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The quality of learning, teaching and the curriculum (2016)
Book Chapter
McLean, M., & Ashwin, P. (2016). The quality of learning, teaching and the curriculum. In P. Scott, J. Gallacher, & G. Parry (Eds.), New languages and landscapes of higher education. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198787082.003.0004

This Chapter addresses three questions: What is good quality university teaching? How can it be achieved? How can it be assessed? To address these questions we start by making a case for a multi-dimensional, rich conceptualisation of teaching, drawi... Read More about The quality of learning, teaching and the curriculum.

A study of the validity and the reliability of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory in screening for anxiety after stroke in older inpatients (2016)
Journal Article
Kneebone, I. I., Fife-Schaw, C., Lincoln, N., & Harder, H. (2016). A study of the validity and the reliability of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory in screening for anxiety after stroke in older inpatients. Clinical Rehabilitation, 30(12), https://doi.org/10.1177/0269215515619661

Objectives: To investigate the validity and reliability of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory in screening for anxiety in older inpatients post-stroke.

Design: Longitudinal.

Subjects: A total of 81 inpatients with stroke aged 65 years or older we... Read More about A study of the validity and the reliability of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory in screening for anxiety after stroke in older inpatients.

Development of a critical appraisal tool to assess the quality of cross-sectional studies (AXIS) (2016)
Journal Article
Downes, M. J., Brennan, M. L., Williams, H. C., & Dean, R. S. (2016). Development of a critical appraisal tool to assess the quality of cross-sectional studies (AXIS). BMJ Open, 6(12), Article e011458. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011458

Objectives: The aim of this study was to develop a critical appraisal (CA) tool that addressed study design and reporting quality as well as the risk of bias in cross-sectional studies (CSSs). In addition, the aim was to produce a help document to gu... Read More about Development of a critical appraisal tool to assess the quality of cross-sectional studies (AXIS).

Can body composition be used to optimize the dose of platinum chemotherapy in lung cancer? A feasibility study (2016)
Journal Article
Crosby, V., D'Souza, C., Bristow, C., Proffitt, A., Hussain, A., Potter, V., …Wilcock, A. (in press). Can body composition be used to optimize the dose of platinum chemotherapy in lung cancer? A feasibility study. Supportive Care in Cancer, 25(4), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-016-3518-2

Purpose Current methods of dosing platinum-based chemotherapy are suboptimal. Potentially, taking lean body mass into account may help. To inform the design of a future study, we first examined the feasibility and acceptability of such an approach us... Read More about Can body composition be used to optimize the dose of platinum chemotherapy in lung cancer? A feasibility study.

Flexible theta sequence compression mediated via phase precessing interneurons (2016)
Journal Article
Chadwick, A., van Rossum, M. C., & Nolan, M. F. (2016). Flexible theta sequence compression mediated via phase precessing interneurons. eLife, 5, Article e20349. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.20349

Encoding of behavioral episodes as spike sequences during hippocampal theta oscillations provides a neural substrate for computations on events extended across time and space. However, the mechanisms underlying the numerous and diverse experimentally... Read More about Flexible theta sequence compression mediated via phase precessing interneurons.

Feasibility of an online intervention (STAK-D) to promote physical activity in children with type 1 diabetes: protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2016)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Quirk, H., Leighton, P., Randell, T., Greening, J., Guo, B., & Glazebrook, C. (2016). Feasibility of an online intervention (STAK-D) to promote physical activity in children with type 1 diabetes: protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 17(283), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1719-0

Background: Regular physical activity has important health benefits for children with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), yet children and their parents face barriers to participation such as lack of self-efficacy or concerns around hypoglycaemia. Multi... Read More about Feasibility of an online intervention (STAK-D) to promote physical activity in children with type 1 diabetes: protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Comodulation Enhances Signal Detection via Priming of Auditory Cortical Circuits (2016)
Journal Article
Sollini, J., & Chadderton, P. (2016). Comodulation Enhances Signal Detection via Priming of Auditory Cortical Circuits. Journal of Neuroscience, 36(49), 12299-12311. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.0656-16.2016

Acoustic environments are composed of complex overlapping sounds that the auditory system is required to segregate into discrete perceptual objects. The functions of distinct auditory processing stations in this challenging task are poorly understood... Read More about Comodulation Enhances Signal Detection via Priming of Auditory Cortical Circuits.

