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How neutral is the intergalactic medium surrounding the redshift z=7.085 quasar ULAS J1120+0641? (2011)
Journal Article
S. Bolton, J., G. Haehnelt, M., J. Warren, S., C. Hewett, P., J. Mortlock, D., P. Venemans, B., G. McMahon, R., & Simpson, C. (2011). How neutral is the intergalactic medium surrounding the redshift z=7.085 quasar ULAS J1120+0641?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 416(1), L70–L74. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-3933.2011.01100.x

The quasar ULAS J1120+0641 at redshift z=7.085 has a highly ionised near zone which is smaller than those around quasars of similar luminosity at z~6. The spectrum also exhibits evidence for a damping wing extending redward of the systemic Lya redshi... Read More about How neutral is the intergalactic medium surrounding the redshift z=7.085 quasar ULAS J1120+0641?.

‘Do as I say, but not as I do’: are next generation nurses role models for health? (2011)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Malik, S., Mo, P. K. H., & Pisano, C. (2011). ‘Do as I say, but not as I do’: are next generation nurses role models for health?. Perspectives in Public Health, 131(5), 231-239. https://doi.org/10.1177/1757913911402547

Aim: Promoting healthy lifestyles plays a key role in professional nursing yet nurses do not always practice what they preach. Efforts are currently being made to improve the health of NHS staff, yet little is known about the health and lifestyle beh... Read More about ‘Do as I say, but not as I do’: are next generation nurses role models for health?.

Reflowable documents composed from pre-rendered atomic components (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pinkney, A. J., Bagley, S. R., & Brailsford, D. F. Reflowable documents composed from pre-rendered atomic components. Presented at ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng '11)

Mobile eBook readers are now commonplace in today’s society, but their document layout algorithms remain basic, largely due to constraints imposed by short battery life. At present, with any eBook file format not based on PDF, the layout of the docum... Read More about Reflowable documents composed from pre-rendered atomic components.

Automated conversion of Web-based marriage register data into a printed format with predefined layout (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brailsford, D. F. Automated conversion of Web-based marriage register data into a printed format with predefined layout. Presented at ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng '11)

The Phillimore Marriage Registers for England were published in the period 1896 to 1922 and have defined a standard layout format for the typesetting of marriage data. However, not all English parish churches had their marriage registers analysed and... Read More about Automated conversion of Web-based marriage register data into a printed format with predefined layout.

Functional network construction in Arabidopsis using rule-based machine learning on large-scale data sets (2011)
Journal Article
Bassel, G. W., Glaab, E., Marquez, J., Holdsworth, M. J., & Barcardit, J. (2011). Functional network construction in Arabidopsis using rule-based machine learning on large-scale data sets. Plant Cell, 23(9), https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.111.088153

The meta-analysis of large-scale postgenomics data sets within public databases promises to provide important novel biological knowledge. Statistical approaches including correlation analyses in coexpression studies of gene expression have emerged as... Read More about Functional network construction in Arabidopsis using rule-based machine learning on large-scale data sets.

Sun safety measures among construction workers in Britain (2011)
Journal Article
Madgwick, P., Houdmont, J., & Randall, R. (2011). Sun safety measures among construction workers in Britain. Occupational Medicine, 61(6), https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqr054

Background: Relative to other occupational groups in Britain, construction workers have a high incidence of skin cancer attributable to sun exposure. The importance of sun safety measures to minimize the risk of skin cancer is recognized in the liter... Read More about Sun safety measures among construction workers in Britain.

Delayed publications of clinical trials in cystic fibrosis (2011)
Journal Article
Hurley, M., Prayle, A., & Smyth, A. R. (2011). Delayed publications of clinical trials in cystic fibrosis. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcf.2011.08.004

Background:

When the publication of important trial data is delayed, or data are never published, this will prevent the proper practice of evidence based medicine through robust systematic reviews. Clinical trial registries allow researchers to... Read More about Delayed publications of clinical trials in cystic fibrosis.

Quiet in class: classification, noise and the dendritic cell algorithm (2011)
Journal Article
Gu, F., Feyereisl, J., Oates, R., Reps, J., Greensmith, J., & Aickelin, U. (2011). Quiet in class: classification, noise and the dendritic cell algorithm. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 6825, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22371-6_17

Theoretical analyses of the Dendritic Cell Algorithm (DCA) have yielded several criticisms about its underlying structure and operation. As a result, several alterations and fixes have been suggested in the literature to correct for these findings. A... Read More about Quiet in class: classification, noise and the dendritic cell algorithm.

A converse theorem for double Dirichlet series (2011)
Journal Article
Diamantis, N., & Goldfeld, D. (2011). A converse theorem for double Dirichlet series. American Journal of Mathematics, 133(4), 913-938. https://doi.org/10.1353/ajm.2011.0024

We prove that a certain vector valued double Dirichlet series satisfying appropriate functional equations is a Mellin transform of a vector valued metaplectic Eisenstein series. We establish an analogous result for scalar double Dirichlet series of t... Read More about A converse theorem for double Dirichlet series.

