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On the philosophical foundations of medical ethics: Aristotle, Kant, JS Mill and Rawls (2017)
Journal Article
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2017). On the philosophical foundations of medical ethics: Aristotle, Kant, JS Mill and Rawls. Ethics, Medicine and Public Health, 3(4), 436-444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jemep.2017.09.009

© 2017 Elsevier Masson SAS This article aims to trace back some of the theoretical foundations of medical ethics that stem from the philosophies of Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill and John Rawls. The four philosophers had in mind rational... Read More about On the philosophical foundations of medical ethics: Aristotle, Kant, JS Mill and Rawls.

Emerging trends and new frontiers in community operational research (2017)
Journal Article
Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Emerging trends and new frontiers in community operational research. European journal of operational research, 268(3), 1178-1191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.11.032

Community Operational Research (Community OR), and its disciplinary relation, Community-Based Operations Research, has an increasingly high profile within multiple domains that benefit from empirical and analytic approaches to problem solving. These... Read More about Emerging trends and new frontiers in community operational research.

Frequency of folate-related polymorphisms varies by skin pigmentation (2017)
Journal Article
Jones, P., Lucock, M., Veysey, M., Jablonski, N., Chaplin, G., & Beckett, E. (2018). Frequency of folate-related polymorphisms varies by skin pigmentation. American Journal of Human Biology, 30(2), Article e23079. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23079

© 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Objectives: Folate-mediated 1-carbon transfer processes are vital in human health but are susceptible to independent and interactive influences of genetic variance and environmental exposures. Evidence suggests folate l... Read More about Frequency of folate-related polymorphisms varies by skin pigmentation.

In-situ synchrotron X-ray radiography observation of primary Al2Cu intermetallic growth on fragments of aluminium oxide film (2017)
Journal Article
Wang, F., Eskin, D., Connolley, T., Wang, C., Koe, B., King, A., …Mi, J. (2018). In-situ synchrotron X-ray radiography observation of primary Al2Cu intermetallic growth on fragments of aluminium oxide film. Materials letters, 213, 303-305. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2017.11.090

While using synchrotron X-ray radiography for studying ultrasonic melt processing, the growth of the primary Al2Cu intermetallic phase on fragments of aluminium oxide film during solidification of a hypereutectic Al-35% Cu alloy was observed in-situ... Read More about In-situ synchrotron X-ray radiography observation of primary Al2Cu intermetallic growth on fragments of aluminium oxide film.

The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: Final data release and the metallicity of UV-luminous galaxies (2017)
Journal Article
Drinkwater, M. J., Byrne, Z. J., Blake, C., Glazebrook, K., Brough, S., Colless, M., …Yee, H. K. C. (2018). The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: Final data release and the metallicity of UV-luminous galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(3), 4151-4168. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2963

© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey measured the redshifts of over 200 000 ultraviolet (UV)- selected (NUV < 22.8 mag) galaxies on the Anglo-Australi... Read More about The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: Final data release and the metallicity of UV-luminous galaxies.

Urban energy transitions through innovations in green building (2017)
Book Chapter
Preller, B., Schulz, C., & Affolderbach, J. (2017). Urban energy transitions through innovations in green building. In A. König, & J. Ravetz (Eds.), Sustainability Science (218-233). Oxon: Routledge

Recent debates on climate change have increasingly focused on cities as a strategic spatial scale to implementss climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies. Within this context, green building and the way the built environment interfaces wit... Read More about Urban energy transitions through innovations in green building.

Capturing the dynamics of cellular automata, for the generation of synthetic persian music, using conditional restricted Boltzmann machines (2017)
Book Chapter
Davis, D. N., & Arshi, S. (2017). Capturing the dynamics of cellular automata, for the generation of synthetic persian music, using conditional restricted Boltzmann machines. In Artificial Intelligence XXXIV; Lecture Notes in Computer Science (72-86). Cambridge, UK: Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71078-5_6

© Springer International Publishing AG 2017. In this paper the generative and feature extracting powers of the family of Boltzmann Machines are employed in an algorithmic music composition system. Liquid Persian Music (LPM) system is an audio generat... Read More about Capturing the dynamics of cellular automata, for the generation of synthetic persian music, using conditional restricted Boltzmann machines.

A novel mixing mechanism in sinuous seafloor channels: Implications for submarine channel evolution (2017)
Journal Article
Dorrell, R. M., Peakall, J., Burns, C., & Keevil, G. M. (2018). A novel mixing mechanism in sinuous seafloor channels: Implications for submarine channel evolution. Geomorphology, 303, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.11.008

Previous experimental studies of density currents in sinuous seafloor channels have almost exclusively studied hydrodynamics either by considering time independent, instantaneous, flow measurements or by compiling time-averaged flow measurements. Her... Read More about A novel mixing mechanism in sinuous seafloor channels: Implications for submarine channel evolution.

Research support-oriented MATLAB learning: tackling difficult concepts and promoting personalised learning (2017)
Journal Article
Yang, C., & Smith, D. (2017). Research support-oriented MATLAB learning: tackling difficult concepts and promoting personalised learning. New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 12(12), https://doi.org/10.29311/ndtps.v0i12.2402

This study investigated the acquisition of MATLAB programming skills by postgraduate students, and whether this learning was improved by research support-oriented teaching. Questionnaire surveys were given to academic staff asking about what they con... Read More about Research support-oriented MATLAB learning: tackling difficult concepts and promoting personalised learning.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly: automatic morphological classification of galaxies using statistical learning (2017)
Journal Article
Sreejith, S., Pereverzyev Jr, S., Kelvin, L. S., Marleau, F. R., Haltmeier, M., Ebner, J., …Wright, A. H. (2018). Galaxy And Mass Assembly: automatic morphological classification of galaxies using statistical learning. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(4), 5232-5258. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2976

© 2018 The Author(s). We apply four statistical learning methods to a sample of 7941 galaxies (z < 0.06) from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey to test the feasibility of using automated algorithms to classify galaxies. Using 10 features measured... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly: automatic morphological classification of galaxies using statistical learning.

