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Highly efficient delivery of functional cargoes by the synergistic effect of GAG binding motifs and cell-penetrating peptides (2016)
Journal Article
Dixon, J. E., Osman, G., Morris, G. E., Markides, H., Rotherham, M., Bayoussef, Z., …Shakesheff, K. M. (2016). Highly efficient delivery of functional cargoes by the synergistic effect of GAG binding motifs and cell-penetrating peptides. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(3), E291-E299. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1518634113

Protein transduction domains (PTDs) are powerful nongenetic tools that allow intracellular delivery of conjugated cargoes to modify cell behavior. Their use in biomedicine has been hampered by inefficient delivery to nuclear and cytoplasmic targets.... Read More about Highly efficient delivery of functional cargoes by the synergistic effect of GAG binding motifs and cell-penetrating peptides.

Beyond the State: The Colonial Medical Service in British Africa (2016)
Book
Greenwood, A. (Ed.). (2016). Beyond the State: The Colonial Medical Service in British Africa. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719089671.001.0001

collection of essays about the Colonial Medical Service of Africa in which a group of distinguished colonial historians illustrate the diversity and active collaborations to be found in the untidy reality of government medical provision. The authors... Read More about Beyond the State: The Colonial Medical Service in British Africa.

Mutant generation by allelic exchange and genome resequencing of the biobutanol organism Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 (2016)
Journal Article
Ehsaan, M., Kuit, W., Zhang, Y., Cartman, S. T., Heap, J. T., Winzer, K., & Minton, N. P. (2016). Mutant generation by allelic exchange and genome resequencing of the biobutanol organism Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824. Biotechnology for Biofuels, 9(1), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-015-0410-0

Background

Clostridium acetobutylicum represents a paradigm chassis for the industrial production of the biofuel biobutanol and a focus for metabolic engineering. We have previously developed procedures for the creation of in-frame, marker-less de... Read More about Mutant generation by allelic exchange and genome resequencing of the biobutanol organism Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824.

Touring as a Peircean habit (2016)
Journal Article
Knudsen, D. C., Rickly, J. M., & Metro-Roland, M. M. (2016). Touring as a Peircean habit. Annals of Tourism Research, 57, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2015.12.014

The Peircean sign contains three parts: object, representamen (image) and interpretant (interpretation).
Interpretation in the Peircean system draws heavily upon the accumulated knowledge that an individual has built up over time.
Interpretation mi... Read More about Touring as a Peircean habit.

Food security and the right to food: finding balance in the 2012 Food Assistance Convention (2016)
Journal Article
La Chimia, A. (2016). Food security and the right to food: finding balance in the 2012 Food Assistance Convention. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 65(1), 99-137. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020589315000500

On 25 April 2012, after years of negotiations delayed by halts and setbacks, the Food Assistance Convention was adopted—the latest in a series of agreements that since 1967 have regulated the international provision of food aid. Great expectations ha... Read More about Food security and the right to food: finding balance in the 2012 Food Assistance Convention.

Mix design considerations of foamed bitumen mixtures with reclaimed asphalt pavement material (2016)
Journal Article
Kuna, K., Airey, G., & Thom, N. (in press). Mix design considerations of foamed bitumen mixtures with reclaimed asphalt pavement material. International Journal of Pavement Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1080/10298436.2015.1126271

In the present work, a mix design parametric study was carried out with the aim of proposing a practical and consistent mix design procedure for foamed bitumen mixtures (FBMs). The mix design parameters that were adopted in the study are mixing and c... Read More about Mix design considerations of foamed bitumen mixtures with reclaimed asphalt pavement material.

Hacking the streets: ‘smart’ writing in the smart city (2016)
Journal Article
Jordan, S. (2016). Hacking the streets: ‘smart’ writing in the smart city. First Monday, 21(1), https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v21i1.5529

As cities become more complex and their communities more dispersed, questions such as ‘where is home? and ‘where and how do I belong?’ are increasingly pertinent. If urban space is a system, then it can be challenged through the spatial practice of i... Read More about Hacking the streets: ‘smart’ writing in the smart city.

Innovations in practice: an objective measure of attention, impulsivity and activity reduces time to confirm attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder diagnosis in children: a completed audit cycle (2016)
Journal Article
Hall, C. L., Selby, K., Guo, B., Valentine, A. Z., Walker, G. M., & Hollis, C. (2016). Innovations in practice: an objective measure of attention, impulsivity and activity reduces time to confirm attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder diagnosis in children: a completed audit cycle. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 21(3), 175-178. https://doi.org/10.1111/camh.12140

Background

Diagnosing attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and young people typically relies on clinical observation and subjective parent, teacher and self-reports. The subjective nature of reports combined with contradicto... Read More about Innovations in practice: an objective measure of attention, impulsivity and activity reduces time to confirm attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder diagnosis in children: a completed audit cycle.

Exploring the relative lack of impact of research on ‘ability grouping’ in England: a discourse analytic account (2016)
Journal Article
Francis, B., Archer, L., Hodgen, J., Pepper, D., Taylor, B., & Travers, M.-C. (2016). Exploring the relative lack of impact of research on ‘ability grouping’ in England: a discourse analytic account. Cambridge Journal of Education, 47(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2015.1093095

Grouping students by ‘ability’ is a topic of long-standing contention in English education policy, research and practice. While policy-makers have frequently advocated the practice as reflecting educational ‘standards’, research has consistently fail... Read More about Exploring the relative lack of impact of research on ‘ability grouping’ in England: a discourse analytic account.

