), 269-278. https://doi.org/10.1080/13556509.2017.1297673

This article looks at the translation and reception in France of the contemporary British author Jonathan Coe. Coe’s work is four times more popular in France than in the UK and is particularly enjoyed for its treatment of contemporary social and pol... Read More about Translating class in Jonathan Coe.

Micro-encapsulated phase change material (MPCM) slurries: characterization and building applications (2017)
Journal Article
Qiu, Z., Ma, X., Li, P., Zhao, X., & Wright, A. (2017). Micro-encapsulated phase change material (MPCM) slurries: characterization and building applications. Renewable & sustainable energy reviews, 77, 246-262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2017.04.001

© 2017 Micro-encapsulated Phase Change Material (MPCM) slurries, acting as the heat transfer fluids or thermal storage mediums, have gained applications in various building thermal energy systems, significantly enhancing their energy efficiency and o... Read More about Micro-encapsulated phase change material (MPCM) slurries: characterization and building applications.

Can investor sentiment be a momentum time-series predictor? Evidence from China (2017)
Journal Article
Han, X., & Li, Y. (2017). Can investor sentiment be a momentum time-series predictor? Evidence from China. Journal of Empirical Finance, 42, 212-239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jempfin.2017.04.001

This paper challenges the prevailing view that investor sentiment is a contrarian predictor of market returns at nearly all horizons. As an important piece of "out-of-sample" evidence, we document that investor sentiment in China is a reliable moment... Read More about Can investor sentiment be a momentum time-series predictor? Evidence from China.

Cross-cultural invariance of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R): comparing UK and US samples (2017)
Journal Article
Burduli, E., Barbosa-Leiker, C., Fleming, S., Hollins Martin, C. J., & Martin, C. R. (2017). Cross-cultural invariance of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R): comparing UK and US samples. Journal of reproductive and infant psychology, 35(3), 248-260. https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2017.1310374

Objective: This research sought to test the measurement invariance of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R) across United States (US) and United Kingdom (UK) samples. Multiple-group measurement was tested and latent means analysis compared lev... Read More about Cross-cultural invariance of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R): comparing UK and US samples.

Relative pollen productivities and relevant source area of pollen in the forest–steppe ecotone of northern China (2017)
Journal Article
Yuecong, L., Yawen, G., Bunting, M. J., Zhen, Z., Jia, L., Chunyue, W., …Chenzhi, L. (2017). Relative pollen productivities and relevant source area of pollen in the forest–steppe ecotone of northern China. Review of palaeobotany and palynology, 244, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.04.003

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Modeling efforts to quantitatively reconstruct vegetation from pollen have never been attempted along the forest–steppe border of China, however such studies are important in interpreting fossil pollen assemblages of vegetation c... Read More about Relative pollen productivities and relevant source area of pollen in the forest–steppe ecotone of northern China.

Generation of triplet excited states via photoinduced electron transfer in meso-anthra-BODIPY: fluorogenic response toward singlet oxygen in solution and in vitro (2017)
Journal Article
Filatov, M. A., Karuthedath, S., Polestshuk, P. M., Savoie, H., Flanagan, K. J., Sy, C., …Senge, M. O. (2017). Generation of triplet excited states via photoinduced electron transfer in meso-anthra-BODIPY: fluorogenic response toward singlet oxygen in solution and in vitro. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139(18), 6282-6285. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b00551

© 2017 American Chemical Society. Heavy atom-free BODIPY-anthracene dyads (BADs) generate locally excited triplet states by way of photoinduced electron transfer (PeT), followed by recombination of the resulting charge-separated states (CSS). Subsequ... Read More about Generation of triplet excited states via photoinduced electron transfer in meso-anthra-BODIPY: fluorogenic response toward singlet oxygen in solution and in vitro.

