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Using the incidence and impact of health conditions in guide dogs to investigate healthy ageing in working dogs (2015)
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Caron-Lormier, G., England, G. C., Green, M. J., & Asher, L. (2016). Using the incidence and impact of health conditions in guide dogs to investigate healthy ageing in working dogs. Veterinary Journal, 207, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tvjl.2015.10.046

This study aimed to use retirement data from working guide dogs to investigate healthy ageing in dogs and the demographic factors that influence ageing. Using a dataset of 7686 dogs spanning 20 years, dogs withdrawn for health reasons before they rea... Read More about Using the incidence and impact of health conditions in guide dogs to investigate healthy ageing in working dogs.

Active8! Technology-based intervention to promote physical activity in hospital employees (2015)
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Blake, H., Suggs, L. S., Coman, E., Aguirre, L., & Batt, M. E. (2017). Active8! Technology-based intervention to promote physical activity in hospital employees. American Journal of Health Promotion, 31(2), https://doi.org/10.4278/ajhp.140415-QUAN-143

Purpose: Increase physical activity in healthcare employees using health messaging, and compare email with mobile phone short-message service (SMS) as delivery channels.
Design: Randomised controlled trial
Setting: UK hospital workplace
Subjects:... Read More about Active8! Technology-based intervention to promote physical activity in hospital employees.

Creativity Greenhouse: at-a-distance collaboration and competition over research funding (2015)
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Schnädelbach, H., Sun, X., Kefalidou, G., Coughlan, T., Meese, R., Norris, J., & McAuley, D. (2016). Creativity Greenhouse: at-a-distance collaboration and competition over research funding. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 87, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2015.10.006

This paper describes the design and evaluation of a novel mechanism to develop research proposals and distribute funding: Creativity Greenhouse (CG). Building on an established funding sandpit mechanism for co-located participants, communication tech... Read More about Creativity Greenhouse: at-a-distance collaboration and competition over research funding.

Global innovation races, offshoring and wage inequality (2015)
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Impullitti, G. (2016). Global innovation races, offshoring and wage inequality. Review of International Economics, 24(1), 171-202. https://doi.org/10.1111/roie.12202

In the 1970s and 1980s the US position as the global technological leader was increasingly challenged by Japan and Europe. In those years the US skill premium and residual wage inequality increased substantially. This paper presents a two-region qual... Read More about Global innovation races, offshoring and wage inequality.

Emergent devil's staircase without particle-hole symmetry in Rydberg quantum gases with competing attractive and repulsive interactions (2015)
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Lan, Z., Minář, J., Levi, E., Li, W., & Lesanovsky, I. (2015). Emergent devil's staircase without particle-hole symmetry in Rydberg quantum gases with competing attractive and repulsive interactions. Physical Review Letters, 115, Article 203001. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.203001

The devil's staircase is a fractal structure that characterizes the ground state of one-dimensional classical lattice gases with long-range repulsive convex interactions. Its plateaus mark regions of stability for specific filling fractions which are... Read More about Emergent devil's staircase without particle-hole symmetry in Rydberg quantum gases with competing attractive and repulsive interactions.

Development and validation of risk prediction equations to estimate future risk of blindness and lower limb amputation in patients with diabetes: cohort study (2015)
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Hippisley-Cox, J., & Coupland, C. (2015). Development and validation of risk prediction equations to estimate future risk of blindness and lower limb amputation in patients with diabetes: cohort study. BMJ, 351, Article h5441. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h5441

Study question: Is it possible to develop and externally validate risk prediction equations to estimate the 10 year risk of blindness and lower limb amputation in patients with diabetes aged 25-84 years?

Methods: This was a prospective cohort stud... Read More about Development and validation of risk prediction equations to estimate future risk of blindness and lower limb amputation in patients with diabetes: cohort study.

