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The scrutinized priest: Women in the Church of England Negotiating Professional and Sacred Clothing Choices (2013)
Journal Article
Page, S. (2014). The scrutinized priest: Women in the Church of England Negotiating Professional and Sacred Clothing Choices. Gender, Work and Organization, 21(4), 295-307. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12035

This article examines the integration of women priests in the Church of England through the lens of dress. Clothing is a salient dynamic in occupational cultures, particularly in relation to the regulation of gendered bodies. Women's ordination to th... Read More about The scrutinized priest: Women in the Church of England Negotiating Professional and Sacred Clothing Choices.

The predictive state: science, territory and the future of the Indian climate (2013)
Journal Article
Mahony, M. (2014). The predictive state: science, territory and the future of the Indian climate. Social Studies of Science, 44(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312713501407

Acts of scientific calculation have long been considered central to the formation of the modern nation-state, yet the transnational spaces of knowledge generation and political action associated with climate change seem to challenge territorial modes... Read More about The predictive state: science, territory and the future of the Indian climate.

Sheep farmer opinions on the current and future role of veterinarians in flock health management on sheep farms: a qualitative study (2013)
Journal Article
Kaler, J., & Green, L. (2013). Sheep farmer opinions on the current and future role of veterinarians in flock health management on sheep farms: a qualitative study. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 112(3-4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2013.09.009

A 2009 UK Government report on veterinary expertise in food animal production highlighted that there was insufficient herd health expertise among veterinarians and lack of appropriate business models to deliver veterinary services to the livestock se... Read More about Sheep farmer opinions on the current and future role of veterinarians in flock health management on sheep farms: a qualitative study.

Defining the contribution of SNPs identified in asthma GWAS to clinical variables in asthmatic children (2013)
Journal Article
Tulah, A. S., Holloway, J. W., & Sayers, I. (2013). Defining the contribution of SNPs identified in asthma GWAS to clinical variables in asthmatic children. BMC Medical Genetics, 14(100), https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2350-14-100

Background: Asthma genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified several asthma susceptibility genes with confidence; however the relative contribution of these genetic variants or single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to clinical endpoints... Read More about Defining the contribution of SNPs identified in asthma GWAS to clinical variables in asthmatic children.

Applied Creep Mechanics (2013)
Book
Hyde, T. H., Sun, W., & Hyde, C. J. (2013). Applied Creep Mechanics. McGraw-Hill

Face hallucination based on sparse local-pixel structure (2013)
Journal Article
Li, Y., Cai, C., Qiu, G., & Lam, K.-M. (2014). Face hallucination based on sparse local-pixel structure. Pattern Recognition, 47(3), 1261-1270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2013.09.012

In this paper, we propose a face-hallucination method, namely face hallucination based on sparse local-pixel structure. In our framework, a high resolution (HR) face is estimated from a single frame low resolution (LR) face with the help of the facia... Read More about Face hallucination based on sparse local-pixel structure.

Determination of elastic and viscoplastic material properties obtained from indentation tests using a combined finite element analysis and optimization approach (2013)
Journal Article
Kang, J., Becker, A. A., & Sun, W. (2015). Determination of elastic and viscoplastic material properties obtained from indentation tests using a combined finite element analysis and optimization approach. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications, 229(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1464420713504534

Conventional indentation tests do not provide an accurate estimation of viscoplastic material properties. In this work, a combined finite element analysis and optimization approach is developed for the determination of elastic–plastic and creep mater... Read More about Determination of elastic and viscoplastic material properties obtained from indentation tests using a combined finite element analysis and optimization approach.

The presence of tumour-associated lymphocytes confers a good prognosis in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: an immunohistochemical study of tissue microarrays (2013)
Journal Article
Tewari, N., Zaitoun, A. M., Arora, A., Madhusudan, S., Ilyas, M., & Lobo, D. N. (2013). The presence of tumour-associated lymphocytes confers a good prognosis in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: an immunohistochemical study of tissue microarrays. BMC Cancer, 13, Article 436. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-13-436

Background Tumour-associated lymphocytes (TALs) have been linked with good prognosis in several solid tumours. This study aimed to evaluate the prognostic significance of CD3, CD8 and CD20 positive lymphocytes in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.... Read More about The presence of tumour-associated lymphocytes confers a good prognosis in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: an immunohistochemical study of tissue microarrays.

The future of osteoarthritis therapeutics: targeted pharmacological therapy (2013)
Journal Article
Mobasheri, A. (2013). The future of osteoarthritis therapeutics: targeted pharmacological therapy. Current Rheumatology Reports, 15(10), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11926-013-0364-9

Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most common forms of degenerative joint disease and a major cause of pain and disability affecting the aging population. It is estimated that more than 20 million Americans and 35 to 40 million Europeans suffer from... Read More about The future of osteoarthritis therapeutics: targeted pharmacological therapy.

How effectively does metamorphic testing alleviate the oracle problem? (2013)
Journal Article
Liu, H., Kuo, F.-C., Towey, D., & Chen, T. Y. (2014). How effectively does metamorphic testing alleviate the oracle problem?. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 40(1), https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2013.46

In software testing, something which can verify the correctness of test case execution results is called an oracle. The oracle problem occurs when either an oracle does not exist, or exists but is too expensive to be used. Metamorphic testing is a te... Read More about How effectively does metamorphic testing alleviate the oracle problem?.

