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The use of virtual reality and physical tools in the development and validation of ease of entry and exit in passenger vehicles (2015)
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Lawson, G., Herriotts, P., Malcolm, L., Gabrecht, K., & Hermawati, S. (2015). The use of virtual reality and physical tools in the development and validation of ease of entry and exit in passenger vehicles. Applied Ergonomics, 48, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2014.12.007

Ease of entry and exit is important for creating a positive first impression of a car and to increase customer satisfaction. Several methods are used within vehicle development to optimise ease of entry and exit, including CAD reviews, benchmarking... Read More about The use of virtual reality and physical tools in the development and validation of ease of entry and exit in passenger vehicles.

Synthesis of spiroindanes by palladium-catalyzed oxidative annulations of non- or weakly activated 1,3-dienes involving C–H functionalization (2015)
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Khan, I., Chidipudi, S. R., & Lam, H. W. (2015). Synthesis of spiroindanes by palladium-catalyzed oxidative annulations of non- or weakly activated 1,3-dienes involving C–H functionalization. Chemical Communications, 51, https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC09496D

The synthesis of spiroindanes by the palladium-catalyzed oxidative annulation of non- or weakly activated 1,3-dienes with 2-aryl cyclic 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds is described. Examples of the dearomatizing oxidative annulation of 1,3-dienes with 1-ary... Read More about Synthesis of spiroindanes by palladium-catalyzed oxidative annulations of non- or weakly activated 1,3-dienes involving C–H functionalization.

Rethinking the "mirroring" hypothesis: implications for technological modularity, tacit coordination, and radical innovation (2015)
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Hao, B., Feng, Y., & Frigant, V. (in press). Rethinking the "mirroring" hypothesis: implications for technological modularity, tacit coordination, and radical innovation. R&D Management, 47(1), 3-16. https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12106

Studies of the 'mirroring' hypothesis have demonstrated the relationships between technological modularity and explicit coordination, yet little is known about the 'mirroring' relationship between technological modularity and tacit coordination, and... Read More about Rethinking the "mirroring" hypothesis: implications for technological modularity, tacit coordination, and radical innovation.

The impact of temperature fluctuations on the large-scale clustering of the Lyα forest (2015)
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Greig, B., Bolton, J. S., & Wyithe, J. S. B. (2015). The impact of temperature fluctuations on the large-scale clustering of the Lyα forest. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 447(3), 2503-2511. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2624

We develop a semi-analytic method for assessing the impact of the large-scale IGM temperature fluctuations expected following He ii reionization on three-dimensional clustering measurements of the Lyα forest. Our methodology builds upon the existing... Read More about The impact of temperature fluctuations on the large-scale clustering of the Lyα forest.

Archaeogenomic insights into the adaptation of plants to the human environment: Pushing plant-hominin co-evolution back to the Pliocene (2015)
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Allaby, R. G., Kistler, L., Gutaker, R. M., Ware, R., Kitchen, J. L., Smith, O., & Clarke, A. C. (2015). Archaeogenomic insights into the adaptation of plants to the human environment: Pushing plant-hominin co-evolution back to the Pliocene. Journal of Human Evolution, 79, 150-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.10.014

© 2014 The Authors. The colonization of the human environment by plants, and the consequent evolution of domesticated forms is increasingly being viewed as a co-evolutionary plant-human process that occurred over a long time period, with evidence for... Read More about Archaeogenomic insights into the adaptation of plants to the human environment: Pushing plant-hominin co-evolution back to the Pliocene.

