All Outputs (20041)

Alkaline residues and the environment: a review of impacts, management practices and opportunities (2015)
Journal Article
Gomes, H. I., Mayes, W. M., Rogerson, M., Stewart, D. I., & Burke, I. T. (2016). Alkaline residues and the environment: a review of impacts, management practices and opportunities. Journal of cleaner production, 112(4), 3571-3582. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.09.111

Around two billion tonnes of alkaline residues are produced globally each year by industries such as steel production, alumina refining and coal-fired power generation, with a total production estimate of 90 billion tonnes since industrialisation. Th... Read More about Alkaline residues and the environment: a review of impacts, management practices and opportunities.

Improved resource efficiency and cascading utilisation of renewable materials (2015)
Journal Article
Geldermann, J., Kolbe, L. M., Krause, A., Mai, C., Militz, H., Osburg, V. S., …Westphal, S. (2016). Improved resource efficiency and cascading utilisation of renewable materials. Journal of cleaner production, 110, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.09.092

In light of various environmental problems and challenges concerning resource allocation, the utilisation of renewable resources is increasingly important for the efficient use of raw materials. Therefore, cascading utilisation (i.e., the multiple ma... Read More about Improved resource efficiency and cascading utilisation of renewable materials.

Evaluation of configurationally restricted copper-64 labelled bis tetraazamacrocyclic as potential PET agents for CXCR4 expression in oncology imaging (2015)
Journal Article
Clemente, G. S., Burke, B. P., Nigam, S., Cawthorne, C., & Archibald, S. J. (2015). Evaluation of configurationally restricted copper-64 labelled bis tetraazamacrocyclic as potential PET agents for CXCR4 expression in oncology imaging. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, 42(S1), S42. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-015-3198-z

Conference abstract

Trauma in the childhood stories of people who have injected drugs (2015)
Journal Article
Hammersley, R., Dalgarno, P., McCollum, S., Reid, M., Strike, Y., Smith, A., …Liddell, D. (2016). Trauma in the childhood stories of people who have injected drugs. Addiction research & theory, 24(2), 135-151. https://doi.org/10.3109/16066359.2015.1093120

Aim: To document childhood trauma in the life stories of people who have injected drugs. Method: Fifty-five participants (38 m, 17 f) recruited via Scottish recovery networks, who had injected drugs in the previous five years, were interviewed by pee... Read More about Trauma in the childhood stories of people who have injected drugs.

Infection in prosthetic material (2015)
Journal Article
Smith, G., & Chetter, I. (2015). Infection in prosthetic material. Surgery (Oxford), 33(11), 559-564. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mpsur.2015.08.003

Surgical site infection (SSI) occurs when a wound created as part of a surgical procedure becomes infected. SSI is one of the most common healthcare-associated infections and occurs in approximately 5% of patients undergoing a surgical procedure. SSI... Read More about Infection in prosthetic material.

Switchable opening and closing of a liquid marble via ultrasonic levitation (2015)
Journal Article
Zang, D., Li, J., Chen, Z., Zhai, Z., Geng, X., & Binks, B. P. (2015). Switchable opening and closing of a liquid marble via ultrasonic levitation. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 31(42), 11502-11507. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b02917

Liquid marbles have promising applications in the field of microreactors, where the opening and closing of their surfaces plays a central role. We have levitated liquid water marbles using an acoustic levitator and, thereby, achieved the manipulation... Read More about Switchable opening and closing of a liquid marble via ultrasonic levitation.

Mn abundances in the stars of the Galactic disc with metallicities -1.0 < [Fe/H] < 0.3 (2015)
Journal Article
Mishenina, T., Gorbaneva, T. I., Pignatari, M., Thielemann, F., & Korotin, S. (2015). Mn abundances in the stars of the Galactic disc with metallicities -1.0 < [Fe/H] < 0.3. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 454(2), 1585-1594. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2038

In this work we present and discuss the observations of the Mn abundances for 247 FGK dwarfs, located in the Galactic disc with metallicity -1 < [Fe/H]< +0.3. The observed stars belong to the substructures of the Galaxy thick and thin discs, and to t... Read More about Mn abundances in the stars of the Galactic disc with metallicities -1.0 < [Fe/H] < 0.3.

Spectroscopic signatures related to a sunquake (2015)
Journal Article
Matthews, S. A., Harra, L. K., Zharkov, S., & Green, L. M. (2015). Spectroscopic signatures related to a sunquake. The Astrophysical journal, 812(1), 35. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/812/1/35

© 2015. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.. The presence of flare-related acoustic emission (sunquakes (SQs)) in some flares, and only in specific locations within the flaring environment, represents a severe challenge to our cur... Read More about Spectroscopic signatures related to a sunquake.

The micro-architecture of human cancellous bone from fracture neck of femur patients in relation to the structural integrity and fracture toughness of the tissue (2015)
Journal Article
Greenwood, C., Clement, J. G., Dicken, A. J., Evans, J. P., Lyburn, I. D., Martin, R. M., …Zioupos, P. (2015). The micro-architecture of human cancellous bone from fracture neck of femur patients in relation to the structural integrity and fracture toughness of the tissue. Bone Reports, 3, 67-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bonr.2015.10.001

Osteoporosis is clinically assessed from bone mineral density measurements using dual energy X-ray absorption (DXA). However, these measurements do not always provide an accurate fracture prediction, arguably because DXA does not grapple with 'bone q... Read More about The micro-architecture of human cancellous bone from fracture neck of femur patients in relation to the structural integrity and fracture toughness of the tissue.

