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‘Do We Look like Boy Racers?’ The Role of the Folk Devil in Contemporary Moral Panics (2009)
Journal Article
Lumsden, K. (2009). ‘Do We Look like Boy Racers?’ The Role of the Folk Devil in Contemporary Moral Panics. Sociological Research Online, 14(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.1840

This article addresses the failure of studies concerning moral panics to take into account the reaction of those individuals who are the subject of social anxiety. It responds to the suggestion by McRobbie and Thornton (1995) that studies of moral pa... Read More about ‘Do We Look like Boy Racers?’ The Role of the Folk Devil in Contemporary Moral Panics.

Cellular immortality in brain tumours: an integration of the cancer stem cell paradigm (2009)
Journal Article
Rahman, R., Heath, R., & Grundy, R. (2009). Cellular immortality in brain tumours: an integration of the cancer stem cell paradigm. BBA - Molecular Basis of Disease, 1792(4), 280-288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbadis.2009.01.011

Brain tumours are a diverse group of neoplasms that continue to present a formidable challenge in our attempt to achieve curable intervention. Our conceptual framework of human brain cancer has been redrawn in the current decade. There is a gathering... Read More about Cellular immortality in brain tumours: an integration of the cancer stem cell paradigm.

Symmetry Reduction in Twisted Noncommutative Gravity with Applications to Cosmology and Black Holes (2009)
Journal Article
Ohl, T., & Schenkel, A. (2009). Symmetry Reduction in Twisted Noncommutative Gravity with Applications to Cosmology and Black Holes. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2009, Article JHEP01(2009)084. https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2009/01/084

As a preparation for a mathematically consistent study of the physics of symmetric spacetimes in a noncommutative setting, we study symmetry reductions in deformed gravity. We focus on deformations that are given by a twist of a Lie algebra acting on... Read More about Symmetry Reduction in Twisted Noncommutative Gravity with Applications to Cosmology and Black Holes.

Mode locking in a spatially extended neuron model: Active soma and compartmental tree (2009)
Journal Article
Svensson, C. M., Svensson, C., & Coombes, S. (2009). Mode locking in a spatially extended neuron model: Active soma and compartmental tree. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 19(8), 2597-2607. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218127409024347

Understanding the mode-locked response of excitable systems to periodic forcing has important applications in neuroscience. For example, it is known that spatially extended place cells in the hippocampus are driven by the theta rhythm to generate a c... Read More about Mode locking in a spatially extended neuron model: Active soma and compartmental tree.

Should applicants to Nottingham University Medical School study a non-science A-level?: a cohort study (2009)
Journal Article
Yates, J., Smith, J., James, D., & Ferguson, E. (2009). Should applicants to Nottingham University Medical School study a non-science A-level?: a cohort study. BMC Medical Education, 9, Article 5. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-9-5

Background It has been suggested that studying non-science subjects at A-level should be compulsory for medical students. Our admissions criteria specify only Biology, Chemistry and one or more additional subjects. This study aimed to determine whet... Read More about Should applicants to Nottingham University Medical School study a non-science A-level?: a cohort study.

Epidermal Growth Factor Variations in Amniotic Membrane Used for Ex Vivo Tissue Constructs (2009)
Journal Article
Gicquel, J., Dua, H. S., Brodie, A., Mohammed, I., Suleman, H., Lazutina, E., …Hopkinson, A. (2009). Epidermal Growth Factor Variations in Amniotic Membrane Used for Ex Vivo Tissue Constructs. Tissue Engineering: Parts A, B, and C, 15(8), 1919-1927. https://doi.org/10.1089/ten.tea.2008.0432

Introduction: The amniotic membrane (AM) is used for engineering ex vivo tissue constructs used in ocular surface reconstruction. Epidermal growth factor (EGF) content of the AM is believed to play a key role in supporting corneal epithelial cell exp... Read More about Epidermal Growth Factor Variations in Amniotic Membrane Used for Ex Vivo Tissue Constructs.

Galaxy Zoo: Chiral correlation function of galaxy spins (2009)
Journal Article
Slosar, A., Land, K., Bamford, S., Lintott, C., Andreescu, D., Murray, P., …Vandenberg, J. (2009). Galaxy Zoo: Chiral correlation function of galaxy spins. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 392(3), 1225–1232. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.14127.x

Galaxy Zoo is the first study of nearby galaxies that contains reliable information about the spiral sense of rotation of galaxy arms for a sizeable number of galaxies. We measure the correlation function of spin chirality (the sense in which galaxie... Read More about Galaxy Zoo: Chiral correlation function of galaxy spins.

