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Patients' and healthcare professionals' views on a specialist smoking cessation service delivered in a United Kingdom hospital: a qualitative study (2014)
Journal Article
Bains, M., Britton, J., Marsh, J., Jayes, L., & Murray, R. L. (2014). Patients' and healthcare professionals' views on a specialist smoking cessation service delivered in a United Kingdom hospital: a qualitative study. Tobacco Induced Diseases, 12(2), https://doi.org/10.1186/1617-9625-12-2

BACKGROUND: Hospital admission provides a powerful opportunity to promote smoking cessation. We explored patients' and healthcare professionals' (HCP) views of a specialist smoking cessation service comprising systematic smoking ascertainment, defau... Read More about Patients' and healthcare professionals' views on a specialist smoking cessation service delivered in a United Kingdom hospital: a qualitative study.

Millimeter-Wave Conical Fresnel Zone Lens of Flat Dielectric Rings (2014)
Journal Article
P. Kamburov, L., M. Rodriguez, J., R. Urumov, J., & D. Hristov, H. (2014). Millimeter-Wave Conical Fresnel Zone Lens of Flat Dielectric Rings. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 62(4), 2140-2148. https://doi.org/10.1109/tap.2014.2303165

Conical in shape Fresnel zone (CFZ) lens of flat dielectric rings is introduced and studied in this research. It is contrasted to a plane Fresnel zone (PFZ) lens, a CFZ lens of conical rings and a refractive plane-hyperbolic (PH) lens. For the same a... Read More about Millimeter-Wave Conical Fresnel Zone Lens of Flat Dielectric Rings.

Application of Fickian and non-Fickian diffusion models to study moisture diffusion in asphalt mastics (2014)
Journal Article
Apeagyei, A. K., Grenfell, J., & Airey, G. (2015). Application of Fickian and non-Fickian diffusion models to study moisture diffusion in asphalt mastics. Materials and Structures, 48(5), https://doi.org/10.1617/s11527-014-0246-2

The objective of this study was to investigate certain aspects of asphalt mastic moisture diffusion characteristics in order to better understand the moisture damage phenomenon in asphalt mixtures. Moisture sorption experiments were conducted on four... Read More about Application of Fickian and non-Fickian diffusion models to study moisture diffusion in asphalt mastics.

Overcoming multiple drug resistance mechanisms in medulloblastoma (2014)
Journal Article
Othman, R., Coyle, B., Kimishi, I., Bradshaw, T. D., Storer, L., Korshunov, A., …Kerr, I. D. (2014). Overcoming multiple drug resistance mechanisms in medulloblastoma. Acta Neuropathologica Communications, 2(1), Article 57. https://doi.org/10.1186/2051-5960-2-57

© 2014 Othman et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. Introduction: Medulloblastoma (MB) is the most common malignant paediatric brain tumour. Recurrence and progression of disease occurs in 15-20% of standard risk and 30-40% of high risk patients. We a... Read More about Overcoming multiple drug resistance mechanisms in medulloblastoma.

A centering correction method for GNSS antenna diversity theory and implementation using a software receiver (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Zhang, P., Sun, F., Xu, Y., Zou, J., Dai, W., & Meng, X. (2014). A centering correction method for GNSS antenna diversity theory and implementation using a software receiver.

GPS is performing well in open sky situation. However, severe attenuation or blockage of signals by high buildings may leads to an insufficient number of received satellites. Antenna diversity scheme is viewed as a method to alleviate signal attenuat... Read More about A centering correction method for GNSS antenna diversity theory and implementation using a software receiver.

A fairy tale approach to cooperative vehicle positioning (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Stephenson, S., Meng, X., Moore, T., Baxendale, A., & Edwards, T. (2014). A fairy tale approach to cooperative vehicle positioning.

This paper outlines an innovative approach to the cooper-ative positioning of road vehicles by sharing GNSS informa-tion. Much like the children’s fairy tale Hanzel and Gretel by the Brothers Grimm, GNSS receivers on road vehicles generate detailed V... Read More about A fairy tale approach to cooperative vehicle positioning.

Strategies to overcome photobleaching in algorithm-based adaptive optics for nonlinearin-vivoimaging (2014)
Journal Article
Müllenbroich, M. C., McGhee, E. J., Wright, A. J., Anderson, K. I., & Mathieson, K. (2014). Strategies to overcome photobleaching in algorithm-based adaptive optics for nonlinearin-vivoimaging. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 19(1), Article 016021. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.19.1.016021

We have developed a nonlinear adaptive optics microscope utilizing a deformable membrane mirror (DMM) and demonstrated its use in compensating for system- and sample-induced aberrations. The optimum shape of the DMM was determined with a random searc... Read More about Strategies to overcome photobleaching in algorithm-based adaptive optics for nonlinearin-vivoimaging.

