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Psychosocial risk assessment in organizations: concurrent validity of the brief version of the Management Standards Indicator Tool (2013)
Journal Article
Houdmont, J., Randall, R., Kerr, R., & Addley, K. (2013). Psychosocial risk assessment in organizations: concurrent validity of the brief version of the Management Standards Indicator Tool. Work and Stress, 27(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/02678373.2013.843607

The Management Standards Indicator Tool (MSIT) is a 35-item self-report measure of the psychosocial work environment designed to assist organizations with psychosocial risk assessment. It is also used in work environment research. Edwards and Webster... Read More about Psychosocial risk assessment in organizations: concurrent validity of the brief version of the Management Standards Indicator Tool.

Novel MRI tests of orocecal transit time and whole gut transit time: studies in normal subjects (2013)
Journal Article
Chaddock, G., Lam, C., Hoad, C., Costigan, C., Cox, E. F., Placidi, E., …Spiller, R. C. (2014). Novel MRI tests of orocecal transit time and whole gut transit time: studies in normal subjects. Neurogastroenterology and Motility, 26(2), 205-214. https://doi.org/10.1111/nmo.12249

Background: Colonic transit tests are used to manage patients with Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders. Some tests used expose patients to ionizing radiation. The aim of this study was to compare novel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tests for mea... Read More about Novel MRI tests of orocecal transit time and whole gut transit time: studies in normal subjects.

Longitudinal, mixed method study to look at the experiences and knowledge of non melanoma skin cancer from diagnosis to one year (2013)
Journal Article
Bath-Hextall, F., Jenkinson, C., Kumar, A., Leonardi-Bee, J., Perkins, W., Cox, K., & Glazebrook, C. (2013). Longitudinal, mixed method study to look at the experiences and knowledge of non melanoma skin cancer from diagnosis to one year. BMC Dermatology, 13(13), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-5945-13-13

Background Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in humans and the incidence is increasing worldwide. Our objective was to understanding the needs, experiences and knowledge of individuals with Non Melanoma Skin Cancer (NMSC) from diagnosis... Read More about Longitudinal, mixed method study to look at the experiences and knowledge of non melanoma skin cancer from diagnosis to one year.

Northwest Europe in the Early Middle Ages, c. AD 600-1150: a comparative archaeology (2013)
Book
Loveluck, C. (2013). Northwest Europe in the Early Middle Ages, c. AD 600-1150: a comparative archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139794725

Christopher Loveluck's study explores the transformation of Northwest Europe (primarily Britain, France and Belgium) from the era of the first post-Roman 'European Union' under the Carolingian Frankish kings to the so-called 'feudal' age, between c.A... Read More about Northwest Europe in the Early Middle Ages, c. AD 600-1150: a comparative archaeology.

Linking vertical bulk-heterojunction composition and transient photocurrent dynamics in organic solar cells with solution-processed MoOx contact layers (2013)
Journal Article
Tremolet de Villers, B. J., MacKenzie, R. C., Jasieniak, J. J., Treat, N. D., & Chabinyc, M. L. (2014). Linking vertical bulk-heterojunction composition and transient photocurrent dynamics in organic solar cells with solution-processed MoOx contact layers. Advanced Energy Materials, 4(5), Article 1301290. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201301290

It is demonstrated that a combination of microsecond transient photocurrent measurements and fi lm morphology characterization can be used to identify a charge-carrier blocking layer within polymer:fullerene bulk-heterojunction solar cells. Solution-... Read More about Linking vertical bulk-heterojunction composition and transient photocurrent dynamics in organic solar cells with solution-processed MoOx contact layers.

