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Fingering Instabilities in Dewetting Nanofluids (2008)
Journal Article
Pauliac-Vaujour, E., Stannard, A., Martin, C., Blunt, M., Notingher, I., Moriarty, P., …Thiele, U. (2008). Fingering Instabilities in Dewetting Nanofluids. Physical Review Letters, 100,

The growth of fingering patterns in dewetting nanofluids (colloidal solutions of thiol-passivated gold nanoparticles) has been followed in real time using contrast-enhanced video microscopy. The fingering instability on which we focus here arises fro... Read More about Fingering Instabilities in Dewetting Nanofluids.

Differentiation-dependent changes in the membrane properties of fiber cells isolated from the rat lens (2008)
Journal Article
Webb, K. F., & Donaldson, P. J. (2008). Differentiation-dependent changes in the membrane properties of fiber cells isolated from the rat lens. American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology, 294(5), C1133-C1145. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpcell.00315.2007

Impedance measurements in whole lenses showed that lens fiber cells possess different permeability properties to the epithelial cells from which they differentiate. To confirm these observations at the cellular level, we analyzed the membrane propert... Read More about Differentiation-dependent changes in the membrane properties of fiber cells isolated from the rat lens.

Calculation of sample size for stroke trials assessing functional outcome: comparison of binary and ordinal approaches (2008)
Journal Article
The Optimising Analysis of Stroke Trials Collaboration, O. (2008). Calculation of sample size for stroke trials assessing functional outcome: comparison of binary and ordinal approaches. International Journal of Stroke, 3(2),

Background Many acute stroke trials have given neutral results. Sub-optimal statistical analyses may be failing to detect efficacy. Methods which take account of the ordinal nature of functional outcome data are more efficient. We compare sample... Read More about Calculation of sample size for stroke trials assessing functional outcome: comparison of binary and ordinal approaches.

On Randomness and the Genetic Behavior of Cellular Automata (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Toutounji, H., & Aljundi, A. C. (2008). On Randomness and the Genetic Behavior of Cellular Automata. In 2008 3rd International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTTA.2008.4530320

We investigate a new approach in utilizing a given classification to cellular automata to search for a particular behavior cellular automaton with a genetic algorithm. This investigation leads to the formation of two new concepts. The first is creati... Read More about On Randomness and the Genetic Behavior of Cellular Automata.

Exercise intervention in acquired brain injury rehabilitation: a discussion (2008)
Journal Article
Blake, H., & Batson, M. (2008). Exercise intervention in acquired brain injury rehabilitation: a discussion. International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 15(4), 180-185. https://doi.org/10.12968/ijtr.2008.15.4.29037

Physical activity is essential for health and well-being. The importance of an active lifestyle is increasingly being recognized in rehabilitation for its benefits to quality of life and the prevention and management of secondary disease resulting fr... Read More about Exercise intervention in acquired brain injury rehabilitation: a discussion.

Multi-Agent Simulation and Management Practices (2008)
Book Chapter
Siebers, P.-O., Aickelin, U., Celia, H., & Clegg, C. (2008). Multi-Agent Simulation and Management Practices. In Encyclopedia of Decision Making and Decision Support Technologies. IGI Global

Intelligent agents offer a new and exciting way of understanding the world of work. Agent-Based Simulation (ABS), one way of using intelligent agents, carries great potential for progressing our understanding of management practices and how they link... Read More about Multi-Agent Simulation and Management Practices.

Reconstructing hydrological variability in Lake Baikal during MIS 11: An application of oxygen isotope analysis of diatom silica (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mackay, A. W., Karabanov, E., Leng, M. J., Sloane, H. J., Morley, D. W., Panizzo, V. N., Khursevich, G., & Williams, D. (2007, April). Reconstructing hydrological variability in Lake Baikal during MIS 11: An application of oxygen isotope analysis of diatom silica. Presented at Isotopes in Biogenic Silica (IBiS), Nottingham, UK

In this paper we reconstruct hydrological variability in Lake Baikal during Marine Isotope Stage 11 (MIS 11) (427-362 ka BP) from oxygen isotope analysis of diatom silica. Highest δ18Odiatom values are found during MIS 11.3, highlighting the dominanc... Read More about Reconstructing hydrological variability in Lake Baikal during MIS 11: An application of oxygen isotope analysis of diatom silica.

