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Mutations in genes involved in oestrous cycle associated expression of oestrus (2013)
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Homer, E., Derecka, K., Webb, R., & Garnsworthy, P. (2013). Mutations in genes involved in oestrous cycle associated expression of oestrus. Animal Reproduction Science, 142(3-4), 106-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anireprosci.2013.09.018

Detection of oestrus is a key determinant of profitability of dairy herds, but oestrus is increasingly difficult to observe in the modern dairy cow, with shorter duration and less intense oestrus. Concurrent with the unfavourable correlation between... Read More about Mutations in genes involved in oestrous cycle associated expression of oestrus.

Load characterization and revenue metering under non-sinusoidal and asymmetrical operation (2013)
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Tenti, P., Costabeber, A., Marafão, F. P., & Parades, H. K. (2013). Load characterization and revenue metering under non-sinusoidal and asymmetrical operation. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 63(2), https://doi.org/10.1109/TIM.2013.2280480

This paper proposes an approach to load characterization and revenue metering, which accounts for the influence of supply deterioration and line impedance. It makes use of the Conservative Power Theory and aims at characterizing the load from the mea... Read More about Load characterization and revenue metering under non-sinusoidal and asymmetrical operation.

Supporting public involvement in research design and grant development: a case study of a public involvement award scheme managed by a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Research Design Service (RDS) (2013)
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Boote, J. D., Twiddy, M., Baird, W., Birks, Y., Clarke, C., & Beever, D. (2015). Supporting public involvement in research design and grant development: a case study of a public involvement award scheme managed by a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Research Design Service (RDS). Health Expectations, 18(5), 1481-1493. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12130

Background It is good practice for the public to be involved in developing health research. Resources should be available for researchers to fund the involvement of the public in the development of their grants. Objective To describe a funding a... Read More about Supporting public involvement in research design and grant development: a case study of a public involvement award scheme managed by a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Research Design Service (RDS).

Global multimodel analysis of drought in runoff for the second half of the twentieth century (2013)
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Van Huijgevoort, M. H., Hazenberg, P., Van Lanen, H. A., Teuling, A. J., Clark, D. B., Folwell, S., …Uijlenhoet, R. (2013). Global multimodel analysis of drought in runoff for the second half of the twentieth century. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 14(5), 1535-1552. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-12-0186.1

During the past decades large-scale models have been developed to simulate global and continental terrestrial water cycles. It is an open question whether thesemodels are suitable to capture hydrological drought, in terms of runoff, on a global scale... Read More about Global multimodel analysis of drought in runoff for the second half of the twentieth century.

The Predictive Value of Circulating Anti-Müllerian Hormone in Women With Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Receiving Clomiphene Citrate: A Prospective Observational Study (2013)
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Mahran, A., Abdelmeged, A., El-Adawy, A. R., Eissa, M. K., Shaw, R. W., & Amer, S. A. (2013). The Predictive Value of Circulating Anti-Müllerian Hormone in Women With Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Receiving Clomiphene Citrate: A Prospective Observational Study. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 98(10), 4170-4175. https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2013-2193

CONTEXT: Elevated serum anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) concentration in women with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is known to lower sensitivity of ovarian follicles to circulating FSH. This effect may compromise the outcome of clomiphene citrate (... Read More about The Predictive Value of Circulating Anti-Müllerian Hormone in Women With Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Receiving Clomiphene Citrate: A Prospective Observational Study.

Mutations in hepatitis C virus p7 reduce both the egress and infectivity of assembled particles via impaired proton channel function (2013)
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Bentham, M. J., Foster, T. L., McCormick, C., & Griffin, S. (2013). Mutations in hepatitis C virus p7 reduce both the egress and infectivity of assembled particles via impaired proton channel function. Journal of General Virology, 94, 2236-2248. https://doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.054338-0

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) p7 protein is critical for the efficient production of infectious virions in culture. p7 undergoes genotype-specific protein–protein interactions as well as displaying channel-forming activity, making it unclear whether the ph... Read More about Mutations in hepatitis C virus p7 reduce both the egress and infectivity of assembled particles via impaired proton channel function.