Knockdown of the C. elegans kinome identifies kinases required for normal protein homeostasis, mitochondrial network structure, and sarcomere structure in muscle (2013)
Journal Article
Lehmann, S., Bass, J. J., & Szewczyk, N. (2013). Knockdown of the C. elegans kinome identifies kinases required for normal protein homeostasis, mitochondrial network structure, and sarcomere structure in muscle. Cell Communication and Signaling, 11(71), https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-811X-11-71

Kinases are important signalling molecules for modulating cellular processes and major targets of drug discovery programs. However, functional information for roughly half the human kinome is lacking. We conducted three kinome wide, >90%, RNAi screen... Read More about Knockdown of the C. elegans kinome identifies kinases required for normal protein homeostasis, mitochondrial network structure, and sarcomere structure in muscle.

The role of flagella in Clostridium difficile pathogenesis:comparison between a non-epidemic and an epidemicstrain (2013)
Journal Article
Baban, S. T., Kuehne, S. A., Barketi-Klai, A., Cartman, S. T., Kelly, M. L., Hardie, K. R., …Minton, N. P. (2013). The role of flagella in Clostridium difficile pathogenesis:comparison between a non-epidemic and an epidemicstrain. PLoS ONE, 8(9), Article e73026. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0073026

Clostridium difficile is a major cause of healthcare-associated infection and inflicts a considerable financial burden on healthcare systems worldwide. Disease symptoms range from self-limiting diarrhoea to fatal pseudomembranous colitis. Whilst C. d... Read More about The role of flagella in Clostridium difficile pathogenesis:comparison between a non-epidemic and an epidemicstrain.

The Wage and Employment Consequences of Ownership Change (2013)
Journal Article
Amess, K., Girma, S., & Wright, M. (2014). The Wage and Employment Consequences of Ownership Change. Managerial and Decision Economics, 35(2), 161-171. https://doi.org/10.1002/mde.2650

This paper provides a comparative examination of the consequences of leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and corporate takeovers on employment growth and wage growth. Employing both difference-in-differences combined with propensity score matching and the contr... Read More about The Wage and Employment Consequences of Ownership Change.

Offering rainfall insurance to informal insurance groups: Evidence from a field experiment in Ethiopia (2013)
Journal Article
Dercon, S., Hill, R. V., Clarke, D., Outes-Leon, I., & Seyoum Taffesse, A. (2014). Offering rainfall insurance to informal insurance groups: Evidence from a field experiment in Ethiopia. Journal of Development Economics, 106, 132-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2013.09.006

We show theoretically that the presence of basis risk in index insurance makes it a complement to informal risk sharing, implying that index insurance crowds-in risk sharing and leading to a prediction that demand will be higher among groups of indiv... Read More about Offering rainfall insurance to informal insurance groups: Evidence from a field experiment in Ethiopia.

"How many bloody examples do you want?" - fieldwork and generalisation (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crabtree, A., Tolmie, P., & Rouncefield, M. (2013). "How many bloody examples do you want?" - fieldwork and generalisation. In ECSW 2013: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (21-25). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5346-7_1

The title of this paper comes from comments made by an ‘angry’ ethnographer during a debriefing session. It reflects his frustration with a certain analytic mentality that would have him justify his observations in terms of the number of times he had... Read More about "How many bloody examples do you want?" - fieldwork and generalisation.

Lifestyle matters for maintenance of health and wellbeing in people aged 65 years and over: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2013)
Journal Article
Sprange, K., Mountain, G. A., Brazier, J., Cook, S. P., Craig, C., Hind, D., …Horner, K. (2013). Lifestyle matters for maintenance of health and wellbeing in people aged 65 years and over: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 14, Article 302. https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-14-302

Background Healthy, active ageing is strongly associated with good mental wellbeing which in turn helps to prevent mental illness. However, more investment has been made into research into interventions to prevent mental illness than into those desi... Read More about Lifestyle matters for maintenance of health and wellbeing in people aged 65 years and over: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Parenting Stress: Evidence from a Statewide Sample of New Mothers (2013)
Journal Article
Nam, Y., Wikoff, N., & Sherraden, M. (2015). Racial and Ethnic Differences in Parenting Stress: Evidence from a Statewide Sample of New Mothers. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 24(2), 278-288. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-013-9833-z

Parenting stress can have long-term effects on parents and children, but little research has been done on racial and ethnic differences. We examine parenting stress among White, Black, American Indian, and Hispanic mothers with infants younger than 9... Read More about Racial and Ethnic Differences in Parenting Stress: Evidence from a Statewide Sample of New Mothers.

Disruption, control and coping: responses of and to the person with dementia in hospital (2013)
Journal Article
Porock, D., Clissett, P., Harwood, R. H., & Gladman, J. R. (2015). Disruption, control and coping: responses of and to the person with dementia in hospital. Ageing and Society, 35(1), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X13000561

This qualitative study aimed to gain insight into the experience of hospitalisation from the perspectives of the older person with dementia, their family care-giver and other patients sharing the ward (co-patients). Non-participant observation of car... Read More about Disruption, control and coping: responses of and to the person with dementia in hospital.