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Approaches to quantitative reconstruction of woody vegetation in managed woodlands from pollen records (2015)
Journal Article
Bunting, M. J., Grant, M. J., & Waller, M. (2016). Approaches to quantitative reconstruction of woody vegetation in managed woodlands from pollen records. Review of palaeobotany and palynology, 225, 53-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.10.012

There has been increasing interest in developing quantitative methods for reconstructing the dynamics of cultural landscapes over the last 15 years. This paper adds to this literature by using various approaches to reconstruct the vegetation of two w... Read More about Approaches to quantitative reconstruction of woody vegetation in managed woodlands from pollen records.

Information density and overlap in spoken dialogue (2015)
Journal Article
Dethlefs, N., Hastie, H., Cuayáhuitl, H., Yu, Y., Rieser, V., & Lemon, O. (2016). Information density and overlap in spoken dialogue. Computer speech & language, 37, 82-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2015.11.001

Incremental dialogue systems are often perceived as more responsive and natural because they are able to address phenomena of turn-taking and overlapping speech, such as backchannels or barge-ins. Previous work in this area has often identified disti... Read More about Information density and overlap in spoken dialogue.

A pyrene-armed hexahomotrioxacalix[3]arene as a multi-sensor via synergistic and demetallation effects (2015)
Journal Article
Redshaw, C., Fukuda, M., Jiang, X., Jin, C. C., Ni, X. L., Wu, C., …Zeng, X. (2015). A pyrene-armed hexahomotrioxacalix[3]arene as a multi-sensor via synergistic and demetallation effects. Tetrahedron, 71(52), 9593-9597. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2015.11.004

A new pyrene-armed hexahomotrioxacalix[3]arene L has been synthesized, which exhibits a pronounced fluorescence enhancement response toward Cu²⁺ ions via a Zn²⁺ or Cd²⁺ triggered synergistic effect. Additionally, the L·Cu²⁺+ complex can subsequently... Read More about A pyrene-armed hexahomotrioxacalix[3]arene as a multi-sensor via synergistic and demetallation effects.

A statistical correlation of sunquakes based on their seismic and white-light emission (2015)
Journal Article
Buitrago-Casas, J. C., Martínez Oliveros, J. C., Lindsey, C., Calvo-Mozo, B., Krucker, S., Glesener, L., & Zharkov, S. (2015). A statistical correlation of sunquakes based on their seismic and white-light emission. Solar Physics, 290(11), 3151-3162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-015-0786-9

Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain the transient seismic emission, i.e. “sunquakes,” from some solar flares. Some theories associate high-energy electrons and/or white-light emission with sunquakes. High-energy charged particles and the... Read More about A statistical correlation of sunquakes based on their seismic and white-light emission.

Medical therapy, percutaneous coronary intervention and prognosis in patients with chronic total occlusions (2015)
Journal Article
Ladwiniec, A., Allgar, V., Thackray, S., Alamgir, F., & Hoye, A. (2015). Medical therapy, percutaneous coronary intervention and prognosis in patients with chronic total occlusions. Heart, 101(23), 1907-1914. https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2015-308181

Objective There is little published data reporting outcomes for those found to have a chronic total coronary occlusion (CTO) that is electively treated medically versus those treated by percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). We sought to compare l... Read More about Medical therapy, percutaneous coronary intervention and prognosis in patients with chronic total occlusions.

Oil-in-oil emulsions stabilised solely by solid particles (2015)
Journal Article
Binks, B. P., & Tyowua, A. T. (2016). Oil-in-oil emulsions stabilised solely by solid particles. Soft matter, 12(3), 876-887. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5sm02438b

A brief review of the stabilisation of emulsions of two immiscible oils is given. We then describe the use of fumed silica particles coated with either hydrocarbon or fluorocarbon groups in acting as sole stabilisers of emulsions of various vegetable... Read More about Oil-in-oil emulsions stabilised solely by solid particles.

