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Urban evolution of the city of Doha: An investigation into the impact of economic transformations on urban structures (2012)
Journal Article
Wiedmann, F., Salama, A. M., & Thierstein, A. (2012). Urban evolution of the city of Doha: An investigation into the impact of economic transformations on urban structures. Metu Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, 29(2), 35-61. https://doi.org/10.4305/METU.JFA.2012.2.2

During the second half of the 20th century Qatar has witnessed its first urbanisation period, which was linked to the rapidly increasing oil production. Today, new development strategies, which have been implemented to diversify its economy, have led... Read More about Urban evolution of the city of Doha: An investigation into the impact of economic transformations on urban structures.

UK Dermatology Clinical Trials Network’s STOP GAP trial (a multicentre trial of prednisolone versus ciclosporin for pyoderma gangrenosum): protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2012)
Journal Article
Craig, F. F., Thomas, K. S., Mitchell, E. J., Williams, H. C., Norrie, J., Mason, J. M., & Ormerod, A. D. (2012). UK Dermatology Clinical Trials Network’s STOP GAP trial (a multicentre trial of prednisolone versus ciclosporin for pyoderma gangrenosum): protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 13(1), Article 51. https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-13-51

Opinions and practices of veterinarians and dairy farmers towards herd health management in the UK (2012)
Journal Article
Hall, J., & Wapenaar, W. (2012). Opinions and practices of veterinarians and dairy farmers towards herd health management in the UK. Veterinary Record, 170(17), https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.100318

The objective was to compare farm veterinary surgeons’ and dairy farmers’ opinions on
herd health plans and herd health and production management with the aim of discovering
and better understanding the differences. Two comparable questionnaires, o... Read More about Opinions and practices of veterinarians and dairy farmers towards herd health management in the UK.

Caspase-cleaved cytokeratin-18 and tumour regression in gastro-oesophageal adenocarcinomas treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (2012)
Journal Article
Fareed, K. R., Soomro, I. N., Hameed, K., Arora, A., Lobo, D. N., Parsons, S. L., & Madhusudan, S. (2012). Caspase-cleaved cytokeratin-18 and tumour regression in gastro-oesophageal adenocarcinomas treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy. World Journal of Gastroenterology, 18(16), https://doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v18.i16.1915

AIM: To examine cytokeratin-18 (CK-18) and caspase-cleaved CK-18 expression in tumours and correlate with clinicopathological outcomes including tumour regression grade (TRG) response.

METHODS: Formalin-fixed human gastro-oesophageal cancers were... Read More about Caspase-cleaved cytokeratin-18 and tumour regression in gastro-oesophageal adenocarcinomas treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

Impact of land cover patch size on the accuracy of patch area representation in HNN-based super resolution mapping (2012)
Journal Article
Muad, A. M., & Foody, G. M. (2012). Impact of land cover patch size on the accuracy of patch area representation in HNN-based super resolution mapping. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 5(1418 - 1427), 1418-1427. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2191145

Mixed pixels are one of the largest sources of error and uncertainty in mapping from remotely sensed data. A Hopfield neural network based approach to super-resolution mapping has become popular for mapping at a sub-pixel scale, partly because it see... Read More about Impact of land cover patch size on the accuracy of patch area representation in HNN-based super resolution mapping.

Investigating the effectiveness of variance reduction techniques in manufacturing, call center and cross-docking discrete event simulation models (2012)
Book Chapter
Adewunmi, A., & Aickelin, U. (2012). Investigating the effectiveness of variance reduction techniques in manufacturing, call center and cross-docking discrete event simulation models. In S. Bangsow (Ed.), Use cases of discrete event simulation: appliance and research. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28777-0

Variance reduction techniques have been shown by others in the past to be a useful tool to reduce variance in Simulation studies. However, their application and success in the past has been mainly domain specific, with relatively little guidelines as... Read More about Investigating the effectiveness of variance reduction techniques in manufacturing, call center and cross-docking discrete event simulation models.

Older people's experiences of cash-for-care schemes: evidence from the English Individual Budget pilot projects (2012)
Journal Article
Moran, N., Glendinning, C., Wilberforce, M., Stevens, M., Netten, A., Jones, K., …Jacobs, S. (2013). Older people's experiences of cash-for-care schemes: evidence from the English Individual Budget pilot projects. Ageing and Society, 33(5), 826-851. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X12000244

Cash-for-care schemes offering cash payments in place of conventional social services are becoming commonplace in developed welfare states; however, there is little evidence about the impact of such schemes on older people. This paper reports on the... Read More about Older people's experiences of cash-for-care schemes: evidence from the English Individual Budget pilot projects.

Effects of a Cognitive Acceleration Programme in a Low Socioeconomic High School in Regional Australia (2012)
Journal Article
Oliver, M., Venville, G., & Adey, P. (2012). Effects of a Cognitive Acceleration Programme in a Low Socioeconomic High School in Regional Australia. International Journal of Science Education, 34(9), 1393-1410. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2012.673241

This paper presents research on the effects of a cognitive acceleration intervention in science lessons on low socio-economic students in a government high school in regional Western Australia. Thinking Science Australia is a program currently being... Read More about Effects of a Cognitive Acceleration Programme in a Low Socioeconomic High School in Regional Australia.

