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Hyperoxic gassing with Tiron enhances bradykinin-induced endothelium-dependent and EDH-type relaxation through generation of hydrogen peroxide (2014)
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Wong, P. S., Roberts, R. E., & Randall, M. D. (2015). Hyperoxic gassing with Tiron enhances bradykinin-induced endothelium-dependent and EDH-type relaxation through generation of hydrogen peroxide. Pharmacological Research, 91, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phrs.2014.11.001

Oxygenation with 95%O2is routinely used in organ bath studies. However, hyperoxia may affect tissueresponses, particularly in studies which involve reactive oxygen species (ROS). Here, the effects of theantioxidant, Tiron, were investigated under dif... Read More about Hyperoxic gassing with Tiron enhances bradykinin-induced endothelium-dependent and EDH-type relaxation through generation of hydrogen peroxide.

Porous poly-ether ether ketone (PEEK) manufactured by a novel powder route using near-spherical salt bead porogens: characterisation and mechanical properties (2014)
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Siddiq, A. R., & Kennedy, A. R. (2015). Porous poly-ether ether ketone (PEEK) manufactured by a novel powder route using near-spherical salt bead porogens: characterisation and mechanical properties. Materials Science and Engineering: C, 47, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msec.2014.11.044

Porous PEEK structures with approximately 85% open porosity have been made using PEEK-OPTIMA® powder and a particulate leaching technique using porous, near-spherical, sodium chloride beads. A novel manufacturing approach is presented and compared wi... Read More about Porous poly-ether ether ketone (PEEK) manufactured by a novel powder route using near-spherical salt bead porogens: characterisation and mechanical properties.

An associative analysis of object memory (2014)
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Robinson, J., & Bonardi, C. (in press). An associative analysis of object memory. Behavioural Brain Research, 285, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2014.10.046

Different aspects of recognition memory in rodents are commonly assessed using variants of the spontaneous object recognition procedure in which animals explore objects that differ in terms of their novelty, recency, or where they have previously bee... Read More about An associative analysis of object memory.

Search with evolutionary ruin and stochastic rebuild: a theoretic framework and a case study on exam timetabling (2014)
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Li, J., Bai, R., Shen, Y., & Qu, R. (in press). Search with evolutionary ruin and stochastic rebuild: a theoretic framework and a case study on exam timetabling. European Journal of Operational Research, 242(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2014.11.002

This paper presents a state transition based formal framework for a new search method, called Evolutionary Ruin and Stochastic Recreate, which tries to learn and adapt to the changing environments during the search process. It improves the performanc... Read More about Search with evolutionary ruin and stochastic rebuild: a theoretic framework and a case study on exam timetabling.

Fuel cell technology for domestic built environment applications: state of-the-art review (2014)
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Elmer, T., Worall, M., Wu, S., & Riffat, S. (2015). Fuel cell technology for domestic built environment applications: state of-the-art review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 42, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2014.10.080

Fuel cells produce heat when generating electricity, thus they are of particular interest for combined heat and power (CHP) and combined cooling heat and power (CCHP) applications, also known as tri-generation systems. CHP and tri-generation systems... Read More about Fuel cell technology for domestic built environment applications: state of-the-art review.

Exposure to traumatic perinatal experiences and posttraumatic stress symptoms in midwives: prevalence and association with burnout (2014)
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Sheen, K., Spiby, H., & Slade, P. (2015). Exposure to traumatic perinatal experiences and posttraumatic stress symptoms in midwives: prevalence and association with burnout. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 52(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2014.11.006

Background: Midwives provide care in a context where life threatening or stressful events can occur. Little is known about their experiences of traumatic events or the implications for psychological health of this workforce. Objectives: To investiga... Read More about Exposure to traumatic perinatal experiences and posttraumatic stress symptoms in midwives: prevalence and association with burnout.

SABRE: a multicentre randomised control trial of nebulised hypertonic saline in infants hospitalised with acute bronchiolitis (2014)
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Aim: Acute bronchiolitis is the commonest cause for hospitalisation in infancy. Supportive care remains the cornerstone of current management and no other therapy has been shown to influence the course of the disease. It has been suggested that addin... Read More about SABRE: a multicentre randomised control trial of nebulised hypertonic saline in infants hospitalised with acute bronchiolitis.

Prevalence of traumatic events and PTSD symptoms among secondary school students in Baghdad (2014)
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Background People in Iraq have been more or less continually exposed to war for more than three decades. Studies with Iraqi participants report high prevalence rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related problems. Methods The aim o... Read More about Prevalence of traumatic events and PTSD symptoms among secondary school students in Baghdad.

The impacts of climate change across the globe: a multi-sectoral assessment (2014)
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Arnell, N. W., Brown, S., Gosling, S. N., Gottschalk, P., Hinkel, J., Huntingford, C., …Zelazowski, P. (2016). The impacts of climate change across the globe: a multi-sectoral assessment. Climatic Change, 134(3), 457-474. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-014-1281-2

© 2014, The Author(s). The overall global-scale consequences of climate change are dependent on the distribution of impacts across regions, and there are multiple dimensions to these impacts. This paper presents a global assessment of the potential i... Read More about The impacts of climate change across the globe: a multi-sectoral assessment.

Tracking the hydro-climatic signal from lake to sediment: a field study from central Turkey (2014)
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Dean, J. R., Eastwood, W. J., Roberts, N., Jones, M. D., Yiğitbaşıoğlu, H., Allcock, S. L., …Leng, M. J. (2015). Tracking the hydro-climatic signal from lake to sediment: a field study from central Turkey. Journal of Hydrology, 529(2), 608-621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.11.004

Palaeo-hydrological interpretations of lake sediment proxies can benefit from a robust understanding of the modern lake environment. In this study, we use Nar Gölü, a non-outlet, monomictic maar lake in central Turkey, as a field site for a natural e... Read More about Tracking the hydro-climatic signal from lake to sediment: a field study from central Turkey.