The experience of epilepsy in later life : a qualitative exploration of illness representations (2017)
Journal Article
Yennadiou, H., & Wolverson, E. (2017). The experience of epilepsy in later life : a qualitative exploration of illness representations. Epilepsy and Behavior, 70(A), 87-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2017.01.033

The objective of this study is to explore how older people living with epilepsy appraise their condition through their lived-experience. The common-sense model of illness representations (CSMIR) provides a framework to explain how individuals make se... Read More about The experience of epilepsy in later life : a qualitative exploration of illness representations.

Substrate Induced Strain Field in FeRh Epilayers Grown on Single Crystal MgO (001) Substrates (2017)
Journal Article
Barton, C. W., Ostler, T. A., Huskisson, D., Kinane, C. J., Haigh, S. J., Hrkac, G., & Thomson, T. (2017). Substrate Induced Strain Field in FeRh Epilayers Grown on Single Crystal MgO (001) Substrates. Scientific reports, 7, Article 44397. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep44397

Equi-Atomic FeRh is highly unusual in that it undergoes a first order meta-magnetic phase transition from an antiferromagnet to a ferromagnet above room temperature (T r â ‰ 370 K). This behavior opens new possibilities for creating multifunctional m... Read More about Substrate Induced Strain Field in FeRh Epilayers Grown on Single Crystal MgO (001) Substrates.

Open data and digital morphology (2017)
Journal Article
Davies, T. G., Rahman, I. A., Lautenschlager, S., Cunningham, J. A., Asher, R. J., Barrett, P. M., …Donoghue, P. C. J. (2017). Open data and digital morphology. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284(1852), https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0194

Over the past two decades, the development of methods for visualizing and analysing specimens digitally, in three and even four dimensions, has transformed the study of living and fossil organisms. However, the initial promise that the widespread app... Read More about Open data and digital morphology.

Identifying longitudinal sustainable hierarchies in activities of daily living (2017)
Journal Article
Watson, R., Palese, A., Zuttion, R., Ferrario, B., Ponta, S., & Hayter, M. (2017). Identifying longitudinal sustainable hierarchies in activities of daily living. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 71, 122-128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2017.04.003

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Activities of daily living serve as an indicator of progression in disability and rehabilitation. It is know that some of the measurement scales used show hierarchical properties indicating that activities of daily living are los... Read More about Identifying longitudinal sustainable hierarchies in activities of daily living.

Active engagement with assessment and feedback can improve group-work outcomes and boost student confidence (2017)
Journal Article
Scott, G. W. (2017). Active engagement with assessment and feedback can improve group-work outcomes and boost student confidence. Higher Education Pedagogies, 2(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/23752696.2017.1307692

This study involves evaluation of a novel iterative group-based learning task developed to enable students to actively engage with assessment and feedback in order to improve the quality of their written work. The students were all in the final semes... Read More about Active engagement with assessment and feedback can improve group-work outcomes and boost student confidence.

Characterization of rice husk-based catalyst prepared via conventional and microwave carbonisation (2017)
Journal Article
Touhami, D., Zhu, Z., Balan, W. S., Janaun, J., Haywood, S., & Zein, S. (2017). Characterization of rice husk-based catalyst prepared via conventional and microwave carbonisation. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 5(3), 2388-2394. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2017.04.020

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd. Carbon-based sulphonated catalysts (CBSCs) were made from rice husk for biodiesel production. The CBSCs were prepared by microwave (MW) and conventional heating processes from the same feedstock. In both heating systems, the prep... Read More about Characterization of rice husk-based catalyst prepared via conventional and microwave carbonisation.

Love is what people say it is: Performativity and narrativity in critical love studies (2017)
Journal Article
Gratzke, M. (2017). Love is what people say it is: Performativity and narrativity in critical love studies. Journal of popular romance studies, 6, 1-20

This article outlines the objectives of critical love studies, their grounding in a wide range of critical theory, a multi-disciplinary methodology, and finally gives an example of practical application in literary scholarship and participatory commu... Read More about Love is what people say it is: Performativity and narrativity in critical love studies.