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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.

Molecular determinants of allosteric modulation at the M1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (2014)
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Abdul-Ridha, A., López, L., Keov, P., Thal, D. M., Mistry, S. N., Sexton, P. M., …Christopoulos, A. (2014). Molecular determinants of allosteric modulation at the M1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 289(9), 6067-6079. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M113.539080

Benzylquinolone carboxylic acid (BQCA) is an unprecedented example of a selective positive allosteric modulator of acetylcholine at the M1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mAChR). To probe the structural basis underlying its selectivity, we utilize... Read More about Molecular determinants of allosteric modulation at the M1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor.

Evolution of Chloroplast Transcript Processing in Plasmodium and Its Chromerid Algal Relatives (2014)
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Dorrell, R. G., Drew, J., Nisbet, R. E. R., & Howe, C. J. (2014). Evolution of Chloroplast Transcript Processing in Plasmodium and Its Chromerid Algal Relatives. PLoS Genetics, 10(1), Article e1004008. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1004008

Chloroplasts contain their own genomes, containing two broad functional types of gene: genes encoding proteins directly involved in photosynthesis, and genes with a non-photosynthesis function, such as cofactor biosynthesis, assembly of protein compl... Read More about Evolution of Chloroplast Transcript Processing in Plasmodium and Its Chromerid Algal Relatives.

CCL20/CCR6-mediated migration of regulatory T cells to the Helicobacter pylori-infected human gastric mucosa (2014)
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Cook, K. W., Letley, D. P., Ingram, R. J., Staples, E., Skjoldmose, H., Atherton, J. C., & Robinson, K. (2014). CCL20/CCR6-mediated migration of regulatory T cells to the Helicobacter pylori-infected human gastric mucosa. Gut, 63(10), 1550-1559. https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2013-306253

Background Helicobacter pylori-induced peptic ulceration is less likely to occur in patients with a strong gastric anti-inflammatory regulatory T cell (Treg) response. Migration of Tregs into the gastric mucosa is therefore important.

Objective To... Read More about CCL20/CCR6-mediated migration of regulatory T cells to the Helicobacter pylori-infected human gastric mucosa.

Glial activation in the early stages of brain metastasis: TSPO as a diagnostic biomarker (2014)
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ER, O., Serres, S., V, K., M, T., B, C., MS, S., …NR., S. (2014). Glial activation in the early stages of brain metastasis: TSPO as a diagnostic biomarker. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 55(2), 275-280. https://doi.org/10.2967/jnumed.113.127449

Metastatic spread of cancer cells to the brain is associated with high mortality, primarily because current diagnostic tools identify only well-advanced metastases. Brain metastases have been shown to induce a robust glial response, including both as... Read More about Glial activation in the early stages of brain metastasis: TSPO as a diagnostic biomarker.

Acinar cell carcinoma of exocrine pancreas in two horses (2014)
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de Brot, S., Junge, H., & Hilbe, M. (2014). Acinar cell carcinoma of exocrine pancreas in two horses. Journal of Comparative Pathology, 150(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcpa.2014.01.003

Two horses were presented with non-specific clinical signs of several weeks' duration and were humanely destroyed due to a poor prognosis. At necropsy examination, both horses had multiple small, white nodules replacing pancreatic tissue and involvin... Read More about Acinar cell carcinoma of exocrine pancreas in two horses.

An international anomaly? Sovereignty, the League of Nations, and India's princely geographies (2014)
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Legg, S. (2014). An international anomaly? Sovereignty, the League of Nations, and India's princely geographies. Journal of Historical Geography, 43, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2013.03.002

This paper examines India's experiences as the only non-self-governing member of the League of Nations as a means of addressing the broader question: where was the international? As the only non-self-governing member of the League, India's new intern... Read More about An international anomaly? Sovereignty, the League of Nations, and India's princely geographies.

Design of a high-force-density tubular motor (2014)
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Galea, M., Buticchi, G., Empringham, L., De Lillo, L., & Gerada, C. (2014). Design of a high-force-density tubular motor. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 50(4), https://doi.org/10.1109/TIA.2014.2300190

This paper deals with the design, construction and experimental verification of a high force density, tubular, linear, permanent magnet motor, driven from a high power density matrix converter for an aerospace application. The work also describes the... Read More about Design of a high-force-density tubular motor.

Adaptive linear combination of heuristic orderings in constructing examination timetables (2014)
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Abdul-Rahman, S., Bargiela, A., Burke, E., Özcan, E., McCollum, B., & McMullan, P. (2014). Adaptive linear combination of heuristic orderings in constructing examination timetables. European Journal of Operational Research, 232(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2013.06.052

In this paper, we investigate adaptive linear combinations of graph coloring heuristics with a heuristic modifier to address the examination timetabling problem. We invoke a normalisation strategy for each parameter in order to generalise the specifi... Read More about Adaptive linear combination of heuristic orderings in constructing examination timetables.

Rising burden of gout in the UK but continuing suboptimal management: A nationwide population study (2014)
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Kuo, C. F., Grainge, M. J., Mallen, C., Zhang, W., & Doherty, M. (2015). Rising burden of gout in the UK but continuing suboptimal management: A nationwide population study. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 74(4), 661-667. https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-204463

Objectives: To describe trends in the epidemiology of gout and patterns of urate-lowering treatment (ULT) in the UK general population from 1997 to 2012. Methods: We used the Clinical Practice Research Datalink to estimate the prevalence and incidenc... Read More about Rising burden of gout in the UK but continuing suboptimal management: A nationwide population study.