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A novel framework for making dominant point detection methods non-parametric (2012)
Journal Article
Prasad, D. K., Leung, M. K., Quek, C., & Cho, S. (in press). A novel framework for making dominant point detection methods non-parametric. Image and Vision Computing, 30(11), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2012.06.010

Most dominant point detection methods require heuristically chosen control parameters. One of the commonly used control parameter is maximum deviation. This paper uses a theoretical bound of the maximum deviation of pixels obtained by digitization of... Read More about A novel framework for making dominant point detection methods non-parametric.

Endotoxaemia in haemodialysis: a novel factor in erythropoetin resistance? (2012)
Journal Article
Harrison, L. E., Burton, J. O., Szeto, C.-C., Li, P. K., & McIntyre, C. W. (2012). Endotoxaemia in haemodialysis: a novel factor in erythropoetin resistance?. PLoS ONE, 7(6), Article e40209. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0040209

Background/Objectives Translocated endotoxin derived from intestinal bacteria is a driver of systemic inflammation and oxidative stress. Severe endotoxaemia is an underappreciated, but characteristic finding in haemodialysis (HD) patients, and a... Read More about Endotoxaemia in haemodialysis: a novel factor in erythropoetin resistance?.

UK health visitors' role in identifying and intervening with infants at risk of developing obesity: Health visitors' and infant obesity risk (2012)
Journal Article
Redsell, S. A., Swift, J. A., Nathan, D., Siriwardena, A. N., Atkinson, P., & Glazebrook, C. (2013). UK health visitors' role in identifying and intervening with infants at risk of developing obesity: Health visitors' and infant obesity risk. Maternal and Child Nutrition, 9(3), 396-408. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-8709.2012.00427.x

Childhood obesity is associated with a number of modifiable risk factors that can be identified during infancy or earlier. In the UK, health visitors advise parents about infant feeding, but little is known about their role in obesity prevention. The... Read More about UK health visitors' role in identifying and intervening with infants at risk of developing obesity: Health visitors' and infant obesity risk.

The likelihood and potential impact of future change in the large-scale climate-earth system on ecosystem services (2012)
Journal Article
Gosling, S. N. (2013). The likelihood and potential impact of future change in the large-scale climate-earth system on ecosystem services. Environmental Science and Policy, 27(Supplement 1), S15-S31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2012.03.011

This article reviews the level of current scientific understanding regarding the impact of future change in the large-scale climate-earth system on ecosystem services. Impacts from sea level rise, ocean acidification, increases in ocean temperature,... Read More about The likelihood and potential impact of future change in the large-scale climate-earth system on ecosystem services.

Systematic biases in early ERP and ERF components as a result of high-pass filtering (2012)
Journal Article
Acunzo, D. J., Mackenzie, G., & van Rossum, M. C. (2012). Systematic biases in early ERP and ERF components as a result of high-pass filtering. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 209(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2012.06.011

The event-related potential (ERP) and event-related field (ERF) techniques provide valuable insights into the time course of processes in the brain. Because neural signals are typically weak, researchers commonly filter the data to increase the signa... Read More about Systematic biases in early ERP and ERF components as a result of high-pass filtering.

Does the butcher-on-the-bus phenomenon require a dual-process explanation? A signal detection analysis (2012)
Journal Article
Tunney, R. J., Mullett, T. L., Moross, C. J., & Gardner, A. (2012). Does the butcher-on-the-bus phenomenon require a dual-process explanation? A signal detection analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 3(208), https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00208

The butcher-on-the-bus is a rhetorical device or hypothetical phenomenon that is often used to illustrate how recognition decisions can be based on different memory processes (Mandler, 1980). The phenomenon describes a scenario in which a person is r... Read More about Does the butcher-on-the-bus phenomenon require a dual-process explanation? A signal detection analysis.

First-past-the-post games (2012)
Book Chapter
Backhouse, R. (2012). First-past-the-post games. In J. Gibbons, & P. Nogueira (Eds.), Mathematics of program construction: 11th International Conference, MPC 2012, Madrid, Spain, June 25-27, 2012: proceedings. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31113-0_9

Informally, a first-past-the-post game is a (probabilistic) game where the winner is the person who predicts the event that occurs first among a set of events. Examples of first-past-the-post games include so-called block and hidden patterns and the... Read More about First-past-the-post games.

Entrepreneurship education: exploring the gender dimension (2012)
Journal Article
Treanor, L. (2012). Entrepreneurship education: exploring the gender dimension. International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, 4(2), 206-210. https://doi.org/10.1108/17566261211234689

Purpose The purpose of this practitioner paper is to report on a recent discussion workshop exploring gender within entrepreneurship education. Design/methodology/approach The paper sets out the policy background and extant literature pertaining... Read More about Entrepreneurship education: exploring the gender dimension.

The more the better?: foreign ownership and corporate performance in China (2012)
Journal Article
Yu, Z., Greenaway, D., & Guariglia, A. (2014). The more the better?: foreign ownership and corporate performance in China. European Journal of Finance, 20(7-9), https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2012.671785

We examine the relationship between the degree of foreign ownership and performance of recipient firms, using a panel of 21,582 Chinese firms over the period 2000–2005. We find that joint-ventures perform better than wholly foreign-owned and purely d... Read More about The more the better?: foreign ownership and corporate performance in China.

