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Screening for celiac disease in the general population and in high-risk groups (2014)
Journal Article
Ludvigsson, J. F., Card, T. R., Kaukinen, K., Bai, J., Zingone, F., Sanders, D. S., & Murray, J. A. (in press). Screening for celiac disease in the general population and in high-risk groups. United European Gastroenterology Journal, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/2050640614561668

BACKGROUND: Celiac disease (CD) occurs in approximately 1% of the Western population. It is a lifelong disorder that is associated with impaired quality of life (QOL) and an excessive risk of comorbidity and death.

OBJECTIVES: To review the liter... Read More about Screening for celiac disease in the general population and in high-risk groups.

Performance evaluation of an energy storage system for household applications (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Klumpner, C. Performance evaluation of an energy storage system for household applications. Presented at 2014 Power Electronics, Machines and Control Group (PEMC) Conference

This presentation shows the progress made on the Supercapattery for household applications as of December 2014.

Access to medicines by child refugees in the East Midlands region of England: a cross-sectional study (2014)
Journal Article
Alkahtani, S. A., Cherrill, J., Millward, C., Grayson, K., Hilliam, R., Sammons, H., & Choonara, I. (2014). Access to medicines by child refugees in the East Midlands region of England: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Open, 4, Article e006421. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006421

Objectives: To explore access to primary healthcare and drug therapy by refugee children in the East Midlands region of England.
Design: Interviews with refugees with children and a control group of British parents with children.
Setting: East Midl... Read More about Access to medicines by child refugees in the East Midlands region of England: a cross-sectional study.

Measuring corruption: Perspectives, critiques and limits (2014)
Book Chapter
Heywood, P. M. (2014). Measuring corruption: Perspectives, critiques and limits. In P. M. Heywood (Ed.), Routledge handbook of political corruption (137-153). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315739175.ch10

How do we measure some thing that is, by its very nature, largely hidden? This is the conundrum that faces all who have attempted to develop a means of measuring corruption. Given the seemingly intractable nature of this problem, the obvious question... Read More about Measuring corruption: Perspectives, critiques and limits.

Introduction: Scale and focus in the study of corruption (2014)
Book Chapter
Heywood, P. M. (2014). Introduction: Scale and focus in the study of corruption. In P. M. Heywood (Ed.), Routledge handbook of political corruption (1-14). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315739175.intro

Corruption is one of the most high-profile issues in the contemporary world. According to the 2011 ‘World Speaks’ surveys, conducted by GlobeScan for the BBC World Service, corruption was the world’s most talked-about problem, ahead of extreme povert... Read More about Introduction: Scale and focus in the study of corruption.

Routledge handbook of political corruption (2014)
Book
Heywood, P. M. (2014). Routledge handbook of political corruption. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315739175

Since the early 1990s, a series of major scandals in both the financial and most especially the political world has resulted in close attention being paid to the issue of corruption and its links to political legitimacy and stability. Indeed, in many... Read More about Routledge handbook of political corruption.

Critical analysis of the limitations of Bleaney's theory of magnetic anisotropy in paramagnetic lanthanide coordination complexes (2014)
Journal Article
Funk, A. M., Finney, K.-L. N. A., Harvey, P., Kenwright, A. M., Neil, E. R., Rogers, N. J., Kanthi Senanayake, P., & Parker, D. (2014). Critical analysis of the limitations of Bleaney's theory of magnetic anisotropy in paramagnetic lanthanide coordination complexes. Chemical Science, 6(3), 1655-1662. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4sc03429e

The origins of the breakdown of Bleaney's theory of magnetic anisotropy are described, based on an analysis of eleven different complexes of the second half of the 4f elements that form isostructural series. An examination of the chemical shift and r... Read More about Critical analysis of the limitations of Bleaney's theory of magnetic anisotropy in paramagnetic lanthanide coordination complexes.

