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‘Victims’ versus ‘offenders’ in British political discourse: the construction of a false dichotomy (2013)
Journal Article
Drake, D. H., & Henley, A. J. (2014). ‘Victims’ versus ‘offenders’ in British political discourse: the construction of a false dichotomy. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 53(2), 141-157. https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12057

This article evaluates the contemporary discursive status of victims and people convicted of criminal offences. The rhetoric used by British politicians to convey the meaning of ‘rights’ is explored within media output, parliamentary speech-making an... Read More about ‘Victims’ versus ‘offenders’ in British political discourse: the construction of a false dichotomy.

Docetaxel versus active symptom control for refractory oesophagogastric adenocarcinoma (COUGAR-02): an open-label, phase 3 randomised controlled trial (2013)
Journal Article
Ford, H., Marshall, A., Bridgewater, J. A., Janowitz, T., Coxon, F., Wadsley, J., …Dunn, J. A. (2014). Docetaxel versus active symptom control for refractory oesophagogastric adenocarcinoma (COUGAR-02): an open-label, phase 3 randomised controlled trial. Lancet Oncology, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045%2813%2970549-7

BACKGROUND: Second-line chemotherapy for patients with oesophagogastric adenocarcinoma refractory to platinum and fluoropyrimidines has not shown benefits in health-related quality of life (HRQoL). We assessed whether the addition of docetaxel to act... Read More about Docetaxel versus active symptom control for refractory oesophagogastric adenocarcinoma (COUGAR-02): an open-label, phase 3 randomised controlled trial.

Negative area compressibility in silver(i) tricyanomethanide (2013)
Journal Article
Hodgson, S. A., Adamson, J., Hunt, S. J., Cliffe, M. J., Cairns, A. B., Thompson, A. L., …Goodwin, A. L. (2014). Negative area compressibility in silver(i) tricyanomethanide. Chemical Communications, 2014(40), 5264-5266. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3cc47032f

The metal–organic framework copper(I) tricyanomethanide, Cu(tcm), undergoes a ferroelastic transition on cooling below Tf = 240 K. Thermal expansion measurements reveal an order-of-magnitude variation in framework flexibility across Tf. The low-tempe... Read More about Negative area compressibility in silver(i) tricyanomethanide.

Assessing asphalt mixture moisture susceptibility through intrinsic adhesion, bitumen stripping and mechanical damage (2013)
Journal Article
Grenfell, J., Ahmad, N., Liu, Y., Apeagyei, A. K., Large, D., & Airey, G. (2014). Assessing asphalt mixture moisture susceptibility through intrinsic adhesion, bitumen stripping and mechanical damage. Road Materials and Pavement Design, 15(1), 131-152. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680629.2013.863162

Durability is one of the most important properties of an asphalt mixture. A key factor affecting the durability of asphalt pavements is moisture damage. Moisture damage is generally considered to be the result of two main mechanisms; the loss of adhe... Read More about Assessing asphalt mixture moisture susceptibility through intrinsic adhesion, bitumen stripping and mechanical damage.

Potential of a sequence-based antigenic distance measure to indicate equine influenza vaccine strain efficacy (2013)
Journal Article
Daly, J. M., & Elton, D. (2013). Potential of a sequence-based antigenic distance measure to indicate equine influenza vaccine strain efficacy. Vaccine, 31(51), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2013.06.070

The calculation of pepitope values, a sequence-based measure of antigenic distance between strains, was developed for human influenza. The potential to apply the pepitope value to equine influenza vaccine strain selection was assessed. There was a ne... Read More about Potential of a sequence-based antigenic distance measure to indicate equine influenza vaccine strain efficacy.

Designing for reportability: sustainable gamification, public engagement, and promoting environmental debate (2013)
Journal Article
Tolmie, P., Chamberlain, A., & Benford, S. (2014). Designing for reportability: sustainable gamification, public engagement, and promoting environmental debate. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 18, 1763-1774. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-013-0755-y

There is a growing emphasis in many countries on matters such as participation in e-government, e-democracy, the provision of forums for online debate, and so on. A critical issue in all of these cases is one of encouraging engagement across a broad... Read More about Designing for reportability: sustainable gamification, public engagement, and promoting environmental debate.

