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Ethanol via biomass-generated syngas (2008)
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Lewis, R., Frankman, A., Tanner, R., Ahmed, A., & Huhnke, R. (2008). Ethanol via biomass-generated syngas. International Sugar Journal, 110(1311), 150-152, 154-155 ref. 22

Developing low-cost sustainable fuels, such as ethanol, is receiving much attention due to rising energy costs, national security, and environmental issues. Renewable biomass, such as switchgrass, can be utilized to produce fuel-grade ethanol via a g... Read More about Ethanol via biomass-generated syngas.

The Protection of Age and Disability Rights in the Regulation of Digital Television in the European Union (2008)
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Varney, E. (2008). The Protection of Age and Disability Rights in the Regulation of Digital Television in the European Union. Utilities Law Review, 17(1), 6-16

This article questions the extent to which the regulatory framework for electronic communications in the European Union safeguards the rights of elderly people and disabled people in the digital television (DTV) sector and seeks to determine whether... Read More about The Protection of Age and Disability Rights in the Regulation of Digital Television in the European Union.

Disability Rights in the Communications Sector: An Examination of Digital Television Regulation in the United Kingdom (2008)
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Varney, E. (2008). Disability Rights in the Communications Sector: An Examination of Digital Television Regulation in the United Kingdom. Communications Law Journal : Journal of Computer, Media and Telecommunications Law, 13(6), 187-196

Effective access to information is crucial in facilitating the participation of citizens in civic society. While digital technology has brought significant benefits (e.g. an increased number of channels, superior quality of image and sound), techno... Read More about Disability Rights in the Communications Sector: An Examination of Digital Television Regulation in the United Kingdom.

Roots/Routes: Part II (2008)
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Swanson, D. M. (2008). Roots/Routes: Part II. Qualitative Inquiry, 15(1), 58-78. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004090150010402

This narrative acts as an articulation of a journey of many routes. Following Part I of the same research journey of rootedness/routedness, it debates the nature of transformation and transcendence beyond personal and political paradoxes informed by... Read More about Roots/Routes: Part II.

A DNA Nanostructure for the Functional Assembly of Chemical Groups with Tunable Stoichiometry and Defined Nanoscale Geometry (2008)
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Mitchell, N., Schlapak, R., Kastner, M., Armitage, D., Chrzanowski, W., Riener, J., …Howorka, S. (2009). A DNA Nanostructure for the Functional Assembly of Chemical Groups with Tunable Stoichiometry and Defined Nanoscale Geometry. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 48(3), 525-527. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.200804264

A component based heuristic search method with evolutionary eliminations for hospital personnel scheduling (2008)
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Li, J., Aickelin, U., & Burke, E. (in press). A component based heuristic search method with evolutionary eliminations for hospital personnel scheduling. INFORMS Journal on Computing, 21(3), https://doi.org/10.1287/ijoc.1080.0298

Nurse rostering is a complex scheduling problem that affects hospital personnel on a daily basis all over the world. This paper presents a new component-based approach with evolutionary eliminations for a nurse scheduling problem arising at a major U... Read More about A component based heuristic search method with evolutionary eliminations for hospital personnel scheduling.

Protease responsive nanoprobes with tethered fluorogenic peptidyl 3-arylcoumarin substrates (2008)
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Welser, K., Grilj, J., Vauthey, E., Aylott, J. W., & Chan, W. C. (2009). Protease responsive nanoprobes with tethered fluorogenic peptidyl 3-arylcoumarin substrates. Chemical Communications, 671-673. https://doi.org/10.1039/b816637d

Protease responsive nanosensors were obtained by the attachment of unique green fluorescent bifunctional 3-arylcoumarin-derived fluorogenic substrates to poly(acrylamide-co-N-(3-aminopropyl)methacrylamide) nanoparticles, in which proteolysis results... Read More about Protease responsive nanoprobes with tethered fluorogenic peptidyl 3-arylcoumarin substrates.

Learning to prescribe – pharmacists' experiences of supplementary prescribing training in England (2008)
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Cooper, R. J., Lymn, J., Anderson, C., Avery, A., Bissell, P., Guillaume, L., …Ward, P. (2008). Learning to prescribe – pharmacists' experiences of supplementary prescribing training in England. BMC Medical Education, 8(57), https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-8-57

The evolution of conifolds (2008)
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Butcher, N. A., & Saffin, P. M. (2008). The evolution of conifolds. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2008(12), https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/12/012

We simulate the gravitational dynamics of the conifold geometries (resolved and deformed) involved in the description of certain compact spacetimes. As the cycles of the conifold collapse towards a singular geometry we find that a horizon develops, s... Read More about The evolution of conifolds.

Functional Characterization of AasP, a Maturation Protease Autotransporter Protein of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (2008)
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Ali, T., Oldfield, N. J., Wooldridge, K. G., Turner, D. P., & Ala'Aldeen, D. A. A. (2008). Functional Characterization of AasP, a Maturation Protease Autotransporter Protein of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae. Infection and Immunity, 76(12), 5608-5614. https://doi.org/10.1128/IAI.00085-08

Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae is the etiological agent of porcine pleuropneumonia, a highly contagious respiratory infection in pigs. AasP, a putative subtilisin-like serine protease autotransporter, has recently been identified in A. pleuropneumon... Read More about Functional Characterization of AasP, a Maturation Protease Autotransporter Protein of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae.