Coordination of Cd2+ ions in the internal pore system of zeolite-X: A combined EXAFS and isotopic exchange study (2009)
Journal Article
Ahmed, I. A., Young, S. D., Mosselmans, J. F., Crout, N. M., & Bailey, E. H. (2009). Coordination of Cd2+ ions in the internal pore system of zeolite-X: A combined EXAFS and isotopic exchange study. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73(6), 1577-1587. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2008.12.018

The effect of prolonged contact time (up to 130 days) on the immobilization of Cd by sorption to calcium exchanged zeolite-X (CaX), under environmentally relevant conditions, was studied using both isotopic exchange and extended X-ray absorption fine... Read More about Coordination of Cd2+ ions in the internal pore system of zeolite-X: A combined EXAFS and isotopic exchange study.

Increasing uptake of hepatitis C virus infection case- finding, testing, and treatment in primary care: evaluation of the HepCATT (Hepatitis C Assessment Through to Treatment) trial (2009)
Journal Article
Horwood, J., Clement, C., Roberts, K., Waldron, C., Irving, W., Macleod, J., & Hickman, M. (2009). Increasing uptake of hepatitis C virus infection case- finding, testing, and treatment in primary care: evaluation of the HepCATT (Hepatitis C Assessment Through to Treatment) trial. Journal of Clinical Virology, 44(2), https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp20x708785

Background Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a key cause of liver disease but can be cured in more than 95% of patients. Around 70 000 people in England may have undiagnosed HCV infection and many more will not have been treated. Interventions to... Read More about Increasing uptake of hepatitis C virus infection case- finding, testing, and treatment in primary care: evaluation of the HepCATT (Hepatitis C Assessment Through to Treatment) trial.

A computational study of discrete mechanical tissue models (2009)
Journal Article
Pathmanathan, P., Cooper, J., Fletcher, A., Mirams, G., Murray, P., Osborne, J., …Chapman, S. J. (2009). A computational study of discrete mechanical tissue models. Physical Biology, 6(3), Article 036001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1478-3975/6/3/036001

A computational study of discrete 'cell-centre' approaches to modelling the evolution of a collection of cells is undertaken. The study focuses on the mechanical aspects of the tissue, in order to separate the passive mechanical response of the model... Read More about A computational study of discrete mechanical tissue models.

On the level: IRGM gene function is all about expression (2009)
Journal Article
Huett, A., McCarroll, S. A., Daly, M. J., & Xavier, R. J. (2009). On the level: IRGM gene function is all about expression. Autophagy, 5(1), 96-99. https://doi.org/10.4161/auto.5.1.7263

Crohn disease is a complex, multigenic, chronic inflammatory bowel disease of uncertain etiology. Recent advances in genetics, including high-throughput single-nucleotide polymorphism typing platforms and deep sequencing technologies have begun to sh... Read More about On the level: IRGM gene function is all about expression.

Gap Junctions and Emergent Rhythms (2009)
Book Chapter
Coombes, S., & Zachariou, M. (2009). Gap Junctions and Emergent Rhythms. In J. Rubin, K. Josic, M. Matias, & R. Romo (Eds.), Coherent Behavior in Neuronal Networks. Springer

Gap junction coupling is ubiquitous in the brain, particularly between the dendritic trees of inhibitory interneurons. Such direct non-synaptic interaction allows for direct electrical communication between cells. Unlike spike-time driven synaptic ne... Read More about Gap Junctions and Emergent Rhythms.

Energy norm a-posteriori error estimation for hp-adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods for elliptic problems in three dimensions (2009)
Journal Article
Zhu, L., Giani, S., Houston, P., & Schoetzau, D. Energy norm a-posteriori error estimation for hp-adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods for elliptic problems in three dimensions. Manuscript submitted for publication

We develop the energy norm a-posteriori error estimation for hp-version discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretizations of elliptic boundary-value problems on 1-irregularly, isotropically refined affine hexahedral meshes in three dimensions. We derive a... Read More about Energy norm a-posteriori error estimation for hp-adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods for elliptic problems in three dimensions.

The use of probabilistic systems to mimic the behaviour of idiotypic AIS robot controllers (2009)
Journal Article
Whitbrook, A., Aickelin, U., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2009). The use of probabilistic systems to mimic the behaviour of idiotypic AIS robot controllers. Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 7(6),

Previous work has shown that robot navigation systems that employ an architecture based upon the idiotypic network theory of the immune system have an advantage over control techniques that rely on reinforcement learning only. This is thought to b... Read More about The use of probabilistic systems to mimic the behaviour of idiotypic AIS robot controllers.