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Assessing riverine threats to heritage assets posed by future climate change through a geomorphological approach and predictive modelling in the Derwent Valley Mills WHS, UK (2015)
Journal Article
Howard, A. J., Knight, D., Coulthard, T., Hudson-Edwards, K., Kossoff, D., & Malone, S. (2016). Assessing riverine threats to heritage assets posed by future climate change through a geomorphological approach and predictive modelling in the Derwent Valley Mills WHS, UK. Journal of cultural heritage, 19, 387-394. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2015.11.007

Future climate change is likely to pose significant challenges for heritage management, especially in landscape settings, such as river valleys as the magnitude, intensity and nature of geomorphological processes alter in response to changing thresho... Read More about Assessing riverine threats to heritage assets posed by future climate change through a geomorphological approach and predictive modelling in the Derwent Valley Mills WHS, UK.

Use of tri-axial accelerometers to assess terrestrial mammal behaviour in the wild (2015)
Journal Article
Lush, L., Ellwood, S., Markham, A., Ward, A. I., & Wheeler, P. (2016). Use of tri-axial accelerometers to assess terrestrial mammal behaviour in the wild. Journal of Zoology, 298(4), 257-265. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12308

Tri‐axial accelerometer tags provide quantitative data on body movement that can be used to characterize behaviour and understand species ecology in ways that would otherwise be impossible. Using tags on wild terrestrial mammals, especially smaller s... Read More about Use of tri-axial accelerometers to assess terrestrial mammal behaviour in the wild.

Searching for health information online for my child: A perspective from South East Asia (2015)
Journal Article
Inthiran, A., & Soyiri, I. (2015). Searching for health information online for my child: A perspective from South East Asia. Lecture notes in computer science, 9469, 76-81. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27974-9_8

Research studies investigating online health information searching behavior are abundant. While there is research pertaining to the online health information seeking behavior of parents in developed countries, similar information for countries with d... Read More about Searching for health information online for my child: A perspective from South East Asia.

Design of surface-active artificial enzyme particles to stabilize Pickering emulsions for high-performance biphasic biocatalysis (2015)
Journal Article
Binks, B. P., Chen, Z., Ji, H., Ju, E., Qu, X., Ren, J., & Zhao, C. (2016). Design of surface-active artificial enzyme particles to stabilize Pickering emulsions for high-performance biphasic biocatalysis. Advanced materials, 28(8), 1682-1688. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201504557

© 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. Surface-active artificial enzymes (SAEs) are designed and constructed by a general and novel strategy. These SAEs can simultaneously stabilize Pickering emulsions and catalyze biphasic biotransform... Read More about Design of surface-active artificial enzyme particles to stabilize Pickering emulsions for high-performance biphasic biocatalysis.

Scepticism about Scepticism (2015)
Journal Article
Zangwill, N. (2016). Scepticism about Scepticism. Philosophy : the journal of the British Institute of Philosophical Studies, 91(1), 109-118. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031819115000522

Skeptical arguments are intuitively gripping. Or at least they seem to be. They readily capture the imagination and curiosity of beginners in philosophy. The arguments are easy to state but seemingly impossible to answer. Furthermore there is a power... Read More about Scepticism about Scepticism.

News: The Lowing School Report. (Scots Language Centre. Centre for the Scots Leid) (2015)
Digital Artefact
(2015). News: The Lowing School Report. (Scots Language Centre. Centre for the Scots Leid). [Web]

Karen Lowing began her research in 2010 in a study called ‘Ane Instruction for Bairnis to be Learnit in Scottis: A Study of Scots Language in the Scottish Secondary Classroom’. Lowing took as her subjects staff and pupils at two south western seconda... Read More about News: The Lowing School Report. (Scots Language Centre. Centre for the Scots Leid).

Induction of human regulatory T cells with bacterial superantigens (2015)
Book Chapter
Caserta, S., Taylor, A. L., Terrazzini, N., & Llewelyn, M. J. (2016). Induction of human regulatory T cells with bacterial superantigens. In Superantigens; Methods in Molecular Biology (181-206). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3344-0_16

© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016. Regulatory T cells (Tregs) that suppress the activation of immune effector cells limit immunopathology and are fast emerging as therapeutic targets for autoimmune and cancer disease. Tools enabling Tre... Read More about Induction of human regulatory T cells with bacterial superantigens.

Bedform genesis in bedrock substrates: Insights into formative processes from a new experimental approach and the importance of suspension-dominated abrasion (2015)
Journal Article
Yin, D., Peakall, J., Parsons, D., Chen, Z., Averill, H. M., Wignall, P., & Best, J. (2016). Bedform genesis in bedrock substrates: Insights into formative processes from a new experimental approach and the importance of suspension-dominated abrasion. Geomorphology, 255, 26-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.12.008

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. Bedrock channels are common in the natural environment, and bedrock channel erosion sets the pace of denudation in many river catchments. However, in comparison to the large number of studies concerning the formation of alluvial... Read More about Bedform genesis in bedrock substrates: Insights into formative processes from a new experimental approach and the importance of suspension-dominated abrasion.

