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A hybrid evolutionary approach to the nurse rostering problem (2010)
Journal Article
Bai, R., Burke, E. K., Kendall, G., Li, J., & McCollum, B. (2010). A hybrid evolutionary approach to the nurse rostering problem. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 14(4), https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2009.2033583

Nurse rostering is an important search problem with many constraints. In the literature, a number of approaches have been investigated including penalty function methods to tackle these constraints within genetic algorithm frameworks. In this paper,... Read More about A hybrid evolutionary approach to the nurse rostering problem.

Does looped nasogastric tube feeding improve nutritional delivery for patients with dysphagia after acute stroke? A randomised controlled trial (2010)
Journal Article
Beavan, J., Paul Conroy, S., Harwood, R., Gladman, J. R., Leonardi-Bee, J., Sach, T., Bowling, T., Sunman, W., & Gaynor, C. (2010). Does looped nasogastric tube feeding improve nutritional delivery for patients with dysphagia after acute stroke? A randomised controlled trial. Age and Ageing, 39(5), 624-630. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afq088

Background: nasogastric tube (NGT) feeding is commonly used after stroke, but its effectiveness is limited by frequent dislodgement.

Objective: the objective of the study was to evaluate looped NGT feeding in acute stroke patients with dysphagia.... Read More about Does looped nasogastric tube feeding improve nutritional delivery for patients with dysphagia after acute stroke? A randomised controlled trial.

Chemical Tags Mediate the Orthogonal Self-Assembly of DNA Duplexes into Supramolecular Structures (2010)
Journal Article
Mitchell, N. J., Ebner, A., Hinterdorfer, P., Tampé, R., & Howorka, S. (2010). Chemical Tags Mediate the Orthogonal Self-Assembly of DNA Duplexes into Supramolecular Structures. Small, 6(16), 1732-1735. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201000790

A new chemical approach that achieves ordered self‐assembly of biomolecules is reported. The chemical tags bis‐nitrilotriacetic acid (bisNTA) and hexahistidine (His6) are attached to DNA duplexes that self‐assemble into supramolecular structures whos... Read More about Chemical Tags Mediate the Orthogonal Self-Assembly of DNA Duplexes into Supramolecular Structures.

Molecular phylogeny of the stylommatophoran land snails and slugs (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wade, C. (2010, July). Molecular phylogeny of the stylommatophoran land snails and slugs. Presented at 17th World Congress of Malacology, Royal Phuket City Hotel Phuket, Thailand

DNA sequence data has revolutionised our understanding of the evolutionary relationships among the stylommatophoran land snails and slugs. Yet, the stylommatophoran tree is still not fully resolved and in particular, relationships at the bas... Read More about Molecular phylogeny of the stylommatophoran land snails and slugs.

In situ subcellular fractionation of adherent and non-adherent mammalian cells (2010)
Journal Article
Sawasdichai, A., Chen, H., Abdul Hamid, N., Jayaraman, P., & Gaston, K. (2010). In situ subcellular fractionation of adherent and non-adherent mammalian cells. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 41, Article e1958. https://doi.org/10.3791/1958

Protein function is intimately coupled to protein localization. Although some proteins are restricted to a specific location or subcellular compartment, many proteins are present as a freely diffusing population in free exchange with a sub-population... Read More about In situ subcellular fractionation of adherent and non-adherent mammalian cells.

Resolving taxonomic complications in the family of Ariophantidae by using molecular marker and morphological characteristics: a preliminary attempt. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Balkhis Abu Bakar, S., Razali, N. M., Izzati Minhat, F., Sau Pinn, W., Azizah Mohd Nor, S., Yasin, Z., Wade, C. M., Naggs, F., & Tan Shau Hwai, A. (2010, July). Resolving taxonomic complications in the family of Ariophantidae by using molecular marker and morphological characteristics: a preliminary attempt. Presented at 17th World Congress of Malacology, Royal Phuket City Hotel Phuket, Thailand

This study is an attempt to resolve the taxonomic complication in the Family Ariophantidae by using nucleotide sequences 16S rRNA gene with the aid of morphological characteristics of the shell. Morphological classification of members of this group c... Read More about Resolving taxonomic complications in the family of Ariophantidae by using molecular marker and morphological characteristics: a preliminary attempt..

Social stress in young people with specific language impairment (2010)
Journal Article
Wadman, R., Durkin, K., & Conti-Ramsden, G. (2010). Social stress in young people with specific language impairment. Journal of Adolescence, 34(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2010.06.010

Social interactions can be a source of social stress for adolescents. Little is known about how adolescents with developmental difficulties, such as specific language impairment (SLI), feel when interacting socially. Participants included 28 adolesce... Read More about Social stress in young people with specific language impairment.

Assessment indices for the seismic vulnerability of existing R.C. buildings (2010)
Journal Article
Thermou, G. E., & Pantazopoulou, S. J. (2011). Assessment indices for the seismic vulnerability of existing R.C. buildings. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 40(3), 293-313. https://doi.org/10.1002/eqe.1028

The seismic vulnerability of old multi‐storey reinforced concrete (R.C.) buildings reinforced with substandard details is assessed as a function of interstorey drift demand imposed by the design earthquake while considering brittle termination of ela... Read More about Assessment indices for the seismic vulnerability of existing R.C. buildings.

