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The development of stimulus and response interference control in mid-childhood (2015)
Journal Article
Cragg, L. (2015). The development of stimulus and response interference control in mid-childhood. Developmental Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000074

Interference control, the ability to overcome distraction from irrelevant information, undergoes considerable improvement during childhood yet the mechanisms driving these changes remain unclear. The present study investigated the relative influence... Read More about The development of stimulus and response interference control in mid-childhood.

Efficiency of disinfectants against Rotavirus in the presence and absence of organic matter (2015)
Journal Article
Chandler-Bostock, R., & Mellits, K. (in press). Efficiency of disinfectants against Rotavirus in the presence and absence of organic matter. Letters in Applied Microbiology, 61(6), https://doi.org/10.1111/lam.12502

Rotavirus is an enteric pathogen that causes morbidity and mortality in young mammals, including pigs. Outbreaks of rotavirus on commercial farms have a significant economic impact in terms of losses in production. Effective cleaning and disinfection... Read More about Efficiency of disinfectants against Rotavirus in the presence and absence of organic matter.

Autonomous Learning Needs a Second Environmental Feedback Loop (2015)
Book Chapter
Toutounji, H., & Pasemann, F. (2016). Autonomous Learning Needs a Second Environmental Feedback Loop. In Computational Intelligence: Revised and Selected Papers of the International Joint Conference, IJCCI 2013, Vilamoura, Portugal, September 20-22, 2013 (455-472). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23392-5_25

Deriving a successful neural control of behavior of autonomous and embodied systems poses a great challenge. The difficulty lies in finding suitable learning mechanisms, and in specifying under what conditions learning becomes necessary. Here, we pro... Read More about Autonomous Learning Needs a Second Environmental Feedback Loop.

Impact of Antipsychotic Review and Nonpharmacological Intervention on Antipsychotic Use, Neuropsychiatric Symptoms, and Mortality in People With Dementia Living in Nursing Homes: A Factorial Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial by the Well-Being and Health for People With Dementia (WHELD) Program. (2015)
Journal Article

Objective: This study evaluated the impact of antipsychotic review, social interaction, and exercise, in conjunction with person-centered care, on antipsychotic use, agitation, and depression in people with dementia living in nursing homes. Met... Read More about Impact of Antipsychotic Review and Nonpharmacological Intervention on Antipsychotic Use, Neuropsychiatric Symptoms, and Mortality in People With Dementia Living in Nursing Homes: A Factorial Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial by the Well-Being and Health for People With Dementia (WHELD) Program..

Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species (2015)
Journal Article
ter Steege, H., Pitman, N. C., Killeen, T. J., Laurance, W. F., Peres, C. A., Guevara, J. E., …Gamarra, L. V. (in press). Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species. Science Advances, 1(10), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500936

Estimates of extinction risk for Amazonian plant and animal species are rare and not often incorporated into land-use policy and conservation planning. We overlay spatial distribution models with historical and projected deforestation to show that at... Read More about Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species.

Multivariate analysis of 3D ToF-SIMS images: method validation and application to cultured neuronal networks (2015)
Journal Article
Van Nuffel, S., Parmenter, C. D., Scurr, D. J., Russell, N. A., & Zelzer, M. (in press). Multivariate analysis of 3D ToF-SIMS images: method validation and application to cultured neuronal networks. Analyst, 141(1), https://doi.org/10.1039/c5an01743b

Advanced data analysis tools are crucial for the application of ToF-SIMS analysis to biological samples. Here, we demonstrate that by using a training set approach principal components analysis (PCA) can be performed on large 3D ToF-SIMS images of ne... Read More about Multivariate analysis of 3D ToF-SIMS images: method validation and application to cultured neuronal networks.

The limitations of in vitro experimentation in understanding biofilms and chronic infection (2015)
Journal Article
Roberts, A., Kragh, K., Bjarnsholt, T., & Diggle, S. P. (2015). The limitations of in vitro experimentation in understanding biofilms and chronic infection. Journal of Molecular Biology, 427(23), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2015.09.002

We have become increasingly aware that during infection, pathogenic bacteria often grow in multi- cellular biofilms which are often highly resistant to antibacterial strategies. In order to understand how biofilms form and contribute to infection, in... Read More about The limitations of in vitro experimentation in understanding biofilms and chronic infection.