The Rights of the Child (2015)
Book Chapter
Glazzard, J. (2015). The Rights of the Child. In N. Denby (Ed.), Training to Teach: A Guide for Students. (3rd ed.). London: SAGE Publications (UK and US)

Inclusion (2015)
Book Chapter
Glazzard, J. (2015). Inclusion. In N. Denby (Ed.), Training to Teach: A Guide for Students (243-60). (3rd ed.). London: SAGE Publications (UK and US)

Do house prices overreact to relevant information? New evidence from the UK housing market (2015)
Journal Article
Hudson, R., Manahov, V., Metcalf, H., & Zhang, H. (in press). Do house prices overreact to relevant information? New evidence from the UK housing market. Investment management & financial innovations, 12(3), 33-46

We use recent panel data and various empirical models to investigate the validity of the irrational expectations hypothesis and the feedback theory in the UK housing market. We provide the first empirical evidence to justify the statistically signifi... Read More about Do house prices overreact to relevant information? New evidence from the UK housing market.

Child Protection Issues (2015)
Book Chapter
Glazzard, J. (2015). Child Protection Issues. In N. Denby (Ed.), Training to Teach: A Guide for Students (48-65). SAGE Publications (UK and US)

Probabilistic estimates for tensor products of random vectors (2015)
Journal Article
Alonso-Gutiérrez, D., Passenbrunner, M., & Prochno, J. (2016). Probabilistic estimates for tensor products of random vectors. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 144(5), 2133-2148. https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/12883

We prove some probabilistic estimates for tensor products of random vectors, generalizing results that were obtained by Gordon, Litvak, Schütt,

Pancreatic β-cell imaging in humans: Fiction or option? (2015)
Journal Article
Laurent, D., Vinet, L., Lamprianou, S., Daval, M., Filhoulaud, G., Ktorza, A., …Hecksher-Sørensen, J. (2016). Pancreatic β-cell imaging in humans: Fiction or option?. Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 18(1), 6-15. https://doi.org/10.1111/dom.12544

Diabetes mellitus is a growing worldwide epidemic disease, currently affecting 1 in 12 adults. Treatment of disease complications typically consumes ∼10% of healthcare budgets in developed societies. Whilst immune‐mediated destruction of insulin‐secr... Read More about Pancreatic β-cell imaging in humans: Fiction or option?.

Analogue peptides for the immunotherapy of human acute myeloid leukemia (2015)
Journal Article
Hofmann, S., Mead, A., Malinovskis, A., Hardwick, N. R., & Guinn, B. A. (2015). Analogue peptides for the immunotherapy of human acute myeloid leukemia. Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy, 64(11), 1357-1367. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00262-015-1762-9

The use of peptide vaccines, enhanced by adjuvants, has shown some efficacy in clinical trials. However, responses are often short-lived and rarely induce notable memory responses. The reason is that self-antigens have already been presented to the i... Read More about Analogue peptides for the immunotherapy of human acute myeloid leukemia.

Implications of a pre-exercise alkalosis-mediated attenuation of HSP72 on its response to a subsequent bout of exercise (2015)
Journal Article
Peart, D. J., Kirk, R. J., Madden, L. A., & Vince, R. V. (2016). Implications of a pre-exercise alkalosis-mediated attenuation of HSP72 on its response to a subsequent bout of exercise. Amino acids, 48(2), 499-504. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00726-015-2103-1

The aim of this study was to investigate if a pre-exercise alkalosis-mediated attenuation of HSP72 had any effect on the response of the same stress protein after a subsequent exercise. Seven physically active males [25.0 ± 6.5 years, 182.1 ± 6.0 cm,... Read More about Implications of a pre-exercise alkalosis-mediated attenuation of HSP72 on its response to a subsequent bout of exercise.

Insights from para-psychology for international relations (2015)
Journal Article
Beyer, A. C. (2015). Insights from para-psychology for international relations. Peace review, 27(4), 484-491. https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2015.1094341

Western International Relations (IR) has much to learn from the so-called ‘para-sciences’. At the one hand, they can instruct us about the role of consciousness and its connection to peace. At the other, we can learn from them that humanity is connec... Read More about Insights from para-psychology for international relations.

Plasma-photocatalytic conversion of CO₂ at low temperatures: Understanding the synergistic effect of plasma-catalysis (2015)
Journal Article
Mei, D., Zhu, X., Wu, C., Ashford, B., Williams, P. T., & Tu, X. (2016). Plasma-photocatalytic conversion of CO₂ at low temperatures: Understanding the synergistic effect of plasma-catalysis. Applied catalysis. B, Environmental, 182(March), 525-532. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2015.09.052

A coaxial dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) reactor has been developed for plasma-catalytic conversion of pure CO₂ into CO and O₂ at low temperatures (

Integrating natural and social sciences to manage sustainably vectors of change in the marine environment: Dogger Bank transnational case study (2015)
Journal Article
Burdon, D., Boyes, S. J., Elliott, M., Smyth, K., Atkins, J. P., Barnes, R. A., & Wurzel, R. K. (2018). Integrating natural and social sciences to manage sustainably vectors of change in the marine environment: Dogger Bank transnational case study. Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 201, 234-247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2015.09.012

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. The management of marine resources is a complex process driven by the dynamics of the natural system and the influence of stakeholders including policy-makers. An integration of natural and social sciences research is required by... Read More about Integrating natural and social sciences to manage sustainably vectors of change in the marine environment: Dogger Bank transnational case study.