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The prevalence and influence of psychosocial factors on technical refinement amongst highly-skilled tennis players (2018)
Journal Article
Toner, J., Carson, H. J., Collins, D., & Nicholls, A. (2020). The prevalence and influence of psychosocial factors on technical refinement amongst highly-skilled tennis players. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 18(2), 201-217. https://doi.org/10.1080/1612197X.2018.1511621

The present study investigated the prevalence and influence of psychosocial factors amongst a sample of highly-skilled athletes who had previously attempted to refine their technique. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with eight t... Read More about The prevalence and influence of psychosocial factors on technical refinement amongst highly-skilled tennis players.

Low skeletal muscle mass is associated with low aerobic capacity and increased mortality risk in patients with coronary heart disease - a CARE CR study (2018)
Journal Article
Nichols, S., O'Doherty, A. F., Taylor, C., Clark, A. L., Carroll, S., & Ingle, L. (2019). Low skeletal muscle mass is associated with low aerobic capacity and increased mortality risk in patients with coronary heart disease - a CARE CR study. Clinical physiology and functional imaging, 39(1), 93-102. https://doi.org/10.1111/cpf.12539

BACKGROUND
In patients with chronic heart failure, there is a positive linear relationship between skeletal muscle mass (SMM) and peak oxygen consumption (V˙O2peak ); an independent predictor of all-cause mortality. We investigated the association b... Read More about Low skeletal muscle mass is associated with low aerobic capacity and increased mortality risk in patients with coronary heart disease - a CARE CR study.

Towards “green” viscoelastically prestressed composites: Cellulose fibre reinforcement (2018)
Journal Article
Qin, Y., & Fancey, K. S. (2018). Towards “green” viscoelastically prestressed composites: Cellulose fibre reinforcement. Composites. Part B, Engineering, 154, 439-448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2018.08.096

With growing concerns over environmental issues, fibre reinforced composites based on renewable, biodegradable low-cost cellulosic/cellulose fibres increasingly attract interest. This paper reports on the first study to produce viscoelastically prest... Read More about Towards “green” viscoelastically prestressed composites: Cellulose fibre reinforcement.

Glucose metabolism and metabolic flexibility in blood platelets (2018)
Journal Article
Aibibula, M., Naseem, K. M., & Sturmey, R. (2018). Glucose metabolism and metabolic flexibility in blood platelets. Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTH, 16(11), 2300-2314. https://doi.org/10.1111/jth.14274

The metabolic integration processes required for platelet activation are unclear. The metabolic plasticity of human platelets were investigated. Activated platelets exhibit a glycolytic phenotype while preserving mitochondrial function. Platelets can... Read More about Glucose metabolism and metabolic flexibility in blood platelets.

Shapley Supercluster Survey: Mapping the filamentary network connecting the clusters (2018)
Journal Article
Haines, C. P., Busarello, G., Merluzzi, P., Pimbblet, K. A., Vogt, F. P., Dopita, M. A., Mercurio, A., Grado, A., & Limatola, L. (2018). Shapley Supercluster Survey: Mapping the filamentary network connecting the clusters. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 481(1), 1055-1074. https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STY2338

We have mapped the structure and connectivity of the Shapley supercluster core and its surroundings as traced by its member galaxies. To achieve this, we have carried out a new redshift survey of galaxies across a 21 square degree region (17×17 Mpc2)... Read More about Shapley Supercluster Survey: Mapping the filamentary network connecting the clusters.

Biorefinery Approach for Ethanol Production From Bagasse (2018)
Book Chapter
Michailos, S., & Webb, C. (2018). Biorefinery Approach for Ethanol Production From Bagasse. In R. C. Ray, & S. Ramachandran (Eds.), Bioethanol Production from Food Crops : Sustainable Sources, Interventions, and Challenges (319-342). London: Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-813766-6.00016-3

This chapter deals with the exploitation of bagasse within the biorefinery concept for the sustainable production of ethanol. There are currently three main process routes that can efficiently convert lignocellulosic biomass into ethanol, that is, th... Read More about Biorefinery Approach for Ethanol Production From Bagasse.

