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Origin of parietal podocytes in atubular glomeruli mapped by lineage tracing (2013)
Journal Article
Schulte, K., Arkill, K., Berger, K., Boor, P., Jirak, P., Gelman, I., …Moeller, M. J. (2014). Origin of parietal podocytes in atubular glomeruli mapped by lineage tracing. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 25(1), 129-141. https://doi.org/10.1681/ASN.2013040376

Parietal podocytes are fully differentiated podocytes lining Bowman's capsule where normally only parietal epithelial cells (PECs) are found. Parietal podocytes formthroughout life and are regularly observed in human biopsies, particularly in atubula... Read More about Origin of parietal podocytes in atubular glomeruli mapped by lineage tracing.

Optimal short-time acquisition schemes in high angular resolution diffusion-weighted imaging (2013)
Journal Article
Prčkovska, V., Achterberg, H. C., Bastiani, M., Pullens, P., Balmashnova, E., ter Haar Romeny, B. M., …Roebroeck, A. (2013). Optimal short-time acquisition schemes in high angular resolution diffusion-weighted imaging. International Journal of Biomedical Imaging, 2013, Article 658583. https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/658583

This work investigates the possibilities of applying high-angular-resolution-diffusion-imaging- (HARDI-) based methods in a clinical setting by investigating the performance of non-Gaussian diffusion probability density function (PDF) estimation for... Read More about Optimal short-time acquisition schemes in high angular resolution diffusion-weighted imaging.

A comparison of resistive and capacitive touchscreens for use within vehicles (2013)
Journal Article
Burnett, G., Large, D., Crundall, E., Lawson, G., De-Kremer, S., & Skrypchuk, L. (2013). A comparison of resistive and capacitive touchscreens for use within vehicles. Advances in Transportation Studies, 31, 5-16

Vehicles are increasingly utilising technologies developed in non-automotive domains. In this respect, capacitive touchscreens are familiar to smartphone and tablet computer users enabling a wide range of single and multi-touch gestures, but have not... Read More about A comparison of resistive and capacitive touchscreens for use within vehicles.

The effect of stimulus distribution form on the acquisition and rate of conditioned responding: Implications for theory (2013)
Journal Article
Jennings, D. J., Alonso, E., Mondragón, E., Franssen, M., & Bonardi, C. (2013). The effect of stimulus distribution form on the acquisition and rate of conditioned responding: Implications for theory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 39(3), 233-248. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0032151

In four experiments rats were conditioned to an auditory conditioned stimulus (conditioned stimulus; CS) that was paired with food, and learning about the CS was compared across two conditions in which the mean duration of the CS was equated. In one,... Read More about The effect of stimulus distribution form on the acquisition and rate of conditioned responding: Implications for theory.

Creating a Corpus of Geospatial Natural Language (2013)
Book Chapter
Stock, K., Pasley, R. C., Gardner, Z., Brindley, P., Morley, J., & Cialone, C. (2013). Creating a Corpus of Geospatial Natural Language. In T. Tenbrink, J. Stell, A. Galton, & Z. Wood (Eds.), Spatial Information Theory: 11th International Conference, COSIT 2013, Scarborough, UK, September 2-6, 2013. Proceedings (279-298). Spatial Information Theory: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01790-7_16

The description of location using natural language is of interest for a number of research activities including the automated interpretation and generation of natural language to ease interaction with geographic information systems. For such activiti... Read More about Creating a Corpus of Geospatial Natural Language.

Enhanced unblocking from sustained post-trial surprise (2013)
Journal Article
Haselgrove, M., Tam, S. K. E., & Jones, P. M. (2013). Enhanced unblocking from sustained post-trial surprise. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 39(4), 311-322. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0032569

Two appetitive conditioning experiments with rats investigated the mechanisms and properties of unblocking that results from the surprising omission of an expected post-trial unconditioned stimulus (US). Experiment 1 demonstrated unblocking under cir... Read More about Enhanced unblocking from sustained post-trial surprise.

The US Embassy in London and Britain’s Withdrawal from East of Suez, 1961–69 (2013)
Book Chapter
Young, J. W. (2013). The US Embassy in London and Britain’s Withdrawal from East of Suez, 1961–69. In J. W. Young, E. G. Pedaliu, & M. D. Kandiah (Eds.), Britain in Global Politics Volume 2 (139-158). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137313584_8

One of Saki Dockrill’s most significant publications was her monograph, Britain’s Retreat from East of Suez.1 In this, the first archival study of the subject, she set Britain’s reassessment of its defence priorities in a broad context, looking not o... Read More about The US Embassy in London and Britain’s Withdrawal from East of Suez, 1961–69.