‘Not rocket science’ or ‘No silver bullet’? Media and government discourses about MRSA and cleanliness (2008)
Journal Article
Koteyko, N., Nerlich, B., Crawford, P., & Wright, N. (2008). ‘Not rocket science’ or ‘No silver bullet’? Media and government discourses about MRSA and cleanliness. Applied Linguistics, 29(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amn006

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), commonly called a superbug, has recently been a major political issue in the UK, playing a significant role in debates over health policy in the general election held in 2005. While science recogniz... Read More about ‘Not rocket science’ or ‘No silver bullet’? Media and government discourses about MRSA and cleanliness.

Sensory gating and its modulation by cannabinoids: electrophysiological, computational and mathematical analysis (2008)
Journal Article
Zachariou, M., Dissanayake, D. W. N., Coombes, S., Owen, M. R., & Mason, R. (in press). Sensory gating and its modulation by cannabinoids: electrophysiological, computational and mathematical analysis. Cognitive Neurodynamics, 2, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11571-008-9050-4

Gating of sensory information can be assessed using an auditory conditioning-test paradigm which measures the reduction in the auditory evoked response to a test stimulus following an initial conditioning stimulus. Recording brainwaves from specific... Read More about Sensory gating and its modulation by cannabinoids: electrophysiological, computational and mathematical analysis.

Role of VGF-derived peptides in the control of food intake, body weight and reproduction (2008)
Journal Article
Jethwa, P. H., & Ebling, F. J. P. (2008). Role of VGF-derived peptides in the control of food intake, body weight and reproduction. Neuroendocrinology, 88(2), 80-87. https://doi.org/10.1159/000127319

VGF is a 68-kDa polypeptide synthesized in neuronal and neuroendocrine cells. It is cleaved into a number of smaller peptides which are stored in dense core vesicles and are likely to be secreted products. The VGF gene is expressed abundantly in the... Read More about Role of VGF-derived peptides in the control of food intake, body weight and reproduction.

In the kingdom of the blind: successfully implementing institutional repositories in the UK and the SHERPA Partnership experience (2008)
Journal Article
Johnson, G. J. (2008). In the kingdom of the blind: successfully implementing institutional repositories in the UK and the SHERPA Partnership experience. New Review of Academic Librarianship, 13(1-2), 13-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614530701868652

This paper takes an overview of the work of SHERPA team and the SHERPA Partnership institutions in the area of developing, populating and maintaining institutional open access repositories. Crucial to this work has been the development of mutually s... Read More about In the kingdom of the blind: successfully implementing institutional repositories in the UK and the SHERPA Partnership experience.

Possible evidence for an inverted temperature-density relation in the intergalactic medium from the flux distribution of the Lyman-alpha forest (2008)
Journal Article
S. Bolton, J., Viel, M., -S. Kim, T., G. Haehnelt, M., & F. Carswell, R. (2008). Possible evidence for an inverted temperature-density relation in the intergalactic medium from the flux distribution of the Lyman-alpha forest. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 386(2), 1131-1144. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13114.x

The "home country" of a multinational enterprise group facing insolvency (2008)
Journal Article
Mevorach, I. (2008). The "home country" of a multinational enterprise group facing insolvency. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 57(2), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020589308000250

Identifying the ‘home country’ for the multinational enterprise group’s insolvency proceedings can be crucial for allowing an effective insolvency process for related entities. However, this is a challenging task given the diversity of group structu... Read More about The "home country" of a multinational enterprise group facing insolvency.

