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Institutional change and regional development in China: the case of commodity trading markets (2013)
Journal Article
Wang, J., & Gooderham, P. (2013). Institutional change and regional development in China: the case of commodity trading markets. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 32(3), https://doi.org/10.1068/c11254b

With this paper we explore how institutional changes have influenced the regional development of Yiwu City, East China. The regional development in Yiwu City can be regarded as constituting a specific model in transitional China, which revolves aroun... Read More about Institutional change and regional development in China: the case of commodity trading markets.

Copper, zinc superoxide dismutase and nitrate reductase coimmobilized bienzymatic biosensor for the simultaneous determination of nitrite and nitrate (2013)
Journal Article
Madasamy, T., Pandiaraj, M., Balamurugan, M., Bhargava, K., Sethy, N. K., & Karunakaran, C. (2014). Copper, zinc superoxide dismutase and nitrate reductase coimmobilized bienzymatic biosensor for the simultaneous determination of nitrite and nitrate. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 52, 209-215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2013.08.036

Explaining Party Positions on Decentralization (2013)
Journal Article
Toubeau, S., & Wagner, M. (2015). Explaining Party Positions on Decentralization. British Journal of Political Science, 45(1), 97-119. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007123413000239

© Cambridge University Press 2013. Debates about decentralization raise cultural questions of identity and economic questions of redistribution and efficiency. Therefore the preferences of statewide parties regarding decentralization are related to t... Read More about Explaining Party Positions on Decentralization.

Reference layer artefact subtraction (RLAS): A novel method of minimizing EEG artefacts during simultaneous fMRI (2013)
Journal Article
Chowdhury, M. E., Mullinger, K. J., Glover, P., & Bowtell, R. W. (2014). Reference layer artefact subtraction (RLAS): A novel method of minimizing EEG artefacts during simultaneous fMRI. NeuroImage, 84, 307-319. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.08.039

Large artefacts compromise EEG data quality during simultaneous fMRI. These artefact voltages pose heavy demands on the bandwidth and dynamic range of EEG amplifiers and mean that even small fractional variations in the artefact voltages give rise to... Read More about Reference layer artefact subtraction (RLAS): A novel method of minimizing EEG artefacts during simultaneous fMRI.

Cross-linguistic similarity and task demands in Japanese-English bilingual processing (2013)
Journal Article
Allen, D. B., & Conklin, K. (2013). Cross-linguistic similarity and task demands in Japanese-English bilingual processing. PLoS ONE, 8(8), Article e72631. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0072631

Even in languages that do not share script, bilinguals process cognates faster than matched noncognates in a range of tasks. The current research more fully explores what underpins the cognate ‘advantage’ in different script bilinguals (Japanese-Engl... Read More about Cross-linguistic similarity and task demands in Japanese-English bilingual processing.

Entry, profit and welfare under asymmetric R&D costs: entry, profit and welfare (2013)
Journal Article
Mukherjee, A., & Ray, A. (2014). Entry, profit and welfare under asymmetric R&D costs: entry, profit and welfare. Manchester School, 82(3), 284-295. https://doi.org/10.1111/manc.12015

We show the effects of entry of a new firm on the profits and welfare when the firms share the same initial cost of production but differ in terms of the costs of undertaking R&D. Considering a Cournot oligopoly model with innovation and linear deman... Read More about Entry, profit and welfare under asymmetric R&D costs: entry, profit and welfare.

Evaluation of moisture sorption and diffusion characteristics of asphalt mastics using manual and automated gravimetric sorption techniques (2013)
Journal Article
Apeagyei, A. K., Grenfell, J., & Airey, G. (2014). Evaluation of moisture sorption and diffusion characteristics of asphalt mastics using manual and automated gravimetric sorption techniques. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 26(8), Article 04014045. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29MT.1943-5533.0000929

One of the most important factors influencing the durability of asphalt mixtures is moisture-induced damage resulting from the presence and the transport of moisture in pavements. Moisture-induced damage is an extremely complicated phenomenon that is... Read More about Evaluation of moisture sorption and diffusion characteristics of asphalt mastics using manual and automated gravimetric sorption techniques.

Small ring testing of a creep resistant material (2013)
Journal Article
Hyde, C. J., Hyde, T., Sun, W., Nardone, S., & De Bruycker, E. (2013). Small ring testing of a creep resistant material. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 586, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2013.07.081

Many components in conventional and nuclear power plant, aero-engines, chemical plant etc., operate at temperatures which are high enough for creep to occur. These include steam pipes, pipe branches, gas and steam turbine blades, etc. The manufacture... Read More about Small ring testing of a creep resistant material.

Optimization of spray-drying process conditions for the production of maximally viable microencapsulated L. acidophilus NCIMB 701748 (2013)
Journal Article
Behboudi-Jobbehdar, S., Soukoulis, C., Yonekura, L., & Fisk, I. D. (2013). Optimization of spray-drying process conditions for the production of maximally viable microencapsulated L. acidophilus NCIMB 701748. Drying Technology, 31(11), https://doi.org/10.1080/07373937.2013.788509

Inrecent years, the use of spray drying for the production of anhydrobiotics has gained the interest of functional food manufacturers, mainly due to cost efficiencies and enhanced product and process flexibility (e.g., enhanced shelf life). In the pr... Read More about Optimization of spray-drying process conditions for the production of maximally viable microencapsulated L. acidophilus NCIMB 701748.