First report of the nutritional profile and antioxidant potential of Holothuria arguinensis, a new resource for aquaculture in Europe (2015)
Journal Article
Roggatz, C. C., González-Wangüemert, M., Pereira, H., Rodrigues, M. J., da Silva, M. M., Barreira, L., …Custódio, L. (2016). First report of the nutritional profile and antioxidant potential of Holothuria arguinensis, a new resource for aquaculture in Europe. Natural Product Research, 30(18), 2034-2040. https://doi.org/10.1080/14786419.2015.1107555

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. This work reports for the first time the nutritional profile and antioxidant potential of the edible sea cucumber Holothuria arguinensis from the North-eastern Atlantic. H. arguinensis has high levels of protein, with the a... Read More about First report of the nutritional profile and antioxidant potential of Holothuria arguinensis, a new resource for aquaculture in Europe.

What Prisoners Think of Prison Movies (2015)
Other
Metcalf, J. (2015). What Prisoners Think of Prison Movies

Optimal electron, phonon, and magnetic characteristics for low energy thermally induced magnetization switching (2015)
Journal Article
Atxitia, U., Ostler, T. A., Chantrell, R. W., & Chubykalo-Fesenko, O. (2015). Optimal electron, phonon, and magnetic characteristics for low energy thermally induced magnetization switching. Applied physics letters, 107(19), Article 192402. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935416

Using large-scale computer simulations, we thoroughly study the minimum energy required to thermally induced magnetization switching (TIMS) after the application of a femtosecond heat pulse in transition metal-rare earth ferrimagnetic alloys. We find... Read More about Optimal electron, phonon, and magnetic characteristics for low energy thermally induced magnetization switching.

Localized surface plasmon effects in ZnO sandwiched gold nanoparticles under fs pumping (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Bongu, S. R., Bisht, P. B., Namboodri, R. C., Ali, S. A., Kelly, T. J., Costello, J. T., …Kasiviswanathan, S. (2015). Localized surface plasmon effects in ZnO sandwiched gold nanoparticles under fs pumping. In 2015 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) (212-213). https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCon.2015.7323479

Nonlinear optical properties of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) embedded ZnO thin films have been studied at 400 nm. While the AuNPs thin film shows the effect of saturable absorption, AuNPs embedded ZnO film exhibits the RSA behaviour.

Parental self-efficacy and the management of childhood atopic eczema: development and testing of a new clinical outcome measure (2015)
Journal Article
Ersser, S. J., Farasat, H., Jackson, K., Gardiner, E., Sheppard, Z. A., & Cowdell, F. (2015). Parental self-efficacy and the management of childhood atopic eczema: development and testing of a new clinical outcome measure. British journal of dermatology, 173(6), 1479-1485. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjd.14175

© 2015 British Association of Dermatologists. Background Effective parental management of childhood eczema requires education and support to reduce disease severity and improve the child's quality of life. Self-efficacy is a key factor influencing ef... Read More about Parental self-efficacy and the management of childhood atopic eczema: development and testing of a new clinical outcome measure.

Deep Chandra observation and numerical studies of the nearest cluster cold front in the sky (2015)
Journal Article
Werner, N., ZuHone, J. A., Zhuravleva, I., Ichinohe, Y., Simionescu, A., Allen, S. W., …Sanders, J. S. (2016). Deep Chandra observation and numerical studies of the nearest cluster cold front in the sky. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455(1), 846-858. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2358

We present the results of a very deep (500 ks) Chandra observation, along with tailored numerical simulations, of the nearest, best resolved cluster cold front in the sky, which lies 90 kpc (19 arcmin) to the north-west of M 87. The northern part of... Read More about Deep Chandra observation and numerical studies of the nearest cluster cold front in the sky.

Islamic law (2015)
Book Chapter
Shah, N. A. (2015). Islamic law. In Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, Third Edition (1-9). https://doi.org/10.1081/e-epap3-120051214

Abstract Islamic legal system is one of the major legal systems in the world. It is a time-tested system based on over centuries of evolution. But it does not mean that it is a perfect system. Like any other legal system, it has weaknesses, strengths... Read More about Islamic law.

The prevalence of mild cognitive impairment in diverse geographical and ethnocultural regions: The COSMIC Collaboration (2015)
Journal Article
Sachdev, P. S., Lipnicki, D. M., Kochan, N. A., Crawford, J. D., Thalamuthu, A., Andrews, G., …Lobo, E. (2015). The prevalence of mild cognitive impairment in diverse geographical and ethnocultural regions: The COSMIC Collaboration. PLoS ONE, 10(11), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0142388

Background Changes in criteria and differences in populations studied and methodology have produced a wide range of prevalence estimates for mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Methods Uniform criteria were applied to harmonized data from 11 studies fro... Read More about The prevalence of mild cognitive impairment in diverse geographical and ethnocultural regions: The COSMIC Collaboration.