Closed-form Solution for Freely Vibrating Functionally Graded Thick Doubly Curved Panel-A New Generic Approach (2014)
Journal Article
Fadaee, M., & Ilkhani, M. R. (2015). Closed-form Solution for Freely Vibrating Functionally Graded Thick Doubly Curved Panel-A New Generic Approach. Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures, 12(9), 1748-1770. https://doi.org/10.1590/1679-78251550

Today, double curvature shell panels are the main parts of each design because their geometrical characteristics provide high strength to weight ratio, aerodynamic form and beauty for the structures such as boats, submarines, automobiles and building... Read More about Closed-form Solution for Freely Vibrating Functionally Graded Thick Doubly Curved Panel-A New Generic Approach.

“Mostly we are white and alone”: identity, anxiety and the past in some white Zimbabwean memoirs (2014)
Journal Article
Law, K. (2016). “Mostly we are white and alone”: identity, anxiety and the past in some white Zimbabwean memoirs. Journal of Historical Sociology, 29(3), 297-318. https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12090

Using the space created by the land invasions, over the last ten years or so there has been a proliferation of exile memoirs written by white Zimbabweans living in the diaspora, which foreground colonial nostalgia and postcolonial anxiety. This artic... Read More about “Mostly we are white and alone”: identity, anxiety and the past in some white Zimbabwean memoirs.

Nottingham Clinico-Pathological Response Index (NPRI) after Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy (Neo-ACT) accurately predicts clinical outcome in locally advanced breast cancer (2014)
Journal Article
Abdel-Fatah, T. M., Ball, G., Lee, A. H. S., Pinder, S., MacMilan, R. D., Cornford, E., Moseley, P. M., Silverman, R., Price, J., Latham, B., Palmer, D., Chan, A., Ellis, I. O., & Chan, S. Y. T. (2015). Nottingham Clinico-Pathological Response Index (NPRI) after Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy (Neo-ACT) accurately predicts clinical outcome in locally advanced breast cancer. Clinical Cancer Research, 21(5), 1052-1062. https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-14-0685

PM synchronous machine comparison for light electric vehicles (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Carraro, E., Degano, M., Morandin, M., & Bianchi, N. (2014, December). PM synchronous machine comparison for light electric vehicles. Presented at 2014 IEEE International Electric Vehicle Conference, IEVC 2014, Florence, Italy

The research of rare-earth free alternatives, such as ferrite, hot pressed NdFeB Permanent Magnet Assisted Synchronous Reluctance (PMASR) motor or pure reluctance motor, has potentially interesting implications especially in the perspective of indust... Read More about PM synchronous machine comparison for light electric vehicles.

A Brief Discussion About Measuring Child Molester Cognition With the Sex With Children Scale (2014)
Journal Article
Walton, J., Duff, S., & Chou, S. (2017). A Brief Discussion About Measuring Child Molester Cognition With the Sex With Children Scale. Child Abuse Review, 26(2), 91-102. https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2361

This article reviews the Sex with Children (SWCH) scale and compares its psychometric properties to alternative measures in the field. Examination of the scale indicates that it is one of several instruments which do not proportionally tap into all i... Read More about A Brief Discussion About Measuring Child Molester Cognition With the Sex With Children Scale.

Nonassociative geometry in quasi-Hopf representation categories I: bimodules and their internal homomorphisms (2014)
Journal Article
Barnes, G. E., Schenkel, A., & Szabo, R. J. (2015). Nonassociative geometry in quasi-Hopf representation categories I: bimodules and their internal homomorphisms. Journal of Geometry and Physics, 89, 111-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomphys.2014.12.005

We systematically study noncommutative and nonassociative algebras A and their bimodules as algebras and bimodules internal to the representation category of a quasitriangular quasi-Hopf algebra. We enlarge the morphisms of the monoidal category of A... Read More about Nonassociative geometry in quasi-Hopf representation categories I: bimodules and their internal homomorphisms.

A tensor-based selection hyper-heuristic for cross-domain heuristic search (2014)
Journal Article
Asta, S., & Özcan, E. (2015). A tensor-based selection hyper-heuristic for cross-domain heuristic search. Information Sciences, 299, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2014.12.020

Hyper-heuristics have emerged as automated high level search methodologies that manage a set of low level heuristics for solving computationally hard problems. A generic selection hyper-heuristic combines heuristic selection and move acceptance metho... Read More about A tensor-based selection hyper-heuristic for cross-domain heuristic search.

