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From social rights to the market: neo-liberalism and the knowledge economy (2014)
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Holmwood, J. (2014). From social rights to the market: neo-liberalism and the knowledge economy. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 33(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2013.873213

Public higher education has a long history, with its growth associated with mass higher education and the extension of a social right to education from secondary schooling to university education. Following the rise in student numbers since the 1970s... Read More about From social rights to the market: neo-liberalism and the knowledge economy.

The lost honour of the social dimension: Bologna, exports and the idea of the university (2014)
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Holford, J. (2014). The lost honour of the social dimension: Bologna, exports and the idea of the university. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 33(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2013.873210

In important respects, European ideas of the university have spread across the world. The principal ‘philosophical’ statements on which this idea of the university is based (Humboldt and Newman) assumed the people inhabiting universities — as student... Read More about The lost honour of the social dimension: Bologna, exports and the idea of the university.

Antibiotic prescribing in primary care and antimicrobial resistance in patients admitted to hospital with urinary tract infection: a controlled observational pilot study (2014)
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Costelloe, C., Williams, O. M., Montgomery, A. A., Dayan, C., & Hay, A. D. (2014). Antibiotic prescribing in primary care and antimicrobial resistance in patients admitted to hospital with urinary tract infection: a controlled observational pilot study. Antibiotics, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics3010029

There is growing evidence that primary care prescribed antibiotics lead to antibiotic resistance in bacteria causing minor infections or being carried by asymptomatic adults, but little research to date has investigated links between primary care pre... Read More about Antibiotic prescribing in primary care and antimicrobial resistance in patients admitted to hospital with urinary tract infection: a controlled observational pilot study.

Visualizing and quantifying movement from pre-recorded videos: The spectral time-lapse (STL) algorithm (2014)
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Madan, C. R., & Spetch, M. L. (2014). Visualizing and quantifying movement from pre-recorded videos: The spectral time-lapse (STL) algorithm. F1000Research, 3, 19. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.3-19.v1

When studying animal behaviour within an open environment, movement-related data are often important for behavioural analyses. Therefore, simple and efficient techniques are needed to present and analyze the data of such movements. However, it is cha... Read More about Visualizing and quantifying movement from pre-recorded videos: The spectral time-lapse (STL) algorithm.

TAp73 is required for spermatogenesis and the maintenance of male fertility (2014)
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Inoue, S., Tomasini, R., Rufini, A., Elia, A. J., Agostini, M., Amelio, I., …Mak, T. W. (2014). TAp73 is required for spermatogenesis and the maintenance of male fertility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(5), 1843-1848. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1323416111

The generation of viable sperm proceeds through a series of coordinated steps, including germ cell self-renewal, meiotic recombination, and terminal differentiation into functional spermatozoa. The p53 family of transcription factors, including p53,... Read More about TAp73 is required for spermatogenesis and the maintenance of male fertility.

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.