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The cosmology of the Fab-Four (2012)
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Copeland, E. J., Padilla, A., & Saffin, P. M. (2012). The cosmology of the Fab-Four. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2012(12), Article 026. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2012/12/026

We have recently proposed a novel self tuning mechanism to alleviate the famous cosmological constant problem, based on the general scalar tensor theory proposed by Horndeski. The self-tuning model ends up consisting of four geometric terms in the ac... Read More about The cosmology of the Fab-Four.

Nonlinear modal coupling in a high-stress doubly-clamped nanomechanical resonator (2012)
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Lulla, K., Cousins, R., Venkatesan, A., Patton, M., Armour, A., Mellor, C. J., & Owers-Bradley, J. (2012). Nonlinear modal coupling in a high-stress doubly-clamped nanomechanical resonator. New Journal of Physics, 14, Article 113040. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/14/11/113040

We present results from a study of the nonlinear inter-modal coupling between different flexural vibrational modes of a single high-stress, doubly-clamped silicon nitride nanomechanical beam. Using the magnetomotive technique and working at 100 mK we... Read More about Nonlinear modal coupling in a high-stress doubly-clamped nanomechanical resonator.

Calibrated BOLD using direct measurement of changes in venous oxygenation (2012)
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Driver, I. D., Hall, E. L., Wharton, S. J., Pritchard, S. E., Francis, S. T., & Gowland, P. A. (2012). Calibrated BOLD using direct measurement of changes in venous oxygenation. NeuroImage, 63(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.08.045

Calibration of the BOLD signal is potentially of great value in providing a closer measure of the underlying changes in brain function related to neuronal activity than the BOLD signal alone, but current approaches rely on an assumed relationship bet... Read More about Calibrated BOLD using direct measurement of changes in venous oxygenation.

Prospects for detecting the 21 cm forest from the diffuse intergalactic medium with LOFAR (2012)
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Ciardi, B., Labropoulos, P., Maselli, A., Thomas, R., Zaroubi, S., Graziani, L., …Yatawatta, S. (2013). Prospects for detecting the 21 cm forest from the diffuse intergalactic medium with LOFAR. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 428(2), 1755-1765. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sts156

We discuss the feasibility of the detection of the 21 cm forest in the diffuse intergalactic medium (IGM) with the radio telescope LOFAR. The optical depth to the 21 cm line has been derived using simulations of reionization which include detailed ra... Read More about Prospects for detecting the 21 cm forest from the diffuse intergalactic medium with LOFAR.

Fiber orientation-dependent white matter contrast in gradient echo MRI (2012)
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Wharton, S., & Bowtell, R. W. (2012). Fiber orientation-dependent white matter contrast in gradient echo MRI. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(45), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1211075109

Recent studies have shown that there is a direct link between the orientation of the nerve fibers in white matter (WM) and the contrast observed in magnitude and phase images acquired using gradient echo MRI. Understanding the origin of this link is... Read More about Fiber orientation-dependent white matter contrast in gradient echo MRI.

The covariance of multi-field perturbations, pseudo-susy and fNL (2012)
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Saffin, P. M. (2012). The covariance of multi-field perturbations, pseudo-susy and fNL. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2012(9), Article 002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2012/09/002

We reconsider cosmological perturbation theory for multi-component scalars, enforcing covariance in field-space, and ensuring that phyical observations are independent of field re-definitions. We use the formalism to clarify some issues in the litera... Read More about The covariance of multi-field perturbations, pseudo-susy and fNL.

The intergalactic medium thermal history at redshift z = 1.7–3.2 from the Lyα forest: a comparison of measurements using wavelets and the flux distribution (2012)
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Garzilli, A., Bolton, J., -S. Kim, T., Leach, S., & Viel, M. (2012). The intergalactic medium thermal history at redshift z = 1.7–3.2 from the Lyα forest: a comparison of measurements using wavelets and the flux distribution. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 424(3), 1723-1736. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21223.x

We investigate the thermal history of the intergalactic medium (IGM) in the redshift interval z = 1.7–3.2 by studying the small-scale fluctuations in the Lyman α forest transmitted flux. We apply a wavelet filtering technique to 18 high-resolution qu... Read More about The intergalactic medium thermal history at redshift z = 1.7–3.2 from the Lyα forest: a comparison of measurements using wavelets and the flux distribution.

Manifestation of dynamic Jahn-Teller distortions and surface interactions in scanning tunnelling microscopy images of fullerene anion C−60 (2012)
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Dunn, J. L., Lakin, A. J., & Hands, I. D. (2012). Manifestation of dynamic Jahn-Teller distortions and surface interactions in scanning tunnelling microscopy images of fullerene anion C−60. New Journal of Physics, 14, Article 083038. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/14/8/083038

Using scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM), it is possible to observe detailed structure of the molecular orbitals (MOs) of fullerene anions C−60. However, understanding the experimental observations is not straightforward because of the inherent pre... Read More about Manifestation of dynamic Jahn-Teller distortions and surface interactions in scanning tunnelling microscopy images of fullerene anion C−60.

Scanning capacitance imaging of compressible and incompressible quantum Hall effect edge strips (2012)
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Suddards, M., Baumgartner, A., Henini, M., & Mellor, C. J. (2012). Scanning capacitance imaging of compressible and incompressible quantum Hall effect edge strips. New Journal of Physics, 14, Article 08315. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/14/8/083015

We use dynamic scanning capacitance microscopy to image compressible and incompressible strips at the edge of a Hall bar in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the quantum Hall effect (QHE) regime. This method gives access to the complex local c... Read More about Scanning capacitance imaging of compressible and incompressible quantum Hall effect edge strips.

Classical duals, Legendre transforms and the Vainshtein mechanism (2012)
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Padilla, A., & Saffin, P. M. (2012). Classical duals, Legendre transforms and the Vainshtein mechanism. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012(7), Article 122. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07%282012%29122

We show how to generalize the classical duals found by Gabadadze {et al} to a very large class of self-interacting theories. This enables one to adopt a perturbative description beyond the scale at which classical perturbation theory breaks down in t... Read More about Classical duals, Legendre transforms and the Vainshtein mechanism.