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Ubuntu, Radical Hope, and an Onto-epistemology of Conscience (2015)
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Swanson, D. M. (2015). Ubuntu, Radical Hope, and an Onto-epistemology of Conscience. Journal of Critical Southern Studies, 3, Article 96-118

Via the evocation of a lived narrative related to witnessing Middle Eastern refugees’ attempts at entering into the European Union in September 2015, I draw connections between the political, ethical, spiritual and embodied, recognising their always-... Read More about Ubuntu, Radical Hope, and an Onto-epistemology of Conscience.

Serum cartilage oligomeric matrix protein and development of radiographic and painful knee osteoarthritis. A community-based cohort of middle-aged women (2015)
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Kluzek, S., Bay-Jensen, A., Judge, A., Karsdal, M. A., Shorthose, M., Spector, T., …Arden, N. K. (2015). Serum cartilage oligomeric matrix protein and development of radiographic and painful knee osteoarthritis. A community-based cohort of middle-aged women. Biomarkers, 20(8), 557-564. https://doi.org/10.3109/1354750x.2015.1105498

Context and objective: We evaluated the predictive value of serum cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (sCOMP) levels over 20 years on the development of radiographic (RKOA) and painful knee osteoarthritis (KOA) in a longitudinal cohort of middle-aged... Read More about Serum cartilage oligomeric matrix protein and development of radiographic and painful knee osteoarthritis. A community-based cohort of middle-aged women.

Manipulation of Conditions during Wort Collection in Production-Scale Fermentations to Regulate Volatile Ester Synthesis as an Aid to Product Matching for Multisite Brewing (2015)
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Bilverstone, T. W., White, R., & Boulton, C. A. (2015). Manipulation of Conditions during Wort Collection in Production-Scale Fermentations to Regulate Volatile Ester Synthesis as an Aid to Product Matching for Multisite Brewing. Journal- American Society of Brewing Chemists, 73(4), 347-353. https://doi.org/10.1094/ASBCJ-2015-0730-01

© 2015 American Society of Brewing Chemists, Inc. Volatile esters are amongst the most important yeast-derived flavoractive compounds produced during brewery fermentation. Dissolved oxygen concentration has long been recognized as an effector for the... Read More about Manipulation of Conditions during Wort Collection in Production-Scale Fermentations to Regulate Volatile Ester Synthesis as an Aid to Product Matching for Multisite Brewing.

Lipopolysaccharide hyporesponsiveness: Protective or damaging response to the brain? (2015)
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Pardon, M. C. (2015). Lipopolysaccharide hyporesponsiveness: Protective or damaging response to the brain?. Romanian journal of morphology and embryology = Revue roumaine de morphologie et embryologie, 56(3), 903-913

© 2015, Editura Academiei Romane. All rights reserved. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) endotoxins are widely used as experimental models of systemic bacterial infection and trigger robust inflammation by potently activating toll-like receptors 4 (TLR4) expr... Read More about Lipopolysaccharide hyporesponsiveness: Protective or damaging response to the brain?.

The circle of life: A cross-cultural comparison of children's attribution of life-cycle traits (2015)
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Burdett, E. R. R., & Barrett, J. L. (2015). The circle of life: A cross-cultural comparison of children's attribution of life-cycle traits. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 34(2), 276-290. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12131

© 2016 The British Psychological Society. Do children attribute mortality and other life-cycle traits to all minded beings? The present study examined whether culture influences young children's ability to conceptualize and differentiate human beings... Read More about The circle of life: A cross-cultural comparison of children's attribution of life-cycle traits.

Experimental analysis of ethanol dual-fuel combustion in a heavy-duty diesel engine: An optimisation at low load (2015)
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Pedrozo, V. B., May, I., Dalla Nora, M., Cairns, A., & Zhao, H. (2016). Experimental analysis of ethanol dual-fuel combustion in a heavy-duty diesel engine: An optimisation at low load. Applied Energy, 165, 166-182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.12.052

Conventional diesel combustion produces harmful exhaust emissions which adversely affect the air quality if not controlled by in-cylinder measures and exhaust aftertreatment systems. Dual-fuel combustion can potentially reduce the formation of nitrog... Read More about Experimental analysis of ethanol dual-fuel combustion in a heavy-duty diesel engine: An optimisation at low load.

