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Accurate measurement of gene copy number for human alpha-defensin DEFA1A3 (2013)
Journal Article
Khan, F. F., Carpenter, D., Mitchell, L., Mansouri, O., Black, H. A., Tyson, J., & Armour, J. A. (2013). Accurate measurement of gene copy number for human alpha-defensin DEFA1A3. BMC Genomics, 14(719), https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-14-719

Background: Multi-allelic copy number variants include examples of extensive variation between individuals in the copy number of important genes, most notably genes involved in immune function. The definition of this variation, and analysis of its i... Read More about Accurate measurement of gene copy number for human alpha-defensin DEFA1A3.

Health Psychology in Cyberspace (2013)
Book Chapter
Coulson, N. (2013). Health Psychology in Cyberspace. In M. Forshaw, & D. Sheffield (Eds.), Health Psychology in Action (50-57). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119943280.ch5

© 2013 John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. All rights reserved. This chapter begins by tracing the author's interest in health psychology right back to his undergraduate days at the University of St Andrews, and then provides a brief note on his PhD research.... Read More about Health Psychology in Cyberspace.

Learning and reuse of engineering ramp-up strategies for modular assembly systems (2013)
Journal Article

We present a decision-support framework for speeding up the ramp-up of modular assembly systems by learning from past experience. Bringing an assembly system to the expected level of productivity requires engineers performing mechanical adjustments a... Read More about Learning and reuse of engineering ramp-up strategies for modular assembly systems.

The P body protein LSm1 contributes to stimulation of hepatitis C virus translation, but not replication, by microRNA-122 (2013)
Journal Article
Roberts, A. P., Doidge, R., Tarr, A. W., & Jopling, C. L. (2014). The P body protein LSm1 contributes to stimulation of hepatitis C virus translation, but not replication, by microRNA-122. Nucleic Acids Research, 42(2), 1257-1269. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkt941

The P body protein LSm1 stimulates translation and replication of hepatitis C virus (HCV). As the liver-specific microRNA-122 (miR-122) is required for HCV replication and is associated with P bodies, we investigated whether regulation of HCV by LSm1... Read More about The P body protein LSm1 contributes to stimulation of hepatitis C virus translation, but not replication, by microRNA-122.

REFINE (REducing Falls in In-patieNt Elderly) using bed and bedside chair pressure sensors linked to radio-pagers in acute hospital care: a randomised controlled trial (2013)
Journal Article
Sahota, O., Drummond, A., Kendrick, D., Grainge, M. J., Vass, C., Sach, T., …Avis, M. (2014). REFINE (REducing Falls in In-patieNt Elderly) using bed and bedside chair pressure sensors linked to radio-pagers in acute hospital care: a randomised controlled trial. Age and Ageing, 43(2), 247-253. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/aft155

Background: falls in hospitals are a major problem and contribute to substantial healthcare burden. Advances in sensor technology afford innovative approaches to reducing falls in acute hospital care. However, whether these are clinically effective a... Read More about REFINE (REducing Falls in In-patieNt Elderly) using bed and bedside chair pressure sensors linked to radio-pagers in acute hospital care: a randomised controlled trial.

Representations of a high-quality system of undergraduate education in English higher education policy documents (2013)
Journal Article
Ashwin, P., Abbas, A., & McLean, M. (2015). Representations of a high-quality system of undergraduate education in English higher education policy documents. Studies in Higher Education, 40(4), 610-623. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2013.842211

This article examines the ways in which a high-quality system of undergraduate education is represented in recent policy documents from a range of actors interested in higher education. Drawing on Basil Bernstein's ideas, the authors conceptualise th... Read More about Representations of a high-quality system of undergraduate education in English higher education policy documents.

Pulmonary MRI contrast using Surface Quadrupolar Relaxation (SQUARE) of hyperpolarized 83Kr (2013)
Journal Article
Six, J. S., Hughes-Riley, T., Lilburn, D. M., Dorkes, A. C., Stupic, K. F., Shaw, D. E., …Meersmann, T. (2014). Pulmonary MRI contrast using Surface Quadrupolar Relaxation (SQUARE) of hyperpolarized 83Kr. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 32(1), 48-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mri.2013.08.007

Hyperpolarized 83Kr has previously been demonstrated to enable MRI contrast that is sensitive to the chemical composition of the surface in a porous model system. Methodological advances have lead to a substantial increase in the 83Kr hyperpolarizati... Read More about Pulmonary MRI contrast using Surface Quadrupolar Relaxation (SQUARE) of hyperpolarized 83Kr.