ESCAPS study protocol: a feasibility randomised controlled trial of ‘Early electrical stimulation to the wrist extensors and wrist flexors to prevent the post-stroke complications of pain and contractures in the paretic arm’ (2016)
Journal Article
Fletcher-Smith, J. C., Walker, D.-M., Sprigg, N., James, M., Walker, M. F., Allatt, K., …Pandyan, A. D. (2016). ESCAPS study protocol: a feasibility randomised controlled trial of ‘Early electrical stimulation to the wrist extensors and wrist flexors to prevent the post-stroke complications of pain and contractures in the paretic arm’. BMJ Open, 6(1), Article e010079. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010079

Introduction Approximately 70% of patients with stroke experience impaired arm function, which is persistent and disabling for an estimated 40%. Loss of function reduces independence in daily activities and impacts on quality of life. Muscles in thos... Read More about ESCAPS study protocol: a feasibility randomised controlled trial of ‘Early electrical stimulation to the wrist extensors and wrist flexors to prevent the post-stroke complications of pain and contractures in the paretic arm’.

Performance evaluation of a 3-level ANPC photovoltaic grid-connected inverter with 650V SiC devices and optimized PWM (2016)
Journal Article
Barater, D., Concari, C., Buticchi, G., Gurpinar, E., De, D., & Castellazzi, A. (2016). Performance evaluation of a 3-level ANPC photovoltaic grid-connected inverter with 650V SiC devices and optimized PWM. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 52(2), 2475-2485. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIA.2016.2514344

Photovoltaic (PV) energy conversion has been on the spotlight of scientific research on renewable energy for several years. In recent years the bulk of the research on PV has focused on transformerless grid-connected inverters, more efficient than tr... Read More about Performance evaluation of a 3-level ANPC photovoltaic grid-connected inverter with 650V SiC devices and optimized PWM.

Evolution of South Atlantic density and chemical stratification across the last deglaciation (2016)
Journal Article
Roberts, J., Gottschalk, J., Skinner, L. C., Peck, V. L., Kender, S., Elderfield, H., …Hodell, D. A. (2016). Evolution of South Atlantic density and chemical stratification across the last deglaciation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(3), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1511252113

Explanations of the glacial-interglacial variations in atmospher¬ic pCO2 invoke a significant role for the deep ocean in the stor¬age of CO2. Deep ocean density stratification has been pro¬posed as a mechanism to promote the storage of CO2 in the dee... Read More about Evolution of South Atlantic density and chemical stratification across the last deglaciation.

A rather tedious and unfortunate affair: the Rahi saga and the troubled origins of Indo–Soviet cinematic exchange (2016)
Journal Article
McGarr, P. M. (2016). A rather tedious and unfortunate affair: the Rahi saga and the troubled origins of Indo–Soviet cinematic exchange. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 36(1), 5-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2015.1134106

This article breaks new ground by reframing the context in which the governments of India and the Soviet Union arrived at an understanding that determined the course of cinematic exchange between the two countries during the cold war. It suggests tha... Read More about A rather tedious and unfortunate affair: the Rahi saga and the troubled origins of Indo–Soviet cinematic exchange.

Neural basis of understanding communicative actions: changes associated with knowing the actor’s intention and the meanings of the actions (2016)
Journal Article
Möttönen, R., Farmer, H., & Watkins, K. E. (2016). Neural basis of understanding communicative actions: changes associated with knowing the actor’s intention and the meanings of the actions. Neuropsychologia, 81, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.01.002

People can communicate by using hand actions, e.g., signs. Understanding communicative actions requires that the observer knows that the actor has an intention to communicate and the meanings of the actions. Here, we investigated how this prior knowl... Read More about Neural basis of understanding communicative actions: changes associated with knowing the actor’s intention and the meanings of the actions.

Written evidence submitted by Dr Ansgar Koene, Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute, University of Nottingham (IPB0066) (2016)
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Koene, A. (2016). Written evidence submitted by Dr Ansgar Koene, Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute, University of Nottingham (IPB0066)

Dr Ansgar Koene is a Senior Research Fellow at Horizon Digital Economy Research (http://www.horizon.ac.uk). Horizon is a Research Institute at The University of Nottingham and a Research Hub within the RCUK Digital Economy programme. Horizon brings t... Read More about Written evidence submitted by Dr Ansgar Koene, Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute, University of Nottingham (IPB0066).

The impact of affordable housing developments on sustainability in Gulf cities (2016)
Journal Article
Wiedmann, F., Salama, A. M., & Ibrahim, H. G. (2016). The impact of affordable housing developments on sustainability in Gulf cities. Open House International, 41(4), 31-38

The recent construction boom has led to new urban development dynamics in Gulf cities driven by real-estate speculations and large infrastructure investments. While in the past affordable housing for medium income migrants and their families was inte... Read More about The impact of affordable housing developments on sustainability in Gulf cities.

Reflections from EDI conference: Equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights in times of austerity (2016)
Journal Article
Georgiadou, A. (2016). Reflections from EDI conference: Equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights in times of austerity. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 35(7-8), 467-472. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-09-2016-0077

© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the research presented at the 2016 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Conference in Nicosia, Cyprus. Design/methodology/approach - The report is... Read More about Reflections from EDI conference: Equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights in times of austerity.

Readings in the UK Energy Security (2016)
Journal Article
Abdo, H., & Kouhy, R. (2016). Readings in the UK Energy Security. Energy Sources, Part B, 11(1), 18-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/15567249.2011.588669

Over the last few decades, the debate about ‘Peak Oil’ became increasingly common and frustrating to governments, oil companies and individuals. Also in the last decade or so, some unusual events took places, which have raised the concern about the f... Read More about Readings in the UK Energy Security.