Apoferritin-encapsulated PbS quantum dots significantly inhibit growth of colorectal carcinoma cells (2013)
Journal Article
Bradshaw, T. D., Junor, M., Patanè, A., Clarke, P., Thomas, N. R., Li, M., …Turyanska, L. (2013). Apoferritin-encapsulated PbS quantum dots significantly inhibit growth of colorectal carcinoma cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 45, 6254-6260. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3tb21197e

Colorectal carcinoma (CRC) is the 3rd most common cancer worldwide, thus development of novel therapeutic strategies is imperative. Herein potent, selective dose-dependent antitumor activity of horse spleen apoferritin encapsulated PbS quantum dots (... Read More about Apoferritin-encapsulated PbS quantum dots significantly inhibit growth of colorectal carcinoma cells.

Sound of nano (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aylott, J., Clark, M., Marques, L., Perez-Cota, F., Smith, R. J., & Webb, K. F. (2013). Sound of nano. Proceedings of SPIE, 8923, Article 892325. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2035176

Ultrasound is widely used for imaging, measurement and diagnostics in the MHz region and is perhaps most familiar as a medical or non-destructive imaging or measurement tool. In the MHz frequency range the wavelength is typically measured in microns... Read More about Sound of nano.

Dietary fatty acids and cardiovascular disease (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Salter, A. M. (2011, September). Dietary fatty acids and cardiovascular disease. Presented at Eighth International Symposium on the Nutrition of Herbivores (ISNH8), Aberystwyth, Wales

In 1991, the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy produced a report on the dietary reference values for food energy and nutrients for groups of people in the United Kingdom. The resulting recommendations, which included specific limits for int... Read More about Dietary fatty acids and cardiovascular disease.

Towards optimal symbolization for time series comparisons (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, G., Goulding, J., & Barrack, D. (2013). Towards optimal symbolization for time series comparisons. In 2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Data Mining Workshops. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDMW.2013.59

The abundance and value of mining large time series data sets has long been acknowledged. Ubiquitous in fields ranging from astronomy, biology and web science the size and number of these datasets continues to increase, a situation exacerbated by the... Read More about Towards optimal symbolization for time series comparisons.

Development of the Pregnancy and Childbirth Questionnaire (PCQ): evaluating quality of care as perceived by women who recently gave birth (2013)
Journal Article
Truijens, S. E., Pommer, A. M., van Runnard Heimel, P. J., Verhoeven, C. J., Oei, S. G., & Pop, V. J. (2014). Development of the Pregnancy and Childbirth Questionnaire (PCQ): evaluating quality of care as perceived by women who recently gave birth. European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 174, 35-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejogrb.2013.11.019

Objective To develop an instrument to the assess quality of care during pregnancy and delivery as perceived by women who recently gave birth. Study design Prospective design from focus group interviews to validation of the questionnaire. The focus gr... Read More about Development of the Pregnancy and Childbirth Questionnaire (PCQ): evaluating quality of care as perceived by women who recently gave birth.

Precise determination of mini railway track with ground based laser scanning (2013)
Journal Article
Meng, X., Liu, C., Li, N., & Joe, R. (2014). Precise determination of mini railway track with ground based laser scanning. Survey Review, 46(336), https://doi.org/10.1179/1752270613Y.0000000072

In order to determine the relative or absolute railway track and foundation deformation, ground-based laser scanning technology is utilised in this study to attain a precise 3D track reference. Located at the University of Nottingham’s Innovation Par... Read More about Precise determination of mini railway track with ground based laser scanning.