Editorial: Multi-Agent Simulation as a Novel Decision Support Tool for Innovation and Technology Management (2013)
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Siebers, P.-O., & Wilkinson, I. (2013). Editorial: Multi-Agent Simulation as a Novel Decision Support Tool for Innovation and Technology Management. International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management, 10(5), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219877013020033

Immunity protein release from a cell-bound nuclease colicin complex requires global conformational rearrangement (2013)
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Vankemmelbeke, M., Housden, N. G., James, R., Kleanthous, C., & Penfold, C. N. (2013). Immunity protein release from a cell-bound nuclease colicin complex requires global conformational rearrangement. Microbiology Open, 2(5), https://doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.122

Nuclease colicins bind their target receptor BtuB in the outer membrane of sensitive Escherichia coli cells in the form of a high-affinity complex with their cognate immunity proteins. The release of the immunity protein from the colicin complex is a... Read More about Immunity protein release from a cell-bound nuclease colicin complex requires global conformational rearrangement.

Impact of salt crystal size on in-mouth delivery of sodium and saltiness perception from snack foods (2013)
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Rama, R., Chiu, N., Da Silva, M. C., Hewson, L., Hort, J., & Fisk, I. D. (2013). Impact of salt crystal size on in-mouth delivery of sodium and saltiness perception from snack foods. Journal of Texture Studies, 44(5), https://doi.org/10.1111/jtxs.12017

Fried, sliced potato crisps were flavored with sodium chloride of varying size fractions to investigate the impact of salt crystal size on the delivery rate of sodium to the tongue and resultant saltiness, measured over 65 s with a defined chew proto... Read More about Impact of salt crystal size on in-mouth delivery of sodium and saltiness perception from snack foods.

Development of a new SonovueTM contrast-enhanced ultrasound approach reveals temporal and age-related features of muscle microvascular responses to feeding (2013)
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Mitchell, W. K., Phillips, B. E., Williams, J. P., Rankin, D., Smith, K., Lund, J. N., & Atherton, P. J. (2013). Development of a new SonovueTM contrast-enhanced ultrasound approach reveals temporal and age-related features of muscle microvascular responses to feeding. Physiological Reports, 1(5), Article e00119. https://doi.org/10.1002/phy2.119

Compromised limb blood flow in aging may contribute to the development of sarcopenia, frailty, and the metabolic syndrome. We developed a novel contrast-enhanced ultrasound technique using Sonovue™ to characterize muscle microvasculature responses to... Read More about Development of a new SonovueTM contrast-enhanced ultrasound approach reveals temporal and age-related features of muscle microvascular responses to feeding.

Micro mechanics of isotropic normal compression (2013)
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McDowell, G. R., de Bono, J. P., Yue, P., & Yu, H.-S. (2013). Micro mechanics of isotropic normal compression. Géotechnique Letters, 3(4), https://doi.org/10.1680/geolett.13.00050

Discrete element modelling has been used to investigate the micro mechanics of isotropic normal compression. One-dimensional (1D) normal compression has previously been modelled in three dimensions using an oedometer and a large number of particles a... Read More about Micro mechanics of isotropic normal compression.

Fragments from a medieval archive: the life and death of Sir Robert Constable (2013)
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McDonagh, B. (2013). Fragments from a medieval archive: the life and death of Sir Robert Constable. Journal of Historical Geography, 42, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2013.06.002

This article asks what we can know of historical individuals in pre-Reformation England. While recognizing the challenges of writing medieval biography, it points to the opportunities offered by a range of under-utilized sources for engaging both wit... Read More about Fragments from a medieval archive: the life and death of Sir Robert Constable.

Academic inventions outside the university: investigating patent ownership in the UK (2013)
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Lawson, C. (2013). Academic inventions outside the university: investigating patent ownership in the UK. Industry and Innovation, 20(5), https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2013.824191

This paper investigates the ownership of academic patents for a sample of UK academics and challenges the existing definition of the university invention ownership model. The first descriptive results show that 50% of patents are owned by industry, h... Read More about Academic inventions outside the university: investigating patent ownership in the UK.