Insulin-like factor 3 and the HPG axis in the male (2014)
Journal Article
Ivell, R., Heng, K., & Anand-Ivell, R. (in press). Insulin-like factor 3 and the HPG axis in the male. Frontiers in Endocrinology, 5(6), https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2014.00006

The hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal (HPG) axis comprises pulsatile GnRH from the hypothalamus impacting on the anterior pituitary to induce expression and release of both LH and FSH into the circulation. These in turn stimulate receptors on testicular... Read More about Insulin-like factor 3 and the HPG axis in the male.

Room-temperature antiferromagnetic memory resistor (2014)
Journal Article
Marti, X., Fina, I., Frontera, C., Liu, J., Wadley, P., He, Q., …Ramesh, R. (2014). Room-temperature antiferromagnetic memory resistor. Nature Materials, 13(4), 367-374. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3861

The bistability of ordered spin states in ferromagnets provides the basis for magnetic memory functionality. The latest generation of magnetic random access memories rely on an efficient approach in which magnetic fields are replaced by electrical me... Read More about Room-temperature antiferromagnetic memory resistor.

From cheek swabs to consensus sequences: an A to Z protocol for high-throughput DNA sequencing of complete human mitochondrial genomes (2014)
Journal Article
Clarke, A. C., Prost, S., Stanton, J. L., White, W. T. J., Kaplan, M. E., Matisoo-Smith, E. A., & The Genographic Consortium. (2014). From cheek swabs to consensus sequences: an A to Z protocol for high-throughput DNA sequencing of complete human mitochondrial genomes. BMC Genomics, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-15-68

Background: Next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS) technologies have made huge impacts in many fields of biological research, but especially in evolutionary biology. One area where NGS has shown potential is for high-throughput sequencing of complete m... Read More about From cheek swabs to consensus sequences: an A to Z protocol for high-throughput DNA sequencing of complete human mitochondrial genomes.

Evaluating the effects of carbon nanoreactor diameter and internal structure on the pathways of the catalytic hydrosilylation reaction (2014)
Journal Article
Solomonsz, W. A., Rance, G. A., & Khlobystov, A. N. (2014). Evaluating the effects of carbon nanoreactor diameter and internal structure on the pathways of the catalytic hydrosilylation reaction. Small, 10(9),

Three different types of carbon nanoreactors, double-walled nanotubes (DWNT), multi-walled nanotubes (MWNT) and graphitised carbon nanofibers (GNF) have been appraised for the first time as containers for the reactions of phenylacetylene hydrosilylat... Read More about Evaluating the effects of carbon nanoreactor diameter and internal structure on the pathways of the catalytic hydrosilylation reaction.

Extension of the Fuzzy Integral for General Fuzzy Set-Valued Information (2014)
Journal Article
Anderson, D. T., Havens, T. C., Wagner, C., Keller, J. M., Anderson, M. F., & Wescott, D. J. (2014). Extension of the Fuzzy Integral for General Fuzzy Set-Valued Information. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 22(6), 1625-1639. https://doi.org/10.1109/TFUZZ.2014.2302479

The fuzzy integral (FI) is an extremely flexible aggregation operator. It is used in numerous applications, such as image processing, multicriteria decision making, skeletal age-at-death estimation, and multisource (e.g., feature, algorithm, sensor,... Read More about Extension of the Fuzzy Integral for General Fuzzy Set-Valued Information.

Medial prefrontal cortex circuit function during retrieval and extinction of associative learning under anesthesia (2014)
Journal Article
Fenton, G., Halliday, D., Mason, R., & Stevenson, C. W. (2014). Medial prefrontal cortex circuit function during retrieval and extinction of associative learning under anesthesia. Neuroscience, 265, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.01.028

Associative learning is encoded under anesthesia and involves the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). Neuronal activity in mPFC increases in response to a conditioned stimulus (CS+) previously paired with an unconditioned stimulus (US) but not during pr... Read More about Medial prefrontal cortex circuit function during retrieval and extinction of associative learning under anesthesia.

Subhaloes gone Notts: the clustering properties of subhaloes (2014)
Journal Article
Pujol, A., Gaztanaga, E., Giocoli, C., Knebe, A., Pearce, F. R., Skibba, R. A., …Tweed, D. (2014). Subhaloes gone Notts: the clustering properties of subhaloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 438(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2446

We present a study of the substructure finder dependence of subhalo clustering in the Aquarius Simulation. We run 11 different subhalo finders on the haloes of the Aquarius Simulation and study their differences in the density profile, mass fraction... Read More about Subhaloes gone Notts: the clustering properties of subhaloes.