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The role of histamine 3 receptors in the control of food intake in a seasonal model of obesity: The Siberian hamster (2009)
Journal Article
Jethwa, P. H., Barrett, P., Turnbull, Y., Enright, R. A., Warner, A., Murphy, M., & Ebling, F. J. (2009). The role of histamine 3 receptors in the control of food intake in a seasonal model of obesity: The Siberian hamster. Behavioural Pharmacology, 20(2), 155-165. https://doi.org/10.1097/FBP.0b013e32832a8099

Siberian hamsters develop hypophagia and increase catabolism of fat reserves in response to short photoperiods resulting in a natural loss of body weight in winter. We previously found that histamine 3 receptor (H3R) mRNA in the posterior hypothalamu... Read More about The role of histamine 3 receptors in the control of food intake in a seasonal model of obesity: The Siberian hamster.

The collected letters of Robert Southey. Part one, 1791-1797 (2009)
Book
Southey, R. (2009). L. Pratt (Ed.), The collected letters of Robert Southey. Part one, 1791-1797. Romantic Circles, University of Maryland

An efficient real-time method of analysis for non-coherent fault trees (2009)
Journal Article
Remenyte-Prescott, R., & Andrews, J. (2009). An efficient real-time method of analysis for non-coherent fault trees. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 25(2), https://doi.org/10.1002/qre.955

Fault tree analysis is commonly used to assess the reliability of potentially hazardous industrial systems. The type of logic is usually restricted to AND and OR gates which makes the fault tree structure coherent. In non-coherent structures not only... Read More about An efficient real-time method of analysis for non-coherent fault trees.

Beyond the human genome: microbes, metaphors and what it means to be human in an interconnected post-genomic world (2009)
Journal Article
Nerlich, B., & Hellsten, I. (2009). Beyond the human genome: microbes, metaphors and what it means to be human in an interconnected post-genomic world. New Genetics and Society, 28(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/14636770802670233

Four years after the completion of the Human Genome Project, the US National Institutes for Health launched the Human Microbiome Project on 19 December 2007. Using metaphor analysis, this article investigates reporting in English-language newspapers... Read More about Beyond the human genome: microbes, metaphors and what it means to be human in an interconnected post-genomic world.

Whose health, whose care, whose say? Some comments on public involvement in new NHS commissioning arrangements (2009)
Journal Article
Martin, G. P. (2009). Whose health, whose care, whose say? Some comments on public involvement in new NHS commissioning arrangements. Critical Public Health, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/09581590802385672

Recent health policy in England has demanded greater involvement of patients and the public in the commissioning of health and social care services. Public involvement is seen as a means of driving up service quality, reducing health inequalities a... Read More about Whose health, whose care, whose say? Some comments on public involvement in new NHS commissioning arrangements.

Public and user participation in public service delivery: tensions in policy and practice (2009)
Journal Article
Martin, G. P. (2009). Public and user participation in public service delivery: tensions in policy and practice. Sociology Compass, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2009.00200.x

Social-scientific analysis of public-participation initiatives has proliferated in recent years. This review article discusses some key aspects of recent work. Firstly, it analyses some of the justifications put forward for public participation, dr... Read More about Public and user participation in public service delivery: tensions in policy and practice.

Good laboratory practice: preventing introduction of bias at the bench (2009)
Journal Article
Macleod, M. R., Fisher, M., O'Collins, V., Sena, E. S., Dirnagl, U., Bath, P. M., …Howells, D. W. (2009). Good laboratory practice: preventing introduction of bias at the bench. Stroke, 40(3), Article e50-e52

Background and Purpose—As a research community, we have failed to demonstrate that drugs which show substantial efficacy in animal models of cerebral ischemia can also improve outcome in human stroke. Summary of Review—Accumulating evidence sugge... Read More about Good laboratory practice: preventing introduction of bias at the bench.