Policing the culture of silence: strategies to increase the reporting of sexual abuse in British South Asian communities (2017)
Journal Article
Harrison, K., & Gill, A. K. (2019). Policing the culture of silence: strategies to increase the reporting of sexual abuse in British South Asian communities. Policing and Society, 29(3), 302-317. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2017.1405958

The policing of black and minority ethnic communities have a chequered history, with institutional racism, over policing and under protection being rife. While there have been several studies completed on policing and race, very little has looked at... Read More about Policing the culture of silence: strategies to increase the reporting of sexual abuse in British South Asian communities.

Cozarinsky's La guerre d'un seul homme and musical categories : (Re)-framing Pfitzner, Strauss, Schreker, and Schoenberg cinematically (2017)
Book Chapter
Binns, A. (2018). Cozarinsky's La guerre d'un seul homme and musical categories : (Re)-framing Pfitzner, Strauss, Schreker, and Schoenberg cinematically. In N. Attfield, & B. Winters (Eds.), Music, Modern Culture, and the Critical Ear. Abingdon: Routledge

The framing of music, especially that of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is bound up not only with the effects of the two World Wars that (dis)figured the period but also with the discourse on musical value and identity within whic... Read More about Cozarinsky's La guerre d'un seul homme and musical categories : (Re)-framing Pfitzner, Strauss, Schreker, and Schoenberg cinematically.

Flickering AGN can explain the strong circumgalactic OVI observed by COS-Halos (2017)
Journal Article
Oppenheimer, B. D., Segers, M., Schaye, J., Richings, A. J., & Crain, R. A. (2018). Flickering AGN can explain the strong circumgalactic OVI observed by COS-Halos. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(4), 4740-4755. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2967

Proximity zone fossils (PZFs) are ionization signatures around recently active galactic nuclei (AGNs) where metal species in the circumgalactic medium remain overionized after the AGNs have shut offdue to their long recombination time scales. We expl... Read More about Flickering AGN can explain the strong circumgalactic OVI observed by COS-Halos.

Amino acid based gallium-68 chelators capable of radiolabeling at neutral pH (2017)
Journal Article
Kubicek, V., Bohmova, Z., Price, T. W., Gallo, J., Kubíček, V., Böhmová, Z., …Stasiuk, G. J. (2017). Amino acid based gallium-68 chelators capable of radiolabeling at neutral pH. Dalton Transactions : an international journal of inorganic chemistry, 46(48), 16973-16982. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7dt03398b

Gallium-68 ( 68 Ga) has been the subject of increasing interest for its potential in the production of radiotracers for diagnosis of diseases. In this work we report the complexation of 68 Ga by the amino acid based tripodal chelate H 3 Dpaa, and two... Read More about Amino acid based gallium-68 chelators capable of radiolabeling at neutral pH.

Nucleosome acidic patch-targeting binuclear ruthenium compounds induce aberrant chromatin condensation (2017)
Journal Article
Davey, G. E., Dyson, P. J., Davey, C. A., Davey, G., Adhireksan, Z., Ma, Z., …Davey, C. (2017). Nucleosome acidic patch-targeting binuclear ruthenium compounds induce aberrant chromatin condensation. Nature communications, 8(1), Article 1575. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01680-4

© 2017 The Author(s). The 'acidic patch' is a highly electronegative cleft on the histone H2A-H2B dimer in the nucleosome. It is a fundamental motif for protein binding and chromatin dynamics, but the cellular impact of targeting this potentially the... Read More about Nucleosome acidic patch-targeting binuclear ruthenium compounds induce aberrant chromatin condensation.

Psychometric validation of the needs assessment tool: Progressive disease in interstitial lung disease (2017)
Journal Article
Johnson, M. J., Jamali, A., Ross, J., Fairhurst, C., Boland, J., Reigada, C., …Yorke, J. (2018). Psychometric validation of the needs assessment tool: Progressive disease in interstitial lung disease. Thorax, 73(9), 880-883. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2017-210911

© Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. The inter-rater/test-retest reliability and construct validity... Read More about Psychometric validation of the needs assessment tool: Progressive disease in interstitial lung disease.

Advantage, meaning, and pleasure: Reframing the interaction between major-gift fundraisers and philanthropists (2017)
Journal Article
Mc Loughlin, J. (2017). Advantage, meaning, and pleasure: Reframing the interaction between major-gift fundraisers and philanthropists. International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, 22(4), e1600. https://doi.org/10.1002/nvsm.1600

The purpose of this paper is to bridge the widening gap between the rapidly growing academic literature on fundraising and the need that practising, reflective fundraisers have for a useable explanatory framework for understanding what are the main f... Read More about Advantage, meaning, and pleasure: Reframing the interaction between major-gift fundraisers and philanthropists.

The ‘Not Knowns’: memory, narrative and applied theatre (2017)
Journal Article
Conroy, C., Dickenson, S. J., & Mazzoni, G. (2018). The ‘Not Knowns’: memory, narrative and applied theatre. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 23(1), 56-72. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2017.1398641

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an attempt to articulate and explore the relationship between the science of memory and the applied theatre project, The Not Knowns. The project was a collaboration between theatr... Read More about The ‘Not Knowns’: memory, narrative and applied theatre.