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Human Testicular Insulin-Like Factor 3 and Endocrine Disrupters (2014)
Book Chapter
Bay, K., & Anand-Ivell, R. (2014). Human Testicular Insulin-Like Factor 3 and Endocrine Disrupters. In Endocrine Disrupters (327-348). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-800095-3.00012-2

The hormone insulin-like factor 3 (INSL3) is produced by testicular Leydig cells. Production of INSL3 is dependent on the state of Leydig cell differentiation and is stimulated by the long-term trophic effects of luteinizing hormone. INSL3 is, along... Read More about Human Testicular Insulin-Like Factor 3 and Endocrine Disrupters.

Reclaimed asphalt test specimen preparation assisted by image analysis (2014)
Journal Article
Lo Presti, D., Hassan, N. A., Khan, R., & Airey, G. (2015). Reclaimed asphalt test specimen preparation assisted by image analysis. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 27(8), Article C4014005. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29MT.1943-5533.0001012

This paper presents a laboratory investigation aimed at establishing a protocol for the production of homogeneous asphalt mixtures test specimens, incorporating reclaimed asphalt by using a gyratory compactor with coring and trimming works. Stone mas... Read More about Reclaimed asphalt test specimen preparation assisted by image analysis.

Atomic electron affinities and the role of symmetry between electron addition and subtraction in a corrected Koopmans approach (2014)
Journal Article
Teale, A. M., De Proft, F., Geerlings, P., & Tozer, D. J. (2014). Atomic electron affinities and the role of symmetry between electron addition and subtraction in a corrected Koopmans approach. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 16(28), https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CP54528H

The essential aspects of zero-temperature grand-canonical ensemble density-functional theory are reviewed in the context of spin-density-functional theory and are used to highlight the assumption of symmetry between electron addition and subtraction... Read More about Atomic electron affinities and the role of symmetry between electron addition and subtraction in a corrected Koopmans approach.

Religious faith and heterosexuality: A multi-faith exploration of young adults (2014)
Book Chapter
Kam-Tuck Yip, A., & Page, S. (2014). Religious faith and heterosexuality: A multi-faith exploration of young adults. . Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004272385_007

This paper examines the understandings and practices of 515 heterosexual religious young adults living in the United Kingdom in terms of their religious faith and sexuality. It presents qualitative and quantitative data drawn from questionnaires, int... Read More about Religious faith and heterosexuality: A multi-faith exploration of young adults.

Preservice teachers' learning among students with autism spectrum disorder (2014)
Journal Article
Power, A., & Costley, D. (2014). Preservice teachers' learning among students with autism spectrum disorder. Australasian Journal of Special Education, 38(1), 34-50. https://doi.org/10.1017/jse.2014.6

This article reports on a collaborative venture between Autism Spectrum Australia and the University of Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The Social Club network was formed for children and adolescents to provide structured opportunities fo... Read More about Preservice teachers' learning among students with autism spectrum disorder.

Sad shires and no man's land: First World War frames of reference in the British media representation of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars (2014)
Journal Article
Wilson, R. (2014). Sad shires and no man's land: First World War frames of reference in the British media representation of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Media, War and Conflict, 7(3), 291-308. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750635214557987

© The Author(s) 2014. The focus of this article is the manner in which media representations in Britain of the 21st century conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan drew upon the terms, allusions and imagery of the First World War. The application of these... Read More about Sad shires and no man's land: First World War frames of reference in the British media representation of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.

Application of 2D URANS in fluid structure interaction problems of rectangular cylinders (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nieto, F., Hargreaves, D., Owen, J., & Hernández, S. (2014). Application of 2D URANS in fluid structure interaction problems of rectangular cylinders. WIT Transactions on Engineering Sciences, 82, 85-94. https://doi.org/10.2495/AFM140081

© 2014 WIT Press. In this work the authors have studied the applicability of the 2D URANS approach adopting a block structured mesh and Menter’s SST k-omega turbulence model for the aspect ratio 4 rectangular cylinder. As a first step, a verification... Read More about Application of 2D URANS in fluid structure interaction problems of rectangular cylinders.

Behavior control in the sensorimotor loop with short-term synaptic dynamics induced by self-regulating neurons (2014)
Journal Article
Toutounji, H., & Pasemann, F. (2014). Behavior control in the sensorimotor loop with short-term synaptic dynamics induced by self-regulating neurons. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 8, Article 19. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2014.00019

The behavior and skills of living systems depend on the distributed control provided by specialized and highly recurrent neural networks. Learning and memory in these systems is mediated by a set of adaptation mechanisms, known collectively as neuron... Read More about Behavior control in the sensorimotor loop with short-term synaptic dynamics induced by self-regulating neurons.

The ORF4b-encoded accessory proteins of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus and two related bat coronaviruses localize to the nucleus and inhibit innate immune signalling (2014)
Journal Article
Matthews, K. L., Coleman, C. M., van der Meer, Y., Snijder, E. J., & Frieman, M. B. (2014). The ORF4b-encoded accessory proteins of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus and two related bat coronaviruses localize to the nucleus and inhibit innate immune signalling. Journal of General Virology, 95(4), 874-882. https://doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.062059-0

The recently emerged Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), a betacoronavirus, is associated with severe pneumonia and renal failure. The environmental origin of MERS-CoV is as yet unknown; however, its genome sequence is closely re... Read More about The ORF4b-encoded accessory proteins of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus and two related bat coronaviruses localize to the nucleus and inhibit innate immune signalling.

