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Inhaled corticosteroids and the risk of pneumonia in people with asthma (2013)
Journal Article

Background In clinical trials, the use of inhaled corticosteroids is associated with an increased risk of pneumonia in people with COPD, but whether the same is true for people with asthma is not known. Methods With the use of primary care dat... Read More about Inhaled corticosteroids and the risk of pneumonia in people with asthma.

Bacteria clustering by polymers induces the expression of quorum sense controlled phenotypes (2013)
Journal Article

Bacteria deploy a range of chemistries to regulate their behaviour and respond to their environment. Quorum sensing is one mean by which bacteria use chemical reactions to modulate pre-infection behaviour such as surface attachment. Polymers that can... Read More about Bacteria clustering by polymers induces the expression of quorum sense controlled phenotypes.

Recycled Tyre Rubber Modified Bitumens for road asphalt mixtures: A literature review (2013)
Journal Article

Nowadays, only a small percentage of waste tyres are being land-filled. The Recycled Tyre Rubber is being used in new tyres, in tyre-derived fuel, in civil engineering applications and products, in moulded rubber products, in agricultural uses, recre... Read More about Recycled Tyre Rubber Modified Bitumens for road asphalt mixtures: A literature review.

From being privileged to being localized?: Taiwanese businessmen in China (2013)
Book Chapter

Taiwanese businesses have invested in China for almost three decades. Political questions have always been the most sensitive issue for Taiwanese businesspeople (Taishang) in China. The most popular saying among them is, ‘Businesspeople only talk abo... Read More about From being privileged to being localized?: Taiwanese businessmen in China.

Cryogenics free production of hyperpolarized 129Xe and 83Kr for biomedical MRI applications (2013)
Journal Article

As an alternative to cryogenic gas handling, hyperpolarized (hp) gas mixtures were extracted directly from the spin exchange optical pumping (SEOP) process through expansion followed by compression to ambient pressure for biomedical MRI applications.... Read More about Cryogenics free production of hyperpolarized 129Xe and 83Kr for biomedical MRI applications.

Development of a porous poly(DL-lactic acid-co-glycolic acid)-based scaffold for mastoid air-cell regeneration (2013)
Journal Article

Objectives/Hypothesis: To develop a porous, biodegradable scaffold for mastoid air-cell regeneration. Study Design: In vitro development of a temperature-sensitive poly(DL-lactic acid-co-glycolic acid)/poly(ethylene glycol) (PLGA/PEG) scaffold tailo... Read More about Development of a porous poly(DL-lactic acid-co-glycolic acid)-based scaffold for mastoid air-cell regeneration.

A practical drug discovery project at the undergraduate level (2013)
Journal Article

A practical drug discovery project for third-year undergraduates is described. No previous knowledge of medicinal chemistry is assumed. Initial lecture-workshops cover the basic principles; then students are asked to improve the profile of a weakly... Read More about A practical drug discovery project at the undergraduate level.

Experiences of family carers of older people with mental health problems in the acute general hospital: a qualitative study (2013)
Journal Article

Aims To explore the experiences of family carers of people with cognitive impairment during admission to hospital. Background Providing appropriate care in acute hospitals for people with co-morbid cognitive impairment, especially dementia or de... Read More about Experiences of family carers of older people with mental health problems in the acute general hospital: a qualitative study.

Translating Patient-Oriented Eczema Measure (POEM) scores into clinical practice by suggesting severity strata derived using anchor-based methods (2013)
Journal Article

Background: The Patient-Oriented Eczema Measure (POEM) is a validated, patient-derived assessment measure for monitoring atopic eczema severity, although further information on how different POEM scores translate into disease severity categories is n... Read More about Translating Patient-Oriented Eczema Measure (POEM) scores into clinical practice by suggesting severity strata derived using anchor-based methods.

Hyper-heuristics: a survey of the state of the art (2013)
Journal Article

Hyper-heuristics comprise a set of approaches that are motivated (at least in part) by the goal of automating the design of heuristic methods to solve hard computational search problems. An underlying strategic research challenge is to develop more g... Read More about Hyper-heuristics: a survey of the state of the art.

Pseudodynamic tests on a full-scale 3-storey precast concrete building: behavior of the mechanical connections and floor diaphragms (2013)
Journal Article

A full-scale three-storey precast building was tested under seismic conditions at the European Laboratory for Structural Assessment in the framework of the SAFECAST project. The unique research opportunity of testing a complete structural system was... Read More about Pseudodynamic tests on a full-scale 3-storey precast concrete building: behavior of the mechanical connections and floor diaphragms.

Oral: Active8! technology-based intervention to promote physical activity in healthcare employees: a randomised controlled trial (2013)
Conference Proceeding

Rationalizing the value premium in emerging markets (2013)
Journal Article

We reconfirm the presence of value premium in emerging markets. Using the Brazil–Turkey–India–China (BTIC) grouping during a period of substantial economic growth and stock market development, we attribute the premium to the investment patterns of gl... Read More about Rationalizing the value premium in emerging markets.

Indoors and outdoors: designing mobile experiences for Cité de l’espace (2013)
Book Chapter

The CHESS project has been working with Cité de l’espace, a space technology centre, to explore the use of tablets and mobile phones to deliver visitor experiences that integrate across multiple experiences. In this paper, we articulate three key cha... Read More about Indoors and outdoors: designing mobile experiences for Cité de l’espace.

Prioritization of combinatorial test cases by incremental interaction coverage (2013)
Journal Article

Combinatorial testing is a well-recognized testing method, and has been widely applied in practice. To facilitate analysis, a common approach is to assume that all test cases in a combinatorial test suite have the same fault detection capability. How... Read More about Prioritization of combinatorial test cases by incremental interaction coverage.

Nanotechnology tracks to the renal ward (2013)
Journal Article

Feminist faith lives? Exploring perceptions of feminism among two Anglican cohorts (2013)
Book Chapter

Controlled flax interventions for the improvement of menopausal symptoms and postmenopausal bone health: a systematic review (2013)
Journal Article

Concerns regarding hormone therapy safety have led to interest in the use of phytoestrogens for a variety of menopause-related health complaints. Recent meta-analyses concerning soy and postmenopausal bone mineral density, flax and serum cholesterol... Read More about Controlled flax interventions for the improvement of menopausal symptoms and postmenopausal bone health: a systematic review.

Quantification of changes in zero valent iron morphology using X-ray computed tomography (2013)
Journal Article

Morphological changes within the porous architecture of laboratory scale zero valent iron (ZVI) permeable reactive barriers (PRBs), after exposure to different groundwater conditions, have been quantified experimentally for different ZVI/sand ratios... Read More about Quantification of changes in zero valent iron morphology using X-ray computed tomography.

On the robustness of entanglement in analogue gravity systems (2013)
Journal Article

We investigate the possibility of generating quantum-correlated quasi-particles utilizing analogue gravity systems. The quantumness of these correlations is a key aspect of analogue gravity effects and their presence allows for a clear separation bet... Read More about On the robustness of entanglement in analogue gravity systems.