Dose-dependent impact of larval Ascaris suum on host body weight in the mouse model (2009)
Journal Article
Lewis, R., Behnke, J. M., Stafford, P., & Holland, C. V. (2009). Dose-dependent impact of larval Ascaris suum on host body weight in the mouse model. Journal of Helminthology, 83(1), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X08912402

Ascaris lumbricoides and Ascaris suum are important helminth parasites of humans and pigs, respectively. Although it is now well established that the presence of mature adult worms in the host intestine contributes to significant nutritional morbidit... Read More about Dose-dependent impact of larval Ascaris suum on host body weight in the mouse model.

Management interventions in dairy herds: exploring within herd uncertainty using an integrated Bayesian model (2009)
Journal Article
Green, M. J., Medley, G. F., Bradley, A. J., & Browne, W. J. (2009). Management interventions in dairy herds: exploring within herd uncertainty using an integrated Bayesian model. Veterinary Research, 41(2), Article Article 22. https://doi.org/10.1051/vetres/2009070

Knowledge of the efficacy of an intervention for disease control on an individual farm is essential to make good decisions on preventive healthcare, but the uncertainty in outcome associated with undertaking a specific control strategy has rarely b... Read More about Management interventions in dairy herds: exploring within herd uncertainty using an integrated Bayesian model.

An evolutionary squeaky wheel optimisation approach to personnel scheduling (2009)
Journal Article
Aickelin, U., Li, J., & Burke, E. (2009). An evolutionary squeaky wheel optimisation approach to personnel scheduling. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 13(2), https://doi.org/10.1109/TEVC.2008.2004262

The quest for robust heuristics that are able to solve more than one problem is ongoing. In this paper, we present, discuss and analyse a technique called Evolutionary Squeaky Wheel Optimisation and apply it to two different personnel scheduling prob... Read More about An evolutionary squeaky wheel optimisation approach to personnel scheduling.

Gender differences in computer-mediated communication: A systematic literature review of online health-related support groups (2009)
Journal Article
Mo, P. K., Malik, S. H., & Coulson, N. S. (2009). Gender differences in computer-mediated communication: A systematic literature review of online health-related support groups. Patient Education and Counseling, 75(1), 16-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2008.08.029

Objective: Previous research has contended that the unique characteristics of the Internet might remove some of the gender differences that exist in face-to-face healthcare. The aims of the present study were to systematically review studies that hav... Read More about Gender differences in computer-mediated communication: A systematic literature review of online health-related support groups.

Exercise intervention in brain injury: a pilot randomized study of Tai Chi Qigong (2009)
Journal Article
Blake, H., & Batson, M. (in press). Exercise intervention in brain injury: a pilot randomized study of Tai Chi Qigong. Clinical Rehabilitation, 23(7), https://doi.org/10.1177/0269215508101736

Objective: To examine the effects of a brief Tai Chi Chuan Qigong (‘Qigong’) exercise intervention on individuals with traumatic brain injury. Design: A single-centre randomized controlled trial pilot study. Setting: A registered charity day centre... Read More about Exercise intervention in brain injury: a pilot randomized study of Tai Chi Qigong.

Experimental evaluation of hybrid cycloconverters (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Klumpner, C., Xu, T., & Clare, J. C. (2009). Experimental evaluation of hybrid cycloconverters. In 2009 Twenty-Fourth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition. https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC.2009.4802737

Power converters consisting of naturally commutated thyristors such as cycloconverters and current source inverters were the first used in driving electrical motors with variable speed but now due to their inferior performance compared to forced comm... Read More about Experimental evaluation of hybrid cycloconverters.

A cost-effective solution to power the gate drivers of multilevel inverters using the bootstrap power supply technique (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Klumpner, C., & Shattock, N. (2009). A cost-effective solution to power the gate drivers of multilevel inverters using the bootstrap power supply technique. In 2009 Twenty-Fourth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition. https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC.2009.4802910

Multilevel inverters are traditionally seen as a step forward in DC/AC conversion, providing more output voltage levels, better quality of the generated waveform and lower switching losses than the two-level and can process higher voltages with a giv... Read More about A cost-effective solution to power the gate drivers of multilevel inverters using the bootstrap power supply technique.

