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Seasonally resolved diatom δ18O records from the west Antarctic Peninsula over the last deglaciation (2013)
Journal Article
Swann, G. E., Pike, J., Snelling, A. M., Leng, M. J., & Williams, M. C. (2013). Seasonally resolved diatom δ18O records from the west Antarctic Peninsula over the last deglaciation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 364, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2012.12.016

Understanding the response of the Antarctic ice sheets during the rapid climatic change that accompanied the last deglaciation has implications for establishing the susceptibility of these regions to future 21st Century warming. A unique diatom δ18O... Read More about Seasonally resolved diatom δ18O records from the west Antarctic Peninsula over the last deglaciation.

Analysis of mass spectrometry data from the secretome of an explant model of articular cartilage exposed to pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory stimuli using machine learning (2013)
Journal Article
Swan, A. L., Hillier, K. L., Smith, J. R., Allaway, D., Liddell, S., Bacardit, J., & Mobasheri, A. (2013). Analysis of mass spectrometry data from the secretome of an explant model of articular cartilage exposed to pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory stimuli using machine learning. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 14, Article 349. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-14-349

Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) is an inflammatory disease of synovial joints involving the loss and degeneration of articular cartilage. The gold standard for evaluating cartilage loss in OA is the measurement of joint space width on standard radiog... Read More about Analysis of mass spectrometry data from the secretome of an explant model of articular cartilage exposed to pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory stimuli using machine learning.

Mechanical stiffening of porphyrin nanorings through supramolecular columnar stacking (2013)
Journal Article
Svatek, S. A., Perdigão, L. M., Stannard, A., Wieland, M. B., Kondratuk, D. V., Anderson, H. L., O'Shea, J. N., & Beton, P. H. (2013). Mechanical stiffening of porphyrin nanorings through supramolecular columnar stacking. Nano Letters, 13(7), https://doi.org/10.1021/nl4017557

Solvent-induced aggregates of nanoring cyclic polymers may be transferred by electrospray deposition to a surface where they adsorb as threedimensional columnar stacks. The observed stack height varies from single rings to four stacked rings with a l... Read More about Mechanical stiffening of porphyrin nanorings through supramolecular columnar stacking.

Native Apps versus Web Apps: which is best for healthcare applications? (2013)
Journal Article
Selvarajah, K., Craven, M. P., Massey, A., Crowe, J., Vedhara, K., & Raine-Fenning, N. (2013). Native Apps versus Web Apps: which is best for healthcare applications?. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 8005, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39262-7_22

Smartphone applications (Apps) provide a new way to deliver healthcare, illustrated by the fact that healthcare Apps are estimated to make up over 30% of new Apps currently being developed; with this number seemingly set to increase as the benefits b... Read More about Native Apps versus Web Apps: which is best for healthcare applications?.

Attributes for causal inference in electronic healthcare databases (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reps, J., Garibaldi, J. M., Aickelin, U., Soria, D., Gibson, J. E., & Hubbard, R. B. Attributes for causal inference in electronic healthcare databases. Presented at CBMS 2013, The 26th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, Porto

Side effects of prescription drugs present a serious issue.
Existing algorithms that detect side effects generally
require further analysis to confirm causality. In this paper
we investigate attributes based on the Bradford-Hill causality criteria... Read More about Attributes for causal inference in electronic healthcare databases.

Membranes, molecules and biophysics: enhancing monocyte derived dendritic cell (MDDC) immunogenicity for improved anti-cancer therapy (2013)
Journal Article
Rauch, C., Ibrahim, H., & Foster, N. (2013). Membranes, molecules and biophysics: enhancing monocyte derived dendritic cell (MDDC) immunogenicity for improved anti-cancer therapy. Journal of cancer therapeutics & research, 2, Article 20. https://doi.org/10.7243/2049-7962-2-20

Despite great medical advancement in the treatment of cancer, cancer remains a disease of global significance. Chemotherapeutics can be very expensive and drain medical resources at a national level and in some cases the cost of treatment is so great... Read More about Membranes, molecules and biophysics: enhancing monocyte derived dendritic cell (MDDC) immunogenicity for improved anti-cancer therapy.

Insight into lithium transport in lithium nitridometallate battery materials from muon spin relaxation (2013)
Journal Article
Powell, A. S., Stoeva, Z., Lord, J. S., Smith, R. I., Gregory, D. H., & Titman, J. J. (2013). Insight into lithium transport in lithium nitridometallate battery materials from muon spin relaxation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 15(3), https://doi.org/10.1039/c2cp43318d

Muon spin relaxation and powder neutron diffraction have been combined to study three lithium cobalt nitride battery materials. Neutron diffraction shows that these retain the P6/mmm space group of Li3N with Co located only on Li(1) sites. The lattic... Read More about Insight into lithium transport in lithium nitridometallate battery materials from muon spin relaxation.

Beyond neutrality: professionals’ responses to clients’ indirect complaints in a Therapeutic Community for people with a diagnosis of mental illness (2013)
Journal Article
Pino, M., & Mortari, L. (2013). Beyond neutrality: professionals’ responses to clients’ indirect complaints in a Therapeutic Community for people with a diagnosis of mental illness. Communication and Medicine, 10(3), https://doi.org/10.1558/cam.v10i3.213

Previous research has evidenced that in different
institutional settings professionals are cautious
when responding to clients’ indirect complaints
and tend to avoid siding either with the clients/
complainants or the complained-of absent parties... Read More about Beyond neutrality: professionals’ responses to clients’ indirect complaints in a Therapeutic Community for people with a diagnosis of mental illness.

