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Calpain-1 expression is associated with relapse-free survival in breast cancer patients treated with trastuzumab following adjuvant chemotherapy (2011)
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Storr, S. J., Woolston, C. M., Barros, F. F., Green, A. R., Shehata, M., Chan, S. Y., …Martin, S. G. (2011). Calpain-1 expression is associated with relapse-free survival in breast cancer patients treated with trastuzumab following adjuvant chemotherapy. International Journal of Cancer, 129(7), 1773-1780. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.25832

The calpain family, and their endogenous inhibitor calpastatin, has been implicated in cancer progression, and recent in vitro data have indicated a role in trastuzumab resistance. The aims of our study were to examine expression levels of calpastati... Read More about Calpain-1 expression is associated with relapse-free survival in breast cancer patients treated with trastuzumab following adjuvant chemotherapy.

Children, young people and requests for police station legal advice: 25 years on from PACE (2011)
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Kemp, V., Pleasence, P., & Balmer, N. (2011). Children, young people and requests for police station legal advice: 25 years on from PACE. Youth Justice, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/1473225410394288

Informed by data extracted from 30,921 police electronic custody records, drawn from 44 police stations across four police force areas and including 5153 records of juveniles aged 10 to 17 years, this article examines the take-up of legal advice by c... Read More about Children, young people and requests for police station legal advice: 25 years on from PACE.

Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Person-Body Reasoning: Experimental Evidence From the United Kingdom and Brazilian Amazon (2011)
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Cohen, E., Burdett, E., Knight, N., & Barrett, J. (2011). Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Person-Body Reasoning: Experimental Evidence From the United Kingdom and Brazilian Amazon. Cognitive Science, 35(7), 1282-1304. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1551-6709.2011.01172.x

We report the results of a cross‐cultural investigation of person‐body reasoning in the United Kingdom and northern Brazilian Amazon (Marajó Island). The study provides evidence that directly bears upon divergent theoretical claims in cognitive psych... Read More about Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Person-Body Reasoning: Experimental Evidence From the United Kingdom and Brazilian Amazon.

Cloning of the repertoire of individual Plasmodium falciparum var genes using Transformation Associated Recombination (TAR) (2011)
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Gaida, A., Becker, M. M., Schmid, C. D., Bühlmann, T., Louis, E. J., & Beck, H. (2011). Cloning of the repertoire of individual Plasmodium falciparum var genes using Transformation Associated Recombination (TAR). PLoS ONE, 6(3), Article e17782. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017782

One of the major virulence factors of the malaria causing parasite is the Plasmodium falciparum encoded erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1). It is translocated to It the membrane of infected erythrocytes and expressed from approximately 60 var ge... Read More about Cloning of the repertoire of individual Plasmodium falciparum var genes using Transformation Associated Recombination (TAR).

Negotiating sacred roles: A Sociological Exploration of Priests who Are Mothers (2011)
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Page, S. (2011). Negotiating sacred roles: A Sociological Exploration of Priests who Are Mothers. Feminist Review, 97(1), 43-64. https://doi.org/10.1057/fr.2010.37

In 1992, in a historic move, the Church of England voted to allow women's ordination to priesthood and in 1994 the first women priests started to be ordained. Despite much research interest, the experiences of priests who are mothers to dependent chi... Read More about Negotiating sacred roles: A Sociological Exploration of Priests who Are Mothers.

Transcriptional Regulation of Inflammatory Genes Associated with Severe Asthma (2011)
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L. Clifford, R., R. Coward, W., J. Knox, A., & E. John, A. (2011). Transcriptional Regulation of Inflammatory Genes Associated with Severe Asthma. Current Pharmaceutical Design, 17(7), 653-666. https://doi.org/10.2174/138161211795429000

The 10% of patients with the most severe asthma are responsible for a large part of healthcare expenditure and morbidity. Understanding the processes involved is key if new therapeutic approaches are to be developed. Evidence is accumulating that chr... Read More about Transcriptional Regulation of Inflammatory Genes Associated with Severe Asthma.

Principal component analysis of image gradient orientations for face recognition (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tzimiropoulos, G., Zafeiriou, S., & Pantic, M. (2011). Principal component analysis of image gradient orientations for face recognition.

We introduce the notion of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of image gradient orientations. As image data is typically noisy, but noise is substantially different from Gaussian, traditional PCA of pixel intensities very often fails to estimate reli... Read More about Principal component analysis of image gradient orientations for face recognition.

Reduced dopamine function within the medial shell of the nucleus accumbens enhances latent inhibition (2011)
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Nelson, A. J., Thur, K. E., Horsley, R., Spicer, C., Marsden, C., & Cassaday, H. J. (2011). Reduced dopamine function within the medial shell of the nucleus accumbens enhances latent inhibition. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 98(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbb.2010.11.025

Latent inhibition (LI) manifests as poorer conditioning to a CS that has previously been presented without consequence. There is some evidence that LI can be potentiated by reduced mesoaccumbal dopamine (DA) function but the locus within the nucleus... Read More about Reduced dopamine function within the medial shell of the nucleus accumbens enhances latent inhibition.

Fast and robust appearance-based tracking (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liwicki, S., Zafeiriou, S., Tzimiropoulos, G., & Pantic, M. (2011). Fast and robust appearance-based tracking.

