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Practical detection of a definitive biomarker panel for Alzheimer's disease: comparisons between matched plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (2014)
Journal Article
Richens, J. L., Vere, K., Light, R. A., Soria, D., Garibaldi, J., Smith, A. D., …O’Shea, P. (2014). Practical detection of a definitive biomarker panel for Alzheimer's disease: comparisons between matched plasma and cerebrospinal fluid. International Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Genetics, IJMEG, 5(2),

Previous mass spectrometry analysis of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has allowed the identification of a panel of molecular markers that are associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The panel comprises Amyloid beta, Apolipoprotein E, Fibrinogen alpha ch... Read More about Practical detection of a definitive biomarker panel for Alzheimer's disease: comparisons between matched plasma and cerebrospinal fluid.

Refining adverse drug reactions using association rule mining for electronic healthcare data (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reps, J. M., Aickelin, U., Ma, J., & Zhang, Y. (2014). Refining adverse drug reactions using association rule mining for electronic healthcare data.

Side effects of prescribed medications are a common occurrence. Electronic healthcare databases present the opportunity to identify new side effects efficiently but currently the methods are limited due to confounding (i.e. when an association betwee... Read More about Refining adverse drug reactions using association rule mining for electronic healthcare data.

Incorporating spontaneous reporting system data to aid causal inference in longitudinal healthcare data (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reps, J. M., & Aickelin, U. (2014). Incorporating spontaneous reporting system data to aid causal inference in longitudinal healthcare data.

Inferring causality using longitudinal observational databases is challenging due to the passive way the data are collected. The majority of associations found within longitudinal observational data are often non-causal and occur due to confounding.... Read More about Incorporating spontaneous reporting system data to aid causal inference in longitudinal healthcare data.

Personalising mobile advertising based on users’ installed apps (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reps, J., Aickelin, U., Garibaldi, J. M., & Damski, C. (2014). Personalising mobile advertising based on users’ installed apps.

Mobile advertising is a billion pound industry that is rapidly expanding. The success of an advert is measured based on how users interact with it. In this paper we investigate whether the application of unsupervised learning and association rule min... Read More about Personalising mobile advertising based on users’ installed apps.

Continuation of localised coherent structures in nonlocal neural field equations (2014)
Journal Article
Rankin, J., Avitabile, D., Baladron, J., Faye, G., & Lloyd, D. J. (2014). Continuation of localised coherent structures in nonlocal neural field equations. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 36(1), Article B70-B93. https://doi.org/10.1137/130918721

We study localised activity patterns in neural field equations posed on the Euclidean plane; such models are commonly used to describe the coarse-grained activity of large ensembles of cortical neurons in a spatially continuous way. We employ matrix-... Read More about Continuation of localised coherent structures in nonlocal neural field equations.

Exploring the value of the capability approach for vocational education and training evaluation: reflections from South Africa (2014)
Journal Article
Powell, L., & McGrath, S. (2014). Exploring the value of the capability approach for vocational education and training evaluation: reflections from South Africa. International Development Policy / Revue internationale de politique de développement, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.4000/poldev.1784

In the late 1990s, South Africa was faced with the triple challenge of reforming the Apartheid divided institutional landscape of vocational education and training (VET) institutions; addressing equitable access to skills; and reorienting its skills... Read More about Exploring the value of the capability approach for vocational education and training evaluation: reflections from South Africa.

Advancing life projects: South African students explain why they come to FET colleges (2014)
Journal Article
Powell, L., & McGrath, S. (2014). Advancing life projects: South African students explain why they come to FET colleges. Journal of International and Comparative Education, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.14425/00.73.63

VET policy in South Africa is based on a set of assumptions regarding the identity of learners and why learners are in public further education and training (FET) colleges. These assumptions reflect an international orthodoxy about the centrality of... Read More about Advancing life projects: South African students explain why they come to FET colleges.

Cooperation, quorum sensing, and evolution of virulence in Staphylococcus aureus (2014)
Journal Article
Pollitt, E. J., West, S. A., Crusz, S. A., Burton-Chellew, M. N., & Diggle, S. P. (2014). Cooperation, quorum sensing, and evolution of virulence in Staphylococcus aureus. Infection and Immunity, 82(3), https://doi.org/10.1128/IAI.01216-13

The virulence and fitness in vivo of the major human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus are associated with a cell-to-cell signaling mechanism known as quorum sensing (QS). QS coordinates the production of virulence factors via the production and sensing... Read More about Cooperation, quorum sensing, and evolution of virulence in Staphylococcus aureus.

The inclusion of students with dyslexia in higher education: a systematic review using narrative synthesis (2014)
Journal Article
Pino, M., & Mortari, L. (2014). The inclusion of students with dyslexia in higher education: a systematic review using narrative synthesis. Dyslexia, 20(4), https://doi.org/10.1002/dys.1484

This article reports on a study focusing on the inclusion of students with dyslexia in higher education (HE). A systematic review was carried out to retrieve, critically appraise and synthesize the available evidence on how the inclusion of students... Read More about The inclusion of students with dyslexia in higher education: a systematic review using narrative synthesis.

