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Anchoring novel molecular biomarker responses to traditional responses in fish exposed to environmental contamination (2009)
Journal Article
Nogueira, P., Pacheco, M., Lourdes Pereira, M., Mendo, S., & Rotchell, J. M. (2010). Anchoring novel molecular biomarker responses to traditional responses in fish exposed to environmental contamination. Environmental pollution, 158(5), 1783-1790. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2009.11.007

The responses of Dicentrarchus labrax and Liza aurata to aquatic pollution were assessed in a contaminated coastal lagoon, using both traditional and novel biomarkers combined. DNA damage, assessed by comet assay, was higher in both fish species from... Read More about Anchoring novel molecular biomarker responses to traditional responses in fish exposed to environmental contamination.

First Impressions : Diarists, Scientists, Imperialists and the Management of the Environment in the American Pacific, 1899-1902 (2009)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2009). First Impressions : Diarists, Scientists, Imperialists and the Management of the Environment in the American Pacific, 1899-1902. Journal of Pacific History, 44(3), 261-280. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223340903356849

They say first impressions always matter. Americans acquired an empire of tropical islands in the Pacific about which they knew little and cared even less. Yet they set to almost immediately to understand and harness these new environments for their... Read More about First Impressions : Diarists, Scientists, Imperialists and the Management of the Environment in the American Pacific, 1899-1902.

Low density lipoprotein-cholesterol variability in patients with type 2 diabetes taking atorvastatin compared to simvastatin: Justification for direct measurement? (2009)
Journal Article
Sathyapalan, T., Atkin, S. L., & Kilpatrick, E. S. (2010). Low density lipoprotein-cholesterol variability in patients with type 2 diabetes taking atorvastatin compared to simvastatin: Justification for direct measurement?. Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 12(6), 540-544. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-1326.2009.01190.x

Aim: The benefit of direct, as opposed to calculated, low density lipoprotein - cholesterol (LDL-C) measurement remains unclear. This study compared the biological variability of direct LDL in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) on equivalent doses... Read More about Low density lipoprotein-cholesterol variability in patients with type 2 diabetes taking atorvastatin compared to simvastatin: Justification for direct measurement?.

APOE and ACE polymorphisms and dementia risk in the older population over prolonged follow-up: 10 years of incidence in the MRC CFA study (2009)
Journal Article
Keage, H. A., Matthews, F. E., Yip, A., Gao, L., McCracken, C., McKeith, I. G., …Brayne, C. (2009). APOE and ACE polymorphisms and dementia risk in the older population over prolonged follow-up: 10 years of incidence in the MRC CFA study. Age and ageing, 39(1), 104-111. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afp210

Background: dementia risk conferred by apolipoprotein-E (APOE) and angiotensin-1-converting enzyme (ACE) polymorphisms have been reported for the MRC Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (CFAS) at 6-year follow-up. We concentrate on incident dementia... Read More about APOE and ACE polymorphisms and dementia risk in the older population over prolonged follow-up: 10 years of incidence in the MRC CFA study.

Rapid and direct magnetization of GFP-reporter yeast for micro-screening systems (2009)
Journal Article
García-Alonso, J., Fakhrullin, R. F., & Paunov, V. N. (2010). Rapid and direct magnetization of GFP-reporter yeast for micro-screening systems. Biosensors & bioelectronics, 25(7), 1816-1819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2009.11.016

Saccharomyces cerevisiae containing fluorescent markers are ideal candidates for applications in microfluidic screening systems as fluorescence signal is emitted without the need of additional reagents. Here we develop a method for magnetic functiona... Read More about Rapid and direct magnetization of GFP-reporter yeast for micro-screening systems.

No new vision: the gradual death of British social democracy? (2009)
Journal Article
Beech, M. (2009). No new vision: the gradual death of British social democracy?. The Political quarterly, 80(4), 526-532. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2009.02049.x

This article argues that the Labour Party has no new vision for British social democracy. New Labour in Government is intellectually tired and lacks ideological vision. Gordon Brown's leadership is managerial and lacking robust ideological content. T... Read More about No new vision: the gradual death of British social democracy?.