Oral cavity, pharyngeal and salivary gland cancer: Disparities in ethnicity-specific incidence among the London population (2012)
Journal Article
Donaldson, C. D., Jack, R. H., Møller, H., & Lüchtenborg, M. (2012). Oral cavity, pharyngeal and salivary gland cancer: Disparities in ethnicity-specific incidence among the London population. Oral Oncology, 48(9), 799-802. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oraloncology.2012.03.005

Objectives: We examined the association between ethnicity and the incidence of oral and pharyngeal cancers in the London population. Methods: Data on London residents diagnosed with oral and pharyngeal cancer (ICD-10 codes C00-C14) between 1998 and 2... Read More about Oral cavity, pharyngeal and salivary gland cancer: Disparities in ethnicity-specific incidence among the London population.

Na+, K+-ATPase subunit composition in a human chondrocyte cell line; evidence for the presence of α1, α3, β1, β2 and β3 isoforms (2012)
Journal Article
Mobasheri, A., Trujillo, E., Arteaga, M., & Martin-Vasallo, P. (2012). Na+, K+-ATPase subunit composition in a human chondrocyte cell line; evidence for the presence of α1, α3, β1, β2 and β3 isoforms. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 13(4), https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms13045019

Membrane transport systems participate in fundamental activities such as cell cycle control, proliferation, survival, volume regulation, pH maintenance and regulation of extracellular matrix synthesis. Multiple isoforms of Na+, K+-ATPase are expresse... Read More about Na+, K+-ATPase subunit composition in a human chondrocyte cell line; evidence for the presence of α1, α3, β1, β2 and β3 isoforms.

Efficient and adaptive congestion control for heterogeneous delay-tolerant networks (2012)
Journal Article
Radenkovic, M., & Grundy, A. (2012). Efficient and adaptive congestion control for heterogeneous delay-tolerant networks. Ad Hoc Networks, 10(7), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2012.03.013

Detecting and dealing with congestion in delay-tolerant networks (DTNs) is an important and challenging problem. Current DTN forwarding algorithms typically direct traffic towards more central nodes in order to maximise delivery ratios and minimise d... Read More about Efficient and adaptive congestion control for heterogeneous delay-tolerant networks.

Urban identities: influences on socio-environmental values and spatial inter-relations (2012)
Journal Article
Cheshmehzangi, A., & Heat, T. (in press). Urban identities: influences on socio-environmental values and spatial inter-relations. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 36, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.03.028

This research focuses upon the socio-environmental dimensions and urban identity of urban environments by evaluating human behaviours and space-to-human relations. In addition, approaches to urban re-branding will be analysed to evaluate the role of... Read More about Urban identities: influences on socio-environmental values and spatial inter-relations.

A 1000-yr record of environmental change in NE China indicated by diatom assemblages from maar lake Erlongwan (2012)
Journal Article
Wang, L., Rioual, P., Panizzo, V. N., Lu, H., Gu, Z., Chu, G., …Mackay, A. W. (2012). A 1000-yr record of environmental change in NE China indicated by diatom assemblages from maar lake Erlongwan. Quaternary Research, 78(1), 24-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2012.03.006

Past environmental changes based on diatom relative abundances have been inferred from the maar Lake Erlongwan in northeast China. The limnology of Lake Erlongwan is affected by the strongly seasonal regional climate. The composition of diatom assemb... Read More about A 1000-yr record of environmental change in NE China indicated by diatom assemblages from maar lake Erlongwan.

Ecological partitioning and diversity in tropical planktonic foraminifera (2012)
Journal Article
Seears, H. A., Darling, K. F., & Wade, C. M. (2012). Ecological partitioning and diversity in tropical planktonic foraminifera. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 12, Article 54. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-12-54

Background: Ecological processes are increasingly being viewed as an important mode of diversification in the marine environment, where the high dispersal potential of pelagic organisms, and a lack of absolute barriers to gene flow may limit the occu... Read More about Ecological partitioning and diversity in tropical planktonic foraminifera.

Cj1136 is required for lipooligosaccharide biosynthesis, hyperinvasion, and chick colonization by Campylobacter jejuni (2012)
Journal Article
Javed, M. A., Cawthraw, S. A., Baig, A., Li, J., McNally, A., Oldfield, N. J., …Manning, G. (2012). Cj1136 is required for lipooligosaccharide biosynthesis, hyperinvasion, and chick colonization by Campylobacter jejuni. Infection and Immunity, 80(7), 2361-2370. https://doi.org/10.1128/IAI.00151-12

Campylobacter jejuni is a major cause of bacterial food-borne enteritis worldwide, and invasion into intestinal epithelial cells is an important virulence mechanism. Recently we reported the identification of hyperinvasive C. jejuni strains and creat... Read More about Cj1136 is required for lipooligosaccharide biosynthesis, hyperinvasion, and chick colonization by Campylobacter jejuni.

Tissue transglutaminase treatment leads to concentration-dependent changes in dendritic cell phenotype - implications for the role of transglutaminase in coeliac disease (2012)
Journal Article
Dalleywater, W. J., Chau, D. Y., & Ghaemmaghami, A. M. (2012). Tissue transglutaminase treatment leads to concentration-dependent changes in dendritic cell phenotype - implications for the role of transglutaminase in coeliac disease. BMC Immunology, 13, Article 20. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2172-13-20

Dendritic cells (DCs) are part of the innate immune system with a key role in initiating and modulating T cell mediated immune responses. Coeliac disease is caused by inappropriate activation of such a response leading to small intestinal inflammatio... Read More about Tissue transglutaminase treatment leads to concentration-dependent changes in dendritic cell phenotype - implications for the role of transglutaminase in coeliac disease.