Investigation of the functional expression of purine and pyrimidine receptors in porcine isolated pancreatic arteries (2013)
Journal Article
Alsaqati, M., Chan, S., & Ralevic, V. (2014). Investigation of the functional expression of purine and pyrimidine receptors in porcine isolated pancreatic arteries. Purinergic Signalling, 10(2),

Receptors for purines and pyrimidines are expressed throughout the cardiovascular system. This study investigated their functional expression in porcine isolated pancreatic arteries. Pancreatic arteries (endothelium intact or denuded) were prepared f... Read More about Investigation of the functional expression of purine and pyrimidine receptors in porcine isolated pancreatic arteries.

Pragmatic optimisation methods for determining material constants of viscoplasticity model from isothermal experimental data (2013)
Journal Article
Rouse, J. P., Hyde, C. J., Sun, W., & Hyde, T. (in press). Pragmatic optimisation methods for determining material constants of viscoplasticity model from isothermal experimental data. Materials Science and Technology, 30(1), https://doi.org/10.1179/1743284713Y.0000000277

A procedure to estimate material constants for the unified Chaboche viscoplasticity model from experimental data has been published elsewhere; however several critical assumptions are made to enable this and potential numerical problems can limit the... Read More about Pragmatic optimisation methods for determining material constants of viscoplasticity model from isothermal experimental data.

Faecal microbiota composition and host–microbe cross-talk following gastroenteritis and in postinfectious irritable bowel syndrome (2013)
Journal Article
Jalanka-Tuovinen, J., Salojärvi, J., Salonen, A., Immonen, O., Garsed, K., Kelly, F. M., Zaitoun, A., Palva, A., Spiller, R. C., & De Vos, W. M. (2014). Faecal microbiota composition and host–microbe cross-talk following gastroenteritis and in postinfectious irritable bowel syndrome. Gut, 63(11), 1737-1745. https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2013-305994

Background: About 10% of patients with IBS report the start of the syndrome after infectious enteritis. The clinical features of postinfectious IBS (PI-IBS) resemble those of diarrhoea-predominant IBS (IBS-D). While altered faecal microbiota has been... Read More about Faecal microbiota composition and host–microbe cross-talk following gastroenteritis and in postinfectious irritable bowel syndrome.

Hyperactive mariner transposons are created by mutations that disrupt allosterism and increase the rate of transposon end synapsis (2013)
Journal Article
Liu, D., & Chalmers, R. (2014). Hyperactive mariner transposons are created by mutations that disrupt allosterism and increase the rate of transposon end synapsis. Nucleic Acids Research, 42(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkt1218

New applications for transposons in vertebrate genetics have spurred efforts to develop hyperactive variants. Typically, a genetic screen is used to identify several hyperactive point mutations, which are then incorporated in a single transposase gen... Read More about Hyperactive mariner transposons are created by mutations that disrupt allosterism and increase the rate of transposon end synapsis.

Metrics and textural features of MRI diffusion to improve classification of pediatric posterior fossa tumors (2013)
Journal Article
Rodriguez Gutierrez, D., Awwad, A., Meijer, L., Manita, M., Jaspan, T., Dineen, R. A., …Auer, D. P. (in press). Metrics and textural features of MRI diffusion to improve classification of pediatric posterior fossa tumors. American Journal of Neuroradiology, 35(5), https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A3784

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Qualitative radiologic MR imaging review affords limited differentiation among types of pediatric posterior fossa brain tumors and cannot detect histologic or molecular subtypes, which could help to stratify treatment. This st... Read More about Metrics and textural features of MRI diffusion to improve classification of pediatric posterior fossa tumors.

Can theory of mind deficits be measured reliably in people with mild and moderate Alzheimer’s dementia? (2013)
Journal Article
Choong, C. S., & Doody, G. A. (2013). Can theory of mind deficits be measured reliably in people with mild and moderate Alzheimer’s dementia?. BMC Psychology, 1(Decemb), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/2050-7283-1-28

Background
Patients suffering from Alzheimer’s dementia develop difficulties in social functioning. This has led to an interest in the study of “theory of mind” in this population. However, difficulty has arisen because the associated cognitive dema... Read More about Can theory of mind deficits be measured reliably in people with mild and moderate Alzheimer’s dementia?.