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Vacuum insulated panels for sustainable buildings: a review of research and applications (2013)
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Alotaibi, S. S., & Riffat, S. (2014). Vacuum insulated panels for sustainable buildings: a review of research and applications. International Journal of Energy Research, 38(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1002/er.3101

New research has identified vacuum insulation panels (VIPs) as highly efficient insulators for use in building construction. They are reported to be several times more effective than conventional materials of a similar thickness in terms of thermal c... Read More about Vacuum insulated panels for sustainable buildings: a review of research and applications.

Optimal design of label-free silicon “lab on a chip” biosensors (2013)
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Zhang, Y. (in press). Optimal design of label-free silicon “lab on a chip” biosensors. Progress in Natural Science, 23(5), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnsc.2013.09.002

This paper reported the optimal design of label-free silicon on insulator (SOI) “lab on a chip” biosensors. These devices are designed on the basis of the evanescent field detection principles and interferometer technologies. The well-established sil... Read More about Optimal design of label-free silicon “lab on a chip” biosensors.

Pro-inflammatory cytokines can act as intracellular modulators of commensal bacterial virulence (2013)
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Mahdavi, J., Royer, P.-J., Sjolinder, H. S., Azimi, S., Self, T., Stoof, J., …Ala'Aldeen, D. A. (2013). Pro-inflammatory cytokines can act as intracellular modulators of commensal bacterial virulence. Open Biology, 3, Article e130048. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsob.130048

Interactions between commensal pathogens and hosts are critical for disease development but the underlying mechanisms for switching between the commensal and virulent states are unknown. We show that the human pathogen Neisseria meningitidis, the lea... Read More about Pro-inflammatory cytokines can act as intracellular modulators of commensal bacterial virulence.

Oxytocin Receptor Genotype Modulates Ventral Striatal Activity to Social Cues and Response to Stressful Life Events (2013)
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Loth, E., Poline, J., Thyreau, B., Jia, T., Tao, C., Lourdusamy, A., …Schumann, G. (2014). Oxytocin Receptor Genotype Modulates Ventral Striatal Activity to Social Cues and Response to Stressful Life Events. Biological Psychiatry, 76(5), 367-376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.07.043

Background Common variants in the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) have been shown to influence social and affective behavior and to moderate the effect of adverse experiences on risk for social-affective problems. However, the intermediate neurobiologi... Read More about Oxytocin Receptor Genotype Modulates Ventral Striatal Activity to Social Cues and Response to Stressful Life Events.

Did Bank Indonesia cause the credit crunch of 2006–2008? (2013)
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Mustikaa, G., Suryatin, E., Djaafara, R., Hall, M. J. B., & Simper, R. (2015). Did Bank Indonesia cause the credit crunch of 2006–2008?. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 44(2), 269-298. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11156-013-0406-4

© 2013, Springer Science+Business Media New York. Bank lending in Indonesia slowed dramatically during the period 2006–2008 while, at the same time, the banks’ holdings of short-term public sector (and other riskless) securities increased substantial... Read More about Did Bank Indonesia cause the credit crunch of 2006–2008?.

Specialist geriatric medical assessment for patients discharged from hospital acute assessment units: randomised controlled trial (2013)
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Edmans, J., Bradshaw, L., Franklin, M., Gladman, J. R., & Conroy, S. (2013). Specialist geriatric medical assessment for patients discharged from hospital acute assessment units: randomised controlled trial. BMJ, 347(7932), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f5874

Objective To evaluate the effect of specialist geriatric medical management on the outcomes of at risk older people discharged from acute medical assessment units. Design Individual patient randomised controlled trial comparing intervention with u... Read More about Specialist geriatric medical assessment for patients discharged from hospital acute assessment units: randomised controlled trial.

