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Vaping shadows tobacco control: imperatives for Malaysia (2015)
Journal Article
Ahmadi, K., & Soyiri, I. N. (2017). Vaping shadows tobacco control: imperatives for Malaysia. Journal of Smoking Cessation, 12(1), 43-44. https://doi.org/10.1017/jsc.2015.12

Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) have been the subject of numerous debates in the literature. (Bullen et al., 2013; Cressey, 2014; The Lancet, 2013) So much discussion has been on it this year alone to the extent that the word vape, which means ‘... Read More about Vaping shadows tobacco control: imperatives for Malaysia.

Living positively with dementia: a systematic review and synthesis of the qualitative literature (2015)
Journal Article
Wolverson, E., Clarke, C., & Moniz-Cook, E. (2016). Living positively with dementia: a systematic review and synthesis of the qualitative literature. Aging and Mental Health, 20(7), 676-699. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2015.1052777

Objective: Little is known about how and to what extent people with dementia live positively with their condition. This study aimed to review and carry out a synthesis of qualitative studies where accounts of the subjective experiences of people with... Read More about Living positively with dementia: a systematic review and synthesis of the qualitative literature.

Divided maxillary artery in relation to the lateral pterygoid muscle (2015)
Journal Article
Aland, R. C., & Shaw, V. (2016). Divided maxillary artery in relation to the lateral pterygoid muscle. Anatomical Science International, 91(2), 207-210. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12565-015-0289-7

We describe an anatomical variation of the right maxillary artery. The variation loops deep, giving off a middle meningeal artery with an extremely short extracranial segment, then bifurcates into unequal branches. The smaller branch passes superfici... Read More about Divided maxillary artery in relation to the lateral pterygoid muscle.

Anti racism: totem and taboo – a review article (2015)
Journal Article
Burnett, J. (2015). Anti racism: totem and taboo – a review article. Race & class, 57(1), 78-87. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396815582006

Against a backdrop of punishing austerity measures, the ascent of the neoliberal project and the undermining of multiculturalism, anti-anti-racism is seeing a renascence in the UK. This resurgent critique decries anti-racism as set against white work... Read More about Anti racism: totem and taboo – a review article.

Study on heat integration of supercritical coal-fired power plant with post-combustion CO₂ capture process through process simulation (2015)
Journal Article
Liu, X., Chen, J., Luo, X., Wang, M., & Meng, H. (2015). Study on heat integration of supercritical coal-fired power plant with post-combustion CO₂ capture process through process simulation. Fuel, 158(October), 625-633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2015.06.033

Coal-fired power plant (CFPP) is one of the main sources of anthropogenic CO₂ emissions. Capturing CO₂ from CFPP by post-combustion process plays an important role to mitigate CO₂ emissions. However, a significant thermal efficiency drop was observed... Read More about Study on heat integration of supercritical coal-fired power plant with post-combustion CO₂ capture process through process simulation.

Aging and the number sense: preserved basic non-symbolic numerical processing and enhanced basic symbolic processing (2015)
Journal Article
Norris, J. E., McGeown, W. J., Guerrini, C., & Castronovo, J. (2015). Aging and the number sense: preserved basic non-symbolic numerical processing and enhanced basic symbolic processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00999

© 2015 Norris, McGeown, Guerrini and Castronovo. Aging often leads to general cognitive decline in domains such as memory and attention. The effect of aging on numerical cognition, particularly on foundational numerical skills known as the number sen... Read More about Aging and the number sense: preserved basic non-symbolic numerical processing and enhanced basic symbolic processing.

Force majeure: Will climate change affect our ability to attain Good Environmental Status for marine biodiversity? (2015)
Journal Article
Elliott, M., Borja, Á., McQuatters-Gollop, A., Mazik, K., Birchenough, S., Andersen, J. H., …Peck, M. (2015). Force majeure: Will climate change affect our ability to attain Good Environmental Status for marine biodiversity?. Marine pollution bulletin, 95(1), 7-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.03.015

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. The EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) requires that Good Environmental Status (GEnS), is achieved for European seas by 2020. These may deviate from GEnS, its 11 Descriptors, targets and baselines, due to endogenic man... Read More about Force majeure: Will climate change affect our ability to attain Good Environmental Status for marine biodiversity?.