ELF5 drives lung metastasis in luminal breast cancer through recruitment of Gr1+ CD11b+ myeloid-derived suppressor cells (2015)
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Gallego-Ortega, D., Ledger, A., Roden, D. L., Law, A. M., Magenau, A., Kikhtyak, Z., …Ormandy, C. J. (2015). ELF5 drives lung metastasis in luminal breast cancer through recruitment of Gr1+ CD11b+ myeloid-derived suppressor cells. PLoS Biology, 13(12), Article e1002330. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002330

During pregnancy, the ETS transcription factor ELF5 establishes the milk-secreting alveolar cell lineage by driving a cell fate decision of the mammary luminal progenitor cell. In breast cancer, ELF5 is a key transcriptional determinant of tumor subt... Read More about ELF5 drives lung metastasis in luminal breast cancer through recruitment of Gr1+ CD11b+ myeloid-derived suppressor cells.

Analysis of the performance of an air-powered energy-harvesting pavement (2015)
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Chiarelli, A., Dawson, A., & Garcia, A. (2015). Analysis of the performance of an air-powered energy-harvesting pavement. Transportation Research Record, 2523, 156-163. https://doi.org/10.3141/2523-17

Current energy-harvesting pavements do not have the features needed for large-scale applications. For example, the use of water as an operating fluid may create problems with the pavement structure if leakage occurs. Moreover, the design of such syst... Read More about Analysis of the performance of an air-powered energy-harvesting pavement.

The SLUGGS survey: chromodynamical modelling of the lenticular galaxy NGC 1023 (2015)
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Cortesi, A., Chies-Santos, A. L., Pota, V., Foster, C., Coccato, L., Mendes de Oliveira, C., …Almeida, A. (2016). The SLUGGS survey: chromodynamical modelling of the lenticular galaxy NGC 1023. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456(3), 2611-2621. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2753

Globular clusters (GCs) can be considered discrete, long-lived, dynamical tracers that retain crucial information about the assembly history of their parent galaxy. In this paper, we present a new catalogue of GC velocities and colours for the lentic... Read More about The SLUGGS survey: chromodynamical modelling of the lenticular galaxy NGC 1023.

Efficacy of progesterone supplementation during early pregnancy in cows: a meta-analysis (2015)
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Yan, L., Robinson, R. S., Shi, Z., & Mann, G. E. (2016). Efficacy of progesterone supplementation during early pregnancy in cows: a meta-analysis. Theriogenology, 85(8), Article 1390-1398.e1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.theriogenology.2015.12.027

Progesterone is a critical hormone during early pregnancy in the cow. As a result, a number of studies have investigated the effects of progesterone supplementation on pregnancy rates. In this study, a meta-analysis using a univariate binary random e... Read More about Efficacy of progesterone supplementation during early pregnancy in cows: a meta-analysis.

Draft genome sequences of 14 Escherichia coli phages isolated from cattle slurry (2015)
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Smith, R., O'Hara, M., Hobman, J. L., & Millard, A. (2015). Draft genome sequences of 14 Escherichia coli phages isolated from cattle slurry. Genome Announcements, 3(6), Article e01364-15. https://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.01364-15

The diversity of bacteriophages in slurry from dairy cows remains largely unknown. Here, we report the draft genome sequences of 14 bacteriophages isolated from dairy cow slurry using Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655 as a host.

