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Developing mathematical fluency: comparing exercises and rich tasks (2017)
Journal Article
Foster, C. (in press). Developing mathematical fluency: comparing exercises and rich tasks. Educational Studies in Mathematics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-017-9788-x

Achieving fluency in important mathematical procedures is fundamental to students’ mathematical development. The usual way to develop procedural fluency is to practise repetitive exercises, but is this the only effective way?This paper reports three... Read More about Developing mathematical fluency: comparing exercises and rich tasks.

New models for energy beam machining enable accurate generation of freeforms (2017)
Journal Article
Axinte, D. A., Billingham, J., & Guillerna, A. B. (in press). New models for energy beam machining enable accurate generation of freeforms. Science Advances, 3(9), Article e1701201. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1701201

We demonstrate that, despite differences in their nature, many energy beam controlled-depth machining processes (e.g. waterjet, pulsed laser, focused ion beam) can be modelled using the same mathematical framework – a partial differential evolution e... Read More about New models for energy beam machining enable accurate generation of freeforms.

Optimal continuous variable quantum teleportation with limited resources (2017)
Journal Article
Liuzzo-Scorpo, P., Mari, A., Giovannetti, V., & Adesso, G. (2017). Optimal continuous variable quantum teleportation with limited resources. Physical Review Letters, 119(12), Article 120503. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.120503

Given a certain amount of entanglement available as a resource, what is the most efficient way to accomplish a quantum task? We address this question in the relevant case of continuous variable quantum teleportation protocols implemented using two-mo... Read More about Optimal continuous variable quantum teleportation with limited resources.

The logic of the floral transition: reverse-engineering the switch controlling the identity of lateral organs (2017)
Journal Article
Dinh, J., Farcot, E., & Hodgman, C. (in press). The logic of the floral transition: reverse-engineering the switch controlling the identity of lateral organs. PLoS Computational Biology, 13(9), Article e1005744. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005744

Much laboratory work has been carried out to determine the gene regulatory network (GRN) that results in plant cells becoming flowers instead of leaves. However, this also involves the spatial distribution of different cell types, and poses the quest... Read More about The logic of the floral transition: reverse-engineering the switch controlling the identity of lateral organs.

Wigner-Function-Based Propagation of Stochastic Field Emissions from Planar Electromagnetic Sources (2017)
Journal Article
Gradoni, G., Arnault, L. R., Creagh, S. C., Tanner, G., Baharuddin, M. H., Smartt, C., & Thomas, D. W. (2018). Wigner-Function-Based Propagation of Stochastic Field Emissions from Planar Electromagnetic Sources. IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, 60(3), 580-588. https://doi.org/10.1109/TEMC.2017.2738329

© 1964-2012 IEEE. Modeling the electromagnetic radiation from modern digital systems - acting effectively as extended stochastic sources as part of a complex architecture - is a challenging task. We follow an approach here based on measuring and prop... Read More about Wigner-Function-Based Propagation of Stochastic Field Emissions from Planar Electromagnetic Sources.

Bayesian inferences of the thermal properties of a wall using temperature and heat flux measurements (2017)
Journal Article
Iglesias, M., Sawlan, Z., Scavino, M., Tempone, R., & Wood, C. J. (2018). Bayesian inferences of the thermal properties of a wall using temperature and heat flux measurements. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 116, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2017.09.022

The assessment of the thermal properties of walls is essential for accurate building energy simulations that are needed to make effective energy-saving policies. These properties are usually investigated through in-situ measurements of temperature an... Read More about Bayesian inferences of the thermal properties of a wall using temperature and heat flux measurements.

Reconstructing promoter activity from Lux bioluminescent reporters (2017)
Journal Article
Iqbal, M., Doherty, N., Page, A. M., Qazi, S. N., Ajmera, I., Lund, P. A., …Stekel, D. J. (2017). Reconstructing promoter activity from Lux bioluminescent reporters. PLoS Computational Biology, 13(9), Article e1005731. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005731

The bacterial Lux system is used as a gene expression reporter. It is fast, sensitive and non-destructive, enabling high frequency measurements. Originally developed for bacterial cells, it has also been adapted for eukaryotic cells, and can be used... Read More about Reconstructing promoter activity from Lux bioluminescent reporters.

