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The non-invasive biopsy: will urinary proteomics make the renal tissue biopsy redundant? (2009)
Journal Article

Proteomics is a rapidly advancing technique which gives a functional insight into gene expression in living organisms. Urine is an ideal medium for study as it is readily available, easily obtained and less complex than other bodily fluids. Consider... Read More about The non-invasive biopsy: will urinary proteomics make the renal tissue biopsy redundant?.

Cricket batting technique analyser/trainer using fuzzy logic (2009)
Conference Proceeding

Within this paper a system is proposed to capture the motion of a cricket batter whilst playing a stroke. The system is based on the classification of cricket batting strokes using fuzzy logic. The system was then used to analyze the motion of novice... Read More about Cricket batting technique analyser/trainer using fuzzy logic.

'Behind closed doors': Debt-Bonded sex workers in Sihanoukville, Cambodia (2009)
Journal Article

In the trafficking discourse and international law, debt-bonded sex workers have been defined as 'victims of trafficking'. The hyperexploitative contractual arrangements faced by debt-bonded sex workers may be the most common form of contemporary for... Read More about 'Behind closed doors': Debt-Bonded sex workers in Sihanoukville, Cambodia.

Canine and equine physiotherapy (2009)
Journal Article

Exploring social patterns of participation in university-entrance level mathematics in England (2009)
Journal Article

In recent years in England there has been considerable attention given to a range of apparent crises in mathematics education, one of which has been the long term decline of participation in university-entrance level (Advanced or A) mathematics. Giv... Read More about Exploring social patterns of participation in university-entrance level mathematics in England.

Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Retrofitting of Predamaged Substandard RC Prismatic Members (2009)
Journal Article

An experimental study was conducted to investigate the efficiency of FRP jackets in upgrading the seismic behavior of lightly reinforced concrete prismatic members previously damaged under a combination of axial compression and a reversed cyclic late... Read More about Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Retrofitting of Predamaged Substandard RC Prismatic Members.

Mimicking the behaviour of idiotypic AIS robot controllers using probabilistic systems (2009)
Presentation / Conference

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 be a... Read More about Mimicking the behaviour of idiotypic AIS robot controllers using probabilistic systems.

Base flipping in Tn10 transposition: an active flip and capture mechanism (2009)
Journal Article

The bacterial Tn5 and Tn10 transposases have a single active site that cuts both strands of DNA at their respective transposon ends. This is achieved using a hairpin intermediate that requires the DNA to change conformation during the reaction. In Tn... Read More about Base flipping in Tn10 transposition: an active flip and capture mechanism.

Demographic, physical and lifestyle factors associated with androgen status: The Florey Adelaide Male Ageing Study (FAMAS) (2009)
Journal Article

Objective Plasma androgen levels are inversely associated with health in men, the age-related decline of which may result from factors other than ageing per se. This study aimed to determine the effects of demographic, physical and lifestyle factors... Read More about Demographic, physical and lifestyle factors associated with androgen status: The Florey Adelaide Male Ageing Study (FAMAS).

Cosmological constraints on f(G) dark energy models (2009)
Journal Article

Modified gravity theories with the Gauss-Bonnet term G=R2?4R??R??+R????R???? have recently gained a lot of attention as a possible explanation of dark energy. We perform a thorough phase space analysis on the so-called f(G) models, where f(G) is some... Read More about Cosmological constraints on f(G) dark energy models.

Autophagy at the gut interface: Mucosal responses to stress and the consequences for inflammatory bowel diseases (2009)
Journal Article

Autophagy is a conserved homeostatic process by which cells degrade and recycle cytoplasmic contents and organelles. Recently, autophagy has come to prominence as a factor in many disease states, including inflammatory bowel diseases. In this review... Read More about Autophagy at the gut interface: Mucosal responses to stress and the consequences for inflammatory bowel diseases.

Psycho buildings: Take on Architecture (2009)
Journal Article

The evolution of the Lyman-alpha forest effective optical depth following HeII reionisation (2009)
Journal Article

Three independent observational studies have now detected a narrow (\Delta z ~ 0.5) dip centred at z=3.2 in the otherwise smooth redshift evolution of the Lya forest effective optical depth. This feature has previously been interpreted as an indirect... Read More about The evolution of the Lyman-alpha forest effective optical depth following HeII reionisation.

Journals and repositories: an evolving relationship? (2009)
Journal Article

It is now widely accepted that there are two routes to open access (OA): OA repositories and OA journals. It is often assumed these are distinct alternative parallel tracks. However, it has recently become clear that there is potential for repositori... Read More about Journals and repositories: an evolving relationship?.

Carbon reduction activism in the UK: lexical creativity and lexical framing in the context of climate change (2009)
Journal Article

This article examines discourses associated with a new environmental movement, “Carbon Rationing Action Groups” (CRAGs). This case study is intended to contribute to a wider investigation of the emergence of a new type of language used to debate clim... Read More about Carbon reduction activism in the UK: lexical creativity and lexical framing in the context of climate change.

China’s ethnic policies: political dimension and challenges (2009)
Journal Article

Dramatic developments in Tibet and Xinjiang since 2008 have highlighted the challenges to China’s ethnic policies. The pillar of China’s ethnic policies is regional autonomy for ethnic minorities. Ethnic areas enjoy limited administrative autonomy an... Read More about China’s ethnic policies: political dimension and challenges.

Helminth species richness in wild wood mice, Apodemus sylvaticus, is enhanced by the presence of the intestinal nematode Heligmosomoides polygyrus (2009)
Journal Article

We analysed 3 independently collected datasets of fully censused helminth burdens in wood mice, Apodemus sylvaticus, testing the a priori hypothesis of Behnke et al. (2005) that the presence of the intestinal nematode Heligmosomoides polygyrus predis... Read More about Helminth species richness in wild wood mice, Apodemus sylvaticus, is enhanced by the presence of the intestinal nematode Heligmosomoides polygyrus.

AasP autotransporter protein of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae does not protect pigs against homologous challenge (2009)
Journal Article

Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae is a major respiratory pathogen of pigs; current vaccines provide only limited protection. AasP, a subtilisin-like serine protease, is a conserved outer membrane-localised autotransporter protein. We hypothesized that... Read More about AasP autotransporter protein of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae does not protect pigs against homologous challenge.

Systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions relevant for young offenders with mood disorders, anxiety disorders, or self-harm (2009)
Journal Article

Background: Mood and anxiety disorders, and problems with self harm are significant and serious issues that are common in young people in the Criminal Justice System. Aims: To examine whether interventions relevant to young offenders with mood or an... Read More about Systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions relevant for young offenders with mood disorders, anxiety disorders, or self-harm.

An automated georeferencing tool for watershed scale fluvial remote sensing (2009)
Journal Article

In recent years, remotely sensed image datasets with ground resolutions below 10?cm have seen widening applications in fluvial sciences with the development of methods for image based measurements of bathymetry, grain sizes and habitat types. However... Read More about An automated georeferencing tool for watershed scale fluvial remote sensing.