Activation of glycoprotein VI (GPVI) and C-type lectin-like receptor-2 (CLEC-2) underlies platelet activation by diesel exhaust particles and other charged/hydrophobic ligands (2015)
Journal Article
Alshehri, O. M., Montague, S., Watson, S., Carter, P., Sarker, N., Manne, B. K., …Watson, S. P. (2015). Activation of glycoprotein VI (GPVI) and C-type lectin-like receptor-2 (CLEC-2) underlies platelet activation by diesel exhaust particles and other charged/hydrophobic ligands. Biochemical Journal, 468(3), 459-473. https://doi.org/10.1042/BJ20150192

Platelets are activated by a range of stimuli that share little or no resemblance in structure to each other or to recognized ligands, including diesel exhaust particles (DEP), small peptides [4N1-1, Champs (computed helical anti-membrane proteins),... Read More about Activation of glycoprotein VI (GPVI) and C-type lectin-like receptor-2 (CLEC-2) underlies platelet activation by diesel exhaust particles and other charged/hydrophobic ligands.

The effect of internal audit function quality and internal audit contribution to external audit on audit fees (2015)
Journal Article
Mat Zain, M., Zaman, M., & Mohamed, Z. (2015). The effect of internal audit function quality and internal audit contribution to external audit on audit fees. International Journal of Auditing, 19(3), 134-147. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijau.12043

Corporate governance mandates and listing rules identify internal audit functions (IAF) as a central internal control mechanism. External auditors are expected to assess the quality of IAF before placing reliance on its work. We provide evidence on t... Read More about The effect of internal audit function quality and internal audit contribution to external audit on audit fees.

Submarine palaeoenvironments during Emeishan flood basalt volcanism, SW China: Implications for plume-lithosphere interaction during the Capitanian, Middle Permian ('end Guadalupian') extinction event (2015)
Journal Article
Jerram, D. A., Widdowson, M., Wignall, P. B., Sun, Y., Lai, X., Bond, D. P., & Torsvik, T. H. (2016). Submarine palaeoenvironments during Emeishan flood basalt volcanism, SW China: Implications for plume-lithosphere interaction during the Capitanian, Middle Permian ('end Guadalupian') extinction event. Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 441(1), 65-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.06.009

Plume-induced lithospheric uplift and erosion are widely regarded as key features of large igneous province (LIP) emplacement, as is the coincidence of LIP eruption with major extinction and oceanic anoxic events (OAE). The Emeishan LIP, which erupte... Read More about Submarine palaeoenvironments during Emeishan flood basalt volcanism, SW China: Implications for plume-lithosphere interaction during the Capitanian, Middle Permian ('end Guadalupian') extinction event.

Ireland, Jamaica, and the fate of white protestants in the British Empire in the 1780s (2015)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2015). Ireland, Jamaica, and the fate of white protestants in the British Empire in the 1780s. In A. McCarthy (Ed.), Ireland in the World Comparative, Transnational, and Personal Perspectives (15-33). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315749020

This chapter characterises the shifting relationship between Irish and Welsh nationalists during the mid-twentieth century and then outlines the cooperative history of several significant Irish and Welsh organisations. The precursor was the Irish Ant... Read More about Ireland, Jamaica, and the fate of white protestants in the British Empire in the 1780s.

Shari’ah supervision, corporate governance and performance: conventional vs. Islamic banks (2015)
Journal Article
Mollah, S., & Zaman, M. (2015). Shari’ah supervision, corporate governance and performance: conventional vs. Islamic banks. Journal of Banking and Finance, 58, 418-435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2015.04.030

The performance and accountability of boards of directors and effectiveness of governance mechanisms continue to be a matter of concern. Focusing on differences between conventional banks and Islamic banks, we examine the effect of (i) Shari’ah super... Read More about Shari’ah supervision, corporate governance and performance: conventional vs. Islamic banks.

