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Discrete element modelling of creep of asphalt mixtures (2015)
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Cai, W., McDowell, G. R., Airey, G., & de Bono, J. P. (in press). Discrete element modelling of creep of asphalt mixtures. Geomechanics and Geoengineering, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/17486025.2015.1006689

Creep tests on asphalt mixtures have been undertaken under four stress levels in the laboratory while the Discrete Element Model (DEM) has been used to simulate the laboratory tests. A modified Burger’s model has been used to represent the time-depen... Read More about Discrete element modelling of creep of asphalt mixtures.

Borrower's moral hazard, risk premium, and welfare: a comparison of universal and stand-alone banking systems (2015)
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Banerji, S., & Basu, P. (in press). Borrower's moral hazard, risk premium, and welfare: a comparison of universal and stand-alone banking systems. Journal of Economic Asymmetries, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeca.2015.01.003

Does the unification of retail and investment banking necessarily heighten risk in financial markets? Using a simple two period intertemporal model with borrower's moral hazard and uninsured risk, we argue that the integration in financial service ma... Read More about Borrower's moral hazard, risk premium, and welfare: a comparison of universal and stand-alone banking systems.

Metasurface holograms reaching 80% efficiency (2015)
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Zheng, G., Mühlenbernd, H., Kenney, M., Li, G., Zentgraf, T., & Zhang, S. (2015). Metasurface holograms reaching 80% efficiency. Nature Nanotechnology, 10(4), 308-312. https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.2

Surfaces covered by ultrathin plasmonic structures—so-called metasurfaces—have recently been shown to be capable of completely controlling the phase of light, representing a new paradigm for the design of innovative optical elements such as ultrathin... Read More about Metasurface holograms reaching 80% efficiency.

HRD Programs in the United Kingdom (2015)
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Stewart, J., & Mills, S. (2015). HRD Programs in the United Kingdom. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 17(2), 162-179. doi:10.1177/1523422315572619

The Problem. Very little research has examined the current state of human resource development (HRD) education in the United Kingdom, or the factors influencing its genesis and development. The Solution. We analyze historical and contemporary factors... Read More about HRD Programs in the United Kingdom.

Illusory feature slowing: evidence for perceptual models of global facial change (2015)
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Cook, R., Aichelburg, C., & Johnston, A. (2015). Illusory feature slowing: evidence for perceptual models of global facial change. Psychological Research, 26(4), 512-517. doi:10.1177/0956797614567340

Upright static faces are widely thought to recruit holistic representations, whereby individual features are integrated into nondecomposable wholes for recognition and interpretation. In contrast, little is known about the perceptual integration of d... Read More about Illusory feature slowing: evidence for perceptual models of global facial change.

Operation Pied Piper: a geographical reappraisal of the impact of wartime evacuation on scarlet fever and diphtheria rates in England and Wales, 1939–1945 (2015)
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Smallman-Raynor, M., & Cliff, A. (2015). Operation Pied Piper: a geographical reappraisal of the impact of wartime evacuation on scarlet fever and diphtheria rates in England and Wales, 1939–1945. Epidemiology and Infection, 143(14), 2923-2938. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268815000175

This paper examines the geographical impact of the British Government’s wartime evacuation scheme on notified rates of two common acute childhood diseases (scarlet fever and diphtheria) in the 1470 local government districts of England and Wales, 193... Read More about Operation Pied Piper: a geographical reappraisal of the impact of wartime evacuation on scarlet fever and diphtheria rates in England and Wales, 1939–1945.

Animals and anomalies: an analysis of the UK veterinary profession and the relative lack of state reform (2015)
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Hobson-West, P., & Timmons, S. (2016). Animals and anomalies: an analysis of the UK veterinary profession and the relative lack of state reform. Sociological Review, 64(1), 47-63. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12254

The sociology of professions literature would predict that the contemporary state would not allow groups to continue unregulated or unreformed. However, this is indeed the case with the UK veterinary profession, with legislation dating back to 1966.... Read More about Animals and anomalies: an analysis of the UK veterinary profession and the relative lack of state reform.