In–out decomposition of boundary integral equations (2013)
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Creagh, S. C., Hamdin, H. B., & Tanner, G. (2013). In–out decomposition of boundary integral equations. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 46(43), Article 435203. https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8113/46/43/435203

We propose a reformulation of the boundary integral equations for the Helmholtz equation in a domain in terms of incoming and outgoing boundary waves. We obtain transfer operator descriptions which are exact and thus incorporate features such as diff... Read More about In–out decomposition of boundary integral equations.

Exploring feedback and student characteristics relevant for personalizing feedback strategies (2013)
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Narciss, S., Sosnovsky, S., Schnaubert, L., Andrès, E., Eichelmann, A., Goguadze, G., & Melis, E. (2014). Exploring feedback and student characteristics relevant for personalizing feedback strategies. Computers and Education, 71, 56-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2013.09.011

Personalized tutoring feedback is a powerful method that expert human tutors apply when helping students to optimize their learning. Thus, research on tutoring feedback strategies tailoring feedback according to important factors of the learning proc... Read More about Exploring feedback and student characteristics relevant for personalizing feedback strategies.

Clinicopathological and molecular significance of Sumolyation marker (ubiquitin conjugating enzyme 9 (UBC9)) expression in breast cancer of black women (2013)
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Agboola, A. J., Musa, A., Ayoade, B., Banjo, A., Anunobi, C., Deji-Agboola, A., …Green, A. (2014). Clinicopathological and molecular significance of Sumolyation marker (ubiquitin conjugating enzyme 9 (UBC9)) expression in breast cancer of black women. Pathology - Research and Practice, 210(1), 10-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prp.2013.09.011

The majority of breast cancers (BC) in Nigerian women are triple negative and show breast cancer-associated gene 1 (BRCA1) deficiency as well as the basal like phenotype, with a high mortality rate. In contrast to the well-defined predictive factors... Read More about Clinicopathological and molecular significance of Sumolyation marker (ubiquitin conjugating enzyme 9 (UBC9)) expression in breast cancer of black women.

Hoxa9 collaborates with E2A-PBX1 in mouse B cell leukemia in association with Flt3 activation and decrease of B cell gene expression (2013)
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Hassawi, M., Shestakova, E. A., Fournier, M., Lebert-Ghali, C.-É., Vaisson, G., Frison, H., …Bijl, J. J. (2014). Hoxa9 collaborates with E2A-PBX1 in mouse B cell leukemia in association with Flt3 activation and decrease of B cell gene expression. Developmental Dynamics, 243(1), 145-158. https://doi.org/10.1002/dvdy.24056

Background: The fusion protein E2A-PBX1 induces pediatric B cell leukemia in human. Previously, we reported oncogenic interactions between homeobox (Hox) genes and E2A-PBX1 in murine T cell leukemia. A proviral insertional mutagenesis screen with our... Read More about Hoxa9 collaborates with E2A-PBX1 in mouse B cell leukemia in association with Flt3 activation and decrease of B cell gene expression.

Catchment-mediated atmospheric nitrogen deposition drives ecological change in two alpine lakes in SE Tibet (2013)
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The south?east margin of Tibet is highly sensitive to global environmental change pressures, in particular, high contemporary reactive nitrogen (Nr) deposition rates (ca. 40 kg ha?1 yr?1), but the extent and timescale of recent ecological change is n... Read More about Catchment-mediated atmospheric nitrogen deposition drives ecological change in two alpine lakes in SE Tibet.

Association between somatic cell count after first parturition and cumulative milk yield in dairy cows (2013)
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Archer, S. C., McCoy, F., Wapenaar, W., & Green, M. J. (2013). Association between somatic cell count after first parturition and cumulative milk yield in dairy cows. Veterinary Record, 173(13), https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.101558

The aim was to assess the association between the somatic cell count of parity 1 cows between 5 and 30 days in milk (SCC1), and subsequent cumulative milk yield over approximately two years for cows in English and Welsh dairy herds. The dataset inclu... Read More about Association between somatic cell count after first parturition and cumulative milk yield in dairy cows.

