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Making sense in the city: Dolly Parton, early reading and educational policy-making (2015)
Journal Article
Hall, C., & Jones, S. (2016). Making sense in the city: Dolly Parton, early reading and educational policy-making. Literacy, 50(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12069

In this paper, we present a case study of a philanthropic literacy initiative, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, a book-gifting scheme for under 5s, and consider the impact of the scheme on literacy policy in the English city where it was introduce... Read More about Making sense in the city: Dolly Parton, early reading and educational policy-making.

Environmental and financial implications of ethanol as a bioethylene feedstock versus as a transportation fuel (2015)
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McKechnie, J., Pourbafrani, M., Saville, B. A., & MacLean, H. L. (2015). Environmental and financial implications of ethanol as a bioethylene feedstock versus as a transportation fuel. Environmental Research Letters, 10(12), https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/124018

Bulk chemicals production from biomass may compete with biofuels for low-cost and sustainable biomass sources. Understanding how alternative uses of biomass compare in terms of financial and environmental parameters is therefore necessary to help ens... Read More about Environmental and financial implications of ethanol as a bioethylene feedstock versus as a transportation fuel.

Challenges to the surveillance of non-communicable diseases – a review of selected approaches (2015)
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Kroll, M., Phalkey, R. K., & Kraas, F. (2015). Challenges to the surveillance of non-communicable diseases – a review of selected approaches. BMC Public Health, 15, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2570-z

Background: The rising global burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) necessitates the institutionalization of surveillance systems to track trends and evaluate interventions. However, NCD surveillance capacities vary across high- and low- and mid... Read More about Challenges to the surveillance of non-communicable diseases – a review of selected approaches.

Modulation of potassium channels inhibits bunyavirus infection (2015)
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Hover, S., King, B., Hall, B., Loundras, E., Taqi, H., Daly, J. M., …Mankouri, J. (2016). Modulation of potassium channels inhibits bunyavirus infection. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 291(7), 3411-3422. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M115.692673

Bunyaviruses are considered to be emerging pathogens facilitated by the segmented nature of their genome that allows reassortment between different species to generate novel viruses with altered pathogenicity. Bunyaviruses are transmitted via a diver... Read More about Modulation of potassium channels inhibits bunyavirus infection.

Risk factors for cardiovascular disease in people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a population-based study (2015)
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Dallywater, W., Powell, H. A., Hubbard, R. B., & Navaratnam, V. (in press). Risk factors for cardiovascular disease in people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a population-based study. Chest, 147(1), https://doi.org/10.1378/chest.14-0041

OBJECTIVE: People with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) have been shown to be at an increased risk for cardiovascular (CV) disease, but reasons for this are unknown. The aim of this study was to compare the prevalence of common CV risk factors in... Read More about Risk factors for cardiovascular disease in people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a population-based study.

Locating mathematics within post-16 vocational education in England (2015)
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Dalby, D., & Noyes, A. (2015). Locating mathematics within post-16 vocational education in England. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, https://doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2015.1110828

The political importance of mathematics in post-16 education is clear. Far less clear is how mathematics does and should relate to vocational education. Successive mathematics curricula (e.g. core skills, key skills) have been developed in England wi... Read More about Locating mathematics within post-16 vocational education in England.

Personal exposure to static and time-varying magnetic fields during MRI procedures in clinical practice in the UK (2015)
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Batistatou, E., Mölter, A., Kromhout, H., van Tongeren, M., Crozier, S., Schaap, K., …de Vocht, F. (in press). Personal exposure to static and time-varying magnetic fields during MRI procedures in clinical practice in the UK. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 73, https://doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2015-103194

Background: MRI has developed into one of the most important medical diagnostic imaging modalities, but it exposes staff to static magnetic fields (SMF) when present in the vicinity of the MR system, and to radiofrequency and switched gradient electr... Read More about Personal exposure to static and time-varying magnetic fields during MRI procedures in clinical practice in the UK.

Age-related neuromuscular changes affecting human vastus lateralis: age-related neuromuscular changes affecting human vastus lateralis (2015)
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Piasecki, M., Ireland, A., Stashuk, D., Hamilton-Wright, A., Jones, D., & McPhee, J. (2016). Age-related neuromuscular changes affecting human vastus lateralis: age-related neuromuscular changes affecting human vastus lateralis. Journal of Physiology, 594(16), 4525-4536. https://doi.org/10.1113/jp271087

The anterior thigh muscles are particularly susceptible to muscle loss and weakness during ageing, although how this is associated with changes to neuromuscular structure and function in terms of motor unit (MU) number, size and MU potential (MUP) st... Read More about Age-related neuromuscular changes affecting human vastus lateralis: age-related neuromuscular changes affecting human vastus lateralis.

Autologous Hematopoetic Stem Cell Transplantation for Refractory Crohn Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial (2015)
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Hawkey, C. J., Allez, M., Clark, M. M., Labopin, M., Lindsay, J. O., Ricart, E., Rogler, G., Rovira, M., Satsangi, J., Danese, S., Russell, N., Gribben, J., Johnson, P., Larghero, J., Thieblemont, C., Ardizzone, S., Dierickx, D., Ibatici, A., Littlewood, T., Onida, F., …Farge, D. (2015). Autologous Hematopoetic Stem Cell Transplantation for Refractory Crohn Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Journal of the American Medical Association, 314(23), 2524-2534. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2015.16700

Importance: Case reports and series suggest hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) may benefit some patients with Crohn disease.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of autologous HSCT on refractory Crohn disease.