Editorial : environmental governance of urban and regional development – scales and sectors, conflict and cooperation (2015)
Journal Article
Gibbs, D., & Lintz, G. (2015). Editorial : environmental governance of urban and regional development – scales and sectors, conflict and cooperation. Regional studies, 50(6), 925-928. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2015.1110569

Recent years have continued to see a concern for the detrimental environmental impacts of human economic activities particularly in the form of enhanced global warming, sea level rise, land degradation and deforestation. Although it can be argued tha... Read More about Editorial : environmental governance of urban and regional development – scales and sectors, conflict and cooperation.

The role of auditory itch contagion in psoriasis (2015)
Journal Article
Swithenbank, S., Cowdell, F., & Holle, H. (2016). The role of auditory itch contagion in psoriasis. Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 96(6), 728-731. https://doi.org/10.2340/00015555-2320

Itch and associated scratching is a common and distressing symptom of psoriasis. Here, we tested whether people with psoriasis, relative to healthy controls, show an increased vulnerability to auditory itch contagion (a deleterious influence) when pr... Read More about The role of auditory itch contagion in psoriasis.

Features in the ion emission of Cu, Al, and C plasmas produced by ultrafast laser ablation (2015)
Journal Article
Kelly, T. J., Butler, T., Walsh, N., Hayden, P., & Costello, J. T. (2015). Features in the ion emission of Cu, Al, and C plasmas produced by ultrafast laser ablation. Physics of Plasmas, 22(12), Article 123112. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4937800

© 2015 AIP Publishing LLC. The bi-modal nature of charge integrated ion kinetic energy distributions, which result from ultrafast laser produced plasmas, is discussed in this paper. A negatively biased Faraday cup was used as a charge collector to me... Read More about Features in the ion emission of Cu, Al, and C plasmas produced by ultrafast laser ablation.

The role of African Union law in integrating Africa (2015)
Journal Article
Olivier, M. E., & Olivier, M. (2015). The role of African Union law in integrating Africa. The South African journal of international affairs, 22(4), 513-533. https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2015.1119718

This article traces how the development of regional law is linked to the state of regional integration in Africa. Given the prominent role European Union law plays in the functioning of the European Union, the question is posed whether there is simil... Read More about The role of African Union law in integrating Africa.

Female prisoners, aftercare and release : residential provision and support in late nineteenth century England (2015)
Journal Article
Johnston, H., & Turner, J. (2015). Female prisoners, aftercare and release : residential provision and support in late nineteenth century England. British journal of community justice : BJCJ, 13(3), 35-50

This article examines the release and aftercare of female prisoners in England during the late nineteenth century. Primarily it seeks to illuminate the use of residential provision for women who had been released from both convict and local prisons,... Read More about Female prisoners, aftercare and release : residential provision and support in late nineteenth century England.

Tolerance (2015)
Book Chapter
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2015). Tolerance. . Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers

Article examining the origins of the concept of tolerance.

Photoluminescent materials based on PMMA and a highly-emissive octahedral molybdenum metal cluster complex (2015)
Journal Article
Vejsadova, L., Efremova, O. A., Brylev, K. A., Chimonides, G. F., Kim, S., Kitamura, N., …Vorotnikov, Y. A. (2016). Photoluminescent materials based on PMMA and a highly-emissive octahedral molybdenum metal cluster complex. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 4(3), 497-503. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5tc03204k

Materials that combine photoluminescence, optical transparency and facile processability are of high importance in many applications. This article reports on the development of photoluminescent poly(methyl methacrylate) materials based on novel highl... Read More about Photoluminescent materials based on PMMA and a highly-emissive octahedral molybdenum metal cluster complex.

Solubility behaviour, crystallisation kinetics and pour point : a comparison of linear alkane and triacyl glyceride solute/solvent mixtures (2015)
Journal Article
Fletcher, P. D. I., Roberts, N., & Urquhart, C. (2016). Solubility behaviour, crystallisation kinetics and pour point : a comparison of linear alkane and triacyl glyceride solute/solvent mixtures. Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, 34(February), 382-389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiec.2015.12.012

Mixtures of either a hydrocarbon wax in a hydrocarbon solvent or a long chain triacyl glyceride (TAG) in a TAG solvent show complex solubility boundary temperature hysteresis and precipitated crystal network formation leading to gelation. For these i... Read More about Solubility behaviour, crystallisation kinetics and pour point : a comparison of linear alkane and triacyl glyceride solute/solvent mixtures.

The z < 1.2 optical luminosity function from a sample of ∼410,000 galaxies in Boötes (2015)
Journal Article
Beare, R., Brown, M. J. I., Pimbblet, K., Bian, F., & Lin, Y. (2015). The z < 1.2 optical luminosity function from a sample of ∼410,000 galaxies in Boötes. The Astrophysical journal, 815(2), https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/815/2/94

Using a sample of ~410,000 galaxies to a depth of IAB=24 over 8.26 deg2 in the Boötes field (~10 times larger than the z~1 luminosity function (LF) studies in the prior literature), we have accurately measured the evolving B-band LF of red galaxies a... Read More about The z < 1.2 optical luminosity function from a sample of ∼410,000 galaxies in Boötes.