Relationship Between White Matter Hyperintensities, Cortical Thickness, and Cognition (2015)
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Tuladhar, A. M., Reid, A. T., Shumskaya, E., de Laat, K. F., van Norden, A. G., van Dijk, E. J., …de Leeuw, F.-E. (2015). Relationship Between White Matter Hyperintensities, Cortical Thickness, and Cognition. Stroke, 46(2), 425-432. https://doi.org/10.1161/strokeaha.114.007146

Wiener chaos versus stochastic collocation methods for linear advection-diffusion-reaction equations with multiplicative white noise (2015)
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Zhang, Z., Tretyakov, M., Rozovskii, B., & Karniadakis, G. E. (2015). Wiener chaos versus stochastic collocation methods for linear advection-diffusion-reaction equations with multiplicative white noise. SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 53(1), Article 153-183. https://doi.org/10.1137/130932156

We compare Wiener chaos and stochastic collocation methods for linear advection-reaction-diffusion equations with multiplicative white noise. Both methods are constructed based on a recursive multistage algorithm for long-time integration. We derive... Read More about Wiener chaos versus stochastic collocation methods for linear advection-diffusion-reaction equations with multiplicative white noise.

The use of β2-agonist therapy before hospital attendance for severe asthma exacerbations: a post-hoc analysis (2015)
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Patel, M., Pilcher, J., Hancox, R. J., Sheahan, D., Pritchard, A., Braithwaite, I., …Beasley, R. (2015). The use of β2-agonist therapy before hospital attendance for severe asthma exacerbations: a post-hoc analysis. npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, 25, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/npjpcrm.2014.99

Background:
Patterns of inhaled β2-agonist therapy use during severe asthma exacerbations before hospital attendance are poorly understood.

Aims:
To assess β2-agonist use prior to hospital attendance.

Methods:
We undertook an exploratory pos... Read More about The use of β2-agonist therapy before hospital attendance for severe asthma exacerbations: a post-hoc analysis.

The neural substrate for binaural masking level differences in the auditory cortex (2015)
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Gilbert, H. J., Shackleton, T. M., KRUMBHOLZ, K., & Palmer, A. R. (2015). The neural substrate for binaural masking level differences in the auditory cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(1), https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1131-14.2015

Impact of rapid-hardening cements on mechanical properties of cement bitumen emulsion asphalt (2015)
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Fang, X., Garcia, A., Winnefeld, F., Partl, M. N., & Lura, P. (2016). Impact of rapid-hardening cements on mechanical properties of cement bitumen emulsion asphalt. Materials and Structures, 49, 487-498. https://doi.org/10.1617/s11527-014-0512-3

Cement bitumen emulsion asphalt (CBEA) is obtained by mixing bitumen emulsion, cement, aggregates and filler at ambient temperature. CBEA is thought to be a promising substitute for hot mix asphalt because of its low environmental impact and cost-eff... Read More about Impact of rapid-hardening cements on mechanical properties of cement bitumen emulsion asphalt.

Formal asymptotic limit of a diffuse-interface tumor-growth model (2015)
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Hilhorst, D., Kampmann, J., Nguyen, T. N., & van der Zee, K. (2015). Formal asymptotic limit of a diffuse-interface tumor-growth model. Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, 25(6), https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218202515500268

We consider a diffuse-interface tumor-growth model which has the form of a phase-field system. We characterize the singular limit of this problem. More precisely, we formally prove that as the coefficient of the reaction term tends to infinity, the s... Read More about Formal asymptotic limit of a diffuse-interface tumor-growth model.

Artificial tektites: an experimental technique for capturing the shapes of spinning drops (2015)
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Baldwin, K. A., Butler, S. L., & Hill, R. J. (in press). Artificial tektites: an experimental technique for capturing the shapes of spinning drops. Scientific Reports, 5, Article 7660. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep07660

Determining the shapes of a rotating liquid droplet bound by surface tension is an archetypal problem in the study of the equilibrium shapes of a spinning and charged droplet, a problem that unites models of the stability of the atomic nucleus with t... Read More about Artificial tektites: an experimental technique for capturing the shapes of spinning drops.

Cellular cardiac electrophysiology modeling with Chaste and CellML (2015)
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Cooper, J., Spiteri, R. J., & Mirams, G. R. (2015). Cellular cardiac electrophysiology modeling with Chaste and CellML. Frontiers in Physiology, 5, Article 511. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2014.00511

© 2015 Cooper, Spiteri and Mirams. Chaste is an open-source C++ library for computational biology that has well-developed cardiac electrophysiology tissue simulation support. In this paper, we introduce the features available for performing cardiac e... Read More about Cellular cardiac electrophysiology modeling with Chaste and CellML.

