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Pigeons: a novel GUI software for analysing and parsing high density heterologous oligonucleotide microarray probe level data (2014)
Journal Article
Lai, H.-M., May, S., & Mayes, S. (2014). Pigeons: a novel GUI software for analysing and parsing high density heterologous oligonucleotide microarray probe level data. Microarrays, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.3390/microarrays3010001

Genomic DNA-based probe selection by using high density oligonucleotide arrays has recently been applied to heterologous species (Xspecies). With the advent of this new approach, researchers are able to study the genome and transcriptome of a non-mod... Read More about Pigeons: a novel GUI software for analysing and parsing high density heterologous oligonucleotide microarray probe level data.

Community phylogenetics at the biogeographical scale: cold tolerance, niche conservatism and the structure of North American forests (2014)
Journal Article
Hawkins, B. A., Rueda, M., Rangel, T. F., Field, R., & Diniz-Filho, J. A. F. (2014). Community phylogenetics at the biogeographical scale: cold tolerance, niche conservatism and the structure of North American forests. Journal of Biogeography, 41(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12171

Aim

The fossil record has led to a historical explanation for forest diversity gradients within the cool parts of the Northern Hemisphere, founded on a limited ability of woody angiosperm clades to adapt to mid-Tertiary cooling. We tested four pre... Read More about Community phylogenetics at the biogeographical scale: cold tolerance, niche conservatism and the structure of North American forests.

Asymptotic behaviour of tests for a unit root against an explosive alternative (2014)
Journal Article
Harvey, D. I., & Leybourne, S. J. (2014). Asymptotic behaviour of tests for a unit root against an explosive alternative. Economics Letters, 122(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2013.11.006

We compare the asymptotic local power of upper-tail unit root tests against an explosive alternative based on ordinary least squares (OLS) and quasi-differenced (QD) demeaning/detrending. We find that under an asymptotically negligible initialisation... Read More about Asymptotic behaviour of tests for a unit root against an explosive alternative.

Health status of UK care home residents: a cohort study (2014)
Journal Article
Gordon, A. L., Franklin, M., Bradshaw, L., Logan, P., Elliott, R., & Gladman, J. R. (2014). Health status of UK care home residents: a cohort study. Age and Ageing, 43(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/aft077

Background: UK care home residents are often poorly served by existing healthcare arrangements. Published descriptions of residents’ health status have been limited by lack of detail and use of data derived from surveys drawn from social, rather than... Read More about Health status of UK care home residents: a cohort study.

Getting goose bumps about teaching evolution (2014)
Journal Article
Foster, C. (2014). Getting goose bumps about teaching evolution. Primary Science,

Colin Foster thinks that creationist claims can provide a good opportunity in the science classroom for examining the evidence for evolution

Comparing stochastic differential equations and agent-based modelling and simulation for early-stage cancer (2014)
Journal Article
Figueredo, G. P., Siebers, P.-O., Owen, M. R., Reps, J., & Aickelin, U. (2014). Comparing stochastic differential equations and agent-based modelling and simulation for early-stage cancer. PLoS ONE, 9(4), Article e95150. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0095150

There is great potential to be explored regarding the use of agent-based modelling and simulation as an alternative paradigm to investigate early-stage cancer interactions with the immune system. It does not suffer from some limitations of ordinary d... Read More about Comparing stochastic differential equations and agent-based modelling and simulation for early-stage cancer.

Risk and protective factors for falls from furniture in young children: multicenter case-control study (2014)
Journal Article
Kendrick, D., Maula, A., & Reading, R. (2015). Risk and protective factors for falls from furniture in young children: multicenter case-control study. JAMA Pediatrics, 169(2), 145-153. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2014.2374

Importance: Falls from furniture are common in young children but there is little evidence on protective factors for these falls.

Objective: To estimate associations for risk and protective factors for falls from furniture in children aged 0 to 4... Read More about Risk and protective factors for falls from furniture in young children: multicenter case-control study.

Mechanical modelling quantifies the functional importance of outer tissue layers during root elongation and bending (2014)
Journal Article
Dyson, R. J., Vizcay-Barrena, G., Band, L. R., Fernandes, A. N., French, A. P., Fozard, J. A., Hodgman, T. C., Kenobi, K., Pridmore, T. P., Stout, M., Wells, D. M., Wilson, M. H., Bennett, M. J., & Jensen, O. E. (2014). Mechanical modelling quantifies the functional importance of outer tissue layers during root elongation and bending. New Phytologist, 202(4), 1212-1222. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.12764

Root elongation and bending require the coordinated expansion of multiple cells of different types. These processes are regulated by the action of hormones that can target distinct cell layers. We use a mathematical model to characterise the influenc... Read More about Mechanical modelling quantifies the functional importance of outer tissue layers during root elongation and bending.

A scanner system for high-resolution quantification of variation in root growth dynamics of Brassica rapa genotypes (2014)
Journal Article
variation in root growth dynamics of Brassica rapa genotypes. Journal of Experimental Botany, 65(8), 2039-2048. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eru048

The potential exists to breed for root system architectures that optimize resource acquisition. However, this requires the ability to screen root system development quantitatively, with high resolution, in as natural an environment as possible, with... Read More about A scanner system for high-resolution quantification of variation in root growth dynamics of Brassica rapa genotypes.

