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Functional plasticity in the respiratory drive to thoracic motoneurons in the segment above a chronic lateral spinal cord lesion (2016)
Journal Article
Ford, T. W., Anissimova, N. P., Meehan, C. F., & Kirkwood, P. A. (2016). Functional plasticity in the respiratory drive to thoracic motoneurons in the segment above a chronic lateral spinal cord lesion. Journal of Neurophysiology, 115(1), 554-567. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00614.2015

A previous neurophysiological investigation demonstrated an increase in functional projections of expiratory bulbospinal neurons (EBSNs) in the segment above a chronic lateral thoracic spinal cord lesion which severed their axons. We have now investi... Read More about Functional plasticity in the respiratory drive to thoracic motoneurons in the segment above a chronic lateral spinal cord lesion.

Correction: Protocol investigating the clinical utility of an objective measure of activity and attention (QbTest) on diagnostic and treatment decision-making in children and young people with ADHD-'Assessing QbTest Utility in ADHD'(AQUA): A randomised controlled trial - December 01, 2014 (2016)
Journal Article
Hall, C. L., Walker, G. M. .., Valentine, A. Z., Guo, B., Kaylor-Hughes, C., James, M., …Hollis, C. (2016). Correction: Protocol investigating the clinical utility of an objective measure of activity and attention (QbTest) on diagnostic and treatment decision-making in children and young people with ADHD-'Assessing QbTest Utility in ADHD'(AQUA): A randomised controlled trial - December 01, 2014. BMJ Open, 6(1), Article e006838corr2. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006838corr2

The Amino Acid Transporter JhI-21 Coevolves with Glutamate Receptors, Impacts NMJ Physiology and Influences Locomotor Activity in Drosophila Larvae (2016)
Journal Article
Ziegler, A. B., Augustin, H., Clark, N. L., Berthelot-Grosjean, M., Simonnet, M. M., Steinert, J. R., …Grosjean, Y. (2016). The Amino Acid Transporter JhI-21 Coevolves with Glutamate Receptors, Impacts NMJ Physiology and Influences Locomotor Activity in Drosophila Larvae. Scientific Reports, 6(1), Article 19692. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep19692

Changes in synaptic physiology underlie neuronal network plasticity and behavioral phenomena, which are adjusted during development. The Drosophila larval glutamatergic neuromuscular junction (NMJ) represents a powerful synaptic model to investigate... Read More about The Amino Acid Transporter JhI-21 Coevolves with Glutamate Receptors, Impacts NMJ Physiology and Influences Locomotor Activity in Drosophila Larvae.

An improved HPLC method for single-run analysis of the spectrum of hop bittering compounds usually encountered in beers: Simultaneous HPLC determination of hop bitter acids (2016)
Journal Article
Oladokun, O., Smart, K., & Cook, D. (2016). An improved HPLC method for single-run analysis of the spectrum of hop bittering compounds usually encountered in beers: Simultaneous HPLC determination of hop bitter acids. Journal of the Institute of Brewing, 122(1), 11-20. https://doi.org/10.1002/jib.299

A single‐run reverse phase‐high performance liquid chromatography method for the quantification of humulinones, α‐acids, iso‐α‐acids and reduced iso‐α‐acids (where present) in commercial beer samples is presented. The method utilizes a binary solvent... Read More about An improved HPLC method for single-run analysis of the spectrum of hop bittering compounds usually encountered in beers: Simultaneous HPLC determination of hop bitter acids.

A practitioner's guide to thermal infrared remote sensing of rivers and streams: recent advances, precautions and considerations (2016)
Journal Article
Dugdale, S. J. (2016). A practitioner's guide to thermal infrared remote sensing of rivers and streams: recent advances, precautions and considerations. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 3(2), 251-268. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1135

Stream temperature is a key habitat variable controlling all physical and biological river processes. In light of the threat of climate change to fluvial environments, growing importance is being placed on the need to gain a better understanding of s... Read More about A practitioner's guide to thermal infrared remote sensing of rivers and streams: recent advances, precautions and considerations.