Subjective and objective components of resource value additively increase aggression in parasitoid contests (2013)
Journal Article
Stockermans, B. . C., & Hardy, I. C. W. (2013). Subjective and objective components of resource value additively increase aggression in parasitoid contests. Biology Letters, 9(4), 20130391-20130391. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2013.0391

Two major categories of factors are predicted to influence behaviour in dyadic contests; differences in the abilities of the contestants to acquire and retain resources (resource holding potential), and the value of the contested resource (resource v... Read More about Subjective and objective components of resource value additively increase aggression in parasitoid contests.

Efficient Location Privacy-Aware Forwarding in Opportunistic Mobile Networks (2013)
Journal Article
Zakhary, S., Radenkovic, M., & Benslimane, A. (2014). Efficient Location Privacy-Aware Forwarding in Opportunistic Mobile Networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 63(2), 893-906. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2013.2279671

This paper proposes a novel fully distributed and collaborative k-anonymity protocol (LPAF) to protect users’ location information and ensure better privacy while forwarding queries/replies to/from untrusted location-based service (LBS) over opportun... Read More about Efficient Location Privacy-Aware Forwarding in Opportunistic Mobile Networks.

Hard and soft law approaches to addressing psychosocial risks in Europe: lessons learned in the development of the Italian approach (2013)
Journal Article
Iavicoli, S., Leka, S., Jain, A., Persechino, B., Rondinone, B. M., Ronchetti, M., & Valenti, A. (2014). Hard and soft law approaches to addressing psychosocial risks in Europe: lessons learned in the development of the Italian approach. Journal of Risk Research, 17(7), 855-869. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2013.822911

Psychosocial risks in the workplace have been identified as some of the most significant emerging risks, particularly since issues such as work-related stress, which is closely linked to psychosocial risks, are widely recognised as major challenges i... Read More about Hard and soft law approaches to addressing psychosocial risks in Europe: lessons learned in the development of the Italian approach.

Mucedorus (2013)
Book Chapter
Kirwan, P. (2013). Mucedorus. In A. Kesson, & E. Smith (Eds.), The Elizabethan top ten: defining print popularity in early modern England. Routledge

Excess maternal salt intake produces sex-specific hypertension in offspring: putative roles for kidney and gastrointestinal sodium handling (2013)
Journal Article
Gray, C., Al-Dujaili, E. A., Sparrow, A. J., Gardiner, S. M., Craigon, J., Welham, S. J., & Gardner, D. S. (2013). Excess maternal salt intake produces sex-specific hypertension in offspring: putative roles for kidney and gastrointestinal sodium handling. PLoS ONE, 8(8), Article e72682. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0072682

Hypertension is common and contributes, via cardiovascular disease, towards a large proportion of adult deaths in the Western World. High salt intake leads to high blood pressure, even when occurring prior to birth – a mechanism purported to reside i... Read More about Excess maternal salt intake produces sex-specific hypertension in offspring: putative roles for kidney and gastrointestinal sodium handling.

Proton transfer or hemibonding? The structure and stability of radical cation clusters (2013)
Journal Article
Do, H., & Besley, N. A. (2013). Proton transfer or hemibonding? The structure and stability of radical cation clusters. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 15, https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CP52922C

The basin hopping search algorithm in conjunction with second-order Moller-Plesset perturbation theory is used to determine the lowest energy structures of the radical cation clusters (NH_3)_n^+, (H_2O)_n^+, (HF)_n^+, (PH_3)_n^+, (H_2S)_n^+ and (HCl)... Read More about Proton transfer or hemibonding? The structure and stability of radical cation clusters.

Neural primacy of the salience processing system in schizophrenia (2013)
Journal Article
Palaniyappan, L., Simmonite, M., White, T., Liddle, E., & Liddle, P. (2013). Neural primacy of the salience processing system in schizophrenia. Neuron, 79(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2013.06.027

For effective information processing, two large-scale distributed neural networks appear to be critical: a multimodal executive system anchored on the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and a salience system anchored on the anterior insula. Aberr... Read More about Neural primacy of the salience processing system in schizophrenia.

Secretion and assembly of functional mini-cellulosomes from synthetic chromosomal operons in Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 (2013)
Journal Article
Kovacs, K., Willson, B. J., Schwarz, K., Heap, J. T., Jackson, A., Bolam, D. N., …Minton, N. P. (2013). Secretion and assembly of functional mini-cellulosomes from synthetic chromosomal operons in Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824. Biotechnology for Biofuels, 6(117), https://doi.org/10.1186/1754-6834-6-117

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Consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) is reliant on the simultaneous enzyme production, saccharification of biomass, and fermentation of released sugars into valuable products such as butanol. Clostridial species that produce butanol are, h... Read More about Secretion and assembly of functional mini-cellulosomes from synthetic chromosomal operons in Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824.

Curcumin reduces prostaglandin E2, matrix metalloproteinase-3 and proteoglycan release in the secretome of interleukin 1β-treated articular cartilage (2013)
Journal Article
Clutterbuck, A. L., Allaway, D., Harris, P., & Mobasheri, A. (2013). Curcumin reduces prostaglandin E2, matrix metalloproteinase-3 and proteoglycan release in the secretome of interleukin 1β-treated articular cartilage. F1000Research, 2, Article 147. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.2-147.v2

Objective: Curcumin (diferuloylmethane) is a phytochemical with potent anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties, and has therapeutic potential for the treatment of a range of inflammatory diseases, including osteoarthritis (OA). The aim of this... Read More about Curcumin reduces prostaglandin E2, matrix metalloproteinase-3 and proteoglycan release in the secretome of interleukin 1β-treated articular cartilage.