Habitat image annotation with low-level features, medium-level knowledge and location information (2015)
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The classification of habitats is crucial for structuring knowledge and developing our understanding of the natural world. Currently, most successful methods employ human surveyors—a laborious, expensive and subjective process. In this paper, we form... Read More about Habitat image annotation with low-level features, medium-level knowledge and location information.

Eukaryotic elongation factor 2 kinase regulates the cold stress response by slowing translation elongation (2015)
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Cells respond to external stress conditions by controlling gene expression, a process which occurs rapidly via post-transcriptional regulation at the level of protein synthesis. Global control of translation is mediated by modification of translation... Read More about Eukaryotic elongation factor 2 kinase regulates the cold stress response by slowing translation elongation.

A new framework for cortico-striatal plasticity: behavioural theory meets In vitro data at the reinforcement-action interface (2015)
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Gurney, K. N., Humphries, M. D., & Redgrave, P. (2015). A new framework for cortico-striatal plasticity: behavioural theory meets In vitro data at the reinforcement-action interface. PLoS Biology, 13(1), Article e1002034. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002034

Operant learning requires that reinforcement signals interact with action representations at a suitable neural interface. Much evidence suggests that this occurs when phasic dopamine, acting as a reinforcement prediction error, gates plasticity at co... Read More about A new framework for cortico-striatal plasticity: behavioural theory meets In vitro data at the reinforcement-action interface.

Performance of T-stub to CFT joints using blind bolts with headed anchors (2015)
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Tizani, W., & Pitrakkos, T. (2015). Performance of T-stub to CFT joints using blind bolts with headed anchors. Journal of Structural Engineering, 141(10), https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29ST.1943-541X.0001169

This paper assesses the performance of a newly developed blind bolt, intended for use in constructing bolted moment-resisting connections to concrete-filled tubular steel profiles. A total of ten connection tests are reported, with each configuration... Read More about Performance of T-stub to CFT joints using blind bolts with headed anchors.

Adrenomedullary progenitor cells: isolation and characterization of a multi-potent progenitor cell population (2015)
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Vukicevic, V., Rubin de Celis, M. F., Pellegata, N. S., Bornstein, S. R., Androutsellis-Theotokis, A., & Ehrhart-Bornstein, M. (2015). Adrenomedullary progenitor cells: isolation and characterization of a multi-potent progenitor cell population. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 408, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mce.2014.12.020

The adrenal is a highly plastic organ with the ability to adjust to physiological needs by adapting hormone production but also by generating and regenerating both adrenocortical and adrenomedullary tissue. It is now apparent that many adult tissues... Read More about Adrenomedullary progenitor cells: isolation and characterization of a multi-potent progenitor cell population.

Rehabilitation of memory following brain injury (ReMemBrIn): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2015)
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das Nair, R., Lincoln, N., Ftizsimmons, D., Brain, N., Montgomery, A., Bradshaw, L., …Pink, A. (2015). Rehabilitation of memory following brain injury (ReMemBrIn): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 16(6), https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-16-6

Background
Impairments of memory are commonly reported by people with traumatic brain injuries (TBI). Such deficits are persistent, debilitating, and can severely impact quality of life. Currently, many do not routinely receive follow-up appointment... Read More about Rehabilitation of memory following brain injury (ReMemBrIn): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Photic zone changes in the north-west Pacific Ocean from MIS 4–5e (2015)
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Swann, G., & Snelling, A. M. (2015). Photic zone changes in the north-west Pacific Ocean from MIS 4–5e. Climate of the Past, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-11-15-2015

In comparison to other sectors of the marine system, the palaeoceanography of the subarctic North Pacific Ocean is poorly constrained. New diatom isotope records of δ13C, δ18O δ30Si (δ13Cdiatom, δ18Odiatom and δ30Sidiatom) are presented alongside exi... Read More about Photic zone changes in the north-west Pacific Ocean from MIS 4–5e.