Calcitonin gene-related peptide-expressing sensory neurons and spinal microglial reactivity contribute to pain states in collagen-induced arthritis (2015)
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Nieto, F. R., Clark, A. K., Grist, J., Chapman, V., & Malcangio, M. (2015). Calcitonin gene-related peptide-expressing sensory neurons and spinal microglial reactivity contribute to pain states in collagen-induced arthritis. Arthritis and Rheumatology, 67(6), https://doi.org/10.1002/art.39082

Objective To evaluate the contribution of sensory neurons in ankle joints and adjacent tissue to the development of pain in collagen‐induced arthritis (CIA), and to determine the relationship between pain and the appearance of clinical signs.... Read More about Calcitonin gene-related peptide-expressing sensory neurons and spinal microglial reactivity contribute to pain states in collagen-induced arthritis.

Absorbing–generating seaward boundary conditions for fully-coupled hydro-morphodynamical solvers (2015)
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Incelli, G., Briganti, R., & Dodd, N. (2015). Absorbing–generating seaward boundary conditions for fully-coupled hydro-morphodynamical solvers. Coastal Engineering, 99, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2015.02.002

This paper presents a new technique to compute open boundary conditions for fully-coupled hydro-morphodynamical numerical solvers based on the Non-Linear Shallow Water and the Exner equations. These conditions allow the generation of incident signals... Read More about Absorbing–generating seaward boundary conditions for fully-coupled hydro-morphodynamical solvers.

Granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulatory factor enhances the pro-inflammatory response of interferon-?-treated macrophages to pseudomonas aeruginosa infection (2015)
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Singh, S., Barr, H. L., Liu, Y., Robins, A., Heeb, S., Williams, P., …Martinez-Pomares, L. (2015). Granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulatory factor enhances the pro-inflammatory response of interferon-γ-treated macrophages to pseudomonas aeruginosa infection. PLoS ONE, 10(2), Article e0117447. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0117447

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that can cause severe infections at compromised epithelial surfaces, such those found in burns, wounds, and in lungs damaged by mechanical ventilation or recurrent infections, particularly in cystic... Read More about Granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulatory factor enhances the pro-inflammatory response of interferon-?-treated macrophages to pseudomonas aeruginosa infection.

Economic status and acknowledgement of earned entitlement (2015)
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Barr, A., Burns, J., Miller, L., & Shaw, I. (2015). Economic status and acknowledgement of earned entitlement. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 118, 55-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2015.02.012

We present a series of experiments that investigates whether tendencies to acknowledge entitlement owing to effort and productivity are associated with within society economic status. Each participant played a four-person dictator game under one of t... Read More about Economic status and acknowledgement of earned entitlement.

Microvawe pyrolysis of biomass: control of process parameters for high pyrolysis oil yields and enhanced oil quality (2015)
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Robinson, J., Dodds, C., Stavrinides, A., Kingman, S., Katrib, J., Wu, Z., …Overend, R. (2015). Microvawe pyrolysis of biomass: control of process parameters for high pyrolysis oil yields and enhanced oil quality. Energy and Fuels, 29(3), 1701-1709. https://doi.org/10.1021/ef502403x

The oil yield and quality of pyrolysis oil from microwave heating of biomass was established by studying the behaviour of Larch in microwave processing. This is the first study in biomass pyrolysis to use a microwave processing technique and methodol... Read More about Microvawe pyrolysis of biomass: control of process parameters for high pyrolysis oil yields and enhanced oil quality.

Construction of a high-density DArTseq SNP-based genetic map and identification of genomic regions with segregation distortion in a genetic population derived from a cross between feral and cultivated-type watermelon (2015)
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Ren, R., Ray, R., Li, P., Xu, J., Zhang, M., Liu, G., …Yang, X. (2015). Construction of a high-density DArTseq SNP-based genetic map and identification of genomic regions with segregation distortion in a genetic population derived from a cross between feral and cultivated-type watermelon. Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 290(4), 1457-1470. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00438-015-0997-7

Watermelon [Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai] is an economically important vegetable crop grown extensively worldwide. To facilitate the identification of agronomically important traits and provide new information for genetic and genomic re... Read More about Construction of a high-density DArTseq SNP-based genetic map and identification of genomic regions with segregation distortion in a genetic population derived from a cross between feral and cultivated-type watermelon.