Quantification of mesoscale variability and geometrical reconstruction of a textile (2015)
Journal Article
Gommer, F., Brown, L. P., & Brooks, R. (2015). Quantification of mesoscale variability and geometrical reconstruction of a textile. Journal of Composite Materials, https://doi.org/10.1177/0021998315617819

Automated image analysis of textile surfaces allowed determination and quantification of intrinsic yarn path variabilities in a 2/2 twill weave during the lay-up process. The yarn paths were described in terms of waves and it was found that the frequ... Read More about Quantification of mesoscale variability and geometrical reconstruction of a textile.

Agency in the context of social death: dying alone at home (2015)
Journal Article
Caswell, G., & O'Connor, M. (in press). Agency in the context of social death: dying alone at home. Contemporary Social Science, 10(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2015.1114663

Each year a number of bodies are found of people who have died alone at home and whose absence from daily life has not been noticed. Media reports tend either to cast these individuals as deviant, or wider society as having abandoned them to a lonely... Read More about Agency in the context of social death: dying alone at home.

Does a transition in education equate to a transition in practice?: Thai stakeholder’s perceptions of the introduction of the Doctor of Pharmacy programme (2015)
Journal Article
Chanakit, T., Low, B. Y., Wongpoowarak, P., Moolasarn, S., & Anderson, C. (2015). Does a transition in education equate to a transition in practice?: Thai stakeholder’s perceptions of the introduction of the Doctor of Pharmacy programme. BMC Medical Education, 15(1), 1-36. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-015-0473-4

Background Pharmacy education and pharmacy practice are facing remarkable changes following new scientific discoveries, evolving patient needs and the requirements of advanced pharmacy competency for practices. Many countries are introducing or unde... Read More about Does a transition in education equate to a transition in practice?: Thai stakeholder’s perceptions of the introduction of the Doctor of Pharmacy programme.

Clinicopathological and prognostic significance of RECQL5 helicase expression in breast cancers (2015)
Journal Article
Arora, A., Abdel-Fatah, T. M., Agarwal, D., Doherty, R., Croteau, D. L., Moseley, P. M., …Madhusudan, S. (2016). Clinicopathological and prognostic significance of RECQL5 helicase expression in breast cancers. Carcinogenesis, 37(1), 63-71. https://doi.org/10.1093/carcin/bgv163

RECQL5 is a member of the RecQ family of DNA helicases and has key roles in homologous recombination, base excision repair, replication and transcription. The clinicopathological significance of RECQL5 expression in breast cancer is unknown. In this... Read More about Clinicopathological and prognostic significance of RECQL5 helicase expression in breast cancers.

Hoxa cluster genes determine the proliferative activity of adult mouse hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (2015)
Journal Article
Lebert-Ghali, C.-É., Fournier, M., Kettyle, L. M., Thompson, A., Sauvageau, G., & Bijl, J. J. (2016). Hoxa cluster genes determine the proliferative activity of adult mouse hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Blood, 127(1), 87-90. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2015-02-626390

Determination of defined roles for endogenous homeobox (Hox) genes in adult hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell (HSPC) activity has been hampered by a combination of embryonic defects and functional redundancy. Here we show that conditional homozy... Read More about Hoxa cluster genes determine the proliferative activity of adult mouse hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells.

Is the free market acceptable to everyone? (2015)
Journal Article
Clayton, M., & Stevens, D. (in press). Is the free market acceptable to everyone?. Res Publica, 21(4), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-015-9298-6

In this paper we take issue with two central claims that John Tomasi makes in Free Market Fairness (2012). The first claim is that Rawls’s difference principle can better be realized by free market institutions than it can be by state interventionist... Read More about Is the free market acceptable to everyone?.

Spectral thresholding quantum tomography for low rank states (2015)
Journal Article
Butucea, C., Guţă, M., & Kypraios, T. (2015). Spectral thresholding quantum tomography for low rank states. New Journal of Physics, 17(11), Article 113050. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/11/113050

The estimation of high dimensional quantum states is an important statistical problem arising in current quantum technology applications. A key example is the tomography of multiple ions states, employed in the validation of state preparation in ion... Read More about Spectral thresholding quantum tomography for low rank states.

Liraglutide safety and efficacy in patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (LEAN): a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled phase 2 study (2015)
Journal Article
Armstrong, M. J., Gaunt, P., Aithal, G. P., Barton, D., Hull, D., Parker, R., …Newsome, P. N. (in press). Liraglutide safety and efficacy in patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (LEAN): a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled phase 2 study. Lancet, 387(10019), https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2815%2900803-X

Background Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) analogues reduce hepatic steatosis, concentrations of liver enzymes, and insulin resistance in murine models of fatty liver disease. These analogues are licensed for type 2 diabetes, but their efficacy in... Read More about Liraglutide safety and efficacy in patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (LEAN): a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled phase 2 study.