Nitric oxide inhibits von Willebrand factor-mediated platelet adhesion and spreading through regulation of integrin α IIbβ 3 and myosin light chain (2009)
Journal Article
Roberts, W., Michno, A., Aburima, A., & Naseem, K. M. (2009). Nitric oxide inhibits von Willebrand factor-mediated platelet adhesion and spreading through regulation of integrin α IIbβ 3 and myosin light chain. Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTH, 7(12), 2106-2115. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1538-7836.2009.03619.x

Background: von Willebrand factor (VWF)-mediated platelet adhesion and spreading at sites of vascular injury is a critical step in hemostasis. This process requires two individual receptors: glycoprotein Ib (GPIb)-V-IX and integrin αIIbβ3. However, l... Read More about Nitric oxide inhibits von Willebrand factor-mediated platelet adhesion and spreading through regulation of integrin α IIbβ 3 and myosin light chain.

Statistical properties of Hα flares in relation to sunspots and active regions in the cycle 23 (2009)
Journal Article
Zharkov, S. I., & Zharkova, V. V. (2011). Statistical properties of Hα flares in relation to sunspots and active regions in the cycle 23. Journal of atmospheric and solar-terrestrial physics, 73(2-3), 264-270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2009.11.010

The statistical properties of Hα flare occurrences compared with those of sunspot and active region areas in the cycle 23. The flare numbers in the cycle 23 of all significances and locations were obtained from the Solar Geophysical Data (SGD) and th... Read More about Statistical properties of Hα flares in relation to sunspots and active regions in the cycle 23.

The House of Commons 1911-49 (2009)
Book Chapter
Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2009). The House of Commons 1911-49. A Short History of Parliament: England, Great Britain, the United Kingdom, Ireland & Scotland (271 - 282). Boydell Press

Screening and brief interventions for hazardous and harmful alcohol use in probation services: A cluster randomised controlled trial protocol (2009)
Journal Article
Newbury-Birch, D., Bland, M., Cassidy, P., Coulton, S., Deluca, P., Drummond, C., …Shepherd, J. (2009). Screening and brief interventions for hazardous and harmful alcohol use in probation services: A cluster randomised controlled trial protocol. BMC public health, 9(1), Article 418. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-9-418

Background: A large number of randomised controlled trials in health settings have consistently reported positive effects of brief intervention in terms of reductions in alcohol use. However, although alcohol misuse is common amongst offenders, there... Read More about Screening and brief interventions for hazardous and harmful alcohol use in probation services: A cluster randomised controlled trial protocol.

Staff factors associated with perception of behaviouras’ challenging’ in residential and nursing homes (2009)
Book Chapter
Moniz-Cook, E., Woods, R., & Gardiner, E. (2009). Staff factors associated with perception of behaviouras’ challenging’ in residential and nursing homes. In M. Orrell, & A. Spector (Eds.), Psychology of Aging (237-244). Farnham: Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315245706

Three hundred and twenty-six staff, working in 14 residential and nursing homes across England, were asked to rate their ‘ease of managemen t’ on 14 vign ettes of ch allenging resident behaviour. Multiple regression was used to exam ine the correlate... Read More about Staff factors associated with perception of behaviouras’ challenging’ in residential and nursing homes.

Synthesis, structures and luminescent behaviour of tridentate salicylaldiminato-type borate complexes (2009)
Journal Article
Christou, V., Watkins, S. E., McCann, R., Redshaw, C., & Elsegood, M. R. (2010). Synthesis, structures and luminescent behaviour of tridentate salicylaldiminato-type borate complexes. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 363(6), 1173-1178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2009.11.006

Treatment of the ligands 3,5-tBu2-2-(OH)C6H2CHNR [R = 2-(CO2H)C6H4 (1a) and 2-(CO2H)C10H6 (1b)] with trimethylborate, B(OMe)3, in toluene yields, after work-up, the yellow crystalline complexes {[3,5-tBu2-2-(O)C6H2CHNR]B(OMe)} [R = 2-(CO2)C6H4 (2a) a... Read More about Synthesis, structures and luminescent behaviour of tridentate salicylaldiminato-type borate complexes.

Virtualism and the logic of environmentalism (2009)
Book Chapter
Argyrou, V. (2009). Virtualism and the logic of environmentalism. Virtualism, governance and practice: vision and execution in environmental conservation, 24-44. Berghahn Books

This chapter is concerned with the apparent reversal of the modernist ‘physics’ and ‘anthropology’ in environmentalism; the reversal, that is, of the modernist perception of the physical world and definition of humanity and cu... Read More about Virtualism and the logic of environmentalism.