Neonatal maternal separation alters reward-related ultrasonic vocalizations in rat dams (2009)
Journal Article
Stevenson, C. W., Goodwin, P. E., Tunstall, B., Spicer, C. H., Marsden, C. A., & Mason, R. (2009). Neonatal maternal separation alters reward-related ultrasonic vocalizations in rat dams. Behavioural Brain Research, 200(1), 232-236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2009.01.035

We examined the effects of brief or long durations of repeated maternal separation (MS) on ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) in rat dams. 50-kHz USVs putatively identified as maternal in origin were emitted only immediately after pups were returned fol... Read More about Neonatal maternal separation alters reward-related ultrasonic vocalizations in rat dams.

Regulation of lens volume: Implications for lens transparency (2009)
Journal Article
Donaldson, P. J., Chee, K. S. N., Lim, J. C., & Webb, K. F. (2009). Regulation of lens volume: Implications for lens transparency. Experimental Eye Research, 88(2), 144-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exer.2008.05.011

Lens transparency is critically dependent on the maintenance of an ordered tissue architecture, and disruption of this order leads to light scatter and eventually lens cataract. Hence the volume of the fiber cells that make up the bulk of the lens ne... Read More about Regulation of lens volume: Implications for lens transparency.

The regulation of cell proliferation by the papillomavirus early proteins (2009)
Journal Article
Abdul Hamid, N., Brown, C., & Gaston, K. (2009). The regulation of cell proliferation by the papillomavirus early proteins. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 66(10), 1700-1717. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00018-009-8631-7

The human papillomavirus (HPV) E6 and E7 oncogenes have direct effects on host cell proliferation. The viral E2 protein regulates transcription of E6 and E7 and thereby has an indirect effect on cell proliferation. In HPV-induced tumours, misappropri... Read More about The regulation of cell proliferation by the papillomavirus early proteins.

Prenatal induced chronic dietary hypothyroidism delays but does not block adult-type Leydig cell development (2009)
Journal Article
Rijntjes, E., Swarts, H. J., Anand-Ivell, R., & Teerds, K. J. (2009). Prenatal induced chronic dietary hypothyroidism delays but does not block adult-type Leydig cell development. AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, 296(2), E305-E314. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpendo.90750.2008

Transient hypothyroidism induced by propyl-2-thiouracyl blocks postpartum Leydig cell development. In the present study, the effects of chronic hypothyroidism on the formation of this adult-type Leydig cell population were investigated, using a more... Read More about Prenatal induced chronic dietary hypothyroidism delays but does not block adult-type Leydig cell development.

The ethical ambivalence of resistant violence: notes from postcolonial south Asia (2009)
Journal Article
Roy, S. (2009). The ethical ambivalence of resistant violence: notes from postcolonial south Asia. Feminist Review, 91, https://doi.org/10.1057/fr.2008.53

In the face of mounting militarism in south Asia, this essay turns to anti-state, ‘liberatory’ movements in the region that employ violence to achieve their political aims. It explores some of the ethical quandaries that arise from the embrace of suc... Read More about The ethical ambivalence of resistant violence: notes from postcolonial south Asia.

A truncation in the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor of the CRL:WI(Han) rat does not affect the developmental toxicity of TCDD (2009)
Journal Article
Jiang, T., Bell, D. R., Clode, S., Fan, M., Fernandes, A., Foster, P. M., …White, S. (2009). A truncation in the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor of the CRL:WI(Han) rat does not affect the developmental toxicity of TCDD. Toxicological Sciences, 107(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfn252

The Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor (AhR) is required for the toxicity of TCDD, and so the AhR of CRL:WI and CRL:WI(Han) rats was characterised. Western blot showed AhR proteins of ~110 and ~97 kDa in individual rats from both strains. The AhR cDNA from a... Read More about A truncation in the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor of the CRL:WI(Han) rat does not affect the developmental toxicity of TCDD.