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Analysis of interaction between the apicomplexan protozoan Toxoplasma gondii and host cells using label-free Raman spectroscopy (2014)
Journal Article
Naemat, A., Elsheikha, H. M., Al-sandaqchib, A., Kong, K., Ghita, A., & Notingher, I. (2015). Analysis of interaction between the apicomplexan protozoan Toxoplasma gondii and host cells using label-free Raman spectroscopy. Analyst, 140(3), 756-764. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4an01810a

Label-free imaging using Raman micro-spectroscopy (RMS) was used to characterize the spatio-temporal molecular changes of T. gondii tachyzoites and their host cell microenvironment. Raman spectral maps were recorded from isolated T. gondii tachyzoite... Read More about Analysis of interaction between the apicomplexan protozoan Toxoplasma gondii and host cells using label-free Raman spectroscopy.

Preparation and structural analysis of (±)-cis-ethyl 2-sulfanylidenedecahydro-1,6-naphthyridine-6-carboxylate and (±)-trans-ethyl 2-oxooctahydro-1H-pyrrolo[3,2-c]pyridine-5-carboxylate (2014)
Journal Article
Schwehm, C., Lewis, W., Blake, A. J., Kellam, B., & Stocks, M. J. (2014). Preparation and structural analysis of (±)-cis-ethyl 2-sulfanylidenedecahydro-1,6-naphthyridine-6-carboxylate and (±)-trans-ethyl 2-oxooctahydro-1H-pyrrolo[3,2-c]pyridine-5-carboxylate. Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry, 70(12), 1161-1168. https://doi.org/10.1107/s205322961402436x

Bicycle ring closure on a mixture of (4aS,8aR)- and (4aR,8aS)-ethyl 2-oxodecahydro-1,6-naphthyridine-6-carboxylate, followed by conversion of the separated cis and trans isomers to the corresponding thioamide derivatives, gave (4aSR,8aRS)-ethyl 2-sul... Read More about Preparation and structural analysis of (±)-cis-ethyl 2-sulfanylidenedecahydro-1,6-naphthyridine-6-carboxylate and (±)-trans-ethyl 2-oxooctahydro-1H-pyrrolo[3,2-c]pyridine-5-carboxylate.

Lifestyle mobilities: a politics of lifestyle rock climbing (2014)
Journal Article
Rickly, J. M. (2014). Lifestyle mobilities: a politics of lifestyle rock climbing. Mobilities, 12(2), 243-263. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2014.977667

The conceptualization of 'lifestyle mobilities' has yet to fully account for the diversity within and across mobile communities in terms of leisure, travel, and identity. Lifestyle rock climbers, for example, maintain minimalist, hypermobile lifestyl... Read More about Lifestyle mobilities: a politics of lifestyle rock climbing.

Article 1 (2014)
Book Chapter
White, N. D. (2014). Article 1. In R. Kolb (Ed.), Commentaire sur Le Pacte de la Societe des Nations, 95-108. Bruylant

Noise reduction in coarse bifurcation analysis of stochastic agent-based models: an example of consumer lock-in (2014)
Journal Article
Avitabile, D., Hoyle, R., & Samaey, G. (2014). Noise reduction in coarse bifurcation analysis of stochastic agent-based models: an example of consumer lock-in. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 13(4), 1583-1619. https://doi.org/10.1137/140962188

We investigate the occurrence of coarse macroscopic states in an agent-based model of consumer lock-in. The system studied here is a modification of an existing model by Garlic and Chli [24] and it serves as a prototypical Ising-type sociological sys... Read More about Noise reduction in coarse bifurcation analysis of stochastic agent-based models: an example of consumer lock-in.

China scholars and the media: improving an awkward, important relationship (2014)
Journal Article
Sullivan, J. (2014). China scholars and the media: improving an awkward, important relationship. China Quarterly, 220, 1111-1122. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741014001477

Public interest in China, as reflected in the level of media attention, is burgeoning in the West and elsewhere in the world. This interest is driven by China's increasing presence and importance in the lives of people around the world; and for the s... Read More about China scholars and the media: improving an awkward, important relationship.

Interpreting the outsider tradition in British European policy speeches from Thatcher to Cameron (2014)
Journal Article
Daddow, O. J. (2015). Interpreting the outsider tradition in British European policy speeches from Thatcher to Cameron. Journal of Common Market Studies, 53(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12204

This article investigates how British European policy thinking has been informed by what it identifies as an ‘outsider’ tradition of thinking about ‘Europe’ in British foreign policy dating from imperial times to the present. The article begins by de... Read More about Interpreting the outsider tradition in British European policy speeches from Thatcher to Cameron.

Detecting phenology change in the mayfly Ephemera danica: responses to spatial and temporal water temperature variations (2014)
Journal Article
Everall, N. C., Johnson, M. F., Wilby, R. L., & Bennett, C. J. (2015). Detecting phenology change in the mayfly Ephemera danica: responses to spatial and temporal water temperature variations. Ecological Entomology, 40(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12164

1. Rising water temperatures under climate change are expected to affect the phenology of aquatic insects, including the mayfly Ephemera danica Müller which is widespread throughout Europe. 2. To assess temporal and spatial variability in mayfly e... Read More about Detecting phenology change in the mayfly Ephemera danica: responses to spatial and temporal water temperature variations.