Distribution, variability and sources of tropospheric ozone over south China in spring: intensive ozonesonde measurements at five locations and modeling analysis (2012)
Journal Article
Zhang, Y., Liu, H., Crawford, J. H., Considine, D. B., Chan, C., Oltmans, S. J., & Thouret, V. (2012). Distribution, variability and sources of tropospheric ozone over south China in spring: intensive ozonesonde measurements at five locations and modeling analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 117(D12), https://doi.org/10.1029/2012JD017498

We examine the characteristics of the spatial distribution and variability of tropospheric ozone (O3) by analysis of 93 ozonesonde profiles obtained at five stations over south China (18–30 N) during a field campaign in April–May 2004. We use a globa... Read More about Distribution, variability and sources of tropospheric ozone over south China in spring: intensive ozonesonde measurements at five locations and modeling analysis.

Costs and effects of screening and treating low risk women with a singleton pregnancy for asymptomatic bacteriuria, the ASB study (2012)
Journal Article
Kazemier, B. M., Schneeberger, C., De Miranda, E., Van Wassenaer, A., Bossuyt, P. M., Vogelvang, T. E., …Geerlings, S. E. (2012). Costs and effects of screening and treating low risk women with a singleton pregnancy for asymptomatic bacteriuria, the ASB study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 12, Article 52. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-12-52

Background The prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) in pregnancy is 2-10% and is associated with both maternal and neonatal adverse outcomes as pyelonephritis and preterm delivery. Antibiotic treatment is reported to decrease these adverse o... Read More about Costs and effects of screening and treating low risk women with a singleton pregnancy for asymptomatic bacteriuria, the ASB study.

The potential impact of climate change on heating and cooling loads for office buildings in the Yangtze River Delta (2012)
Journal Article
Chow, D. H. (2012). The potential impact of climate change on heating and cooling loads for office buildings in the Yangtze River Delta. International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies, 7(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/ijlct/cts035

Located in the ‘Hot Summer Cold Winter’ climatic zone of China, the Yangtze River Delta area is one of the most challenging regions for providing occupant comfort in buildings, and effects of climate change in the next 100 years will make further inc... Read More about The potential impact of climate change on heating and cooling loads for office buildings in the Yangtze River Delta.

The impact of impurities in various crude A. annua extracts on the analysis of artemisinin by liquid chromatographic methods (2012)
Journal Article
Pilkington, J. L., Preston, C., & Gomes, R. L. (2012). The impact of impurities in various crude A. annua extracts on the analysis of artemisinin by liquid chromatographic methods. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 70, 136-142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpba.2012.06.015

Analysis of Artemisia annua extracts by liquid chromatographic methods has traditionally been complicated by the presence of significant quantities of impurities. It has been observed that these impurities often remain as a solid residue after sample... Read More about The impact of impurities in various crude A. annua extracts on the analysis of artemisinin by liquid chromatographic methods.

‘You are what you research’: researcher partisanship and the sociology of the ‘underdog’ (2012)
Journal Article
Lumsden, K. (2013). ‘You are what you research’: researcher partisanship and the sociology of the ‘underdog’. Qualitative Research, 13(1), 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794112439012

This article contributes to debates regarding the issue of researcher partisanship and bias within social research and situates it within the current trend towards reflexivity. The discussion draws upon the researcher’s experiences of conducting fiel... Read More about ‘You are what you research’: researcher partisanship and the sociology of the ‘underdog’.

Policing the roads: traffic cops, ‘Boy Racers’ and anti-social behaviour (2012)
Journal Article
Lumsden, K. (2013). Policing the roads: traffic cops, ‘Boy Racers’ and anti-social behaviour. Policing and Society, 23(2), 204-221. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2012.696642

This article explores the policing and regulation of young motorists known in the United Kingdom as ‘boy racers’. It demonstrates how police officers' definitional decisions in relation to driving behaviours were influenced by a range of exogenous an... Read More about Policing the roads: traffic cops, ‘Boy Racers’ and anti-social behaviour.

Second trimester serum tests for Down's Syndrome screening (2012)
Journal Article
Alldred, S. K., Deeks, J. J., Guo, B., Neilson, J. P., & Alfirevic, Z. (2012). Second trimester serum tests for Down's Syndrome screening. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD009925

Background Down's syndrome occurs when a person has three copies of chromosome 21 - or the specific area of chromosome 21 implicated in causing Down's syndrome - rather than two. It is the commonest congenital cause of mental retardation. Noninvas... Read More about Second trimester serum tests for Down's Syndrome screening.

Human cortical connectome reconstruction from diffusion weighted MRI: The effect of tractography algorithm (2012)
Journal Article
Bastiani, M., Shah, N. J., Goebel, R., & Roebroeck, A. (2012). Human cortical connectome reconstruction from diffusion weighted MRI: The effect of tractography algorithm. NeuroImage, 62(3), 1732-1749. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.06.002

Reconstructing the macroscopic human cortical connectome by Diffusion Weighted Imaging (DWI) is a challenging research topic that has recently gained a lot of attention. In the present work, we investigate the effects of intra-voxel fiber direction m... Read More about Human cortical connectome reconstruction from diffusion weighted MRI: The effect of tractography algorithm.

Abnormal Histone Methylation Is Responsible for Increased Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor 165a Secretion from Airway Smooth Muscle Cells in Asthma (2012)
Journal Article
Clifford, R. L., John, A. E., Brightling, C. E., & Knox, A. J. (2012). Abnormal Histone Methylation Is Responsible for Increased Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor 165a Secretion from Airway Smooth Muscle Cells in Asthma. Journal of Immunology, 189(2), 819-831. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1103641

Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a key angiogenic molecule, is aberrantly expressed in several diseases including asthma where it contributes to bronchial vascular remodeling and chronic inflammation. Asthmatic human airway smooth muscle ce... Read More about Abnormal Histone Methylation Is Responsible for Increased Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor 165a Secretion from Airway Smooth Muscle Cells in Asthma.