Current reported outcome domains in studies of adults with a focus on the treatment of tinnitus: protocol for a systematic review (2015)
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Hall, D. A., Szczepek, A., & Kennedy, V. (2015). Current reported outcome domains in studies of adults with a focus on the treatment of tinnitus: protocol for a systematic review. BMJ Open, 5, Article e009091. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009091

Introduction: In Europe alone, over 70 million people experience tinnitus. Despite its considerable socioeconomic relevance, progress in developing successful treatments has been limited. Clinical effectiveness is judged according to change in primar... Read More about Current reported outcome domains in studies of adults with a focus on the treatment of tinnitus: protocol for a systematic review.

How to understand Pakistan’s hybrid regime: the importance of a multidimensional continuum (2015)
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Adeney, K. (in press). How to understand Pakistan’s hybrid regime: the importance of a multidimensional continuum. Democratization, 24(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2015.1110574

Pakistan has had a chequered democratic history but elections in 2013 marked a second turnover in power, and the first transition in Pakistan’s history from one freely elected government to another. How do we best categorize (and therefore understan... Read More about How to understand Pakistan’s hybrid regime: the importance of a multidimensional continuum.

Defining venous thromboembolism and measuring its incidence using Swedish health registries: a nationwide pregnancy cohort study (2015)
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Abdul Sultan, A., West, J., Stephansson, O., Grainge, M. J., Tata, L. J., Fleming, K. M., …Ludvigsson, J. F. (2015). Defining venous thromboembolism and measuring its incidence using Swedish health registries: a nationwide pregnancy cohort study. BMJ Open, 5(11), Article e008864. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008864

Objective: To accurately define venous thromboembolism (VTE) in the routinely collected Swedish health registers and quantify its incidence in and around pregnancy.
Study design: Cohort study using data from the Swedish Medical Birth Registry (MBR)... Read More about Defining venous thromboembolism and measuring its incidence using Swedish health registries: a nationwide pregnancy cohort study.

The impact of early postnatal environmental enrichment on maternal care and offspring behaviour following weaning (2015)
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Ki, A. L., Torp Lund, E., & Voigt, J.-P. (2016). The impact of early postnatal environmental enrichment on maternal care and offspring behaviour following weaning. Behavioural Processes, 122, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2015.11.008

The early postnatal period is a sensitive period in rodents as behavioural systems are developing and maturing during this time. However, relatively little information is available about the impact of environmental enrichment on offspring behaviour i... Read More about The impact of early postnatal environmental enrichment on maternal care and offspring behaviour following weaning.

Are anxiety and fear separable emotions in driving?: laboratory study of behavioural and physiological responses to different driving environments (2015)
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Barnard, M. P., & Chapman, P. (2016). Are anxiety and fear separable emotions in driving?: laboratory study of behavioural and physiological responses to different driving environments. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 86, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2015.10.021

Research into anxiety and driving has indicated that those higher in anxiety are potentially more dangerous on the roads. However, simulator findings suggest that conclusions are mixed at best. It is possible that anxiety is becoming confused with fe... Read More about Are anxiety and fear separable emotions in driving?: laboratory study of behavioural and physiological responses to different driving environments.

Development of a novel phase change material emulsion for cooling systems (2015)
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Shao, J., Darkwa, J., & Kokogiannakis, G. (2016). Development of a novel phase change material emulsion for cooling systems. Renewable Energy, 87, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2015.10.050

In this paper, a novel phase change material emulsion (PCE-10) consisting of an organic PCM (RT10) and water has been developed. Its thermophysical properties such as heat of fusion, viscosity and sub-cooling temperature have been established. The ch... Read More about Development of a novel phase change material emulsion for cooling systems.

Phylogenetic structure and ecological and evolutionary determinants of species richness (2015)
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Qian, H., Field, R., Zhang, J.-L., Zhang, J., & Chen, S. (2016). Phylogenetic structure and ecological and evolutionary determinants of species richness. Journal of Biogeography, 43(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12639

Aim: Site-level species richness is thought to result from both local conditions and species’ evolutionary history, but the nature of the evolutionary effect, and how much it underlies the correlation with current environment, are debated. Although t... Read More about Phylogenetic structure and ecological and evolutionary determinants of species richness.

