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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.

Targeting RNA transcription and translation in ovarian cancer cells with pharmacological inhibitor CDKI-73 (2014)
Journal Article

Dysregulation of cellular transcription and translation is a fundamental hallmark of cancer. As CDK9 and Mnks play pivotal roles in the regulation of RNA transcription and protein synthesis, respectively, they are important targets for drug developme... Read More about Targeting RNA transcription and translation in ovarian cancer cells with pharmacological inhibitor CDKI-73.

Language description, prescription and usage in seventeenth-century German (2014)
Book Chapter
McLelland, N. (2014). Language description, prescription and usage in seventeenth-century German. In G. Rutten, R. Vosters, & W. Vandenbussche (Eds.), Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900. A sociolinguistic and comparative perspective. Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.3.11lel

This chapter examines the relationship between language prescription and language use in seventeenth-century German, reporting on a corpus investigation of the influence (or otherwise) of the leading grammarian Justus Georg Schottelius (1612–1676) on... Read More about Language description, prescription and usage in seventeenth-century German.

Human pro-social motivation and the maintenance of social order (2014)
Book Chapter
Gaechter, S. (2014). Human pro-social motivation and the maintenance of social order. The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and the Law. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199945474.013.0002

This chapter presents some insights from basic behavioral research on the role of human prosocial motivation to maintain social order. I argue that social order can be conceptualized as a public goods game. Past attempts to explain social order typic... Read More about Human pro-social motivation and the maintenance of social order.