Early stage health technology assessment (HTA) of biomedical devices: the MATCH experience (2013)
Book Chapter
Pecchia, L., & Craven, M. P. (2013). Early stage health technology assessment (HTA) of biomedical devices: the MATCH experience. In M. Long (Ed.), World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, May 26-31 2012, Beijing, China. Springer

Early stage Health Technology Assessment (HTA) of biomedical devices requires different methods than those usually employed for pharmaceuticals. This paper reviews widely used methods for HTA, discusses their limits for early stage evaluation of biom... Read More about Early stage health technology assessment (HTA) of biomedical devices: the MATCH experience.

Climate change on Twitter: topics, communities and conversations about the 2013 IPCC report (2013)
Journal Article
Pearce, W., Holmberg, K., Hellsten, I., & Nerlich, B. Climate change on Twitter: topics, communities and conversations about the 2013 IPCC report. Manuscript submitted for publication

In September 2013 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published its first comprehensive assessment of physical climate science in six years, constituting a critical event in the societal debate about climate change. This paper analyses the... Read More about Climate change on Twitter: topics, communities and conversations about the 2013 IPCC report.

Pitch production during the Roman period: an intensive mountain industry for a globalised economy? (2013)
Journal Article
Orengo, H. A., Palet Martínez, J. M., Ejarque, A., Miras, Y., & Riera-Mora, S. (2013). Pitch production during the Roman period: an intensive mountain industry for a globalised economy?. Antiquity, 87(337), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00049474

The authors’ research project in the Pyrenees mountains has located and excavated Roman kilns for producing pitch from pine resin. Their investigations reveal a whole sustainable industry, integrated into the local environmental cycle, supplying pitc... Read More about Pitch production during the Roman period: an intensive mountain industry for a globalised economy?.

Reconsidering the water system of Roman Barcino (Barcelona) from supply to discharge (2013)
Journal Article
Orengo, H. A., & Miró i Alaix, C. (2013). Reconsidering the water system of Roman Barcino (Barcelona) from supply to discharge. Water History, 5(3), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-013-0090-2

This paper presents the results of the ‘Roman Barcino Water Network’ Project. This study employed a series of methodologies aiming at joining and interpreting all data available on water supply, distribution, management, use and discharge in the Roma... Read More about Reconsidering the water system of Roman Barcino (Barcelona) from supply to discharge.

Blessing and breaking: a dissonance of action and interpretation in the Eucharistic Prayers of the Roman Rite (2013)
Journal Article
O'Loughlin, T. (2013). Blessing and breaking: a dissonance of action and interpretation in the Eucharistic Prayers of the Roman Rite. Anaphora, 7(2),

The references to 'blessing' and 'thanking' in the context of the community meal, the Eucharist, are found in the Synoptic Gospels as referring to Jesus' prayer to God; however, they are interpreted in contemporary Catholic practice as referring to t... Read More about Blessing and breaking: a dissonance of action and interpretation in the Eucharistic Prayers of the Roman Rite.

Tension space analysis: Exploring community requirements for networked urban screens (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
North, S., Schnädelbach, H., Fatah gen Schieck, A., Motta, W., Ye, L., Behrens, M., & Kostopoulou, E. (2013, September). Tension space analysis: Exploring community requirements for networked urban screens. Presented at 14th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Cape Town, South Africa

This paper draws on the design process, implementation and early evaluation results of an urban screens network to highlight the tensions that emerge at the boundary between the technical and social aspects of design. While public interactive screens... Read More about Tension space analysis: Exploring community requirements for networked urban screens.

UK media representations of carbon capture and storage: actors, frames and metaphors (2013)
Journal Article
Nerlich, B., & Jaspal, R. (2013). UK media representations of carbon capture and storage: actors, frames and metaphors. Metaphor and the Social World, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.3.1.02ner

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a climate change mitigation technology which has had a rather chequered history in British policy making and in the British public sphere. This article deals with the neglected topic of representations of CCS in th... Read More about UK media representations of carbon capture and storage: actors, frames and metaphors.

Which publics? When? Exploring the policy potential of involving different publics in dialogue around science and technology. (2013)
Book
Mohr, A., Raman, S., & Gibbs, B. (2013). Which publics? When? Exploring the policy potential of involving different publics in dialogue around science and technology. Sciencewise-ERC

How should we understand ‘the public’ in public dialogue given the dominant assumption within policy-making that the people brought together in these events must constitute a representative sample of the wider population? To improve the prospects for... Read More about Which publics? When? Exploring the policy potential of involving different publics in dialogue around science and technology..

Mummies and masquerades: English and Caribbean connections (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Millington, P., & James, C. Mummies and masquerades: English and Caribbean connections. Presented at 1st Mummers Unconvention Symposium ‘Aspects of Performance’

The composite mumming play script that the Ecclesfield-based Victorian children's author Juliana Horatia Ewing published in 1884 found its way to St. Kitts and Nevis in the Caribbean, where it was it was taken up enthusiastically by the black populat... Read More about Mummies and masquerades: English and Caribbean connections.