A thermal cycling reliability study of ultrasonically bonded copper wires (2016)
Journal Article
Arjmand, E., Agyakwa, P. A., Corfield, M. R., Li, J., Mouawad, B., & Mark Johnson, C. (2016). A thermal cycling reliability study of ultrasonically bonded copper wires. Microelectronics Reliability, 59, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2016.01.009

In this work we report on a reliability investigation regarding heavy copper wires ultrasonically bonded onto active braze copper substrates. The results obtained from both a non-destructive approach using 3D X-ray tomography and shear tests showed n... Read More about A thermal cycling reliability study of ultrasonically bonded copper wires.

Efficiency of inefficient endoreversible thermal machines (2016)
Journal Article
Palao, J. P., Correa, L. A., Adesso, G., & Alonso, D. (2016). Efficiency of inefficient endoreversible thermal machines. Brazilian Journal of Physics, 46(3), 282-287. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13538-015-0396-x

We present a study of the performance of endoreversible thermal machines optimized with respect to the thermodynamic force associated with the cold bath in the regime of small thermodynamic forces. These thermal machines can work either as an engine... Read More about Efficiency of inefficient endoreversible thermal machines.

Factors influencing the research participation of adults with autism spectrum disorders (2016)
Journal Article
Haas, K., Costley, D., Falkmer, M., Richdale, A., Sofronoff, K., & Falkmer, T. (2016). Factors influencing the research participation of adults with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46(5), 1793-1805. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-2708-6

The recruitment and retention of adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) into research poses particular difficulties; longitudinal studies face additional challenges. To date, factors influencing the participation of adults for ASD research have... Read More about Factors influencing the research participation of adults with autism spectrum disorders.

PqsBC, a condensing enzyme in the biosynthesis of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa quinolone signal: crystal structure, inhibition, and reaction mechanism (2016)
Journal Article
Drees, S. L., Li, C., Prasetya, F., Saleem, M., Dreveny, I., Williams, P., …Fetzner, S. (2016). PqsBC, a condensing enzyme in the biosynthesis of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa quinolone signal: crystal structure, inhibition, and reaction mechanism. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 291(13), https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M115.708453

Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces a number of alkylquinolone-type secondary metabolites best known for their antimicrobial effects and involvement in cell-cell communication. In the alkylquinolone biosynthetic pathway, the β-ketoacyl-(acyl carrier prot... Read More about PqsBC, a condensing enzyme in the biosynthesis of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa quinolone signal: crystal structure, inhibition, and reaction mechanism.

Quantification of cracked area in thermal path of high-powermulti-chip modules using transient thermal impedance measurement (2016)
Journal Article
Eleffendi, M. A., Yang, L., Agyakwa, P., & Johnson, C. M. (2016). Quantification of cracked area in thermal path of high-powermulti-chip modules using transient thermal impedance measurement. Microelectronics Reliability, 59, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2016.01.002

Transient thermal impedancemeasurement is commonly used to characterize the dynamic behaviour of the heat flowpath in power semiconductor packages. This can be used to derive a “structure function”which is a graphical representation of the internal s... Read More about Quantification of cracked area in thermal path of high-powermulti-chip modules using transient thermal impedance measurement.

Recovery of chronically lame dairy cows following treatment for claw horn lesions: a randomised controlled trial (2016)
Journal Article
Thomas, H., Remnant, J., Bollard, N., Burrows, A., Whay, H., Bell, N., …Huxley, J. (in press). Recovery of chronically lame dairy cows following treatment for claw horn lesions: a randomised controlled trial. Veterinary Record, 178(5), Article 116. https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.103394

A positively controlled, randomised controlled trial (RCT) was undertaken to test recovery of cows with claw horn lesions resulting in lameness of greater than two weeks duration. Cows on seven commercial farms were mobility scored fortnightly and se... Read More about Recovery of chronically lame dairy cows following treatment for claw horn lesions: a randomised controlled trial.