The Oslo peace process: interview with Joel Singer (2018)
Journal Article
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2018). The Oslo peace process: interview with Joel Singer. Israel affairs, 24(5), 733-766. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2018.1505687

This article records one interview with one of the authors of the Oslo Accords: Joel Singer who was brought to the negotiations from Washington at a later stage. The Oslo channel was established by Yossi Beilin, Terje Rød-Larsen and Yoel Hirschfeld w... Read More about The Oslo peace process: interview with Joel Singer.

The multiphase circumgalactic medium traced by low metal ions in EAGLE zoom simulations (2018)
Journal Article
Oppenheimer, B. D., Schaye, J., Crain, R. A., Werk, J. K., & Richings, A. J. (2018). The multiphase circumgalactic medium traced by low metal ions in EAGLE zoom simulations. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 481(1), 835-859. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2281

We explore the circumgalactic metal content traced by commonly observed low ion absorbers, including C II, SiII, SiIII, SiIV, and MgII. We use a set of cosmological hydrodynamical zoom simulations run with the EAGLE model and including a non-equilibr... Read More about The multiphase circumgalactic medium traced by low metal ions in EAGLE zoom simulations.

Conceptual advancement of socio-ecological modelling of ecosystem services for re-evaluating Brownfield land (2018)
Journal Article
Kolosz, B. W., Athanasiadis, I. N., Cadisch, G., Dawson, T. P., Giupponi, C., Honzák, M., Martinez-Lopez, J., Marvuglia, A., Mojtahed, V., Ogutu, K. B., Van Delden, H., Villa, F., & Balbi, S. (2018). Conceptual advancement of socio-ecological modelling of ecosystem services for re-evaluating Brownfield land. Ecosystem Services, 33(Part A), 29-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.08.003

Essential environmental resources are rapidly exploited globally, while social-ecological systems at different scales fail to meet sustainable development challenges. Ecosystem services research, which at present predominantly utilizes static modelli... Read More about Conceptual advancement of socio-ecological modelling of ecosystem services for re-evaluating Brownfield land.

Passionate Uprisings in Shakespeare’s 'Lucrece' (2018)
Journal Article
Kaegi, A. (2018). Passionate Uprisings in Shakespeare’s 'Lucrece'. Shakespeare, 14(3), 205-215. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2018.1504814

The phenomenon of passionate riot and its role in uprisings, fictional and historical, remains an analytical blind spot. Despite “the affective turn” in the humanities at the outset of the twenty-first century, scholarly studies have continued to foc... Read More about Passionate Uprisings in Shakespeare’s 'Lucrece'.

The genomic basis of color pattern polymorphism in the Harlequin ladybird (2018)
Journal Article
Gautier, M., Yamaguchi, J., Foucaud, J., Loiseau, A., Ausset, A., Facon, B., Gschloessl, B., Lagnel, J., Loire, E., Parrinello, H., Severac, D., Lopez-Roques, C., Donnadieu, C., Manno, M., Berges, H., Gharbi, K., Lawson-Handley, L., Zang, L.-S., Vogel, H., Estoup, A., & Prud'homme, B. (2018). The genomic basis of color pattern polymorphism in the Harlequin ladybird. Current biology : CB, 28(20), 3296-3302.e7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.08.023

© 2018 The Authors Many animal species comprise discrete phenotypic forms. A common example in natural populations of insects is the occurrence of different color patterns, which has motivated a rich body of ecological and genetic research [1–6]. The... Read More about The genomic basis of color pattern polymorphism in the Harlequin ladybird.

Putting false memories into context: The effects of odour contexts on correct and false recall (2018)
Journal Article
Woods, J. A., & Dewhurst, S. A. (2019). Putting false memories into context: The effects of odour contexts on correct and false recall. Memory, 27(3), 379-386. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2018.1512632

False memories created by the Deese/Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm are often accompanied by contextual information. Yet, research investigating the effects of context on false memories is surprisingly scarce. We used the context-dependent memory (... Read More about Putting false memories into context: The effects of odour contexts on correct and false recall.