POVM construction: a simple recipe with applications to symmetric states (2017)
Journal Article
Sirsi, S., Bharath, K., Shilpashree, S., & Rao, H. S. (in press). POVM construction: a simple recipe with applications to symmetric states. International Journal of Quantum Information, 15, https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219749917500423

We propose a simple method for constructing POVMs using any set of matrices which form an orthonormal basis for the space of complex matrices. Considering the orthonormal set of irreducible spherical tensors, we examine the properties of the construc... Read More about POVM construction: a simple recipe with applications to symmetric states.

Early afterdepolarisation tendency as a simulated pro-arrhythmic risk indicator (2017)
Journal Article
McMillan, B., Gavaghan, D. J., & Mirams, G. R. (2017). Early afterdepolarisation tendency as a simulated pro-arrhythmic risk indicator. Toxicology Research, 6, 912-921. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7TX00141J

Drug-induced Torsades de Pointes (TdP) arrhythmia is of major interest in predictive toxicology. Drugs which cause TdP block the hERG cardiac potassium channel. However, not all drugs that block hERG cause TdP. As such, further understanding of the m... Read More about Early afterdepolarisation tendency as a simulated pro-arrhythmic risk indicator.

A robust upscaling of the effective particle deposition rate in porous media (2017)
Journal Article
Boccardo, G., Crevacore, E., Sethi, R., & Icardi, M. (2018). A robust upscaling of the effective particle deposition rate in porous media. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 212, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconhyd.2017.09.002

In the upscaling from pore- to continuum (Darcy) scale, reaction and deposition phenomena at the solid-liquid interface of a porous medium have to be represented by macroscopic reaction source terms. The effective rates can be computed, in the case o... Read More about A robust upscaling of the effective particle deposition rate in porous media.

Numerical studies of shear-thinning droplet formation in a microfluidic T-junction using two-phase level-set method (2017)
Journal Article
Wong, V. L., Loizou, K., Lau, P., Graham, R. S., & Hewakandamby, B. N. (2017). Numerical studies of shear-thinning droplet formation in a microfluidic T-junction using two-phase level-set method. Chemical Engineering Science, 174, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2017.08.027

A conservative level-set method (LSM) embedded in a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation provides a useful approach for the studying the physics and underlying mechanism in two-phase flow. Detailed two-dimensional (2D) computational microflu... Read More about Numerical studies of shear-thinning droplet formation in a microfluidic T-junction using two-phase level-set method.

Modelling chaos in asymmetric optical fibres (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Kumar, D. S., Creagh, S., Sujecki, S., & Benson, T. M. (2017). Modelling chaos in asymmetric optical fibres. In 2017 19th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) (1-5). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2017.8024908

A ray dynamical approach is developed for the study of large-core asymmetric step index fibres (SIF), especially those made from chalcogenide glasses (ChGs) which can exhibit very high refractive index, large numerical aperture, and which are transpa... Read More about Modelling chaos in asymmetric optical fibres.

Geometric multiaxial representation of N-qubit mixed symmetric separable states (2017)
Journal Article
Suma, S., Sirsi, S., Hegde, S., & Bharath, K. (2017). Geometric multiaxial representation of N-qubit mixed symmetric separable states. Physical Review A, 96(2), Article 022328. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.96.022328

Study of an N qubit mixed symmetric separable states is a long standing challenging problem as there exist no unique separability criterion. In this regard, we take up the N-qubit mixed symmetric separable states for a detailed study as these states... Read More about Geometric multiaxial representation of N-qubit mixed symmetric separable states.

Optimal secure quantum teleportation of coherent states of light (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Liuzzo-Scorpo, P., & Adesso, G. (2017). Optimal secure quantum teleportation of coherent states of light. In C. Soci, K. Srinivasan, & M. Agio (Eds.), Proceedings Volume 10358, Quantum Photonic Devices. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2272993

We investigate quantum teleportation of ensembles of coherent states of light with a Gaussian distributed displacement in phase space. Recently, the following general question has been addressed in [P. Liuzzo-Scorpo et al., arXiv:1705.03017]: Given a... Read More about Optimal secure quantum teleportation of coherent states of light.