We introduce a fast and robust subspace-based approach to appearance-based object tracking. The core of our approach is based on Fast Robust Correlation (FRC), a recently proposed technique for the robust estimation of large translational displacemen... Read More about Fast and robust appearance-based tracking.

Current issues in research communications: open access – the view from the academy - 4th report to JISC, March 2011 (2011)
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Hubbard, B., Hodgson, A., & Fuchs, W. (2011). Current issues in research communications: open access – the view from the academy - 4th report to JISC, March 2011. Centre for Research Communications

The topic of this report is the attitude of academic and research support staff in to Open Access: what may dissuade them from adopting it and what might persuade them of its value. It looks at the following questions: • What do researchers and supp... Read More about Current issues in research communications: open access – the view from the academy - 4th report to JISC, March 2011.

Involving older people in research: practical considerations when using the authenticity criteria in constructivist inquiry (2011)
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Brown Wilson, C., & Clissett, P. (2011). Involving older people in research: practical considerations when using the authenticity criteria in constructivist inquiry. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 67(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2648.2010.05500.x

Aim The purpose of this paper is to identify practical suggestions that could enable other researchers to consider how quality may be evidenced using constructivist principles including the perspectives of older people and their caregivers. Backg... Read More about Involving older people in research: practical considerations when using the authenticity criteria in constructivist inquiry.

Perceiving text and image in Apollinaire's calligrammes (2011)
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Shingler, K. (2011). Perceiving text and image in Apollinaire's calligrammes. Paragraph, 34(1), https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2011.0006

Literary scholars have recently become increasingly interested in the perceptual and cognitive mechanisms involved in reading, and have incorporated scientific research in this area into their critical approaches to texts. This article argues that su... Read More about Perceiving text and image in Apollinaire's calligrammes.

Virtual sensors for active noise control in acoustic–structural coupled enclosures using structural sensing: robust virtual sensor design (2011)
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Halim, D., Cheng, L., & Su, Z. (2011). Virtual sensors for active noise control in acoustic–structural coupled enclosures using structural sensing: robust virtual sensor design. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129(3), https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3531941

The work was aimed to develop a robust virtual sensing design methodology for sensing and active control applications of vibro-acoustic systems. The proposed virtual sensor was designed to estimate a broadband acoustic interior sound pressure using s... Read More about Virtual sensors for active noise control in acoustic–structural coupled enclosures using structural sensing: robust virtual sensor design.

Exploring transformative learning opportunities as part of the delivery of a video-based intervention (2011)
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Collins, L. C., & James, D. M. (2011). Exploring transformative learning opportunities as part of the delivery of a video-based intervention. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, 8(2), https://doi.org/10.1558/japl.v8i2.209

A teacher of the deaf reported a change in perspective following her involvement as a participant in a therapeutic intervention known as video interaction guidance (VIG). We applied a model of transformative learning to validate this report and to e... Read More about Exploring transformative learning opportunities as part of the delivery of a video-based intervention.

On Euclid’s algorithm and elementary number theory (2011)
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Backhouse, R., & Ferreira, J. F. (2011). On Euclid’s algorithm and elementary number theory. Science of Computer Programming, 76(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scico.2010.05.006

Algorithms can be used to prove and to discover new theorems. This paper shows how algorithmic skills in general, and the notion of invariance in particular, can be used to derive many results from Euclid’s algorithm. We illustrate how to use the alg... Read More about On Euclid’s algorithm and elementary number theory.

The role of the user within the medical device design and development process: medical device manufacturers' perspectives (2011)
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Money, A. G., Barnett, J., Kuljis, J., Craven, M. P., Martin, J. L., & Young, T. (2011). The role of the user within the medical device design and development process: medical device manufacturers' perspectives. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 11(15), https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-11-15

Background Academic literature and international standards bodies suggest that user involvement, via the incorporation of human factors engineering methods within the medical device design and development (MDDD) process, offer many benefits that e... Read More about The role of the user within the medical device design and development process: medical device manufacturers' perspectives.

Histaminergic regulation of seasonal metabolic rhythms in Siberian hamsters (2011)
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I'Anson, H., Jethwa, P. H., Warner, A., & Ebling, F. J. (2011). Histaminergic regulation of seasonal metabolic rhythms in Siberian hamsters. Physiology and Behavior, 103(3-4), 268-278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.02.035

We investigated whether histaminergic tone contributes to the seasonal catabolic state in Siberian hamsters by determining the effect of ablation of histaminergic neurons on food intake, metabolic rate and body weight. A ribosomal toxin (saporin) con... Read More about Histaminergic regulation of seasonal metabolic rhythms in Siberian hamsters.

Biomimetic bone scaffolds based on chitosan and calcium phosphates (2011)
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Tanase, C., Popa, M., & Verestiuc, L. (2011). Biomimetic bone scaffolds based on chitosan and calcium phosphates. Materials Letters, 65(11), 1681-1683. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2011.02.077

This paper reports a novel biomimetic technique for obtaining chitosan–calcium phosphate composite scaffolds (Cs–CP) by calcium phosphate precipitation from its precursors,CaCl2 and NaH2PO4 in the presence of ammonia and Cs, followed by product freez... Read More about Biomimetic bone scaffolds based on chitosan and calcium phosphates.