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Improving the care of people with dementia in general hospitals: evaluation of a whole-system train the trainer model (2016)
Journal Article

Background: There are concerns about the quality of care that people with dementia receive in the general hospital. Staff report a lack of confidence and inadequate training in dementia care. Methods: A train-the-trainer model was implemented across... Read More about Improving the care of people with dementia in general hospitals: evaluation of a whole-system train the trainer model.

Fast and exact Newton and bidirectional fitting of Active Appearance Models (2016)
Journal Article

Active Appearance Models (AAMs) are generative models of shape and appearance that have proven very attractive for their ability to handle wide changes in illumination, pose and occlusion when trained in the wild, while not requiring large training d... Read More about Fast and exact Newton and bidirectional fitting of Active Appearance Models.

Electromagnetic heating for industrial kilning of malt: a feasibility study (2016)
Journal Article

Industrial malting operations use ~800kWh/t of energy to produce the heat required to kiln malt. Electromagnetic heating technologies are suggested as a way to potentially improve the energy efficiency of the kilning processing. In this work, the pot... Read More about Electromagnetic heating for industrial kilning of malt: a feasibility study.

A novel approach to design lesion-specific stents for minimum recoil (2016)
Journal Article

Stent geometries are obtained by topology optimization for minimized compliance under different stenosis levels and plaque material types. Three levels of stenosis by cross-sectional area, i.e., 30%, 40%, and 50% and three different plaque material p... Read More about A novel approach to design lesion-specific stents for minimum recoil.

Meta-analysis of operative experiences of general surgery trainees during training (2016)
Journal Article

BACKGROUND: General surgical training curricula around the world set defined operative numbers to be achieved before completion of training. However, there are few studies reporting total operative experience in training. This systematic review aimed... Read More about Meta-analysis of operative experiences of general surgery trainees during training.

Political connections, bailout in financial markets and firm value (2016)
Journal Article

The paper shows that politically motivated interventions in the financial market in the form of bailing out borrowing firms reduce banks’ incentives to gather valuable information about firms’ projects. This loss of information is a hidden cost which... Read More about Political connections, bailout in financial markets and firm value.

Peripheral killer cells do not differentiate between asthma patients with or without fixed airway obstruction (2016)
Journal Article

Objective: The three main types of killer cells – CD8+ T cells, NK cells and NKT cells – have been linked to asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, their role in a small subset of asthma patients displaying fixed airway obs... Read More about Peripheral killer cells do not differentiate between asthma patients with or without fixed airway obstruction.

Creating AI Characters for Fighting Games Using Genetic Programming (2016)
Journal Article

This paper proposes a character generation approach for the M.U.G.E.N. fighting game that can create engaging AI characters using a computationally cheap process without the intervention of the expert developer. The approach uses a genetic programmin... Read More about Creating AI Characters for Fighting Games Using Genetic Programming.

Associations Between Clinical Evidence of Inflammation and Synovitis in Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis: A Cross-Sectional Substudy (2016)
Journal Article

Objective Painful knee osteoarthritis (KOA) has been associated with joint inflammation. There is, however, little literature correlating signs of localized inflammation with contrast‐enhanced (CE) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of synovium. Thi... Read More about Associations Between Clinical Evidence of Inflammation and Synovitis in Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis: A Cross-Sectional Substudy.

Simultaneous NMR characterisation of multiple minima in the free energy landscape of an RNA UUCG tetraloop (2016)
Journal Article

© the Owner Societies 2017. RNA molecules in solution tend to undergo structural fluctuations of relatively large amplitude and to populate a range of different conformations some of which with low populations. It is still very challenging, however,... Read More about Simultaneous NMR characterisation of multiple minima in the free energy landscape of an RNA UUCG tetraloop.

Adaptivity and Blow-Up Detection for Nonlinear Evolution Problems (2016)
Journal Article

This work is concerned with the development of a space-time adaptive numerical method, based on a rigorous a posteriori error bound, for a semilinear convection-diffusion problem which may exhibit blow-up in finite time. More specifically, a posterio... Read More about Adaptivity and Blow-Up Detection for Nonlinear Evolution Problems.

Paradoxical antidepressant effects of alcohol are related to acid sphingomyelinase and its control of sphingolipid homeostasis (2016)
Journal Article

Adverse events after first, single, mesh and non-mesh surgical procedures for stress urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse in Scotland, 1997–2016: a population-based cohort study (2016)
Journal Article

Background Concerns have been raised about the safety of surgery for stress urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse using transvaginal mesh. We assessed adverse outcomes after first, single mesh procedures and comparable non-mesh procedures... Read More about Adverse events after first, single, mesh and non-mesh surgical procedures for stress urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse in Scotland, 1997–2016: a population-based cohort study.

5-Hydroxyethyl-3-tetradecanoyltetramic acid represents a novel treatment for intravascular catheter infections due to Staphylococcus aureus (2016)
Journal Article

Objectives: Biofilm infections of intravascular catheters caused by Staphylococcus aureus may be treated with catheter lock solutions (CLSs). Here we investigated the antibacterial activity, cytotoxicity and CLS potential of 5-hydroxyethyl-3-tetradec... Read More about 5-Hydroxyethyl-3-tetradecanoyltetramic acid represents a novel treatment for intravascular catheter infections due to Staphylococcus aureus.

Which traits do observers use to distinguish Batesian mimics from their models? (2016)
Journal Article

Batesian mimicry, in which a harmless mimic resembles a more aversive model, can encompass a wide range of morphological traits, but the resemblance is never perfect. Previous studies have used abstract “prey” designs to show that differences in cert... Read More about Which traits do observers use to distinguish Batesian mimics from their models?.

Validation of a quantifier-based fuzzy classification system for breast cancer patients on external independent cohorts (2016)
Conference Proceeding

Recent studies in breast cancer domains have identified seven distinct clinical phenotypes (groups) using immunohistochemical analysis and a variety of unsupervised learning techniques. Consensus among the clustering algorithms has been used to categ... Read More about Validation of a quantifier-based fuzzy classification system for breast cancer patients on external independent cohorts.

High resolution 3D imaging of living cells with sub-optical wavelength phonons (2016)
Journal Article

Label-free imaging of living cells below the optical diffraction limit poses great challenges for optical microscopy. Biologically relevant structural information remains below the Rayleigh limit and beyond the reach of conventional microscopes. Supe... Read More about High resolution 3D imaging of living cells with sub-optical wavelength phonons.

Widespread inter- and intra-domain horizontal gene transfer of d-amino acid metabolism enzymes in eukaryotes (2016)
Journal Article

Analysis of the growing number of available fully-sequenced genomes has shown that Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) in eukaryotes is more common than previously thought. It has been proposed that genes with certain functions may be more prone to HGT th... Read More about Widespread inter- and intra-domain horizontal gene transfer of d-amino acid metabolism enzymes in eukaryotes.

Quadrilateral suspensory and straight sesamoidean ligament calcifying desmopathy in an Arabian mare (2016)
Journal Article

A 5-year-old Arabian mare was referred for the investigation of recent behavioural change, generalised stiffness, and owner-reported polyuria and polydipsia. Clinical examination revealed severe pain associated with palpation along the entire length... Read More about Quadrilateral suspensory and straight sesamoidean ligament calcifying desmopathy in an Arabian mare.

China: an East Asian alternative to neoliberalism? (2016)
Journal Article

The political-economic evolution of post-Mao China has been portrayed as a historically inevitable embrace of neoliberalism; as an exemplification of the East Asian developmental state and as an extension of Soviet New Economic Policy-style state cap... Read More about China: an East Asian alternative to neoliberalism?.