Pharmacological analysis and structure determination of 7-methylcyanopindolol–bound b1-adrenergic receptor (2015)
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Sato, T., Baker, J. G., Warne, T., Brown, G. A., Leslie, A., Congreve, M., & Tate, C. G. (2015). Pharmacological analysis and structure determination of 7-methylcyanopindolol–bound b1-adrenergic receptor. Molecular Pharmacology, 88(6), https://doi.org/10.1124/mol.115.101030

Comparisons between structures of the b1-adrenergic receptor (AR) bound to either agonists, partial agonists, or weak partial agonists led to the proposal that rotamer changes of Ser5.46, coupled to a contraction of the binding pocket, are sufficient... Read More about Pharmacological analysis and structure determination of 7-methylcyanopindolol–bound b1-adrenergic receptor.

Researching the lived experiences of cancer patients with malignant fungating wounds (2015)
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Rowan, S., Moffatt, C., & Olden, A. (2015). Researching the lived experiences of cancer patients with malignant fungating wounds. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 21(12), https://doi.org/10.12968/ijpn.2015.21.12.579

Background: Researching the experiences of terminally ill patients with disfiguring wounds is likely to be a challenge anywhere, and this investigation came face-to-face with different attitudes on the part of both patients and nurses and doctors in... Read More about Researching the lived experiences of cancer patients with malignant fungating wounds.

Development, testing and reporting of mobile apps for psycho-social interventions: lessons from the pharmaceuticals (2015)
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Naeem, F., Syed, Y., Xiang, S., Shokraneh, F., Munshi, T., Yang, M., …Farooq, S. (2015). Development, testing and reporting of mobile apps for psycho-social interventions: lessons from the pharmaceuticals. https://doi.org/10.4172/2168-9784.1000191

The mobile Health offers great potential for delivery of Psycho-social Interventions. So far, the researchers have focused mainly on efficacy, and to some extent feasibility of Psycho-social Interventions. Poor reporting of development and initial te... Read More about Development, testing and reporting of mobile apps for psycho-social interventions: lessons from the pharmaceuticals.

4-Phenylpyridin-2-one Derivatives: A Novel Class of Positive Allosteric Modulator of the M1 Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor (2015)
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Mistry, S. N., Jörg, M., Lim, H., Vinh, N. B., Sexton, P. M., Capuano, B., …Scammells, P. J. (2016). 4-Phenylpyridin-2-one Derivatives: A Novel Class of Positive Allosteric Modulator of the M1 Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 59(1), 388-409. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5b01562

Positive allosteric modulators (PAMs) of the M1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (M1 mAChR) are a promising strategy for the treatment of the cognitive deficits associated with diseases including Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia. Herein, we report the... Read More about 4-Phenylpyridin-2-one Derivatives: A Novel Class of Positive Allosteric Modulator of the M1 Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor.

Three-dimensional reconstruction of plant shoots from multiple images using an active vision system (2015)
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Gibbs, J., Pound, M. P., Wells, D. M., Murchie, E. H., French, A. P., & Pridmore, T. P. (2015). Three-dimensional reconstruction of plant shoots from multiple images using an active vision system

The reconstruction of 3D models of plant shoots is a challenging problem central to the emerging discipline of plant phenomics – the quantitative measurement of plant structure and function. Current approaches are, however, often limited by the use o... Read More about Three-dimensional reconstruction of plant shoots from multiple images using an active vision system.

H-ATLAS/GAMA: quantifying the morphological evolution of the galaxy population using cosmic calorimetry (2015)
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Eales, S., Fullard, A., Allen, M., Smith, M., Baldry, I., Bourne, N., …Serjeant, S. (2015). H-ATLAS/GAMA: quantifying the morphological evolution of the galaxy population using cosmic calorimetry. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452(4), 3489--3507. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1300

Using results from the Herschel Astrophysical Terrahertz Large-Area Survey (H-ATLAS) and the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) project, we show that, for galaxy masses above ≃ 108 M⊙, 51 per cent of the stellar mass-density in the local Universe is in... Read More about H-ATLAS/GAMA: quantifying the morphological evolution of the galaxy population using cosmic calorimetry.