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The impact of physical and psychosocial risks on employee well-being and quality of life: The case of the mining industry in Ghana (2014)
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Amponsah-Tawiah, K., Jain, A., Leka, S., Hollis, D., & Cox, T. (2014). The impact of physical and psychosocial risks on employee well-being and quality of life: The case of the mining industry in Ghana. Safety Science, 65, 28-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2013.12.002

While in recent years there has been a growing awareness among mining companies of the need to address physical injuries and environmental issues, there remains a lack of knowledge about how psychosocial risks independently and in conjunction with ph... Read More about The impact of physical and psychosocial risks on employee well-being and quality of life: The case of the mining industry in Ghana.

B-cell receptors expressed by lymphomas of hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected patients rarely react with the viral proteins (2014)
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Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has been implicated in the induction and maintenance of B-cell lymphomas. The strongest evidence for this derives from clinical observations of tumor regressions upon antiviral treatments. Here we used multip... Read More about B-cell receptors expressed by lymphomas of hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected patients rarely react with the viral proteins.

Popular culture, participation and progression in the literacy classroom (2014)
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Parry, B. (2014). Popular culture, participation and progression in the literacy classroom. Literacy, 48(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12027

In this paper, I share an account of what happens when a teacher values children's experiences of popular culture in a classroom activity. Drawing on a socio-cultural approach to learning, I suggest that children are not simply enthused when their li... Read More about Popular culture, participation and progression in the literacy classroom.

Kinetochore assembly and heterochromatin formation occur autonomously in Schizosaccharomyces pombe (2014)
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Brown, W. R., Thomas, G., Lee, N. C., Blythe, M., Liti, G., Warringer, J., & Loose, M. W. (2014). Kinetochore assembly and heterochromatin formation occur autonomously in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(5), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1216934111

Kinetochores in multicellular eukaryotes are usually associated with heterochromatin. Whether this heterochromatin simply promotes the cohesion necessary for accurate chromosome segregation at cell division or whether it also has a role in kinetochor... Read More about Kinetochore assembly and heterochromatin formation occur autonomously in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

Global-scale climate impact functions: the relationship between climate forcing and impact (2014)
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Arnell, N., Brown, S., Gosling, S. N., Hinkel, J., Huntingford, C., Lloyd-Hughes, B., …Zelazowski, P. (2016). Global-scale climate impact functions: the relationship between climate forcing and impact. Climatic Change, 134(3), 475-487. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-013-1034-7

Although there is a strong policy interest in the impacts of climate change corresponding to different degrees of climate change, there is so far little consistent empirical evidence of the relationship between climate forcing and impact. This is bec... Read More about Global-scale climate impact functions: the relationship between climate forcing and impact.

Managing obesity through mobile phone applications: a state-of-the-art review from a user-centred design perspective (2014)
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Hermawati, S., & Lawson, G. (2014). Managing obesity through mobile phone applications: a state-of-the-art review from a user-centred design perspective. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 18(8), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-014-0757-4

Evidence has shown that the trend of increasing obesity rates has continued in the last decade. Mobile phone applications, benefiting from their ubiquity, have been increasingly used to address this issue. In order to increase the applications’ accep... Read More about Managing obesity through mobile phone applications: a state-of-the-art review from a user-centred design perspective.

Quinones as Dienophiles in the Diels-Alder Reaction: History and Applications in Total Synthesis (2014)
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Nawrat, C. C., & Moody, C. J. (2014). Quinones as Dienophiles in the Diels-Alder Reaction: History and Applications in Total Synthesis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 53(8), 2056-2077. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201305908

In the canon of reactions available to the organic chemist engaged in total synthesis, the Diels–Alder reaction is among the most powerful and well understood. Its ability to rapidly generate molecular complexity through the simultaneous formation of... Read More about Quinones as Dienophiles in the Diels-Alder Reaction: History and Applications in Total Synthesis.

Influence of priming duration on the performance of Amaranths (Amaranthus cruentus L.) in Sokoto semiarid zone of Nigeria (2014)
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Musa, M., Singh, A., & Lawal, A. A. (2014). Influence of priming duration on the performance of Amaranths (Amaranthus cruentus L.) in Sokoto semiarid zone of Nigeria. International Journal of Agronomy, 2014(475953), Article 475953. https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/475953

Two field trials were conducted during the 2012 cropping season at the Fruits and Vegetable Teaching and Research Farm of the Department of Crop Science, Usman Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (located on latitude N-N and longitude -), to evaluate the ef... Read More about Influence of priming duration on the performance of Amaranths (Amaranthus cruentus L.) in Sokoto semiarid zone of Nigeria.