An analysis of waves underlying grid cell firing in the medial enthorinal cortex (2017)
Journal Article
Bonilla-Quintana, M., Wedgwood, K. C., O'Dea, R. D., & Coombes, S. (in press). An analysis of waves underlying grid cell firing in the medial enthorinal cortex. Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience, 7(9), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13408-017-0051-7

Layer II stellate cells in the medial enthorinal cortex (MEC) express hyperpolarisation-activated cyclic-nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels that allow for rebound spiking via an I_h current in response to hyperpolarising synaptic input. A computational... Read More about An analysis of waves underlying grid cell firing in the medial enthorinal cortex.

Quantum field theories on categories fibered in groupoids (2017)
Journal Article
Benini, M., & Schenkel, A. (2017). Quantum field theories on categories fibered in groupoids. Communications in Mathematical Physics, 356(1), 19-64. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-017-2986-7

We introduce an abstract concept of quantum field theory on categories fibered in groupoids over the category of spacetimes. This provides us with a general and flexible framework to study quantum field theories defined on spacetimes with extra geome... Read More about Quantum field theories on categories fibered in groupoids.

An adaptive variable order quadrature strategy (2017)
Journal Article
Houston, P., & Wihler, T. P. (in press). An adaptive variable order quadrature strategy. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, 119, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65870-4_38

In this article we propose a new adaptive numerical quadrature procedure which includes both local subdivision of the integration domain, as well as local variation of the number of quadrature points employed on each subinterval. In this way we aim t... Read More about An adaptive variable order quadrature strategy.

Minimality and mutation-equivalence of polygons (2017)
Journal Article
Kasprzyk, A. M., Nill, B., & Prince, T. (in press). Minimality and mutation-equivalence of polygons. Forum of Mathematics, Sigma, 5(e18), https://doi.org/10.1017/fms.2017.10

We introduce a concept of minimality for Fano polygons. We show that, up to mutation, there are only finitely many Fano polygons with given singularity content, and give an algorithm to determine representatives for all mutation-equivalence classes o... Read More about Minimality and mutation-equivalence of polygons.

Decoding fMRI events in sensorimotor motor network using sparse paradigm free mapping and activation likelihood estimates: Decoding fMRI Events in SMN (2017)
Journal Article
Tan, F. M., Caballero-Gaudes, C., Mullinger, K. J., Cho, S., Zhang, Y., Dryden, I. L., …Gowland, P. A. (2017). Decoding fMRI events in sensorimotor motor network using sparse paradigm free mapping and activation likelihood estimates: Decoding fMRI Events in SMN. Human Brain Mapping, 38(11), 5778-5794. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.23767

Most functional MRI (fMRI) studies map task-driven brain activity using a block or event-related paradigm. Sparse paradigm free mapping (SPFM) can detect the onset and spatial distribution of BOLD events in the brain without prior timing information,... Read More about Decoding fMRI events in sensorimotor motor network using sparse paradigm free mapping and activation likelihood estimates: Decoding fMRI Events in SMN.

A novel computational model predicts key regulators of chemokine gradient formation in lymph nodes and site-specific roles for CCL19 and ACKR4 (2017)
Journal Article
Jafarnejad, M., Zawieja, D. C., Brook, B. S., Nibbs, R. J., & Moore, J. E. (2017). A novel computational model predicts key regulators of chemokine gradient formation in lymph nodes and site-specific roles for CCL19 and ACKR4. Journal of Immunology, 199(7), 2291-2304. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1700377

The chemokine receptor CCR7 drives leukocyte migration into and within lymph nodes (LNs). It is activated by chemokines CCL19 and CCL21, which are scavenged by the atypical chemokine receptor ACKR4. CCR7-dependent navigation is determined by the dist... Read More about A novel computational model predicts key regulators of chemokine gradient formation in lymph nodes and site-specific roles for CCL19 and ACKR4.