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GPU accelerating technique for rendering implicitly represented vasculatures (2014)
Journal Article
Hong, Q., Wang, B., Li, Q., Li, Y., & Wu, Q. (2014). GPU accelerating technique for rendering implicitly represented vasculatures. Bio-medical materials and engineering, 24(1), 1351-1357. https://doi.org/10.3233/BME-130938

With the flooding datasets of medical Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), implicit modeling techniques are increasingly applied to reconstruct the human organs, especially the vasculature. However, displaying implicitly rep... Read More about GPU accelerating technique for rendering implicitly represented vasculatures.

Mutation of the Arabidopsis LON2 peroxisomal protease enhances pexophagy (2014)
Journal Article
Bartel, B., Farmer, L. M., Rinaldi, M. A., Young, P. G., Danan, C. H., & Burkhart, S. E. (2014). Mutation of the Arabidopsis LON2 peroxisomal protease enhances pexophagy. Autophagy, 10(3), 518-519. https://doi.org/10.4161/auto.27565

Peroxisomes are critical organelles housing various, often oxidative, reactions. Pexophagy, the process by which peroxisomes are selectively targeted for destruction via autophagy, is characterized in yeast and mammals but had not been reported in pl... Read More about Mutation of the Arabidopsis LON2 peroxisomal protease enhances pexophagy.

Location and the conceptualization of historical frameworks: Early American history and its multiple reconfigurations in the United States and in Europe (2014)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T., & Vidal, C. (2014). Location and the conceptualization of historical frameworks: Early American history and its multiple reconfigurations in the United States and in Europe. In N. Barreyre, M. Heale, S. Tuck, & C. Vidal (Eds.), Historians across borders : writing American history in a global age (141-162). Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520279278.003.0007

This chapter examines early American history (often known as Atlantic history, a recently burgeoning field) and its multiple reconfigurations from the 1960s in order to analyze the impact of location on the conceptualization of historical frameworks.... Read More about Location and the conceptualization of historical frameworks: Early American history and its multiple reconfigurations in the United States and in Europe.

Comparison between a Mandarin Chinese version of the Childhood Autism Spectrum Test and the Clancy Autism Behaviour Scale in mainland China (2014)
Journal Article
Sun, X., Allison, C., Auyeung, B., Matthews, F. E., Zhang, Z., Baron-Cohen, S., & Brayne, C. (2014). Comparison between a Mandarin Chinese version of the Childhood Autism Spectrum Test and the Clancy Autism Behaviour Scale in mainland China. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 35(7), 1599-1608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2014.02.005

A Mandarin Chinese version of the Childhood Autism Spectrum Test (CAST) and Clancy Autism Behaviour Scale (CABS) were applied to 150 children aged 4-11 years old from clinical settings and mainstream schools in Beijing. All the children were further... Read More about Comparison between a Mandarin Chinese version of the Childhood Autism Spectrum Test and the Clancy Autism Behaviour Scale in mainland China.

The Parade of Identity: M. E. Braddon, The Travelling Circus Performer and the (Re)Construction of Self (2013)
Journal Article
Hatter, J. (2013). The Parade of Identity: M. E. Braddon, The Travelling Circus Performer and the (Re)Construction of Self. St. John's University humanities review, 10(1), pp.26-38

According to modern social psychology, the construction of identity occurs on three distinct levels: individual, relational and collective (Vignoles, Schwartz and Luyckx 3). Previously, psychologists argued that the three levels were self contained c... Read More about The Parade of Identity: M. E. Braddon, The Travelling Circus Performer and the (Re)Construction of Self.

After emancipation : slavery, freedom and the Victorian empire (2013)
Book Chapter
Oldfield, J. (2013). After emancipation : slavery, freedom and the Victorian empire. In M. Taylor (Ed.), The Victorian Empire and Britain’s Maritime World, 1837–1901 : The Sea and Global History (43-63). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137312662_3

In the 26 years between 1807 and 1833, Britain not only put an end to its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, but also abolished slavery in the British Caribbean. These momentous events figure largely in the nation’s imagination and, indeed... Read More about After emancipation : slavery, freedom and the Victorian empire.

Clinically important differences in the intensity of chronic refractory breathlessness (2013)
Journal Article
Johnson, M. J., Bland, J. M., Oxberry, S. G., Abernethy, A. P., & Currow, D. C. (2013). Clinically important differences in the intensity of chronic refractory breathlessness. Journal of pain and symptom management, 46(6), 957-963. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2013.01.011

Context: Clinically important differences in chronic refractory breathlessness are ill defined but important in clinical practice and trial design. Objectives: To estimate the clinical relevance of differences in breathlessness intensity using distri... Read More about Clinically important differences in the intensity of chronic refractory breathlessness.