Environmental rights in marine spaces (2018)
Book Chapter
Barnes, R. (2018). Environmental rights in marine spaces. In S. Bogojevic, & R. Rayfuse (Eds.), Environmental rights in Europe and beyond. Bloomsbury Publishing

Fabrication of novel carbon quantum dots modified bismuth oxide (α-Bi2O3/C-dots): Material properties and catalytic applications (2018)
Journal Article
Sharma, S., Mehta, S. K., Ibhadon, A. O., & Kansal, S. K. (2019). Fabrication of novel carbon quantum dots modified bismuth oxide (α-Bi2O3/C-dots): Material properties and catalytic applications. Journal of colloid and interface science, 533, 227-237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2018.08.056

The present work reports the facile and the template free sonochemical synthesis of a novel catalyst, α-Bi2O3/C-dots, for the degradation of indigo carmine (IC) dye, its simulated dyebath effluent and levofloxacin under visible light catalysis. The c... Read More about Fabrication of novel carbon quantum dots modified bismuth oxide (α-Bi2O3/C-dots): Material properties and catalytic applications.

Correlates of rate heterogeneity in avian ecomorphological traits (2018)
Journal Article
Chira, A. M., Cooney, C. R., Bright, J. A., Capp, E. J. R., Hughes, E. C., Moody, C. J. A., Nouri, L. O., Varley, Z. K., & Thomas, G. H. (2018). Correlates of rate heterogeneity in avian ecomorphological traits. Ecology letters, 21(10), 1505-1514. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13131

Heterogeneity in rates of trait evolution is widespread, but it remains unclear which processes drive fast and slow character divergence across global radiations. Here, we test multiple hypotheses for explaining rate variation in an ecomorphological... Read More about Correlates of rate heterogeneity in avian ecomorphological traits.

Hardcore horror cinema in the 21st century: Production, marketing and consumption (2018)
Book
Aston, J. (2018). Hardcore horror cinema in the 21st century: Production, marketing and consumption. McFarland

Hardcore Horror Cinema in the 21st Century represents the first scholarly book of its kind. It addresses the exemplars of hardcore horror which are Fred Vogel's August Underground trilogy, Shane Ryan's Amateur Porn Star Killer series and Lucifer Vale... Read More about Hardcore horror cinema in the 21st century: Production, marketing and consumption.

Circadian oscillations of cytosolic free calcium regulate the Arabidopsis circadian clock (2018)
Journal Article
Martí Ruiz, M. C., Hubbard, K. E., Gardner, M. J., Jung, H. J., Aubry, S., Hotta, C. T., Mohd-Noh, N. I., Robertson, F. C., Hearn, T. J., Tsai, Y.-C., Dodd, A. N., Hannah, M., Carré, I. A., Davies, J. M., Braam, J., & Webb, A. A. (2018). Circadian oscillations of cytosolic free calcium regulate the Arabidopsis circadian clock. Nature Plants, 4(9), 690-698. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-018-0224-8

In the last decade, the view of circadian oscillators has expanded from transcriptional feedback to incorporate post-transcriptional, post-translational, metabolic processes and ionic signalling. In plants and animals, there are circadian oscillation... Read More about Circadian oscillations of cytosolic free calcium regulate the Arabidopsis circadian clock.

Evidence for basement reactivation during the opening of the Labrador Sea from the Makkovik Province, Labrador, Canada: Insights from field data and numerical models (2018)
Journal Article
Peace, A. L., Dempsey, E. D., Schiffer, C., Welford, J., Mccaffrey, K. J., Imber, J., & Phethean, J. J. (2018). Evidence for basement reactivation during the opening of the Labrador Sea from the Makkovik Province, Labrador, Canada: Insights from field data and numerical models. Geosciences, 8(8), 308. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences8080308

The onshore exposures adjacent to modern, offshore passive continental margins may preserve evidence of deformation from the pre‐, syn‐, and post‐rift phases of continental breakup that allow us to investigate the processes associated with and contro... Read More about Evidence for basement reactivation during the opening of the Labrador Sea from the Makkovik Province, Labrador, Canada: Insights from field data and numerical models.