Increased Expression of Hepcidin and Toll-Like Receptors 8 and 10 in Viral Keratitis (2011)
Journal Article
Mohammed, I., Abedin, A., Tsintzas, K., Abedin, S. A., Otri, A. M., Hopkinson, A., Mathew, M., & Dua, H. S. (2011). Increased Expression of Hepcidin and Toll-Like Receptors 8 and 10 in Viral Keratitis. Cornea, 30(8), 899-904. https://doi.org/10.1097/ICO.0b013e31820126e5

Purpose:

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) and toll-like receptors (TLRs) form part of the “chemical barrier” of the ocular surface to microbes. Evidence suggests that pathogen recognition by TLR releases AMPs, altering AMP-TLR profiles in pathologic... Read More about Increased Expression of Hepcidin and Toll-Like Receptors 8 and 10 in Viral Keratitis.

Scalable reinforcement learning through hierarchical decompositions for weakly-coupled problems (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Toutounji, H., Rothkopf, C. A., & Triesch, J. (2011, August). Scalable reinforcement learning through hierarchical decompositions for weakly-coupled problems. Presented at 2011 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Reinforcement Learning, or Reward-Dependent Learning, has been very successful at describing how animals and humans adjust their actions so as to increase their gains and reduce their losses in a wide variety of tasks. Empirical studies have furtherm... Read More about Scalable reinforcement learning through hierarchical decompositions for weakly-coupled problems.

Correlation of central and peripheral corneal thickness in healthy corneas (2011)
Journal Article
Fares, U., Otri, A. M., Al-Aqaba, M. A., & Dua, H. S. (2012). Correlation of central and peripheral corneal thickness in healthy corneas. Contact Lens and Anterior Eye, 35(1), 39-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clae.2011.07.004

Purpose
To study the thickness profile of the normal cornea in order to establish any correlation between central and peripheral points.

Methods
Sixty-seven eyes of 40 patients were subjected to central corneal thickness measurement (CCT) with a... Read More about Correlation of central and peripheral corneal thickness in healthy corneas.

Testing the FMR1 promoter for mosaicism in DNA methylation among CpG sites, strands, and cells in FMR1-expressing males with fragile X syndrome (2011)
Journal Article
Stöger, R., Genereux, D. P., Hagerman, R. J., Hagerman, P. J., Tassone, F., & Laird, C. D. (2011). Testing the FMR1 promoter for mosaicism in DNA methylation among CpG sites, strands, and cells in FMR1-expressing males with fragile X syndrome. PLoS ONE, 6(8), Article e23648. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0023648

Variability among individuals in the severity of fragile X syndrome (FXS) is influenced by epigenetic methylation mosaicism, which may also be common in other complex disorders. The epigenetic signal of dense promoter DNA methylation is usually assoc... Read More about Testing the FMR1 promoter for mosaicism in DNA methylation among CpG sites, strands, and cells in FMR1-expressing males with fragile X syndrome.

What factors influence smoking prevalence and smoke free policy enactment across the European Union Member States (2011)
Journal Article
Bogdanovica, I., McNeill, A., Murray, R., & Britton, J. (2011). What factors influence smoking prevalence and smoke free policy enactment across the European Union Member States. PLoS ONE, 6(8), Article e23889. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0023889

Background

Smoking prevention should be a primary public health priority for all governments, and effective preventive policies have been identified for decades. The heterogeneity of smoking prevalence between European Union (EU) Member States the... Read More about What factors influence smoking prevalence and smoke free policy enactment across the European Union Member States.

Active control of series connected, voltage driven power devices using a single gate drive (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Evans, P., Teerakawanich, N., & Johnson, C. M. (2011, August). Active control of series connected, voltage driven power devices using a single gate drive. Presented at 2011 14th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE 2011, Birmingham, UK

A novel approach for controlling series strings of voltage driven devices (e.g. JFET, MOSFET, IGBT) is presented that allows high voltage switches to be constructed from lower voltage devices. The approach allows controlled voltage sharing under stea... Read More about Active control of series connected, voltage driven power devices using a single gate drive.

Synthesis and characterization of high-affinity 4,4-difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene-labeled fluorescent ligands for human β-adrenoceptors (2011)
Journal Article
Baker, J. G., Adams, L. A., Salchow, K., Mistry, S. N., Middleton, R. J., Hill, S. J., & Kellam, B. (2011). Synthesis and characterization of high-affinity 4,4-difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene-labeled fluorescent ligands for human β-adrenoceptors. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 54(19), 6874-6887. https://doi.org/10.1021/jm2008562

The growing practice of exploiting noninvasive fluorescence-based techniques to study G protein-coupled receptor pharmacology at the single cell and single molecule level demands the availability of high-quality fluorescent ligands. To this end, this... Read More about Synthesis and characterization of high-affinity 4,4-difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene-labeled fluorescent ligands for human β-adrenoceptors.

The kinesin-13 MCAK has an unconventional ATPase cycle adapted for microtubule depolymerization (2011)
Journal Article
Friel, C. T., & Howard, J. (2011). The kinesin-13 MCAK has an unconventional ATPase cycle adapted for microtubule depolymerization. EMBO Journal, 30(19), 3928-3939. https://doi.org/10.1038/emboj.2011.290

Unlike other kinesins, members of the kinesin-13 subfamily do not move directionally along microtubules but, instead, depolymerize them. To understand how kinesins with structurally similar motor domains can have such dissimilar functions, we elucida... Read More about The kinesin-13 MCAK has an unconventional ATPase cycle adapted for microtubule depolymerization.