Discrete element modelling of material non-coaxiality in simple shear flows (2013)
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Ai, J., Langston, P. A., & Yu, H.-S. (2014). Discrete element modelling of material non-coaxiality in simple shear flows. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 38(6), 615-635. https://doi.org/10.1002/nag.2230

We investigate the quasi-static simple shear flow of a two-dimensional assembly of cohesionless particles using discrete element method (DEM) simulations. We focus on the unsteady flow regime where the solid would experience significant evolution of... Read More about Discrete element modelling of material non-coaxiality in simple shear flows.

Domestic Bureaucratic Politics and Chinese Foreign Policy (2013)
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Lai, H., & Kang, S.-J. (2014). Domestic Bureaucratic Politics and Chinese Foreign Policy. Journal of Contemporary China, 23(86), 294-313. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2013.832531

One of the outstanding features of China's domestic politics is the prominence of the bureaucracy in the policy-making process. Arguably, bureaucracy is the next major player in the policy-making process in China after the top leaders. In this articl... Read More about Domestic Bureaucratic Politics and Chinese Foreign Policy.

Nanoparticle transport in epithelial cells: pathway switching through bioconjugation (2013)
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Fowler, R., Vllasaliu, D., Trillo, F. F., Garnett, M., Alexander, C., Horsley, H., …Stolnik, S. (in press). Nanoparticle transport in epithelial cells: pathway switching through bioconjugation. Small, 9(19), https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201202623

The understanding and control of nanoparticle transport into and through cellular compartments is central to biomedical applications of nanotechnology. Here, it is shown that the transport pathway of 50 nm polystyrene nanoparticles decorated with vit... Read More about Nanoparticle transport in epithelial cells: pathway switching through bioconjugation.

Learning on the IGT follows emergence of knowledge but not differential somatic activity (2013)
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Fernie, G., & Tunney, R. J. (2013). Learning on the IGT follows emergence of knowledge but not differential somatic activity. Frontiers in Psychology, 4(687), https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00687

The importance of unconscious autonomic activity vs. knowledge in influencing behavior on the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) has been the subject of debate. The task's developers, Bechara and colleagues, have claimed that behavior on the IGT is influenced... Read More about Learning on the IGT follows emergence of knowledge but not differential somatic activity.

All things to all people? The provision of outreach by community mental health teams for older people in England: findings from a national survey (2013)
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Tucker, S., Wilberforce, M., Brand, C., Abendstern, M., & Challis, D. (2014). All things to all people? The provision of outreach by community mental health teams for older people in England: findings from a national survey. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 29(5), 489-496. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.4031

Objective The objective of this study is to identify the extent of outreach activity community mental health teams (CMHTs) for older people provide to mainstream services in light of the recommendations of the National Dementia Strategy. In particula... Read More about All things to all people? The provision of outreach by community mental health teams for older people in England: findings from a national survey.

Gravitational waves from oscillon preheating (2013)
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Zhou, S.-Y., Copeland, E. J., Easther, R., Finkel, H., Mou, Z.-G., & Saffin, P. M. (2013). Gravitational waves from oscillon preheating. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013, Article 26. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10%282013%29026

Oscillons are long-lived, localized excitations of nonlinear scalar fields which may be copiously produced during preheating after inflation, leading to a possible oscillon-dominated phase in the early Universe. For example, this can happen after axi... Read More about Gravitational waves from oscillon preheating.

Risk Prediction Error Coding in Orbitofrontal Neurons (2013)
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O'Neill, M., & Schultz, W. (2013). Risk Prediction Error Coding in Orbitofrontal Neurons. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(40), 15810-15814. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.4236-12.2013

Risk is a ubiquitous feature of life. It plays an important role in economic decisions by affecting subjective reward value. Informed decisions require accurate risk information for each choice option. However, risk is often not constant but changes... Read More about Risk Prediction Error Coding in Orbitofrontal Neurons.