Effect of Corticosteroid Therapy on Influenza-Related Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (2014)
Journal Article
Rodrigo, C., Leonardi-Bee, J., Nguyen-Van-Tam, J. S., & Lim, W. S. (2015). Effect of Corticosteroid Therapy on Influenza-Related Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 212(2), 183-194. https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiu645

Background: Most studies have reported that corticosteroid therapy adversely influences influenza-related outcomes. Methods: Electronic databases were searched from inception to March 2013 for experimental and observational studies investigating s... Read More about Effect of Corticosteroid Therapy on Influenza-Related Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Compensated convexity and Hausdorff stable geometric singularity extractions (2014)
Journal Article
Zhang, K., Orlando, A., & Crooks, E. (2014). Compensated convexity and Hausdorff stable geometric singularity extractions. Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, 25(4), https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218202515500189

We develop and apply the theory of lower and upper compensated convex transforms introduced in [K. Zhang, Compensated convexity and its applications, Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Anal. Non Linéaire 25 (2008) 743–771] to define multiscale, parametrized, geo... Read More about Compensated convexity and Hausdorff stable geometric singularity extractions.

An evaluation of POSSUM and P-POSSUM scoring in predicting post-operative mortality in a level 1 critical care setting (2014)
Journal Article
Scott, S., Lund, J. N., Gold, S., Elliott, R., Vater, M., Chakrabarty, M. P., …Williams, J. P. (2014). An evaluation of POSSUM and P-POSSUM scoring in predicting post-operative mortality in a level 1 critical care setting. BMC Anesthesiology, 14(1), Article 104. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2253-14-104

Background POSSUM and P-POSSUM are used in the assessment of outcomes in surgical patients. Neither scoring systems’ accuracy has been established where a level 1 critical care facility (level 1 care ward) is available for perioperative care. We c... Read More about An evaluation of POSSUM and P-POSSUM scoring in predicting post-operative mortality in a level 1 critical care setting.

Performance features in clinical skills assessment: Linguistic and cultural factors in the Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners examination (2014)
Book
Roberts, C., Atkins, S., & Hawthorne, K. (2014). Performance features in clinical skills assessment: Linguistic and cultural factors in the Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners examination. King's College London with The University of Nottingham

This book is based on research looking at performance in clinical skills assessment from a linguistic and cultural perspective, with a view to understanding why there are such differential pass rates and giving suggestions on how this issue can be... Read More about Performance features in clinical skills assessment: Linguistic and cultural factors in the Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners examination.

Is the wear coefficient dependent upon slip amplitude in fretting?: Vingsbo and Söderberg revisited (2014)
Journal Article
Pearson, S., & Shipway, P. (2014). Is the wear coefficient dependent upon slip amplitude in fretting?: Vingsbo and Söderberg revisited. Wear, 330, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wear.2014.11.005

More than 25 years ago, Vingsbo and Söderberg published a seminal paper regarding the mapping of behaviour in fretting contacts (O. Vingsbo, S. Söderberg, On fretting maps, Wear, 126 (1988) 131–147). In this paper, it was proposed that in the gross-s... Read More about Is the wear coefficient dependent upon slip amplitude in fretting?: Vingsbo and Söderberg revisited.

On the analytical estimation of the airgap field in synchronous reluctance machine (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tessarolo, A., Degano, M., & Bianchi, N. (2014). On the analytical estimation of the airgap field in synchronous reluctance machine. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICELMACH.2014.6960187

Synchronous reluctance motors with rotor flux barriers are a promising type of electric machines thanks to various benefits, among the others, the absence of permanent magnets and rotor excitation. A challenge in the study of these motors is the accu... Read More about On the analytical estimation of the airgap field in synchronous reluctance machine.

Change in quality of life of people with dementia recently admitted to long-term care facilities (2014)
Journal Article
Beerens, H. C., Zwakhalen, S. M., Verbeek, H., Ruwaard, D., Ambergen, A. W., Leino-Kilpi, H., …Vellas, B. (2015). Change in quality of life of people with dementia recently admitted to long-term care facilities. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 71(6), 1435-1447. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.12570

© 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Aim: To assess which factors are associated with change in quality of life of people with dementia who have recently been admitted to long-term care facilities. Background: Many people with dementia will be admitted to... Read More about Change in quality of life of people with dementia recently admitted to long-term care facilities.

Changes in caregiver burden and health-related quality of life of informal caregivers of older people with Dementia: evidence from the European RightTimePlaceCare prospective cohort study (2014)
Journal Article
Bleijlevens, M. H., Stolt, M., Stephan, A., Zabalegui, A., Saks, K., Sutcliffe, C., …Vellas, B. (2015). Changes in caregiver burden and health-related quality of life of informal caregivers of older people with Dementia: evidence from the European RightTimePlaceCare prospective cohort study. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 71(6), 1378-1391. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.12561

© 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Aims: To describe differences in caregiver burden and health-related quality of life of informal caregivers of people with dementia in eight European countries and assess changes after transition from home to instituti... Read More about Changes in caregiver burden and health-related quality of life of informal caregivers of older people with Dementia: evidence from the European RightTimePlaceCare prospective cohort study.

Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase (FBA)-A conserved glycolytic enzyme with virulence functions in bacteria: 'Ill met by moonlight' (2014)
Journal Article
Shams, F., Oldfield, N. J., Wooldridge, K. G., & Turner, D. P. J. (2014). Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase (FBA)-A conserved glycolytic enzyme with virulence functions in bacteria: 'Ill met by moonlight'. Biochemical Society Transactions, 42(6), 1792-1795. https://doi.org/10.1042/BST20140203

© 2014 Biochemical Society. Moonlighting proteins constitute an intriguing class of multifunctional proteins. Metabolic enzymes and chaperones, which are often highly conserved proteins in bacteria, archaea and eukaryotic organisms, are among the mos... Read More about Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase (FBA)-A conserved glycolytic enzyme with virulence functions in bacteria: 'Ill met by moonlight'.