Epistemic struggles in addiction therapeutic community meetings (2014)
Book Chapter
Pino, M. (2014). Epistemic struggles in addiction therapeutic community meetings. In A. Zuczkowski, R. Bongelli, I. Riccioni, & C. Canestrari (Eds.), Communicating certainty and uncertainty in medical, supportive and scientific contexts. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ds.25.10pin

In this study I analyse Therapeutic Community (TC) group meetings for persons with drug addiction problems. Using the method of Conversation Analysis, I specifically focus on practices of knowledge management and sharing between the educators and cli... Read More about Epistemic struggles in addiction therapeutic community meetings.

An evolutionary algorithm for graph planarisation by vertex deletion (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pinheiro, R. L., Constantino, A. A., de Mendonca, C. F. X., & Landa-Silva, D. (2014). An evolutionary algorithm for graph planarisation by vertex deletion.

A non-planar graph can only be planarised if it is structurally modified. This work presents a new heuristic algorithm that uses vertices deletion to modify a non-planar graph in order to obtain a planar subgraph. The proposed algorithm aims to delet... Read More about An evolutionary algorithm for graph planarisation by vertex deletion.

Interface and surface analysis for pharmaceutical applications: challenges and recent advances (2014)
Journal Article
Piggott, M. J., & Zelzer, M. (2014). Interface and surface analysis for pharmaceutical applications: challenges and recent advances. Chimica Oggi, 32(5),

Innovation in R&D is a key target for the pharmaceutical sector to address some of the challenges it currently faces. This review discusses these challenges in the context of pharmaceutically relevant surfaces and interfaces. The surface properties o... Read More about Interface and surface analysis for pharmaceutical applications: challenges and recent advances.

Modelling of dispersive PT-symmetric Bragg grating (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Phang, S., Vukovic, A., Susanto, H., Benson, T. M., & Sewell, P. (2014). Modelling of dispersive PT-symmetric Bragg grating.

This paper reports on the time-domain numerical model of a parity-time Bragg grating with saturated and dispersive gain. The model is compared against the ideal PT scenario where the gain is constant and unsaturated for all frequencies.

Saturable and dispersive parity-time symmetric directional coupler: a transmission-line modelling study (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Phang, S., Vukovic, A., Benson, T. M., Creagh, S., Sewell, P., & Gradoni, G. (2014). Saturable and dispersive parity-time symmetric directional coupler: a transmission-line modelling study.

In this paper, numerical modelling of Parity-Time (PT) coupled waveguides is reported. The PT coupled waveguide structure consists of two coupled slab waveguides based on GaAs material with gain/loss material parameter models, including both dispersi... Read More about Saturable and dispersive parity-time symmetric directional coupler: a transmission-line modelling study.

The Augustan temple and forum of the colony of Barcino: a 90 degree turn (2014)
Journal Article
Orengo, H. A., & Cortés, A. (2014). The Augustan temple and forum of the colony of Barcino: a 90 degree turn. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 33(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/ojoa.12028

The Augustan Roman temple at Barcino has been a key element during the last 60 years in the research of the colony's urban development. Its peculiar elongated and narrow plan, first proposed in 1835, and its location at the highest point of the ancie... Read More about The Augustan temple and forum of the colony of Barcino: a 90 degree turn.

A note on geographical systems and maps of Montserrat (2014)
Journal Article
Odbert, H. M., & Grebby, S. (2014). A note on geographical systems and maps of Montserrat. Memoirs, 39, https://doi.org/10.1144/M39.27

It is often critically important that geospatial data are measured and mapped accurately, particularly for quantitative analyses and numerical modelling applications. Defining a geographical coordinate system requires a non-unique combination of geod... Read More about A note on geographical systems and maps of Montserrat.

The "eucharistic words of Jesus": an unnoticed silence in our earliest sources (2014)
Journal Article
O'Loughlin, T. (2014). The "eucharistic words of Jesus": an unnoticed silence in our earliest sources. Anaphora, 8(1),

There is a very long standing interest in the 'eucharistic words of Jesus' among both theologians and biblical scholars. However, the words that are given in the Synoptic Gospels are not eucharistic (in the sense of being Jesus' words of blessing / t... Read More about The "eucharistic words of Jesus": an unnoticed silence in our earliest sources.

Survey of the UK veterinary profession: common species and conditions nominated by veterinarians in practice (2014)
Journal Article
Nielsen, T., Dean, R. S., Robinson, N., Massey, A., & Brennan, M. L. (in press). Survey of the UK veterinary profession: common species and conditions nominated by veterinarians in practice. Veterinary Record, 174(13), https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.101745

The practice of evidence-based veterinary medicine involves the utilisation of scientific evidence for clinical decision making. To enable this, research topics pertinent to clinical practice need to be identified, and veterinary clinicians are best... Read More about Survey of the UK veterinary profession: common species and conditions nominated by veterinarians in practice.