Cultures of exchange: Atlantic Africa in the era of the slave trade (2009)
Journal Article
Richardson, D. (2009). Cultures of exchange: Atlantic Africa in the era of the slave trade. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 19, 151-179. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0080440109990089

Cultural factors have often been invoked to explain parliament's decision in 1807 to outlaw slave carrying by British subjects but they have only infrequently been cited in efforts to explain why the Atlantic slave trade itself became so large in the... Read More about Cultures of exchange: Atlantic Africa in the era of the slave trade.

Wound-related pain: features, assessment and treatment. (2009)
Journal Article
Barrett, S., & Bowers, K. (2009). Wound-related pain: features, assessment and treatment. Nursing standard : official newspaper of the Royal College of Nursing, 24(10), 47 - 56. https://doi.org/10.7748/ns2009.11.24.10.47.c7388

This article explores the problem of wound-related pain. It provides an overview of the different types of pain associated with wounds, discusses approaches to pain assessment and considers a range of strategies that may be used to minimise wound-rel... Read More about Wound-related pain: features, assessment and treatment..

The influence of an alkenyl terminal group on the mesomorphic behaviour and electro-optic properties of fluorinated terphenyl liquid crystals (2009)
Journal Article
Gasowska, J. S., Cowling, S. J., Cockett, M. C. R., Hird, M., Lewis, R. A., Raynes, E. P., & Goodby, J. W. (2010). The influence of an alkenyl terminal group on the mesomorphic behaviour and electro-optic properties of fluorinated terphenyl liquid crystals. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 20(2), 299-307. https://doi.org/10.1039/b914260f

Novel liquid crystal terphenyls with two, three and four lateral fluoro substituents and an alkene unit at the end of a terminal chain are presented in terms of synthesis, mesomorphic behaviour and electro-optic properties. The difluoro analogues wer... Read More about The influence of an alkenyl terminal group on the mesomorphic behaviour and electro-optic properties of fluorinated terphenyl liquid crystals.

Is cumulative growth in manufacturing productivity slowing down in the EU12 regions? (2009)
Journal Article
Alexiadis, S., & Tsagdis, D. (2010). Is cumulative growth in manufacturing productivity slowing down in the EU12 regions?. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 34(6), 1001-1017. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bep070

The cumulative causation in the relation between labour productivity and output growth, known as Verdoorn's Law, is empirically tested using data from 109 EU12 regions during the period 1977-2005. Several specifications of Verdoorn's Law are put forw... Read More about Is cumulative growth in manufacturing productivity slowing down in the EU12 regions?.

Reliability and validity in a nutshell (2009)
Journal Article
Bannigan, K., & Watson, R. (2009). Reliability and validity in a nutshell. Journal of clinical nursing, 18(23), 3237-3243. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2702.2009.02939.x

Aims. To explore and explain the different concepts of reliability and validity as they are related to measurement instruments in social science and health care. Background. There are different concepts contained in the terms reliability and validity... Read More about Reliability and validity in a nutshell.

Recovery in instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs): Findings from the Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC CFAS) (2009)
Journal Article
Seidel, D., Jagger, C., Brayne, C., & Matthews, F. E. (2009). Recovery in instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs): Findings from the Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC CFAS). Age and ageing, 38(6), 663-668. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afp128

Objective: to provide evidence for predictors of recovery in instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) among disabled older people living in the community. Design: MRC CFAS recruited a sample of 13,004 individuals aged 65 years and above from f... Read More about Recovery in instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs): Findings from the Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC CFAS).

A direct technique for preparation of magnetically functionalised living yeast cells (2009)
Journal Article
Fakhrullin, R. F., García-Alonso, J., & Paunov, V. N. (2010). A direct technique for preparation of magnetically functionalised living yeast cells. Soft matter, 6(2), 391-397. https://doi.org/10.1039/b914065d

A direct technique for preparation of magnetically functionalised yeast cells by using polyelectrolyte mediated deposition of magnetite nanoparticles is reported. We demonstrate that the cells preserve their viability after the magnetite deposition a... Read More about A direct technique for preparation of magnetically functionalised living yeast cells.