Inertial effects at moderate Reynolds number in thin-film rimming flows driven by surface shear (2013)
Journal Article
Kay, E., Hibberd, S., & Power, H. (in press). Inertial effects at moderate Reynolds number in thin-film rimming flows driven by surface shear. Physics of Fluids, 25(10), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4825134

In this paper, we study two-dimensional thin-film flow inside a stationary circular cylinder driven by an imposed surface shear stress. Modelling is motivated by a need to understand the cooling and film dynamics provided by oil films in an aero-engi... Read More about Inertial effects at moderate Reynolds number in thin-film rimming flows driven by surface shear.

Reputation aware obfuscation for mobile opportunistic networks (2013)
Journal Article
Radenkovic, M., Benslimane, A., & McAuley, D. (2015). Reputation aware obfuscation for mobile opportunistic networks. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 26(1), 230-240. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPDS.2013.265

© 2013 IEEE. Current anonymity techniques for mobile opportunistic networks typically use obfuscation algorithms to hide node's identity behind other nodes. These algorithms are not well suited to sparse and disconnection prone networks with large nu... Read More about Reputation aware obfuscation for mobile opportunistic networks.

Impulsivity and drinking motives predict problem behaviours relating to alcohol use in University students (2013)
Journal Article
Jones, K. A., Chryssanthakis, A., & Groom, M. J. (2014). Impulsivity and drinking motives predict problem behaviours relating to alcohol use in University students. Addictive Behaviors, 39(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.10.024

Aims: This study used a four-factor model of impulsivity to investigate inter-relationships between alcohol consumption, impulsivity, motives for drinking and the tendency to engage in alcohol-related problem behaviours. Methods: 400 University stu... Read More about Impulsivity and drinking motives predict problem behaviours relating to alcohol use in University students.

Fasting and postprandial volumes of the undisturbed colon: normal values and changes in diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome measured using serial MRI (2013)
Journal Article
Pritchard, S. E., Marciani, L., Garsed, K., Hoad, C., Thongborisute, W., Roberts, E., …Spiller, R. C. (in press). Fasting and postprandial volumes of the undisturbed colon: normal values and changes in diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome measured using serial MRI. Neurogastroenterology and Motility, 26(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/nmo.12243

Background Previous assessments of colon morphology have relied on tests which were either invasive or used ionizing radiation. We aimed to measure regional volumes of the undisturbed colon in healthy volunteers (HV) and patients with diarrhea-predo... Read More about Fasting and postprandial volumes of the undisturbed colon: normal values and changes in diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome measured using serial MRI.

New measurements of the ionizing ultraviolet background over 2 < z < 5 and implications for hydrogen reionization (2013)
Journal Article
Becker, G. D., & Bolton, J. S. (2013). New measurements of the ionizing ultraviolet background over 2 < z < 5 and implications for hydrogen reionization. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 436(2), 1023-1039. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1610

We present new measurements of the intensity of the ionizing ultraviolet background and the global emissivity of ionizing photons over 2 < z < 5. Our results are based on a suite of updated measurements of physical properties of the high-redshift int... Read More about New measurements of the ionizing ultraviolet background over 2 < z < 5 and implications for hydrogen reionization.

Long-term reproductive performance after surgery for ovarian endometrioma (2013)
Journal Article
Raffi, F., & Amer, S. A. (2014). Long-term reproductive performance after surgery for ovarian endometrioma. European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 172(1), 80-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejogrb.2013.09.042

Objective To determine the long-term impact of different types of endometrioma surgery on reproductive performance and on age of menopause. Study design This was a longitudinal observational cohort study of 68 women with previous endometrioma surgery... Read More about Long-term reproductive performance after surgery for ovarian endometrioma.

Autoantibody biomarkers in childhood-acquired demyelinating syndromes: results from a national surveillance cohort (2013)
Journal Article

Background: Autoantibodies to glial, myelin and neuronal antigens have been reported in a range of central demyelination syndromes and autoimmune encephalopathies in children, but there has not been a systematic evaluation across the range of central... Read More about Autoantibody biomarkers in childhood-acquired demyelinating syndromes: results from a national surveillance cohort.