Investigating gender differences in the factor structure of the Gudjonsson Compliance Scale (2015)
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Drake, K. E., & Egan, V. (2017). Investigating gender differences in the factor structure of the Gudjonsson Compliance Scale. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 22(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/lcrp.12081

Purpose: The Gudjonsson Compliance Scale (GCS) remains, in terms of its psychometrics, an under-researched instrument, in which gender differences in particular have been insufficiently examined. The aim of this research was to therefore investigate... Read More about Investigating gender differences in the factor structure of the Gudjonsson Compliance Scale.

Two-boxing is irrational (2015)
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Noonan, H. (in press). Two-boxing is irrational. Philosophia, 43(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-015-9589-3

Philosophers debate whether one-boxing or two-boxing is the rational act in a Newcomb situation. I shall argue that one-boxing is the only rational choice. This is so because there is no intelligible aim by reference to which you can justify the choi... Read More about Two-boxing is irrational.

The mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) in breast cancer: the impact of oestrogen receptor and HER2 pathways (2015)
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Jerjees, D. A., Negm, O. H., Alabdullah, M. L., Mirza, S., Alkaabi, M., Hameed, M. R., …Rakha, E. A. (2015). The mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) in breast cancer: the impact of oestrogen receptor and HER2 pathways. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 150(1), 91-103. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-015-3308-4

The mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) is a downstream of the PI3K/Akt pathway which affects cancer development. mTORC1 has many downstream signalling effectors that can enhance different cellular responses. This study aims to investiga... Read More about The mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) in breast cancer: the impact of oestrogen receptor and HER2 pathways.

A review on computer vision based defect detection and condition assessment of concrete and asphalt civil infrastructure (2015)
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Koch, C., Georgieva, K., Kasireddy, V., Akinci, B., & Fieguth, P. (2015). A review on computer vision based defect detection and condition assessment of concrete and asphalt civil infrastructure. Advanced Engineering Informatics, 29(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2015.01.008

To ensure the safety and the serviceability of civil infrastructure it is essential to visually inspect and assess its physical and functional condition. This review paper presents the current state of practice of assessing the visual condition of ve... Read More about A review on computer vision based defect detection and condition assessment of concrete and asphalt civil infrastructure.

Health state utility values for diabetic retinopathy: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis (2015)
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Sampson, C. J., Tosh, J. C., Cheyne, C. P., Broadbent, D., & James, M. (2015). Health state utility values for diabetic retinopathy: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. Systematic Reviews, 4(1), Article 15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-015-0006-6

Background People with diabetic retinopathy tend to have lower levels of health-related quality of life than individuals with no retinopathy. Strategies for screening and treatment have been shown to be cost-effective. In order to reduce the bias in... Read More about Health state utility values for diabetic retinopathy: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Rock With Me: The Role of Movement Synchrony in Infants' Social and Nonsocial Choices (2015)
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Tunçgenç, B., Cohen, E., & Fawcett, C. (2015). Rock With Me: The Role of Movement Synchrony in Infants' Social and Nonsocial Choices. Child Development, 86(3), 976-984. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12354

© 2015 The Authors. Matching the timing of one's movements to the movements of others has been proposed to increase affiliation and prosociality. Although coordinated movements facilitate early social interactions, not much is known about the mechani... Read More about Rock With Me: The Role of Movement Synchrony in Infants' Social and Nonsocial Choices.

CXCL8 histone H3 acetylation is dysfunctional in airway smooth muscle in asthma: Regulation by BET (2015)
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Clifford, R. L., Patel, J. K., John, A. E., Tatler, A. L., Mazengarb, L., Brightling, C. E., & Knox, A. J. (2015). CXCL8 histone H3 acetylation is dysfunctional in airway smooth muscle in asthma: Regulation by BET. AJP - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, 308(9), L962-L972. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajplung.00021.2015

© 2015 The American Physiological Society. Asthma is characterized by airway inflammation and remodeling and CXCL8 is a CXC chemokine that drives steroid-resistant neutrophilic airway inflammation. We have shown that airway smooth muscle (ASM) cells... Read More about CXCL8 histone H3 acetylation is dysfunctional in airway smooth muscle in asthma: Regulation by BET.