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The effect of incentivising pre-class reading on engagement and student performance (2023)
Journal Article
Shaker, A. J., Brignell, C., & Pugh, M. (2023). The effect of incentivising pre-class reading on engagement and student performance. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, Article 2214562. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739X.2023.2214562

A commonly-held belief is that many university students are ‘assessment-driven’; that is, students engage more with activities that are assessed compared with those that are not. ‘Incentivised engagement’ includes the practice of providing incentives... Read More about The effect of incentivising pre-class reading on engagement and student performance.

Fostering purposeful engagement by building staff-student communities (2022)
Journal Article
Brignell, C., Brady, C., Mott, L., & Wicks, T. (2022). Fostering purposeful engagement by building staff-student communities. Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal, 4(2), 52–62

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, many universities moved to a blended delivery of online and in-person teaching. While necessary for public health, this significant disruption to education risked greater isolation and anxiety for students with... Read More about Fostering purposeful engagement by building staff-student communities.

The impact of peer assessment on mathematics students' understanding of marking criteria and their ability to self- regulate learning (2019)
Journal Article
Brignell, C., Wicks, T., Tomas, C., & Halls, J. (2019). The impact of peer assessment on mathematics students' understanding of marking criteria and their ability to self- regulate learning. MSOR Connections, 18(1), 46-55. https://doi.org/10.21100/msor.v18i1.1019

At the University of Nottingham peer-assessment was piloted with the objective of assisting students to gain greater understanding of marking criteria so that students may improve their comprehension of, and solutions to, future mathematical tasks. T... Read More about The impact of peer assessment on mathematics students' understanding of marking criteria and their ability to self- regulate learning.

Label-free characterization of biochemical changes within human cells under parasite attack using synchrotron based micro-FTIR (2019)
Journal Article
Elsheikha, H. M., Elsaied, N. A., Chan, K. L. A., Brignell, C., Harun, M. S. R., Wehbe, K., & Cinquee, G. (2019). Label-free characterization of biochemical changes within human cells under parasite attack using synchrotron based micro-FTIR. Analytical Methods, 11(19), 2518-2530. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8ay02777c

© 2019 The Royal Society of Chemistry. The protozoan Toxoplasma gondii is responsible for severe, potentially life-threatening, infection in immunocompromised individuals and when acquired during pregnancy. In the meantime, there is no available vacc... Read More about Label-free characterization of biochemical changes within human cells under parasite attack using synchrotron based micro-FTIR.

Metallome of cerebrovascular endothelial cells infected with Toxoplasma gondii using ?-XRF imaging and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (2018)
Journal Article
Al-sandaqchi, A. T., Brignell, C., Collingwood, J. F., Geraki, K., Mirkes, E. M., Kong, K., …Elsheikha, H. M. (2018). Metallome of cerebrovascular endothelial cells infected with Toxoplasma gondii using μ-XRF imaging and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Metallomics, 1401-1414. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8MT00136G

In this study, we measured the levels of elements in human brain microvascular endothelial cells (ECs) infected with T. gondii. ECs were infected with tachyzoites of the RH strain, and at 6, 24, and 48 hours post infection (hpi), the intracellular co... Read More about Metallome of cerebrovascular endothelial cells infected with Toxoplasma gondii using ?-XRF imaging and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry.

Development of a statistical crop model to explain the relationship between seed yield and phenotypic diversity within the Brassica napus Genepool (2017)
Journal Article
Bennett, E. J., Brignell, C. J., Carion, P. W., Cook, S. M., Eastmond, P. J., Teakle, G. R., …Wagstaff, C. (2017). Development of a statistical crop model to explain the relationship between seed yield and phenotypic diversity within the Brassica napus Genepool. Agronomy, 7(2), Article 31. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy7020031

Plants are extremely versatile organisms that respond to the environment in which they find themselves, but a large part of their development is under genetic regulation. The links between developmental parameters and yield are poorly understood in o... Read More about Development of a statistical crop model to explain the relationship between seed yield and phenotypic diversity within the Brassica napus Genepool.

Area of hock hair loss in dairy cows : risk factors and correlation to a categorical scale (2015)
Journal Article
Lim, P., Huxley, J., Green, M. J., Othman, A., Potterton, S., Brignell, C., & Kaler, J. (2015). Area of hock hair loss in dairy cows : risk factors and correlation to a categorical scale. Veterinary Journal, 203(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tvjl.2014.11.005

Data from 3691 dairy cows from 76 farms were used to investigate the risk factors associated with area of hair loss over the lateral aspect of the hock, and the correlation between the area of hair loss as calculated using a hock map and hock lesion... Read More about Area of hock hair loss in dairy cows : risk factors and correlation to a categorical scale.

Covariance weighted procrustes analysis (2015)
Book Chapter
Brignell, C. J., Dryden, I. L., & Browne, W. J. (2015). Covariance weighted procrustes analysis. In P. K. Turaga, & A. Srivastava (Eds.), Riemannian Computing in Computer Vision (189-209). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22957-7_9

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. We revisit the popular Procrustes matching procedure of landmark shape analysis and consider the situation where the landmark coordinates have a completely general covariance matrix, extending pre... Read More about Covariance weighted procrustes analysis.

Bayesian alignment of continuous molecular shapes using random fields (2008)
Journal Article
Czogiel, I., Dryden, I. L., & Brignell, C. J. Bayesian alignment of continuous molecular shapes using random fields. Manuscript submitted for publication

Statistical methodology is proposed for comparing molecular shapes. In order to account for the continuous nature of molecules, classical shape analysis methods are combined with techniques used for predicting random fields in spatial statistics. Ap... Read More about Bayesian alignment of continuous molecular shapes using random fields.