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The importance of alternative host plants as reservoirs of the cotton leaf hopper, Amrasca devastans, and its natural enemies (2014)
Journal Article
Saeed, R., Razaq, M., & Hardy, I. C. (2015). The importance of alternative host plants as reservoirs of the cotton leaf hopper, Amrasca devastans, and its natural enemies. Journal of Pest Science, 88(3), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-014-0638-7

Many agricultural pests can be harboured by alternative host plants but these can also harbour the pests’ natural enemies. We evaluated the capacity of non-cotton plant species (both naturally growing and cultivated) to function as alternative hosts... Read More about The importance of alternative host plants as reservoirs of the cotton leaf hopper, Amrasca devastans, and its natural enemies.

Elicitation of strategies in four variants of a round-robin tournament: the case of Goofspiel (2014)
Journal Article
Dror, M., Kendall, G., & Rapoport, A. (2016). Elicitation of strategies in four variants of a round-robin tournament: the case of Goofspiel. IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, 8(3), https://doi.org/10.1109/TCIAIG.2014.2377250

Goofspiel is a simple two-person zero-sum game for which there exist no known equilibrium strategies. To gain insight into what constitute winning strategies, we conducted a round-robin tournament in which participants were asked to provide computeri... Read More about Elicitation of strategies in four variants of a round-robin tournament: the case of Goofspiel.

Modelling the degradation of vibration characteristics of reinforced concrete beams due to flexural damage (2014)
Journal Article
Hamad, W., Owen, J., & Hussein, M. (2015). Modelling the degradation of vibration characteristics of reinforced concrete beams due to flexural damage. Structural Control and Health Monitoring, 22(6), https://doi.org/10.1002/stc.1726

This paper presents an improved crack model incorporating non-linearity of flexural damage in concrete to reproduce changes in vibration properties of cracked reinforced concrete beams. A reinforced concrete beam model with multiple-distributed flexu... Read More about Modelling the degradation of vibration characteristics of reinforced concrete beams due to flexural damage.

Communicating employability: the role of communicative competence for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK (2014)
Journal Article
Madziva, R., McGrath, S., & Thondhlana, J. (2014). Communicating employability: the role of communicative competence for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-014-0403-z

Skilled migration is an increasingly important topic for both policy and research internationally. OECD governments in particular are wrestling with tensions between their desire to use skilled migration to be on the winning side in the ‘global war f... Read More about Communicating employability: the role of communicative competence for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK.

The merchant (2014)
Book Chapter
Goddard, R. (2014). The merchant. In S. Rigby, & A. Minnis (Eds.), Historians on Chaucer : the General prologue to the Canterbury tales. Oxford University Press

How communication approaches impact mergers and acquisitions outcomes (2014)
Journal Article
Angwin, D., Mellahi, K., Gomes, E., & Peter, E. (2016). How communication approaches impact mergers and acquisitions outcomes. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 27(20), 2370-2397. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2014.985330

Communication is generally viewed as a critical component in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) performance, yet surprisingly little research has examined the link between different communication approaches and M&A outcomes. This paper provides a systema... Read More about How communication approaches impact mergers and acquisitions outcomes.

Inclusion of KI67 significantly improves performance of the PREDICT prognostication and prediction model for early breast cancer (2014)
Journal Article
Wishart, G. C., Rakha, E., Green, A., Ellis, I., Ali, H. R., Provenzano, E., …Pharoah, P. D. (2014). Inclusion of KI67 significantly improves performance of the PREDICT prognostication and prediction model for early breast cancer. BMC Cancer, 14(1), Article 908. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-14-908

Background

PREDICT (http://www.predict.nhs.uk) is a prognostication and treatment benefit tool for early breast cancer (EBC). The aim of this study was to incorporate the prognostic effect of KI67 status in a new version (v3), and compare performa... Read More about Inclusion of KI67 significantly improves performance of the PREDICT prognostication and prediction model for early breast cancer.

Duality-based two-level error estimation for time-dependent PDEs: application to linear and nonlinear parabolic equations (2014)
Journal Article
Şimşek, G., Wu, X., van der Zee, K., & van Brummelen, E. (2015). Duality-based two-level error estimation for time-dependent PDEs: application to linear and nonlinear parabolic equations. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 288, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2014.11.019

We introduce a duality-based two-level error estimator for linear and nonlinear time-dependent problems. The error measure can be a space-time norm, energy norm, final-time error or other error related functional. The general methodology is developed... Read More about Duality-based two-level error estimation for time-dependent PDEs: application to linear and nonlinear parabolic equations.

