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Seasonally resolved diatom δ18O records from the west Antarctic Peninsula over the last deglaciation (2013)
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Swann, G. E., Pike, J., Snelling, A. M., Leng, M. J., & Williams, M. C. (2013). Seasonally resolved diatom δ18O records from the west Antarctic Peninsula over the last deglaciation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 364, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2012.12.016

Understanding the response of the Antarctic ice sheets during the rapid climatic change that accompanied the last deglaciation has implications for establishing the susceptibility of these regions to future 21st Century warming. A unique diatom δ18O... Read More about Seasonally resolved diatom δ18O records from the west Antarctic Peninsula over the last deglaciation.

Analysis of mass spectrometry data from the secretome of an explant model of articular cartilage exposed to pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory stimuli using machine learning (2013)
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Swan, A. L., Hillier, K. L., Smith, J. R., Allaway, D., Liddell, S., Bacardit, J., & Mobasheri, A. (2013). Analysis of mass spectrometry data from the secretome of an explant model of articular cartilage exposed to pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory stimuli using machine learning. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 14, Article 349. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-14-349

Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) is an inflammatory disease of synovial joints involving the loss and degeneration of articular cartilage. The gold standard for evaluating cartilage loss in OA is the measurement of joint space width on standard radiog... Read More about Analysis of mass spectrometry data from the secretome of an explant model of articular cartilage exposed to pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory stimuli using machine learning.

Mechanical stiffening of porphyrin nanorings through supramolecular columnar stacking (2013)
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Svatek, S. A., Perdigão, L. M., Stannard, A., Wieland, M. B., Kondratuk, D. V., Anderson, H. L., O'Shea, J. N., & Beton, P. H. (2013). Mechanical stiffening of porphyrin nanorings through supramolecular columnar stacking. Nano Letters, 13(7), https://doi.org/10.1021/nl4017557

Solvent-induced aggregates of nanoring cyclic polymers may be transferred by electrospray deposition to a surface where they adsorb as threedimensional columnar stacks. The observed stack height varies from single rings to four stacked rings with a l... Read More about Mechanical stiffening of porphyrin nanorings through supramolecular columnar stacking.

Native Apps versus Web Apps: which is best for healthcare applications? (2013)
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Selvarajah, K., Craven, M. P., Massey, A., Crowe, J., Vedhara, K., & Raine-Fenning, N. (2013). Native Apps versus Web Apps: which is best for healthcare applications?. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 8005, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39262-7_22

Smartphone applications (Apps) provide a new way to deliver healthcare, illustrated by the fact that healthcare Apps are estimated to make up over 30% of new Apps currently being developed; with this number seemingly set to increase as the benefits b... Read More about Native Apps versus Web Apps: which is best for healthcare applications?.

Membranes, molecules and biophysics: enhancing monocyte derived dendritic cell (MDDC) immunogenicity for improved anti-cancer therapy (2013)
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Rauch, C., Ibrahim, H., & Foster, N. (2013). Membranes, molecules and biophysics: enhancing monocyte derived dendritic cell (MDDC) immunogenicity for improved anti-cancer therapy. Journal of cancer therapeutics & research, 2, Article 20. https://doi.org/10.7243/2049-7962-2-20

Despite great medical advancement in the treatment of cancer, cancer remains a disease of global significance. Chemotherapeutics can be very expensive and drain medical resources at a national level and in some cases the cost of treatment is so great... Read More about Membranes, molecules and biophysics: enhancing monocyte derived dendritic cell (MDDC) immunogenicity for improved anti-cancer therapy.

Insight into lithium transport in lithium nitridometallate battery materials from muon spin relaxation (2013)
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Powell, A. S., Stoeva, Z., Lord, J. S., Smith, R. I., Gregory, D. H., & Titman, J. J. (2013). Insight into lithium transport in lithium nitridometallate battery materials from muon spin relaxation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 15(3), https://doi.org/10.1039/c2cp43318d

Muon spin relaxation and powder neutron diffraction have been combined to study three lithium cobalt nitride battery materials. Neutron diffraction shows that these retain the P6/mmm space group of Li3N with Co located only on Li(1) sites. The lattic... Read More about Insight into lithium transport in lithium nitridometallate battery materials from muon spin relaxation.

Beyond neutrality: professionals’ responses to clients’ indirect complaints in a Therapeutic Community for people with a diagnosis of mental illness (2013)
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Pino, M., & Mortari, L. (2013). Beyond neutrality: professionals’ responses to clients’ indirect complaints in a Therapeutic Community for people with a diagnosis of mental illness. Communication and Medicine, 10(3), https://doi.org/10.1558/cam.v10i3.213

Previous research has evidenced that in different
institutional settings professionals are cautious
when responding to clients’ indirect complaints
and tend to avoid siding either with the clients/
complainants or the complained-of absent parties... Read More about Beyond neutrality: professionals’ responses to clients’ indirect complaints in a Therapeutic Community for people with a diagnosis of mental illness.

Climate change on Twitter: topics, communities and conversations about the 2013 IPCC report (2013)
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Pearce, W., Holmberg, K., Hellsten, I., & Nerlich, B. Climate change on Twitter: topics, communities and conversations about the 2013 IPCC report. Manuscript submitted for publication

In September 2013 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published its first comprehensive assessment of physical climate science in six years, constituting a critical event in the societal debate about climate change. This paper analyses the... Read More about Climate change on Twitter: topics, communities and conversations about the 2013 IPCC report.