Design, Setting, and Pa... Read More about Autologous Hematopoetic Stem Cell Transplantation for Refractory Crohn Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Professionals and public-good capabilities (2015)
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Walker, M., & McLean, M. (2015). Professionals and public-good capabilities. Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 3(2), 60-82. https://doi.org/10.14426/cristal.v3i2.42

Martha Nussbaum (2011) reminds us that, all over the world people are struggling for a life that is fully human - a life worthy of human dignity. Purely income-based and preference based evaluations, as Sen (1999) argues, do not adequately capture wh... Read More about Professionals and public-good capabilities.

Sun safety knowledge and practice in UK postal delivery workers (2015)
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Houdmont, J., Davis, S., & Griffiths, A. (2016). Sun safety knowledge and practice in UK postal delivery workers. Occupational Medicine, 66(4), 279-284. https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqv204

Background: Postal delivery workers spend a large proportion of their work time outdoors, placing them at increased risk for skin cancer. To date, no studies have examined occupational sun safety knowledge and practice within this group in the UK.
A... Read More about Sun safety knowledge and practice in UK postal delivery workers.

The professionals speak: practitioners’ perspectives on professional election campaigning (2015)
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Tenscher, J., Koc-Michalska, K., Lilleker, D. G., Mykkänen, J., Walter, A. S., Findor, A., …Róka, J. (2016). The professionals speak: practitioners’ perspectives on professional election campaigning. European Journal of Communication, 31(2), 95-119. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323115612212

Faced with some fundamental changes in the socio-cultural, political and media environment, political parties in post-industrialized democracies have started to initiate substantial transformations of both their organizational structures and communic... Read More about The professionals speak: practitioners’ perspectives on professional election campaigning.

Optimizing the mix design of cold bitumen emulsion mixtures using response surface methodology (2015)
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Nassar, A. I., Thom, N., & Parry, T. (2016). Optimizing the mix design of cold bitumen emulsion mixtures using response surface methodology. Construction and Building Materials, 104, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2015.12.073

Cold mix asphalt (CMA) has been increasingly recognized as an important alternative worldwide. One of the common types of CMA is cold bitumen emulsion mixture (CBEM). In the present study, the optimization of CBEM has been investigated, to determine... Read More about Optimizing the mix design of cold bitumen emulsion mixtures using response surface methodology.

Thionated perylene diimides with intense absorbance in the near-IR (2015)
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Llewellyn, B. A., Davies, S. E., Pfeiffer, C. R., Cooper, M., Lewis, W., & Champness, N. R. (2015). Thionated perylene diimides with intense absorbance in the near-IR. Chemical Communications, https://doi.org/10.1039/C5CC09962E

A synthetic strategy involving a combination of tetra-thionation and amine substitution in the bay region of a perylene diimide (PDI) leads to remarkable examples of neutral PDIs with intense absorption maxima in the near infrared. Generation of the... Read More about Thionated perylene diimides with intense absorbance in the near-IR.

Intermolecular artifacts in probe microscope images of C60 assemblies (2015)
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Jarvis, S. P., Rashid, M. A., Sweetman, A., Leaf, J., Taylor, S., Moriarty, P., & Dunn, J. (2015). Intermolecular artifacts in probe microscope images of C60 assemblies. Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics, 92(24), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.241405

Claims that dynamic force microscopy has the capability to resolve intermolecular bonds in real space continue to be vigorously debated. To date, studies have been restricted to planar molecular assemblies with small separations between neighboring m... Read More about Intermolecular artifacts in probe microscope images of C60 assemblies.

HOXA5 Counteracts Stem Cell Traits by Inhibiting Wnt Signaling in Colorectal Cancer (2015)
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Ordóñez-Morán, P., Dafflon, C., Imajo, M., Nishida, E., & Huelsken, J. (2015). HOXA5 Counteracts Stem Cell Traits by Inhibiting Wnt Signaling in Colorectal Cancer. Cancer Cell, 28(6), 815-829. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccell.2015.11.001

Hierarchical organization of tissues relies on stem cells, which either self-renew or produce committed progenitors predestined for lineage differentiation. Here we identify HOXA5 as an important repressor of intestinal stem cell fate in vivo and ide... Read More about HOXA5 Counteracts Stem Cell Traits by Inhibiting Wnt Signaling in Colorectal Cancer.

Reconstruction-classification method for quantitative photoacoustic tomography (2015)
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Malone, E., Powell, S., Cox, B. T., & Arridge, S. (2015). Reconstruction-classification method for quantitative photoacoustic tomography. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 20(12), Article 126004. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.jbo.20.12.126004

We propose a combined reconstruction-classification method for simultaneously recovering absorption and scattering in turbid media from images of absorbed optical energy. This method exploits knowledge that optical parameters are determined by a limi... Read More about Reconstruction-classification method for quantitative photoacoustic tomography.