Estimation of Conductivity Tensors from Human Ventricular Optical Mapping Recordings (2013)
Book Chapter
Walmsley, J., Mirams, G. R., Efimov, I. R., Burrage, K., & Rodriguez, B. (2013). Estimation of Conductivity Tensors from Human Ventricular Optical Mapping Recordings. In S. Ourselin, D. Rueckert, & N. Smith (Eds.), Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart: 7th International Conference, FIMH 2013, London, UK, June 20-22, 2013. Proceedings (224-231). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38899-6_27

Experimental recordings of transmural activation in the human left ventricle show variability in recorded activation times. In this paper we demonstrate a framework for fitting the conductivity tensor of a monodomain model to reproduce activation tim... Read More about Estimation of Conductivity Tensors from Human Ventricular Optical Mapping Recordings.

The Rising ‘China Model’ of Educational Cooperation with Africa (2013)
Book Chapter
Yuan, T. (2013). The Rising ‘China Model’ of Educational Cooperation with Africa. In S. Majhanovich, & M. A. Geo-JaJa (Eds.), Economics, Aid and Education (183-198). Rotterdam: SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-365-2_12

Globalization and the economic growth of some developing countries are not new issues. Moreover, when globalization takes the form of a knowledge-based economy, education is increasingly becoming a crucial factor in the contemporary neo-liberal marke... Read More about The Rising ‘China Model’ of Educational Cooperation with Africa.

Optimized immobilization of lectins using self-assembled monolayers on polysilicon encoded materials for cell tagging (2013)
Journal Article
Penon, O., Siapkas, D., Novo, S., Durán, S., Oncins, G., Errachid, A., …Pérez-García, L. (2014). Optimized immobilization of lectins using self-assembled monolayers on polysilicon encoded materials for cell tagging. Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 116, 104-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfb.2013.12.053

Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) have been used for the preparation of functional microtools consisting of encoded polysilicon barcodes biofunctionalized with proteins of the lectin family. These hybrid microtools exploit the lectins ability for reco... Read More about Optimized immobilization of lectins using self-assembled monolayers on polysilicon encoded materials for cell tagging.

Carprofen inhibits the release of matrix metalloproteinases 1, 3, and 13 in the secretome of an explant model of articular cartilage stimulated with interleukin 1β (2013)
Journal Article
Williams, A., Smith, J. R., Allaway, D., Harris, P., Liddell, S., & Mobasheri, A. (2013). Carprofen inhibits the release of matrix metalloproteinases 1, 3, and 13 in the secretome of an explant model of articular cartilage stimulated with interleukin 1β. Arthritis Research and Therapy, 15(6), Article R223. https://doi.org/10.1186/ar4424

Introduction: Arthritic diseases are characterized by the degradation of collagenous and noncollagenous extracellular matrix (ECM) components in articular cartilage. The increased expression and activity of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) is partly... Read More about Carprofen inhibits the release of matrix metalloproteinases 1, 3, and 13 in the secretome of an explant model of articular cartilage stimulated with interleukin 1β.

UK medical teaching about ageing is improving but there is still work to be done: the Second National Survey of Undergraduate Teaching in Ageing and Geriatric Medicine (2013)
Journal Article
Gordon, A. L., Blundell, A., Dhesi, J. K., Forrester-Paton, C., Forrester-Paton, J., Mitchell, H. K., …Gladman, J. R. (2014). UK medical teaching about ageing is improving but there is still work to be done: the Second National Survey of Undergraduate Teaching in Ageing and Geriatric Medicine. Age and Ageing, 43(2), 293-297. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/aft207

Introduction: in 2008, a UK national survey of undergraduate teaching about ageing and geriatric medicine identified deficiencies, including failure to adequately teach about elder abuse, pressure ulcers and bio- and social gerontology. We repeated t... Read More about UK medical teaching about ageing is improving but there is still work to be done: the Second National Survey of Undergraduate Teaching in Ageing and Geriatric Medicine.

Financial liberalization and the relationship-specificity of exports (2013)
Journal Article
Defever, F., & Suedekum, J. (2014). Financial liberalization and the relationship-specificity of exports. Economics Letters, 122(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2013.12.034

We investigate the causal impact of equity market liberalizations on sectoral export performance across 91 countries (1980–1997). The increased availability of external finance has boosted trade of industries that intensively use relationship-specifi... Read More about Financial liberalization and the relationship-specificity of exports.