Histone Deacetylase Inhibition Attenuates Cell Growth with Associated Telomerase Inhibition in High-Grade Childhood Brain Tumor Cells (2010)
Journal Article
Rahman, R., Osteso-Ibanez, T., Hirst, R. A., Levesley, J., Kilday, J., Quinn, S., …Grundy, R. G. (2010). Histone Deacetylase Inhibition Attenuates Cell Growth with Associated Telomerase Inhibition in High-Grade Childhood Brain Tumor Cells. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, 9(9), 2568-2581. https://doi.org/10.1158/1535-7163.mct-10-0272

Aberrant epigenetic regulation of gene expression contributes to tumor initiation and progression. Studies from a plethora of hematologic and solid tumors support the use of histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACi) as potent anticancer agents. However,... Read More about Histone Deacetylase Inhibition Attenuates Cell Growth with Associated Telomerase Inhibition in High-Grade Childhood Brain Tumor Cells.

Evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithms with probabilistic representation based on pheromone trails (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, H., Landa-Silva, D., & Gandibleux, X. (2010). Evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithms with probabilistic representation based on pheromone trails.

Recently, the research on quantum-inspired evolutionary algorithms (QEA) has attracted some attention in the area of evolutionary computation. QEA use a probabilistic representation, called Q-bit, to encode individuals in population. Unlike standard... Read More about Evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithms with probabilistic representation based on pheromone trails.

Ionic Permeability and Currents in the Lens (2010)
Book Chapter
Donaldson, P. J., & Webb, K. F. (2010). Ionic Permeability and Currents in the Lens. In Encyclopedia of the Eye (477-486). https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-374203-2.00032-4

© 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. It has been proposed that in the absence of a blood supply the lens operates an internal microcirculation system. In this system spatially distinct differences in the membrane transport properties of the lens... Read More about Ionic Permeability and Currents in the Lens.

Geographies of money and finance I: Cultural economy, politics and place (2010)
Journal Article
Hall, S. (2011). Geographies of money and finance I: Cultural economy, politics and place. Progress in Human Geography, 35(2), 234-245. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132510370277

In this report, I review the intersection between cultural economy and economic geography research on money and finance. To date, economic geographers have engaged most extensively with cultural economy work on the calculative practices that (re)prod... Read More about Geographies of money and finance I: Cultural economy, politics and place.

Spacetime Noncommutativity in Models with Warped Extradimensions (2010)
Journal Article
Ohl, T., Schenkel, A., & F. Uhlemann, C. (2010). Spacetime Noncommutativity in Models with Warped Extradimensions. Journal of High Energy Physics, Article 29. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07%282010%29029

We construct consistent noncommutative (NC) deformations of the Randall-Sundrum spacetime that solve the NC Einstein equations with a non-trivial Poisson tensor depending on the fifth coordinate. In a class of these deformations where the Poisson ten... Read More about Spacetime Noncommutativity in Models with Warped Extradimensions.

An investigation into the empowerment effects of using online support groups and how this affects health professional/patient communication (2010)
Journal Article
Bartlett, Y. K., & Coulson, N. S. (2011). An investigation into the empowerment effects of using online support groups and how this affects health professional/patient communication. Patient Education and Counseling, 83(1), 113-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2010.05.029

Objective: The current research investigates the potential of online support groups (OSGs) to foster empowerment and how membership might affect the patient/health professional relationship. Methods: 246 participants across 33 OSGs completed an onlin... Read More about An investigation into the empowerment effects of using online support groups and how this affects health professional/patient communication.

Analysis of the cone penetration test in layered clay (2010)
Journal Article
Walker, J., & Yu, H.-S. (2010). Analysis of the cone penetration test in layered clay. Géotechnique, 60(12), https://doi.org/10.1680/geot.7.00153

This paper presents an analysis of the cone penetration test in multi-layered clays using the commercial finite-element code Abaqus/Explicit. The von Mises yield criterion and its associated flow rule are assumed to model the plastic behaviour of ela... Read More about Analysis of the cone penetration test in layered clay.

A systems biology viewpoint on autophagy in health and disease (2010)
Journal Article
Huett, A., Goel, G., & Xavier, R. J. (2010). A systems biology viewpoint on autophagy in health and disease. Current Opinion in Gastroenterology, 26(4), 302-309. https://doi.org/10.1097/MOG.0b013e32833ae2ed

Purpose of review: The field of autophagy is rapidly expanding to encompass many important areas of cell biology, physiology and disease. Recent discoveries and tools allow the connection of the autophagy pathway to other cellular signals and process... Read More about A systems biology viewpoint on autophagy in health and disease.

Specific interaction of hepatitis C virus glycoproteins with mannan binding lectin inhibits virus entry (2010)
Journal Article
Brown, K. S., Keogh, M. J., Owsianka, A. M., Adair, R., Patel, A. H., Arnold, J. N., …Hickling, T. P. (2010). Specific interaction of hepatitis C virus glycoproteins with mannan binding lectin inhibits virus entry. Protein and Cell, 1(7), 664-674. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13238-010-0088-9

Mannan-binding lectin (MBL) is a soluble innate immune protein that binds to glycosylated targets. MBL acts as an opsonin and activates complement, contributing to the destruction and clearance of infecting microorganisms. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) enc... Read More about Specific interaction of hepatitis C virus glycoproteins with mannan binding lectin inhibits virus entry.

Towards the design of heuristics by means of self-assembly (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Terrazas, G., Landa-Silva, D., & Krasnogor, N. (2010). Towards the design of heuristics by means of self-assembly.

The current investigations on hyper-heuristics design have sprung up in two different flavours: heuristics that choose heuristics and heuristics that generate heuristics. In the latter, the goal is to develop a problem-domain independent strategy to... Read More about Towards the design of heuristics by means of self-assembly.