(Japanese?) Cartoons and Manga Movies: The hard rise of Anime in UK market and society (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Manuel, H., Corstorphine, K., & Darren, S. (2015, June). (Japanese?) Cartoons and Manga Movies: The hard rise of Anime in UK market and society. Paper presented at MUTUAL IMAGES. 3rd International Workshop: “Japanese pop cultures in Europe today: economic challenges, mediated notions, future opportunities”

This paper has as main objective to explore, adopting a historical and critical perspective, the release of film and anime TV in UK. This would be a first step towards the studio of the peculiar implementation of manganime Culture in Britain. Comp... Read More about (Japanese?) Cartoons and Manga Movies: The hard rise of Anime in UK market and society.

Use of 3D visualisation tools for representing urban greenspace spatial planning (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Wang, C., Miller, D., Jiang, Y., & Donaldson-Selby, G. (2015). Use of 3D visualisation tools for representing urban greenspace spatial planning. In 2nd International Conference on Information Science and Control Engineering (528-532). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICISCE.2015.123

The objective of this paper is to report on the development of prototype models for use in raising public awareness of changes in urban areas, focusing on green spaces, and testing responses to scenarios of change. Specifically, the focus is on the d... Read More about Use of 3D visualisation tools for representing urban greenspace spatial planning.

Mobile phones and education in sub-Saharan Africa: from youth practice to public policy (2015)
Journal Article
Robson, E., Abane, A., Bango, A., De Lannoy, A., Gunguluza, N., Hampshire, K., …Tanle, A. (2016). Mobile phones and education in sub-Saharan Africa: from youth practice to public policy. Journal of international development, 28(1), 22-39. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3116

Young people’s use of mobile phones is expanding exponentially across Africa. Its transformative potential is exciting, but findings presented in this paper indicate how the downside of mobile phone use in African schools is becoming increasingly app... Read More about Mobile phones and education in sub-Saharan Africa: from youth practice to public policy.

Magnetoencephalography to investigate central perception of exercise-induced breathlessness in people with chronic lung disease: A feasibility pilot (2015)
Journal Article
Johnson, M. J., Simpson, M. I., Currow, D. C., Millman, R. E., Hart, S. P., & Green, G. (2015). Magnetoencephalography to investigate central perception of exercise-induced breathlessness in people with chronic lung disease: A feasibility pilot. BMJ open, 5(6), Article ARTN e007535. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-007535

Objectives: Neuroimaging in chronic breathlessness is challenging. The study objective was to test the feasibility of magnetoencephalography (MEG) for functional neuroimaging of people with chronic breathlessness. Design: Feasibility pilot study. Set... Read More about Magnetoencephalography to investigate central perception of exercise-induced breathlessness in people with chronic lung disease: A feasibility pilot.

Stripped elliptical galaxies as probes of ICM physics: I. Tails, wakes, and flow patterns in and around stripped ellipticals (2015)
Journal Article
Roediger, E., Kraft, R. P., Nulsen, P. E. J., Forman, W. R., Machacek, M., Randall, S., …Kokotanekova, R. (2015). Stripped elliptical galaxies as probes of ICM physics: I. Tails, wakes, and flow patterns in and around stripped ellipticals. The Astrophysical journal, 806(1), Article ARTN 103. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/806/1/103

Elliptical cluster galaxies are progressively stripped of their atmospheres due to their motion through the intra-cluster medium (ICM). Deep X-ray observations reveal the fine-structure of the galaxy's remnant atmosphere and its gas tail and wake. Th... Read More about Stripped elliptical galaxies as probes of ICM physics: I. Tails, wakes, and flow patterns in and around stripped ellipticals.

Use of low-dose oral theophylline as an adjunct to inhaled corticosteroids in preventing exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2015)
Journal Article
Devereux, G., Cotton, S., Barnes, P., Briggs, A., Burns, G., Chaudhuri, R., …Price, D. (2015). Use of low-dose oral theophylline as an adjunct to inhaled corticosteroids in preventing exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 16(1), Article 267. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-015-0782-2

© Devereux et al. Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with high morbidity, mortality, and health-care costs. An incomplete response to the anti-inflammatory effects of inhaled corticosteroids is present in COPD. Pre... Read More about Use of low-dose oral theophylline as an adjunct to inhaled corticosteroids in preventing exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.