Comparative virus replication and host innate responses in human cells infected with three prevalent clades (2.3.4, 2.3.2, and 7) of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 viruses (2013)
Journal Article
Sun, H., Sun, Y., Pu, J., Zhang, Y., Zhu, Q., Li, J., …Liu, J. (2014). Comparative virus replication and host innate responses in human cells infected with three prevalent clades (2.3.4, 2.3.2, and 7) of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 viruses. Journal of Virology, 88(1), https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.02510-13

Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus clades 2.3.4, 2.3.2, and 7 are the dominant cocirculating H5N1 viruses in poultry in China. However, humans appear to be clinically susceptible mostly to the 2.3.4 virus clade. Here, we demonstrated that A... Read More about Comparative virus replication and host innate responses in human cells infected with three prevalent clades (2.3.4, 2.3.2, and 7) of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 viruses.

“I'm thrilled that you see that”: guiding parents to see success in interactions with children with deafness and autistic spectrum disorder (2013)
Journal Article
Pilnick, A., & James, D. (2013). “I'm thrilled that you see that”: guiding parents to see success in interactions with children with deafness and autistic spectrum disorder. Social Science and Medicine, 99, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.10.009

Children with deafness who are also on the autistic spectrum are a group with complex support needs. Carers worry about their ability to communicate with them, and are often uncertain about what constitutes ‘good’ communication in this context. This... Read More about “I'm thrilled that you see that”: guiding parents to see success in interactions with children with deafness and autistic spectrum disorder.

Monitoring the mineralisation of bone nodules in vitro by space- and time-resolved Raman micro-spectroscopy. (2013)
Journal Article
Ghita, A., Pascut, F. C., Sottile, V., & Notingher, I. (2013). Monitoring the mineralisation of bone nodules in vitro by space- and time-resolved Raman micro-spectroscopy. Analyst, 139(1), https://doi.org/10.1039/C3AN01716H

Raman microscopy was used as a label-free method to study the mineralisation of bone nodules formed by mesenchymal stem cells cultured in osteogenic medium in vitro. Monitoring individual bone nodules over 28 days revealed temporal and spatial change... Read More about Monitoring the mineralisation of bone nodules in vitro by space- and time-resolved Raman micro-spectroscopy..

Bottom-up assembly of a surface-anchored supramolecular rotor enabled using a mixed self-assembled monolayer and pre-complexed components (2013)
Journal Article
Puigmartí-Luis, J., Saletra, W. J., González, A., Amabilino, D. B., & Pérez-García, L. (2014). Bottom-up assembly of a surface-anchored supramolecular rotor enabled using a mixed self-assembled monolayer and pre-complexed components. Chemical Communications, 50(1), 82-84. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3cc44794d

Three different routes to rotor-type systems on a gold surface provide sparse and dense layers of rotors with best control exerted using mixed ordered monolayers that guide the creation of the potential molecular machine components from solution. © 2... Read More about Bottom-up assembly of a surface-anchored supramolecular rotor enabled using a mixed self-assembled monolayer and pre-complexed components.

Factors Associated With Smoking Cessation in Early and Late Pregnancy in the Smoking, Nicotine, and Pregnancy Trial: A Trial of Nicotine Replacement Therapy (2013)
Journal Article
Vaz, L. R., Leonardi-Bee, J., Aveyard, P., Cooper, S., Grainge, M., & Coleman, T. (2014). Factors Associated With Smoking Cessation in Early and Late Pregnancy in the Smoking, Nicotine, and Pregnancy Trial: A Trial of Nicotine Replacement Therapy. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 16(4), 381-389. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntt156

Introduction: Previous studies have found partners’ smoking status, multiparity, and nicotine dependence to be associated with smoking cessation in pregnancy. However, no studies have investigated influences on cessation among women using nicotine re... Read More about Factors Associated With Smoking Cessation in Early and Late Pregnancy in the Smoking, Nicotine, and Pregnancy Trial: A Trial of Nicotine Replacement Therapy.

Phyletic distribution of fatty acid-binding protein genes (2013)
Journal Article
Zheng, Y., Blair, D., & Bradley, J. E. (2013). Phyletic distribution of fatty acid-binding protein genes. PLoS ONE, 8(10), Article e77636. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0077636

Fatty acid-binding proteins (FABPs) are a family of fatty acid-binding small proteins essential for lipid trafficking, energy storage and gene regulation. Although they have 20 to 70% amino acid sequence identity, these proteins share a conserved ter... Read More about Phyletic distribution of fatty acid-binding protein genes.