Relationship between tinnitus pitch and edge of hearing loss in individuals with a narrow tinnitus bandwidth (2014)
Journal Article
Sereda, M., Edmondson-Jones, M., & Hall, D. A. (2015). Relationship between tinnitus pitch and edge of hearing loss in individuals with a narrow tinnitus bandwidth. International Journal of Audiology, 54(4), 249-256. https://doi.org/10.3109/14992027.2014.979373

Objective: Psychoacoustic measures of tinnitus, in particular dominant tinnitus pitch and its relationship to the shape of the audiogram, are important in determining and verifying pathophysiological mechanisms of the condition. Our previous study po... Read More about Relationship between tinnitus pitch and edge of hearing loss in individuals with a narrow tinnitus bandwidth.

Adsorbate-induced curvature and stiffening of graphene (2014)
Journal Article
Svatek, S. A., Scott, O. R., Rivett, J. P., Wright, K., Baldoni, M., Bichoutskaia, E., …Beton, P. H. (2015). Adsorbate-induced curvature and stiffening of graphene. Nano Letters, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1021/nl503308c

The adsorption of the alkane tetratetracontane (TTC, C44H90) on graphene induces the formation of a curved surface stabilized by a gain in adsorption energy. This effect arises from a curvature-dependent variation of a moiré pattern due to the mismat... Read More about Adsorbate-induced curvature and stiffening of graphene.

The mirror and the map: Central Europe in the late prose of Danilo Kiš (2014)
Journal Article
Zoric, V. (2014). The mirror and the map: Central Europe in the late prose of Danilo Kiš

The article examines Danilo Kiš’s essayistic and narrative articulations of the cultural space of Central Europe in the context of dissident debates and the Yugoslav political crisis. In mid-1980s, Kundera’s essay “The Tragedy of Central Europe” spar... Read More about The mirror and the map: Central Europe in the late prose of Danilo Kiš.

A review on development and application of plant-based bioflocculants and grafted bioflocculants (2014)
Journal Article
Lee, C. S., Chong, M. F., Robinson, J. P., & Binner, E. (2014). A review on development and application of plant-based bioflocculants and grafted bioflocculants. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 53(48), 18357-18369. https://doi.org/10.1021/ie5034045

Flocculation is extensively employed for clarification through sedimentation. Application of eco-friendly plant-based bioflocculants in wastewater treatment has attracted significant attention lately with high removal capability in terms of solids, t... Read More about A review on development and application of plant-based bioflocculants and grafted bioflocculants.

Food choices and practices during pregnancy of immigrant women with high-risk pregnancies in Canada: a pilot study (2014)
Journal Article
Higginbottom, G. M., Valliantos, H., Forgeron, J., Gibbons, D., Mamede, F., & Bariola, R. (2014). Food choices and practices during pregnancy of immigrant women with high-risk pregnancies in Canada: a pilot study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 14(370), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-014-0370-6

Background: Immigrant women may be regarded as a vulnerable population with respect to access and navigation of maternity care services. They may encounter difficulties when accessing culturally safe and appropriate maternity care, which may be furth... Read More about Food choices and practices during pregnancy of immigrant women with high-risk pregnancies in Canada: a pilot study.

Expression of the myosin heavy chain IIB gene in porcine skeletal muscle: the role of the CArG-box promoter response element (2014)
Journal Article
Brown, D. M., Brameld, J. M., & Parr, T. (2014). Expression of the myosin heavy chain IIB gene in porcine skeletal muscle: the role of the CArG-box promoter response element. PLoS ONE, 9(12), Article e114365. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0114365

Due to its similarity to humans, the pig is increasingly being considered as a good animal model for studying a range of human diseases. Despite their physiological similarities, differential expression of the myosin heavy chain (MyHC) IIB gene (MYH4... Read More about Expression of the myosin heavy chain IIB gene in porcine skeletal muscle: the role of the CArG-box promoter response element.

"This wound has spoilt everything”: emotional capital and the experience of surgical site infections (2014)
Journal Article
Brown, B., Tanner, J., & Padley, W. (in press). "This wound has spoilt everything”: emotional capital and the experience of surgical site infections. Sociology of Health and Illness, 36(8), https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12160

In this article we explore the experience of suffering from a surgical site infection, a common complication of surgery affecting around 5 per cent of surgical patients, via an interview study of 17 patients in the Midlands in the UK. Despite their p... Read More about "This wound has spoilt everything”: emotional capital and the experience of surgical site infections.

Quantum cosmology from quantum gravity condensates: cosmological variables and lattice-refined dynamics (2014)
Journal Article
Gielen, S., & Oriti, D. (2014). Quantum cosmology from quantum gravity condensates: cosmological variables and lattice-refined dynamics. New Journal of Physics, 16(12), Article 123004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/16/12/123004

In the context of group field theory condensate cosmology, we clarify the extraction of cosmological variables from the microscopic quantum gravity degrees of freedom. We show that an important implication of the second quantized formalism is the dep... Read More about Quantum cosmology from quantum gravity condensates: cosmological variables and lattice-refined dynamics.