Spatial memory: behavioural determinants of persistence in the watermaze delayed matching-to-place task (2014)
Journal Article
da Silva, B. M., Bast, T., & Morris, R. G. (2014). Spatial memory: behavioural determinants of persistence in the watermaze delayed matching-to-place task. Learning and Memory, 21, https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.032169.113

The watermaze delayed matching-to-place (DMP) task was modified to include probe trials, to quantify search preference for the correct place. Using a zone-analysis of search-preference, a gradual decay of one-trial memory in rats was observed over 24... Read More about Spatial memory: behavioural determinants of persistence in the watermaze delayed matching-to-place task.

The STAT3-Ser/Hes3 signaling axis in cancer (2014)
Journal Article
Poser, S., Park, D. M., & Androutsellis-Theotokis, A. (2014). The STAT3-Ser/Hes3 signaling axis in cancer. Frontiers in Bioscience, 19(4), https://doi.org/10.2741/4238

Disrupting the regenerative capacity of tumorigenic cells is a major focus in medicine. These regenerative properties are carried by a subpopulation of cells within the tumor, termed cancer stem cells. Current therapies don't effectively tackle the d... Read More about The STAT3-Ser/Hes3 signaling axis in cancer.

Transient transcriptional events in human skeletal muscle at the outset of concentric resistance exercise training (2014)
Journal Article
Murton, A. J., Billeter, R., Stephens, F. B., Des Etages, S., Graber, F., Hill, R., Marimuthu, K., & Greenhaff, P. L. (2014). Transient transcriptional events in human skeletal muscle at the outset of concentric resistance exercise training. Journal of Applied Physiology, 116(1), https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00426.2013

We sought to ascertain the time course of transcriptional events that occur in human skeletal muscle at the outset of resistance exercise (RE) training in RE naive individuals and determine whether the magnitude of response was associated with exerci... Read More about Transient transcriptional events in human skeletal muscle at the outset of concentric resistance exercise training.

On the use of verlan to subtitle African American Vernacular English into French: transnational hybridity (2014)
Journal Article
Mevel, P.-A. (2014). On the use of verlan to subtitle African American Vernacular English into French: transnational hybridity. inTRAlinea: Online Translation Journal,

The polysemiotic nature of subtitled films, whereby textual information (the subtitles) is combined with other audiovisual cues (the pictures and the soundtrack of the film) makes them very vulnerable as a form of translation, as well as a peculiar o... Read More about On the use of verlan to subtitle African American Vernacular English into French: transnational hybridity.

Learning from each other: co-teaching Chinese to pre-service teachers (2014)
Book Chapter
Medwell, J., Richardson, K., & Li, L. (2014). Learning from each other: co-teaching Chinese to pre-service teachers. In S.-C. Hsin (Ed.), Selected papers: 2nd International Conference on Chinese as a Second Language Research. CASLAR

This study presents a case study co-teaching of beginner level Chinese as part of initial teacher education in England. The study involved interviews with teachers and observations of planning and teaching. The teaching in this study aims to teach el... Read More about Learning from each other: co-teaching Chinese to pre-service teachers.

One swallow doesn’t make a summer: reply to Kataria (2014)
Journal Article
Maniadis, Z., Tufano, F., & List, J. A. (2014). One swallow doesn’t make a summer: reply to Kataria. Econ journal watch, 11(1),

In this paper we reply to Mitesh Kataria’s comment, which criticized the simulations of Maniadis, Tufano, and List (2014, Am. Econ. Rev.104(1), 277-290). We view these simulations as a means to illustrating the fact that we economists are unaware of... Read More about One swallow doesn’t make a summer: reply to Kataria.

Pressure ulcer stages among bed-ridden patients in Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Zaria- Nigeria (2014)
Journal Article
Ladan, A. M., Garba, S. N., Sani, D. K., Sani, H. M., & Muhammed, A. F. (2014). Pressure ulcer stages among bed-ridden patients in Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Zaria- Nigeria. https://doi.org/10.9790/1959-03146168

This study was carried out to assesspressure ulcer stages among bed-ridden patients in Medical, Neurosurgical and Orthopaedic wards inAhmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH) Shika-Zaria. The main aim of this study is to determine the preval... Read More about Pressure ulcer stages among bed-ridden patients in Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Zaria- Nigeria.

Use of short-tandem repeat (STR) fingerprinting to validate sample origins in hepatitis C virus molecular epidemiology studies (2014)
Journal Article
Edwards, V. C., McClure, P., Brown, R. J., Thompson, E., Irving, W. L., & Ball, J. K. (in press). Use of short-tandem repeat (STR) fingerprinting to validate sample origins in hepatitis C virus molecular epidemiology studies. Journal of General Virology, 95(1), https://doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.057828-0

Sequence analysis is used to define the molecular epidemiology and evolution of the hepatitis C virus. Whilst most studies have shown that individual patients harbour viruses that are derived from a limited number of highly related strains, some rece... Read More about Use of short-tandem repeat (STR) fingerprinting to validate sample origins in hepatitis C virus molecular epidemiology studies.

Bayesian evaluation of budgets for endemic disease control: an example using management changes to reduce milksomatic cell count early in the first lactation of Irish dairy cows (2014)
Journal Article
Archer, S. C., Mc Coy, F., Wapenaar, W., & Green, M. J. (2014). Bayesian evaluation of budgets for endemic disease control: an example using management changes to reduce milksomatic cell count early in the first lactation of Irish dairy cows. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 113(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2013.10.011

The aim of this research was to determine budgets for specific management interventions to control heifer mastitis in Irish dairy herds as an example of evidence synthesis and 1-step Bayesian micro-simulation in a veterinary context. Budgets were det... Read More about Bayesian evaluation of budgets for endemic disease control: an example using management changes to reduce milksomatic cell count early in the first lactation of Irish dairy cows.