Factors associated with family caregiver dissatisfaction with acute hospital care of older cognitively impaired relatives (2014)
Journal Article
the Medical Crises in Older People Study Group, Whittamore, K. H., Goldberg, S. E., Bradshaw, L. E., & Harwood, R. H. (2014). Factors associated with family caregiver dissatisfaction with acute hospital care of older cognitively impaired relatives. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 62(12), 2252-2260. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.13147

© 2014, The American Geriatrics Society. Objectives To identify patient and caregiver characteristics associated with caregiver dissatisfaction with hospital care of cognitively impaired elderly adults.Design Secondary analysis of data from a randomi... Read More about Factors associated with family caregiver dissatisfaction with acute hospital care of older cognitively impaired relatives.

Photocatalytic hydroxylation of arylboronic acids using continuous flow reactors (2014)
Journal Article
Penders, I. G. T. M., Amara, Z., Horvath, R., Rossen, K., Poliakoff, M., & George, M. W. (in press). Photocatalytic hydroxylation of arylboronic acids using continuous flow reactors. RSC Advances, 5(9), https://doi.org/10.1039/c4ra15588b

The photocatalytic oxidation of mono- and di-substituted arylboronic acids to phenols has been investigated using a continuous flow photoreactor fitted with white LEDs. An EtOH–H2O solvent system accelerated conversion at 2 MPa; whereas reactions at... Read More about Photocatalytic hydroxylation of arylboronic acids using continuous flow reactors.

Influence of 1α, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1, 25(OH)2D3] on the expression of Sox 9 and the transient receptor potential vanilloid 5/6 ion channels in equine articular chondrocytes (2014)
Journal Article
Hdud, I. M., & Loughna, P. (2014). Influence of 1α, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1, 25(OH)2D3] on the expression of Sox 9 and the transient receptor potential vanilloid 5/6 ion channels in equine articular chondrocytes. Journal of Animal Science and Technology, 56, Article 33. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40781-014-0033-1

Background


Sox 9 is a major marker of chondrocyte differentiation. When chondrocytes are cultured in vitro they progressively de-differentiate and this is associated with a decline in Sox 9 expression. The active form of vitamin D, 1, 25 (OH)2D3... Read More about Influence of 1α, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1, 25(OH)2D3] on the expression of Sox 9 and the transient receptor potential vanilloid 5/6 ion channels in equine articular chondrocytes.

Closed but provocative questions: curves enclosing unit area (2014)
Journal Article
Foster, C. (2014). Closed but provocative questions: curves enclosing unit area. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 46(5), https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739X.2014.992989

This article describes a task leading to work on curve sketching, simultaneous equations and integration to find the area enclosed between two curves. An initial closed question is used to confront students with a provocative answer, which they then... Read More about Closed but provocative questions: curves enclosing unit area.

Optimal performance of endoreversible quantum refrigerators (2014)
Journal Article
Correa, L. A., Palao, J. P., Adesso, G., & Alonso, D. (2014). Optimal performance of endoreversible quantum refrigerators. Physical Review E, 90(6), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.90.062124

The derivation of general performance benchmarks is important in the design of highly optimized heat engines and refrigerators. To obtain them, one may model phenomenologically the leading sources of irreversibility ending up with results that are mo... Read More about Optimal performance of endoreversible quantum refrigerators.

Climate-responsive vernacular Swahili housing (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kiamba, L., Rodrigues, L., & Lau, B. (2014, December). Climate-responsive vernacular Swahili housing. Presented at 30th International PLEA Conference: Sustainable Habitat for Developing Societies: Choosing the Way Forward (PLEA 2014), Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

© 2014 30th International PLEA Conference: Sustainable Habitat for Developing Societies: Choosing the Way Forward - Proceedings. All rights reserved. Vernacular architecture is manifested by a large variety of forms that have a diversity of explanati... Read More about Climate-responsive vernacular Swahili housing.