Simple shear in 3D DEM polyhedral particles and in a simplified 2D continuum model (2013)
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Langston, P., Ai, J., & Yu, H.-S. (2013). Simple shear in 3D DEM polyhedral particles and in a simplified 2D continuum model. Granular Matter, 15(5),

We develop a discrete element model (DEM) simulation of mixed regular rounded polyhedra and spheres in simple shear with walls and periodic boundaries in 3-dimensions. The results show reasonably realistic behaviour developing shear and dilation or c... Read More about Simple shear in 3D DEM polyhedral particles and in a simplified 2D continuum model.

The continuity of ‘continuity’: flow and the changing experience of watching broadcast television (2013)
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Johnson, C. (2013). The continuity of ‘continuity’: flow and the changing experience of watching broadcast television. Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism, 11,

It has been widely argued that the experience of watching television has altered significantly since Raymond Williams’s theorisation of flow in the mid-1970s. Yet despite the rise of new technologies such as personal video recorders and on-demand ser... Read More about The continuity of ‘continuity’: flow and the changing experience of watching broadcast television.

The use of routine outcome measures in two child and adolescent mental health services: a completed audit cycle (2013)
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Hall, C. L., Moldavsky, M., Baldwin, L., Marriott, M., Newell, K., Taylor, J., …Hollis, C. (2013). The use of routine outcome measures in two child and adolescent mental health services: a completed audit cycle. BMC Psychiatry, 13(270), https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-13-270

Background: Routine outcome measurement (ROM) is important for assessing the clinical effectiveness of health services and for monitoring patient outcomes. Within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in the UK the adoption of ROM in C... Read More about The use of routine outcome measures in two child and adolescent mental health services: a completed audit cycle.

Menopause and work: an electronic survey of employees’ attitudes in the UK (2013)
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Griffiths, A., MacLennen, S. J., & Hassard, J. (2013). Menopause and work: an electronic survey of employees’ attitudes in the UK. Maturitas, 76(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2013.07.005

Objectives: This study explored women's experiences of working through menopausal transition in the UK. It aimed to identify the perceived effects of menopausal symptoms on working life, to outline the perceived effects of work on menopausal symptoms... Read More about Menopause and work: an electronic survey of employees’ attitudes in the UK.

MultiSig: a new high-precision approach to the analysis of complex biomolecular systems (2013)
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Gillis, R. B., Adams, G. G., Heinze, T., Nikolajski, M., Harding, S. E., & Rowe, A. J. (2013). MultiSig: a new high-precision approach to the analysis of complex biomolecular systems. European Biophysics Journal, 42(10), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00249-013-0924-y

MultiSig is a newly developed mode of analysis of sedimentation equilibrium (SE) experiments in the analytical ultracentrifuge, having the capability of taking advantage of the remarkable precision (~0.1 % of signal) of the principal optical (fringe)... Read More about MultiSig: a new high-precision approach to the analysis of complex biomolecular systems.

Rate of transmission: a major determinant of the cost of clinical mastitis (2013)
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Down, P., Green, M. J., & Hudson, C. (2013). Rate of transmission: a major determinant of the cost of clinical mastitis. Journal of Dairy Science, 96(10), https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2012-6470

The aim of this research was to use probabilistic sensitivity analysis to evaluate the relative importance of different components of a model designed to estimate the cost of clinical mastitis (CM). A particular focus was placed on the importance... Read More about Rate of transmission: a major determinant of the cost of clinical mastitis.

Emerging issues and current trends in assistive technology use 2007-1010: practising, assisting and enabling learning for all (2013)
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Abbott, C., Brown, D., Evett, L., & Standen, P. (2014). Emerging issues and current trends in assistive technology use 2007-1010: practising, assisting and enabling learning for all. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 9(6), https://doi.org/10.3109/17483107.2013.840862

Following an earlier review in 2007, a further review of the academic literature relating to the uses of assistive technology (AT) by children and young people was completed, covering the period 2007-2011. As in the earlier review, a tripartite taxon... Read More about Emerging issues and current trends in assistive technology use 2007-1010: practising, assisting and enabling learning for all.