Active orientation models for face alignment in-the-wild (2014)
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Tzimiropoulos, G., Medina, J. A., Zafeiriou, S., & Pantic, M. (2014). Active orientation models for face alignment in-the-wild. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 9(12), https://doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2014.2361018

We present Active Orientation Models (AOMs), generative models of facial shape and appearance, which extend the well-known paradigm of Active Appearance Models (AAMs) for the case of generic face alignment under unconstrained conditions. Robustness s... Read More about Active orientation models for face alignment in-the-wild.

Effective dynamics of strongly dissipative Rydberg gases (2014)
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Marcuzzi, M., Schick, J., Olmos, B., & Lesanovsky, I. (2014). Effective dynamics of strongly dissipative Rydberg gases. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 47(48), Article 482001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8113/47/48/482001

We investigate the evolution of interacting Rydberg gases in the limit of strong noise and dissipation. Starting from a description in terms of a Markovian quantum master equation we derive effective equations of motion that govern the dynamics on a... Read More about Effective dynamics of strongly dissipative Rydberg gases.

Reasons for participating and not participating in a e-health workplace physical activity intervention (2014)
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Bardus, M., Blake, H., Lloyd, S., & Suzanne Suggs, L. (2014). Reasons for participating and not participating in a e-health workplace physical activity intervention. International Journal of Workplace Health Management, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.1108/IJWHM-11-2013-0040

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the reasons for participating and not participating in an e-health workplace physical activity (PA) intervention. Design/methodology/approach – Semi-structured interviews and two focus groups... Read More about Reasons for participating and not participating in a e-health workplace physical activity intervention.

Social Workers as Members of Community Mental Health Teams for Older People: What Is the Added Value? (2014)
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Abendstern, M., Tucker, S., Wilberforce, M., Jasper, R., Brand, C., & Challis, D. (2016). Social Workers as Members of Community Mental Health Teams for Older People: What Is the Added Value?. British Journal of Social Work, 46(1), 63-80. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcu122

© 2014 The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Association of Social Workers. All rights reserved. Social workers have worked with older people with mental ill health in multidisciplinary teams for many years. R... Read More about Social Workers as Members of Community Mental Health Teams for Older People: What Is the Added Value?.

The role of LiO2 solubility in O2 reduction in aprotic solvents and its consequences for Li–O2 batteries (2014)
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Johnson, L., Li, C., Liu, Z., Chen, Y., Freunberger, S. A., Ashok, P. C., …Bruce, P. G. (2014). The role of LiO2 solubility in O2 reduction in aprotic solvents and its consequences for Li–O2 batteries. Nature Chemistry, 6(12), 1091-1099. https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2101

Serine-arginine protein kinase 1 (SRPK1) inhibition as a potential novel targeted therapeutic strategy in prostate cancer (2014)
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Angiogenesis is required for tumour growth and is induced principally by vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A). VEGF-A pre-mRNA is alternatively spliced at the terminal exon to produce two families of isoforms, pro- and anti-angiogenic, only... Read More about Serine-arginine protein kinase 1 (SRPK1) inhibition as a potential novel targeted therapeutic strategy in prostate cancer.

Switching intermolecular interactions by confinement in carbon nanotubes (2014)
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Chamberlain, T., Lebedeva, M., Abuajwa, W., Suyetin, M., Lewis, W., Bichoutskaia, E., …Khlobystov, A. N. (2015). Switching intermolecular interactions by confinement in carbon nanotubes. Chemical Communications, 51(4), 648-651. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4cc08029g

The encapsulation of trityl-functionalised C60 molecules inside carbon nanotubes drastically affects the intermolecular interactions for this species. Whilst the orientations of molecules in the crystal are often controlled by thermodynamics, the mol... Read More about Switching intermolecular interactions by confinement in carbon nanotubes.

Superattracting fixed points of quasiregular mappings (2014)
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Fletcher, A., & Nicks, D. A. (2016). Superattracting fixed points of quasiregular mappings. Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, 36(3), https://doi.org/10.1017/etds.2014.88

We investigate the rate of convergence of the iterates of an n-dimensional quasiregular mapping within the basin of attraction of a fixed point of high local index. A key tool is a refinement of a result that gives bounds on the distortion of the ima... Read More about Superattracting fixed points of quasiregular mappings.

Antibiotic strategies for eradicating Pseudomonas aeruginosa in people with cystic fibrosis (2014)
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Langton Hewer, S. C., & Smyth, A. R. (2014). Antibiotic strategies for eradicating Pseudomonas aeruginosa in people with cystic fibrosis. Cochrane Library, https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD004197.pub4

Background: Respiratory tract infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa occurs inmost people with cystic fibrosis. Once chronic infection is established, Pseudomonas aeruginosa is virtually impossible to eradicate and is associated with increased mortali... Read More about Antibiotic strategies for eradicating Pseudomonas aeruginosa in people with cystic fibrosis.

Polyaniline- and poly(ethylenedioxythiophene)-cellulose nanocomposite electrodes for supercapacitors (2014)
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Liew, S. Y., Thielemans, W., & Walsh, D. A. (2014). Polyaniline- and poly(ethylenedioxythiophene)-cellulose nanocomposite electrodes for supercapacitors. Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry, 18(12), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-014-2669-7

The formation and characterisation of films of polyaniline (PANI) and poly(ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) containing cellulose nanocrystals (CNXLs) from cotton are described. PANI/CNXL films were electrodeposited from a solution containing CNXLs, HC... Read More about Polyaniline- and poly(ethylenedioxythiophene)-cellulose nanocomposite electrodes for supercapacitors.