Imaging Angiogenesis, Inflammation, and Metastasis in the Tumor Microenvironment with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (2013)
Book Chapter
O’Brien, E. R., Serres, S., & Sibson, N. R. (2013). Imaging Angiogenesis, Inflammation, and Metastasis in the Tumor Microenvironment with Magnetic Resonance Imaging. In Tumor Microenvironment and Cellular Stress (263-283). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5915-6_12

With the development of new imaging techniques, the potential for probing the molecular, cellular, and structural components of the tumor microenvironment in situ has increased dramatically. A multitude of imaging modalities have been successfully em... Read More about Imaging Angiogenesis, Inflammation, and Metastasis in the Tumor Microenvironment with Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Weight loss in a UK commercial all meal provision study: a randomised controlled trial (2013)
Journal Article
Mellor, D. D., Whitham, C., Goodwin, S., Morris, M., Reid, M., & Atkin, S. L. (2014). Weight loss in a UK commercial all meal provision study: a randomised controlled trial. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 27(4), 377-383. https://doi.org/10.1111/jhn.12171

Background: Effective approaches are needed to address the increasing prev- alence of overweight and obesity. The present study investigated whether all meal provision was a more effective and acceptable method for weight loss than a self-directe... Read More about Weight loss in a UK commercial all meal provision study: a randomised controlled trial.

Aircraft taxi time prediction: comparisons and insights (2013)
Journal Article
Ravizza, S., Chen, J., Atkin, J. A., Stewart, P., & Burke, E. K. (2014). Aircraft taxi time prediction: comparisons and insights. Applied Soft Computing, 14(C), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2013.10.004

The predicted growth in air transportation and the ambitious goal of the European Commission to have on-time performance of flights within 1 min makes efficient and predictable ground operations at airports indispensable. Accurately predicting taxi t... Read More about Aircraft taxi time prediction: comparisons and insights.

Increased function of pronociceptive TRPV1 at the level of the joint in a rat model of osteoarthritis pain (2013)
Journal Article
Kelly, S., Chapman, R., Woodhams, S., Sagar, D. R., Turner, J., Burston, J., …Chapman, V. (2014). Increased function of pronociceptive TRPV1 at the level of the joint in a rat model of osteoarthritis pain. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 74, https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-203413

Objectives Blockade of transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) with systemic antagonists attenuates osteoarthritis (OA) pain behaviour in rat models, but on-target-mediated hyperthermia has halted clinical trials. The present study investiga... Read More about Increased function of pronociceptive TRPV1 at the level of the joint in a rat model of osteoarthritis pain.

A day out in the country (2013)
Book Chapter
Crabtree, A., & Tolmie, P. (2013). A day out in the country. In P. Tolmie, & M. Rouncefield (Eds.), Ethnomethodology at play

It is now commonplace to make strong distinctions between tourism and visiting practices in city environments and rural environments (see LAgroup and Interarts 2005), with significantly different motivations presumed to pertain to the two kinds of ac... Read More about A day out in the country.

Cooking for pleasure (2013)
Book Chapter
Crabtree, A., Tolmie, P., & Rouncefield, M. (2013). Cooking for pleasure. In P. Tolmie, & M. Rouncefield (Eds.), Ethnomethodology at play

Cooking is a mundane feature of everyday life, done by people around the world as a matter of necessity and, for some at least, as the business of pleasure. It seems surprising therefore that food, eating and cooking has, at least until relatively re... Read More about Cooking for pleasure.

High-speed electrical machines: technologies, trends and developments (2013)
Journal Article
Gerada, D., Mebarki, A., Brown, N., Gerada, C., Cavagnino, A., & Boglietti, A. (2014). High-speed electrical machines: technologies, trends and developments. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 61(6), https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2013.2286777

This paper reviews the current technologies used in high speed electrical machines, through an extensive survey of different topologies developed and built in industry as well as in academia for several applications. Developments in materials and com... Read More about High-speed electrical machines: technologies, trends and developments.

Sequential induction of auxin efflux and influx carriers regulates lateral root emergence (2013)
Journal Article
Peret, B., Middleton, A. M., French, A. P., Larrieu, A., Bishopp, A., Njo, M., …Bennett, M. J. (2013). Sequential induction of auxin efflux and influx carriers regulates lateral root emergence. Molecular Systems Biology, 9(1), Article 699. https://doi.org/10.1038/msb.2013.43

In Arabidopsis, lateral roots originate from pericycle cells deep within the primary root. New lateral root primordia (LRP) have to emerge through several overlaying tissues. Here, we report that auxin produced in new LRP is transported towards the o... Read More about Sequential induction of auxin efflux and influx carriers regulates lateral root emergence.