Responsive aqueous foams stabilized by silica nanoparticles hydrophobized in situ with a conventional surfactant (2015)
Journal Article
Binks, B. P., Cui, Z., Jiang, J., Pei, X., & Zhu, Y. (2015). Responsive aqueous foams stabilized by silica nanoparticles hydrophobized in situ with a conventional surfactant. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 31(47), 12937-12943. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b03681

In the recent past, switchable surfactants and switchable/stimulus-responsive surface-active particles have been of great interest. Both can be transformed between surface-active and surface-inactive states via several triggers, making them recoverab... Read More about Responsive aqueous foams stabilized by silica nanoparticles hydrophobized in situ with a conventional surfactant.

Editorial - Climate change impacts on rural poverty in low-elevation coastal zones, Edward B. Barbier (2015)
Journal Article
Elliott, M., & Wolanski, E. (2015). Editorial - Climate change impacts on rural poverty in low-elevation coastal zones, Edward B. Barbier. Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 165, ii-iii. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0272-7714%2815%2900287-5

Genome-wide DNA methylation profiling of CD8+ T cells shows a distinct epigenetic signature to CD4+ T cells in multiple sclerosis patients (2015)
Journal Article
Maltby, V. E., Graves, M. C., Lea, R. A., Benton, M. C., Sanders, K. A., Tajouri, L., …Lechner-Scott, J. (2015). Genome-wide DNA methylation profiling of CD8+ T cells shows a distinct epigenetic signature to CD4+ T cells in multiple sclerosis patients. Clinical epigenetics, 7(1), Article 118. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13148-015-0152-7

Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is thought to be a T cell-mediated autoimmune disorder. MS pathogenesis is likely due to a genetic predisposition triggered by a variety of environmental factors. Epigenetics, particularly DNA methylation, provide... Read More about Genome-wide DNA methylation profiling of CD8+ T cells shows a distinct epigenetic signature to CD4+ T cells in multiple sclerosis patients.

Turbidity weakens selection for assortment in body size in groups (2015)
Journal Article
Kimbell, H. S., & Morrell, L. J. (2016). Turbidity weakens selection for assortment in body size in groups. Behavioral ecology, 27(2), 545-552. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arv183

Prey animals commonly associate with similar-looking individuals to reduce predation risk, via a reduction in predator targeting accuracy (the confusion effect) and preferential targeting of distinct individuals (the oddity effect). These effects are... Read More about Turbidity weakens selection for assortment in body size in groups.

Vibrational signature of a single water molecule adsorbed on Pt(111): toward a reliable anharmonic description (2015)
Journal Article
Benoit, D. M. (2015). Vibrational signature of a single water molecule adsorbed on Pt(111): toward a reliable anharmonic description. The journal of physical chemistry. A, 119(47), 11583-11590. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.5b08543

In this study, we present a thorough benchmarking of our direct anharmonic vibrational variation-perturbation approach for adsorbed molecules on surfaces. We then use our method to describe the vibrational structure of a water molecule adsorbed on a... Read More about Vibrational signature of a single water molecule adsorbed on Pt(111): toward a reliable anharmonic description.

Registration of supine MR mammography with breast ultrasound for surgical planning of breast conserving surgery: a feasibility study (2015)
Journal Article
Pickles, M. D., Gibbs, P., Hubbard, A., Rahman, A., Wieczorek, J., Roychaudhury, R., …Turnbull, L. W. (2017). Registration of supine MR mammography with breast ultrasound for surgical planning of breast conserving surgery: a feasibility study. Ultraschall in der Medizin : Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ultraschall in der Medizin, [der] Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Ultraschall in der Medizin, [der] Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ultraschall in Medizin und Biologie, 38(4), 420-426. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-108008

Purpose To report the feasibility, accuracy and initial clinical experience of the use of real-time magnetic resonance navigated ultrasound (rtMRnUS) in the surgical planning of breast-conserving surgery (BCS) via guide wire insertion. Materials and... Read More about Registration of supine MR mammography with breast ultrasound for surgical planning of breast conserving surgery: a feasibility study.