Dietary intervention in the treatment of patients with cough and symptoms suggestive of airways reflux as determined by Hull airways Reflux Questionnaire (2013)
Journal Article
Smith, J. E., Morjaria, J. B., & Morice, A. H. (2013). Dietary intervention in the treatment of patients with cough and symptoms suggestive of airways reflux as determined by Hull airways Reflux Questionnaire. Cough, 9(1), Article 27. https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-9974-9-27

Background: Chronic cough is a common and distressing symptom. Gastro-oesophageal reflux is a common cause of chronic cough however the symptom complex in cough is not confined to classic peptic symptoms. Dyspeptic symptoms have previously been shown... Read More about Dietary intervention in the treatment of patients with cough and symptoms suggestive of airways reflux as determined by Hull airways Reflux Questionnaire.

'He alone on this isotonic plain' : Robert Graves, Keidrych Rhys, Lynette Roberts, and the situation of the poet in war (2013)
Journal Article
Mundye, C. (2013). 'He alone on this isotonic plain' : Robert Graves, Keidrych Rhys, Lynette Roberts, and the situation of the poet in war. Gravesiana, 3(4), 703-729

The article examines aspects of Robert Graves’s creative and personal relationship with the Anglo-Welsh modernist poets Lynette Roberts and Keidrych Rhys. Roberts and Rhys met in late 1930s bohemian London literary circles, and were married, with Dyl... Read More about 'He alone on this isotonic plain' : Robert Graves, Keidrych Rhys, Lynette Roberts, and the situation of the poet in war.

D.H. Lawrence and the 'Insidious mastery of song' (2013)
Journal Article
Jones, B. (2013). D.H. Lawrence and the 'Insidious mastery of song'. D. H. Lawrence studies, 20(2), 155-175

This article initially considers possible approaches to the analysis of musical influences on Lawrence and his literary work. The unique method adopted in this particular study is then highlighted: it involves a "practical" or analytical approach to... Read More about D.H. Lawrence and the 'Insidious mastery of song'.

‘(Re)Visiting and (Re)Visioning the Self/Other Divide in Science Fiction Transmutations of the Gothic (2013)
Journal Article
Hatter, J. (2013). ‘(Re)Visiting and (Re)Visioning the Self/Other Divide in Science Fiction Transmutations of the Gothic. Supernatural studies, 1(1), 39-52

Literary, cultural and historical critics alike have theorised that society’s values are based on dichotomies: majority/minority, oppressor/oppressed, men/women, young/old and good/evil. As Edward Said notes in his preface to Orientalism (1978): the... Read More about ‘(Re)Visiting and (Re)Visioning the Self/Other Divide in Science Fiction Transmutations of the Gothic.

Expert evidence and the Law Commission : implementation without legislation? (2013)
Journal Article
Ward, T. (2013). Expert evidence and the Law Commission : implementation without legislation?. Criminal Law Review -London-, 561-576

Argues that, despite a failure to implement the recommendations in the Law Commission's 2011 report entitled "Expert Evidence in Criminal Proceedings", many of its proposals on the exclusion of such evidence might be introduced by the judiciary's app... Read More about Expert evidence and the Law Commission : implementation without legislation?.

Quantification of Simultaneous-AND Gates in Temporal Fault Trees (2013)
Journal Article
Edifor, E., Walker, M., & Gordon, N. (2013). Quantification of Simultaneous-AND Gates in Temporal Fault Trees. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 224, 141-151. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00945-2_13

Fault Tree Analysis has been a cornerstone of safety-critical systems for many years. It has seen various extensions to enable it to analyse dynamic behaviours exhibited by modern systems with redundant components. However, none of these extended FTA... Read More about Quantification of Simultaneous-AND Gates in Temporal Fault Trees.

The reniform reflecting superposition compound eyes of Nephrops norvegicus: optics, susceptibility to light-induced damage, electrophysiology and a ray tracing model (2013)
Book Chapter
Gaten, E., Moss, S., & Johnson, M. L. (2013). The reniform reflecting superposition compound eyes of Nephrops norvegicus: optics, susceptibility to light-induced damage, electrophysiology and a ray tracing model. In Advances in Marine Biology; The Ecology and Biology of Nephrops norvegicus (107-148). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-410466-2.00004-2

The large reniform eyes of the reptant, tube-dwelling decapod Nephrops norvegicus are described in detail. Optically these reflecting superposition compound eyes are a little unusual in that they are laterally flattened, a feature that may enhance th... Read More about The reniform reflecting superposition compound eyes of Nephrops norvegicus: optics, susceptibility to light-induced damage, electrophysiology and a ray tracing model.

The VMC ESO Public Survey (2013)
Journal Article
Cioni, M. L., Anders, P., Bagheri, G., Bekki, K., Clementini, G., Emerson, J., …Zaggia, S. (2013). The VMC ESO Public Survey. The Messenger, 23-25

The VISTA near-infrared YJKs survey of the Magellanic Clouds system (VMC) has entered its core phase: about 50% of the observations across the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC, SMC), the Magellanic Bridge and Stream have already been secured an... Read More about The VMC ESO Public Survey.