Insights of biosurfactant producing Serratia marcescens strain W2.3 isolated from diseased tilapia fish: a draft genome analysis (2013)
Journal Article
Chan, X. Y., Chang, C. Y., Hong, K. W., Tee, K. K., Yin, W. F., & Chan, K. G. (2013). Insights of biosurfactant producing Serratia marcescens strain W2.3 isolated from diseased tilapia fish: a draft genome analysis. Gut Pathogens, 5(Octobe), Article 5. https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-4749-5-29

Background Serratia marcescens is an opportunistic bacterial pathogen with broad range of host ranging from vertebrates, invertebrates and plants. S. marcescens strain W2.3 was isolated from a diseased tilapia fish and it was suspected to be the cau... Read More about Insights of biosurfactant producing Serratia marcescens strain W2.3 isolated from diseased tilapia fish: a draft genome analysis.

Cortical thickness, cortical and subcortical volume, and white matter integrity in patients with their first episode of major depression (2013)
Journal Article
Han, K.-M., Choi, S., Jung, J., Na, K.-S., Yoon, H.-K., Lee, M.-S., & Ham, B.-J. (2014). Cortical thickness, cortical and subcortical volume, and white matter integrity in patients with their first episode of major depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 155, 42-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2013.10.021

Background The uncertainty over the true morphological changes in brains with major depressive disorder (MDD) underlines the necessity of comprehensive studies with multimodal structural brain imaging analyses. This study aimed to evaluate the dif... Read More about Cortical thickness, cortical and subcortical volume, and white matter integrity in patients with their first episode of major depression.

C-Met in invasive breast cancer: is there a relationship with the basal-like subtype? (2013)
Journal Article
Ho-Yen, C. M., Green, A. R., Brentnall, A. R., Rakha, E. A., Ellis, I. O., Kermorgant, S., & Jones, J. L. (2014). C-Met in invasive breast cancer: is there a relationship with the basal-like subtype?. Cancer, 120(2), 163-171. https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.28386

BACKGROUND Basal‐like (BL) breast cancer is an aggressive form of breast cancer with limited treatment options. Recent work has identified BL breast cancer as a biologically distinct form of triple‐negative breast cancer, with a worse outlook. The... Read More about C-Met in invasive breast cancer: is there a relationship with the basal-like subtype?.

‘Just in case’: The fertility information needs of teenagers and young adults with cancer (2013)
Journal Article
Wright, C. I., Coad, J., Morgan, S., Stark, D., & Cable, M. (2014). ‘Just in case’: The fertility information needs of teenagers and young adults with cancer. European Journal of Cancer Care, 23(2), 189-198. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecc.12137

Understanding the reproductive and fertility concerns of teenagers and young adults with cancer (TYA) is one aspect of comprehensive age appropriate care. However, limited options for fertility preservation, coupled with vague policy recommendations,... Read More about ‘Just in case’: The fertility information needs of teenagers and young adults with cancer.

Accuracy and efficiency define Bxb1 integrase as the best of fifteen candidate serine recombinases for the integration of DNA into the human genome (2013)
Journal Article
Xu, Z., Thomas, L., Davies, B., Chalmers, R., Smith, M., & Brown, W. (2013). Accuracy and efficiency define Bxb1 integrase as the best of fifteen candidate serine recombinases for the integration of DNA into the human genome. BMC Biotechnology, 13, Article 87. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6750-13-87

Background: Phage-encoded serine integrases, such as φC31 integrase, are widely used for genome engineering. Fifteen such integrases have been described but their utility for genome engineering has not been compared in uniform assays. Results: We h... Read More about Accuracy and efficiency define Bxb1 integrase as the best of fifteen candidate serine recombinases for the integration of DNA into the human genome.