Cow, farm, and herd management factors in the dry period associated with raised somatic cell counts in early lactation (2008)
Journal Article
Green, M. J., Medley, G. F., Browne, W. J., & Bradley, A. J. (2008). Cow, farm, and herd management factors in the dry period associated with raised somatic cell counts in early lactation. Journal of Dairy Science, 91(4), https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2007-0621

This study investigated cow characteristics, farm facilities, and herd management strategies during the dry period to examine their joint influence on somatic cell counts (SCC) in early lactation. Data from 52 commercial dairy farms throughout Englan... Read More about Cow, farm, and herd management factors in the dry period associated with raised somatic cell counts in early lactation.

Innovation in practice: mobile phone technology in patient care (2008)
Journal Article
Blake, H. (2008). Innovation in practice: mobile phone technology in patient care. British Journal of Community Nursing, 13(4), https://doi.org/10.12968/bjcn.2008.13.4.29024

Mobile phones are becoming increasingly important in everyday life and now in healthcare. There has been a steady growth of information and communication technologies in health communication and technology is used progressively in telemedicine, wirel... Read More about Innovation in practice: mobile phone technology in patient care.

Structural and electrical characterization of AuPtAlTi ohmic contacts to AlGaN/GaN with varying annealing temperature and Al content (2008)
Journal Article
Fay, M. W., Han, Y., Brown, P. D., Harrison, I., Hilton, K., Munday, A., …Martin, T. (2008). Structural and electrical characterization of AuPtAlTi ohmic contacts to AlGaN/GaN with varying annealing temperature and Al content. Journal of Applied Physics, 103(7), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2890978

The effect of varying annealing temperature and Al layer thickness on the structural and electrical characteristics of AuPtAlTi/AlGaN/GaN ohmic contact structures has been systematically investigated. The relationship between annealing temperature, A... Read More about Structural and electrical characterization of AuPtAlTi ohmic contacts to AlGaN/GaN with varying annealing temperature and Al content.

Heterobranchia II: The Pulmonata (2008)
Book Chapter
Mordan, P., & Wade, C. (2008). Heterobranchia II: The Pulmonata. In W. Ponder (Ed.), Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca (409-426). University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520250925.003.0015

This chapter focuses on the Pulmonata, gastropods belonging to the clade Heterobranchia. It explains that the pulmonates include the large majority of land snails and slugs, as well as many freshwater snails and a few small families of estuarine and... Read More about Heterobranchia II: The Pulmonata.

G Protein Coupling and Ligand Selectivity of the D2L and D3 Dopamine Receptors (2008)
Journal Article
Lane, J. R., Powney, B., Wise, A., Rees, S., & Milligan, G. (2008). G Protein Coupling and Ligand Selectivity of the D2L and D3 Dopamine Receptors. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 325(1), 319-330. https://doi.org/10.1124/jpet.107.134296

The human dopamine D2L receptor couples promiscuously to multiple members of the Gαi/o subfamily. Despite the high homology of the D2L and D3 receptors, the G protein coupling specificity of the human D3 receptor is less clearly characterized. The pr... Read More about G Protein Coupling and Ligand Selectivity of the D2L and D3 Dopamine Receptors.

Development of a Genomic Microsatellite Library in Perennial Ryegrass (Lolium perenne) and its Use in Trait Mapping (2008)
Journal Article
King, J., Thorogood, D., Edwards, K. J., Armstead, I. P., Roberts, L., Skot, K., …King, I. P. (in press). Development of a Genomic Microsatellite Library in Perennial Ryegrass (Lolium perenne) and its Use in Trait Mapping. Annals of Botany, 101(6), 845-853. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcn016

Background and Aims Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) is one of the key forage and amenity grasses throughout the world. In the UK it accounts for 70 % of all agricultural land use with an estimated farm gate value of £6 billion per annum. However... Read More about Development of a Genomic Microsatellite Library in Perennial Ryegrass (Lolium perenne) and its Use in Trait Mapping.