Pitch production during the Roman period: an intensive mountain industry for a globalised economy? (2013)
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Orengo, H. A., Palet Martínez, J. M., Ejarque, A., Miras, Y., & Riera-Mora, S. (2013). Pitch production during the Roman period: an intensive mountain industry for a globalised economy?. Antiquity, 87(337), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00049474

The authors’ research project in the Pyrenees mountains has located and excavated Roman kilns for producing pitch from pine resin. Their investigations reveal a whole sustainable industry, integrated into the local environmental cycle, supplying pitc... Read More about Pitch production during the Roman period: an intensive mountain industry for a globalised economy?.

Reconsidering the water system of Roman Barcino (Barcelona) from supply to discharge (2013)
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Orengo, H. A., & Miró i Alaix, C. (2013). Reconsidering the water system of Roman Barcino (Barcelona) from supply to discharge. Water History, 5(3), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-013-0090-2

This paper presents the results of the ‘Roman Barcino Water Network’ Project. This study employed a series of methodologies aiming at joining and interpreting all data available on water supply, distribution, management, use and discharge in the Roma... Read More about Reconsidering the water system of Roman Barcino (Barcelona) from supply to discharge.

Blessing and breaking: a dissonance of action and interpretation in the Eucharistic Prayers of the Roman Rite (2013)
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O'Loughlin, T. (2013). Blessing and breaking: a dissonance of action and interpretation in the Eucharistic Prayers of the Roman Rite. Anaphora, 7(2),

The references to 'blessing' and 'thanking' in the context of the community meal, the Eucharist, are found in the Synoptic Gospels as referring to Jesus' prayer to God; however, they are interpreted in contemporary Catholic practice as referring to t... Read More about Blessing and breaking: a dissonance of action and interpretation in the Eucharistic Prayers of the Roman Rite.

UK media representations of carbon capture and storage: actors, frames and metaphors (2013)
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Nerlich, B., & Jaspal, R. (2013). UK media representations of carbon capture and storage: actors, frames and metaphors. Metaphor and the Social World, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.3.1.02ner

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a climate change mitigation technology which has had a rather chequered history in British policy making and in the British public sphere. This article deals with the neglected topic of representations of CCS in th... Read More about UK media representations of carbon capture and storage: actors, frames and metaphors.

Overview of telematics-based prognostics and health management systems for commercial vehicles (2013)
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Mesgarpour, M., Landa-Silva, D., & Dickinson, I. (2013). Overview of telematics-based prognostics and health management systems for commercial vehicles. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 395, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41647-7_16

Prognostics and Health Management/Monitoring (PHM) are methods to assess the health condition and reliability of systems for the purpose of maximising operational reliability and safety. Recently, PHM systems are emerging in the automotive industry.... Read More about Overview of telematics-based prognostics and health management systems for commercial vehicles.

Effects of various food ingredients on gall bladder emptying (2013)
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Marciani, L., Cox, E., Hoad, C., Totman, J. J., Costigan, C., Singh, G., Shepherd, V., Chalkley, L., Robinson, M., Ison, R., Gowland, P. A., & Spiller, R. C. (2013). Effects of various food ingredients on gall bladder emptying. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 67(11), https://doi.org/10.1038/ejcn.2013.168

Background/objectives: The emptying of the gall bladder in response to feeding is pivotal for the digestion of fat, but the role of various food ingredients in contracting the gall bladder postprandially is not well understood. We hypothesized that d... Read More about Effects of various food ingredients on gall bladder emptying.

Wavelet feature extraction and genetic algorithm for biomarker detection in colorectal cancer data (2013)
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Liu, Y., Aickelin, U., Feyereisl, J., & Durrant, L. G. (2013). Wavelet feature extraction and genetic algorithm for biomarker detection in colorectal cancer data. Knowledge-Based Systems, 37, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2012.09.011

Biomarkers which predict patient’s survival can play an important role in medical diagnosis and
treatment. How to select the significant biomarkers from hundreds of protein markers is a key step in
survival analysis. In this paper a novel method is... Read More about Wavelet feature extraction and genetic algorithm for biomarker detection in colorectal cancer data.

Amorphous layer formation in Al86.0Co7.6Ce6.4 glass-forming alloy by large-area electron beam irradiation (2013)
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Li, C., Murray, J., Voisey, K., Clare, A., & McCartney, D. (2013). Amorphous layer formation in Al86.0Co7.6Ce6.4 glass-forming alloy by large-area electron beam irradiation. Applied Surface Science, 280, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2013.05.005

Amorphous Al-Co-Ce alloys are of interest because of their resistance to corrosion, but high cooling rates are generally required to suppress the formation of crystalline phases. In this study, the surface of a bulk crystalline Al-Co-Ce alloy of a gl... Read More about Amorphous layer formation in Al86.0Co7.6Ce6.4 glass-forming alloy by large-area electron beam irradiation.

Moral regulation: historical geography and scale (2013)
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Legg, S., & Brown, M. (2013). Moral regulation: historical geography and scale. Journal of Historical Geography, 42, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2013.02.001

This paper introduces a special issue on the historical geography of moral regulation and scale. The paper examines the rich and varied work of geographers on moral geographies before looking at wider work on moral regulation influenced by Michel Fou... Read More about Moral regulation: historical geography and scale.