Datatype-generic termination proofs (2008)
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Backhouse, R., & Doornbos, H. (2008). Datatype-generic termination proofs. Theory of Computing Systems, 43(3-4), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00224-007-9056-z

Datatype-generic programs are programs that are parameterised by a datatype. We review the allegorical foundations of a methodology of designing datatype-generic programs. The notion of F-reductivity, where F parametrises a datatype, is reviewed and... Read More about Datatype-generic termination proofs.

Mobile phone technology in chronic disease management (2008)
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Blake, H. (2008). Mobile phone technology in chronic disease management. Nursing Standard, 23(12), https://doi.org/10.7748/ns2008.11.23.12.43.c6728

Mobile phones are being used to improve nurse-patient communication and monitor health outcomes in chronic disease. Innovative applications of mobile technology are expected to increase over time in community management of cancer, heart disease, asth... Read More about Mobile phone technology in chronic disease management.

Genetic diversity analysis and single-nucleotide polymorphism marker development in cultivated bulb onion based on expressed sequence tag-simple sequence repeat markers (2008)
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McCallum, J., Thomson, S., Pither-Joyce, M., Kenel, F., Clarke, A., & Havey, M. J. (2008). Genetic diversity analysis and single-nucleotide polymorphism marker development in cultivated bulb onion based on expressed sequence tag-simple sequence repeat markers. Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science, 133(6), 810-818. https://doi.org/10.21273/jashs.133.6.810

Bulb onion (Allium cepa L.) is a globally significant crop, but the structure of genetic variation within and among populations is poorly understood. We broadly surveyed genetic variation in a cultivated onion germplasm using simple sequence repeat (... Read More about Genetic diversity analysis and single-nucleotide polymorphism marker development in cultivated bulb onion based on expressed sequence tag-simple sequence repeat markers.

Do humans prefer altruistic mates? Testing a link between sexual selection and altruism towards non-relatives (2008)
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Phillips, T., Barnard, C., Ferguson, E., & Reader, T. (2008). Do humans prefer altruistic mates? Testing a link between sexual selection and altruism towards non-relatives. British Journal of Psychology, 99(4), 555-572. https://doi.org/10.1348/000712608X298467

Humans are often seen as unusual in displaying altruistic behaviour towards nonrelatives. Here we outline and test a hypothesis that human altruistic traits evolved as a result of sexual selection. We develop a psychometric scale to measure mate pref... Read More about Do humans prefer altruistic mates? Testing a link between sexual selection and altruism towards non-relatives.

The 2.6 angstrom crystal structure of a human A2A adenosine receptor bound to an antagonist (2008)
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Jaakola, V., Griffith, M. T., Hanson, M. A., Cherezov, V., Chien, E. Y. T., Lane, J. R., …Stevens, R. C. (2008). The 2.6 angstrom crystal structure of a human A2A adenosine receptor bound to an antagonist. Science, 322(5905), 1211-1217. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1164772

The adenosine class of heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide-binding protein (G protein)-coupled receptors (GPCRs) mediates the important role of extracellular adenosine in many physiological processes and is antagonized by caffeine. We have determined t... Read More about The 2.6 angstrom crystal structure of a human A2A adenosine receptor bound to an antagonist.

Identifying need in care homes for people with dementia: The relationship between two standard assessment tools (2008)
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Worden, A., Challis, D., Hancock, G., Woods, R., & Orrell, M. (2008). Identifying need in care homes for people with dementia: The relationship between two standard assessment tools. Aging and Mental Health, 12(6), 719-728. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607860802154382

Considerable effort has been invested in improving assessment processes for older people, some of the most vulnerable of whom live in care homes. The paper compares two well-known assessment tools used in care homes, the CANE and the Minimum Data Set... Read More about Identifying need in care homes for people with dementia: The relationship between two standard assessment tools.

Educating Professionals and Professional Education in a Geographical Context (2008)
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Faulconbridge, J. R., & Hall, S. (2009). Educating Professionals and Professional Education in a Geographical Context. Geography Compass, 3(1), 171-189. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00176.x

Economic geography has a well-established tradition of studying a range of professional service firms (PSFs), including law, advertising, architecture, accountancy, management consultancy and banking. Within this literature, considerable attention ha... Read More about Educating Professionals and Professional Education in a Geographical Context.

Instabilities in threshold-diffusion equations with delay (2008)
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Laing, C. R., & Coombes, S. (2009). Instabilities in threshold-diffusion equations with delay. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 238(3), 264-272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2008.10.014

The introduction of delays into ordinary or partial differential equation models is well known to facilitate the production of rich dynamics, ranging from periodic solutions through to spatio-temporal chaos. In this paper, we consider a class of scal... Read More about Instabilities in threshold-diffusion equations with delay.

Fusarium langsethiae pathogenicity and aggressiveness towards oats and wheat in wounded and unwounded in vitro detached leaf assays (2008)
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Imathiu, S. M., Ray, R. V., Back, M., Hare, M. C., & Edwards, S. G. (2009). Fusarium langsethiae pathogenicity and aggressiveness towards oats and wheat in wounded and unwounded in vitro detached leaf assays. European Journal of Plant Pathology, 124(1), 117-126. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-008-9398-7

In vitro detached leaf assays involving artificial inoculation of wounded and unwounded oat and wheat leaves were used to investigate the potential pathogenicity and aggressiveness of F. langsethiae, which was linked recently to the production of typ... Read More about Fusarium langsethiae pathogenicity and aggressiveness towards oats and wheat in wounded and unwounded in vitro detached leaf assays.

An inside job: Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus (2008)
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Sockett, L., Hobley, L., Fenton, A., Woods, R., Lambert, C., Chang, C. Y., …King, S. (2008). An inside job: Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. Microbiology Today, 35(4), 184-187