Carbon electrodeposition in molten salts: Electrode reactions and applications (2014)
Journal Article
Ijije, H. V., Lawrence, R. C., & Chen, G. Z. (2014). Carbon electrodeposition in molten salts: Electrode reactions and applications. RSC Advances, 4(67), 35808-35817. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4ra04629c

The chemistry of carbon deposition in molten salts has been studied by a number of researchers with quite different interpretations of the reactions involved. This paper therefore reviews and discusses available literature on the cathodic and anodic... Read More about Carbon electrodeposition in molten salts: Electrode reactions and applications.

Cryo-solvatochromism in ionic liquids (2014)
Journal Article
Yu, L., & Chen, G. Z. (2014). Cryo-solvatochromism in ionic liquids. RSC Advances, 4(76), 40281-40285. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4ra08116a

Cryo-solvatochromism (blue to green) in response to cooling from room temperature to well below 0 °C can have many applications, and has been achieved in an ionic liquid, 1-(2-hydroxyethyl)-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate, containing di-(1-buty... Read More about Cryo-solvatochromism in ionic liquids.

Identification of a novel regulatory mechanism for the disease associated protein, uPAR (2014)
Journal Article
Portelli, M. A., Hall, I. P., & Sayers, I. (2014). Identification of a novel regulatory mechanism for the disease associated protein, uPAR. Malta Medical Journal, 26(1), 32-37

Expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs), as determined through a series of statistical association studies collectively known as genome-wide association (GWA) studies, have provided us with a hypothesis free approach for the investigation into reg... Read More about Identification of a novel regulatory mechanism for the disease associated protein, uPAR.

'Dry bases': Carbon dioxide capture using alkaline dry water (2014)
Journal Article
Dawson, R., Stevens, L. A., Williams, O. S., Wang, W., Carter, B. O., Sutton, S., …Cooper, A. I. (2014). 'Dry bases': Carbon dioxide capture using alkaline dry water. Energy and Environmental Science, 7(5), 1786-1791. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3ee44124e

An alkaline form of 'dry water' - a 'dry base' - is prepared by the high-speed mixing of aqueous solutions of metal carbonates or organic amines with hydrophobic silica nanoparticles. Despite being mostly water, the dry base looks and flows like a po... Read More about 'Dry bases': Carbon dioxide capture using alkaline dry water.

Stock market integration and financial crises: evidence from Chinese sector portfolios (2014)
Preprint / Working Paper
Li, H., & Daly, V. (2014). Stock market integration and financial crises: evidence from Chinese sector portfolios

This paper assesses China’s stock market integration with the global market during 1997-2013 and the impact of financial crises on the extent of integration within an augmented CAPM framework. We obtain time-varying global and national systematic ris... Read More about Stock market integration and financial crises: evidence from Chinese sector portfolios.

Determinants of Friendship in Social Networking Virtual Worlds (2014)
Journal Article
Chesney, T., Chuah, S.-H., Hull, W., Hoffmann, R., & Larner, J. (2014). Determinants of Friendship in Social Networking Virtual Worlds. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 34, 1397-1416. https://doi.org/10.17705/1CAIS.03472

This paper examines the determinants of friendship between two users in a virtual world who are unaware of each other's real identities. Drawing on theories of homophily, heterophily and propinquity, three virtual world behaviours are analysed: avata... Read More about Determinants of Friendship in Social Networking Virtual Worlds.

Two steps forward, one step back: the cautionary tale of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 (2014)
Journal Article
Sargeant, C. (2014). Two steps forward, one step back: the cautionary tale of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007. 00 Journal not listed, 14, Article 141

Five years ago the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 introduced a new offence of corporate manslaughter into UK criminal law in order to attempt to better hold corporate bodies accountable for deaths caused by their health and sa... Read More about Two steps forward, one step back: the cautionary tale of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007.

Clinicopathological significance of human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) expression in oestrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer (2014)
Journal Article
Abdel-Fatah, T. M. A., Perry, C., Moseley, P., Johnson, K., Arora, A., Chan, S., …Madhusudan, S. (2014). Clinicopathological significance of human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) expression in oestrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 143(3), 411-421. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-013-2820-7

Oestrogen metabolites can induce oxidative DNA base damage and generate potentially mutagenic apurinic sites (AP sites) in the genomic DNA. If unrepaired, mutagenic AP sites could drive breast cancer pathogenesis and aggressive phenotypes. Human apur... Read More about Clinicopathological significance of human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) expression in oestrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer.

Remotely activated Mechanotransduction via magnetic nanoparticles promotes mineralization synergistically with bone morphogenetic protein 2: Applications for Injectable cell therapy (2014)
Journal Article
Henstock, J. R., Shakesheff, K., Rotherham, M., Rashidi, H., & El Haj, A. J. (2014). Remotely activated Mechanotransduction via magnetic nanoparticles promotes mineralization synergistically with bone morphogenetic protein 2: Applications for Injectable cell therapy. Stem Cells Translational Medicine, 3(11), 1363-1375. https://doi.org/10.5966/sctm.2014-0017

© AlphaMed Press. Bone requires dynamic mechanical stimulation to form and maintain functional tissue, yet mechanical stimuli are often lacking in many therapeutic approaches for bone regeneration. Magnetic nanoparticles provide a method for deliveri... Read More about Remotely activated Mechanotransduction via magnetic nanoparticles promotes mineralization synergistically with bone morphogenetic protein 2: Applications for Injectable cell therapy.