300 faces in-the-wild challenge: database and results (2016)
Journal Article
Sagonas, C., Antonakos, E., Tzimiropoulos, G., Zafeiriou, S., & Pantic, M. (2016). 300 faces in-the-wild challenge: database and results. Image and Vision Computing,

Computer Vision has recently witnessed great research advance towards automatic facial points detection. Numerous methodologies have been proposed during the last few years that achieve accurate and efficient performance. However, fair comparison bet... Read More about 300 faces in-the-wild challenge: database and results.

Analysis of multi-constellation GNSS signal quality (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Richardson, T., Hill, C., Moore, T., & Toor, P. (2016). Analysis of multi-constellation GNSS signal quality.

The code pseudo-ranges and phase pseudo-ranges are affected by the systematic errors or biases and random noises. These errors can be classified into three groups, satellite related errors, propagation-medium related errors and receiver related error... Read More about Analysis of multi-constellation GNSS signal quality.

The scale of VGI in map production: a perspective of European National Mapping Agencies (2016)
Journal Article
Olteanu-Raimond, A.-M., Hart, G., Foody, G. M., Touya, G., Kellenberger, T., & Demetriou, D. (in press). The scale of VGI in map production: a perspective of European National Mapping Agencies. Transactions in GIS, https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12189

The perspective of European National Mapping Agencies (NMA) on the role of citizen sensing in map production was explored. The NMAs varied greatly in their engagement with the community generating volunteered geographic information (VGI) and in their... Read More about The scale of VGI in map production: a perspective of European National Mapping Agencies.

Post-transcriptional control of tumor cell autonomous metastatic potential by the CCR4-NOT deadenylase CNOT7 (2016)
Journal Article
Faraji, F., Hu, Y., Yang, H. H., Lee, M. P., Winkler, G. S., Hafner, M., & Hunter, K. W. (2016). Post-transcriptional control of tumor cell autonomous metastatic potential by the CCR4-NOT deadenylase CNOT7. PLoS Genetics, 12, Article e1005820. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1005820

Accumulating evidence supports the role of an aberrant transcriptome as a driver of metastatic potential. Deadenylation is a general regulatory node for post-transcriptional control by microRNAs and other determinants of RNA stability. Previously, we... Read More about Post-transcriptional control of tumor cell autonomous metastatic potential by the CCR4-NOT deadenylase CNOT7.

The effect of laser remelting on the surface chemistry of Ti6al4V components fabricated by selective laser melting (2016)
Journal Article
Vaithilingam, J., Goodridge, R. D., Hague, R. J., Christie, S. D., & Edmondson, S. (2016). The effect of laser remelting on the surface chemistry of Ti6al4V components fabricated by selective laser melting. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 232, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2016.01.022

Surface remelting/skin scanning of components is generally performed during the selective laser melting (SLM) process to improve the surface quality of a part. However, the chemical effects of surface remelting are not well understood. In this study,... Read More about The effect of laser remelting on the surface chemistry of Ti6al4V components fabricated by selective laser melting.

“Innovative language teaching and learning at university: enhancing participation and collaboration” – an introduction (2016)
Book Chapter
Goria, C., Speicher, O., & Stollhans, S. (2016). “Innovative language teaching and learning at university: enhancing participation and collaboration” – an introduction. In C. Goria, O. Speicher, & S. Stollhans (Eds.), Innovative language teaching and learning at university: enhancing participation and collaboration (1-4). Research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2016.000399

The School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at the University of Nottingham hosted the fifth annual conference in the "Innovative Language Teaching at University" series. Under the heading "Enhancing participation and collaboration" the confer... Read More about “Innovative language teaching and learning at university: enhancing participation and collaboration” – an introduction.