Immediate delivery compared with expectant management after preterm pre-labour rupture of the membranes close to term (PPROMT trial): a randomised controlled trial (2015)
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Morris, J. M., Roberts, C. L., Bowen, J. R., Patterson, J. A., Bond, D. M., Algert, C. S., Thornton, J., & Crowther, C. A. (2016). Immediate delivery compared with expectant management after preterm pre-labour rupture of the membranes close to term (PPROMT trial): a randomised controlled trial. Lancet, 387(10017), https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2815%2900724-2

Background

Preterm pre-labour ruptured membranes close to term is associated with increased risk of neonatal infection, but immediate delivery is associated with risks of prematurity. The balance of risks is unclear. We aimed to establish whether... Read More about Immediate delivery compared with expectant management after preterm pre-labour rupture of the membranes close to term (PPROMT trial): a randomised controlled trial.

Genome-wide profiling in treatment-naive early rheumatoid arthritis reveals DNA methylome changes in T and B lymphocytes (2015)
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Glossop, J. R., Emes, R. D., Nixon, N. B., Packham, J. C., Fryer, A. A., Mattey, D. L., & Farrell, W. E. (2016). Genome-wide profiling in treatment-naive early rheumatoid arthritis reveals DNA methylome changes in T and B lymphocytes. Epigenomics, 8(2), https://doi.org/10.2217/epi.15.103

AIM: Although aberrant DNA methylation has been described in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), no studies have interrogated this epigenetic modification in early disease. Following recent investigations of T- and B-lymphocytes in established disease, we now... Read More about Genome-wide profiling in treatment-naive early rheumatoid arthritis reveals DNA methylome changes in T and B lymphocytes.

Compensated convexity, multiscale medial axis maps and sharp regularity of the squared-distance function (2015)
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Zhang, K., Crooks, E., & Orlando, A. (in press). Compensated convexity, multiscale medial axis maps and sharp regularity of the squared-distance function. SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, 47(6), https://doi.org/10.1137/140993223

In this paper we introduce a new stable mathematical model for locating and measuring the medial axis of geometric objects, called the quadratic multiscale medial axis map of scale λ, and provide a sharp regularity result for the squared-distance fun... Read More about Compensated convexity, multiscale medial axis maps and sharp regularity of the squared-distance function.

Aspirin for venous ulcers: randomised trial (AVURT): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2015)
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Tilbrook, H., Forsythe, R. O., Rolfe, D., Clark, L., Bland, M., Buckley, H., …Hinchliffe, R. J. (2015). Aspirin for venous ulcers: randomised trial (AVURT): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 16, Article 513. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-015-1039-9

Background: Venous leg ulcers (VLUs) are the commonest cause of leg ulceration, affecting 1 in 100 adults. There is a significant health burden associated with VLUs – it is estimated that the cost of treatment for 1 ulcer is up to £1300 per year in t... Read More about Aspirin for venous ulcers: randomised trial (AVURT): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Mechanism of periodic height variations along self-aligned VLS-grown planar nanostructures (2015)
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Steele, J., Horvat, J., Lewis, R., Henini, M., Fan, D., Mazur, Y., …Salamo, G. (in press). Mechanism of periodic height variations along self-aligned VLS-grown planar nanostructures. Nanoscale, 7(48), https://doi.org/10.1039/c5nr06676j

In this study we report in-plane nanotracks produced by molecular-beam-epitaxy (MBE) exhibiting lateral self-assembly and unusual periodic and out-of-phase height variations across their growth axes. The nanotracks are synthesized using bismuth segre... Read More about Mechanism of periodic height variations along self-aligned VLS-grown planar nanostructures.