The mitochondrial 16 s rRNA reveals high anthropogenic influence on land snail diversity in a preliminary island survey (2014)
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Abu-Bakar, S. B., Razali, N. M., Naggs, F., Wade, C., Mohd-Nor, S. A., & Aileen-Tan, S. H. (2014). The mitochondrial 16 s rRNA reveals high anthropogenic influence on land snail diversity in a preliminary island survey. Molecular Biology Reports, 41(3), 1799-1805. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-014-3029-5

A total of 30 specimens belonging to five species, namely; Cryptozona siamensis, Sarika resplendens and Sarika sp. from the family Ariophantidae as well as Quantula striata and Quantula sp. from the family Dyakiidae were collected from the Langkawi I... Read More about The mitochondrial 16 s rRNA reveals high anthropogenic influence on land snail diversity in a preliminary island survey.

Investigating geogrid-reinforced ballast: Experimental pull-out tests and discrete element modelling (2014)
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Chen, C., McDowell, G., & Thom, N. (2014). Investigating geogrid-reinforced ballast: Experimental pull-out tests and discrete element modelling. Soils and Foundations, 54(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sandf.2013.12.001

This paper presents an evaluation of the interlocking behaviour of geogrid-reinforced railway ballast. Experimental large box pull-out tests were conducted to examine the interaction between ballast and a biaxial geogrid. The discrete element method... Read More about Investigating geogrid-reinforced ballast: Experimental pull-out tests and discrete element modelling.

A case study of the carbon footprint of milk from high-performing confinement and grass-based dairy farms (2014)
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O'Brien, D., Capper, J., Garnsworthy, P., Grainger, C., & Shalloo, L. (2014). A case study of the carbon footprint of milk from high-performing confinement and grass-based dairy farms. Journal of Dairy Science, 97(3), https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2013-7174

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is the preferred methodology to assess carbon footprint per unit of milk. The objective of this case study was to apply a LCA method to compare carbon footprints of high performance confinement and grass-based dairy farms.... Read More about A case study of the carbon footprint of milk from high-performing confinement and grass-based dairy farms.

Women candidates and party nomination trends in India: evidence from the 2009 general election (2014)
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Spary, C. (in press). Women candidates and party nomination trends in India: evidence from the 2009 general election. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 52(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2013.867691

More women MPs than ever before were elected to the lower house of the national parliament of India in the 2009 General Election. Yet, the increase in women’s presence in the Lok Sabha cannot necessarily be attributed to the increased willingness of... Read More about Women candidates and party nomination trends in India: evidence from the 2009 general election.

Qualitative meta-synthesis of user experience of computerised therapy for depression and anxiety (2014)
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Knowles, S., Toms, G., Sanders, C., Bee, P., Lovell, K., Rennick-Egglestone, S., …Bower, P. (in press). Qualitative meta-synthesis of user experience of computerised therapy for depression and anxiety. PLoS ONE, 9(1), Article e84323. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084323

Objective: Computerised therapies play an integral role in efforts to improve access to psychological treatment for patients with depression and anxiety. However, despite recognised problems with uptake, there has been a lack of investigation into th... Read More about Qualitative meta-synthesis of user experience of computerised therapy for depression and anxiety.

A dynamic model of the eye nystagmus response to high magnetic fields (2014)
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Glover, P. M., Li, Y., Antunes, A., Mian, O. S., & Day, B. L. (2014). A dynamic model of the eye nystagmus response to high magnetic fields. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 59(3), https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/59/3/631

It was recently shown that high magnetic fields evoke nystagmus in human subjects with functioning vestibular systems. The proposed mechanism involves interaction between ionic currents in the endolymph of the vestibular labyrinth and the static magn... Read More about A dynamic model of the eye nystagmus response to high magnetic fields.

Color influences sensory perception and liking of orange juice (2014)
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Fernandez-Vazquez, R., Hewson, L., Fisk, I. D., Hernanz Vila, D., Heredia Mira, F. J., Vicario, I. M., & Hort, J. (2014). Color influences sensory perception and liking of orange juice. Flavour, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/2044-7248-3-1

Background: This study assesses the effect of slight hue variations in orange juice (reddish to greenish) on perceived flavour intensity, sweetness, and sourness, and on expected and actual liking. A commercial orange juice (COJ) was selected as a co... Read More about Color influences sensory perception and liking of orange juice.