The bio-physics of condensation of divalent cations into the bacterial wall has implications for growth of Gram-positive bacteria (2016)
Journal Article
Rauch, C., Cherkaoui-Rbati, M., Egan, S. A., & Leigh, J. A. (2017). The bio-physics of condensation of divalent cations into the bacterial wall has implications for growth of Gram-positive bacteria. BBA - Biomembranes, 1859(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbamem.2016.12.002

Background: The anionic-polyelectrolyte nature of the wall of Gram-positive bacteria has long been suspected to be involved in homeostasis of essential cations and bacterial growth. A better understanding of the coupling between the biophysics and th... Read More about The bio-physics of condensation of divalent cations into the bacterial wall has implications for growth of Gram-positive bacteria.

Reproductive biology of Holepyris sylvanidis (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) (2016)
Journal Article
Amante, M., Schöller, M., Hardy, I. C., & Russo, A. (2017). Reproductive biology of Holepyris sylvanidis (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae). Biological Control, 106, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2016.12.004

Holepyris sylvanidis (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) is reported as a cosmopolitan parasitoid of coleopteran including a major pest of stored products, the confused flour beetle Tribolium confusum. The reproductive biology, and hence biocontrol potential o... Read More about Reproductive biology of Holepyris sylvanidis (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae).

De facto exchange rate regime classifications: an evaluation (2016)
Journal Article
Bleaney, M., Tian, M., & Yin, L. (2017). De facto exchange rate regime classifications: an evaluation. Open Economies Review, 28(2), 369-382. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11079-016-9427-7

There exist several statistically-based exchange rate regime classifications that disagree with one another to a disappointing degree. To what extent is this a matter of the quality of the design of these schemes, and to what extent does it reflect t... Read More about De facto exchange rate regime classifications: an evaluation.

Exogenous N-acyl-homoserine lactones enhance the expression of flagella of Pseudomonas syringae and activate defence responses in plants (2016)
Journal Article
Cheng, F., Ma, A., Zhuang, G., & Fray, R. G. (2017). Exogenous N-acyl-homoserine lactones enhance the expression of flagella of Pseudomonas syringae and activate defence responses in plants. Molecular Plant Pathology, 19(1), 104-115. https://doi.org/10.1111/mpp.12502

In order to cope with pathogens, plants have evolved sophisticated mechanisms to sense pathogenic attacks and to induce defence responses. The N-acyl-homoserine lactone (AHL)-mediated quorum sensing in bacteria regulates diverse physiological process... Read More about Exogenous N-acyl-homoserine lactones enhance the expression of flagella of Pseudomonas syringae and activate defence responses in plants.

Labor unionization structure, innovation and welfare (2016)
Journal Article
Tien-Der, H., & Mukherjee, A. (2017). Labor unionization structure, innovation and welfare. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 173(2), https://doi.org/10.1628/093245616X14785139493983

We show the effects of cooperation among the labour unions with complementary workers on innovation, consumer surplus and welfare. Although cooperation among the unions reduces wage, it may either increase or decrease the firm’s incentive for innovat... Read More about Labor unionization structure, innovation and welfare.

Differential cohomology and locally covariant quantum field theory (2016)
Journal Article
Becker, C., Schenkel, A., & Szabo, R. J. (2017). Differential cohomology and locally covariant quantum field theory. Reviews in Mathematical Physics, 29(1), Article 1750003. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129055X17500039

We study differential cohomology on categories of globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds. The Lorentzian metric allows us to define a natural transformation whose kernel generalizes Maxwell's equations and fits into a restriction of the fundamental... Read More about Differential cohomology and locally covariant quantum field theory.

Dependency and health utilities in stroke: data to inform cost-effectiveness analyses (2016)
Journal Article
Ali, M., MacIsaac, R., Quinn, T. J., Bath, P. M., Veenstra, D. L., Xu, Y., Brady, M. C., Patel, A., & Lees, K. R. (2017). Dependency and health utilities in stroke: data to inform cost-effectiveness analyses. European Stroke Journal, 2(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/2396987316683780

Introduction: Health utilities (HU) assign preference weights to specific health states and are required for costeffectiveness analyses. Existing HU for stroke inadequately reflect the spectrum of post-stroke disability. Using international stroke tr... Read More about Dependency and health utilities in stroke: data to inform cost-effectiveness analyses.

Feasibility of spatially-offset Raman spectroscopy for in-vitro and in-vivo monitoring mineralisation of bone tissue-engineering scaffolds (2016)
Journal Article
Liao, Z., Sinjab, F., Nommeots-Nomm, A., Jones, J., Ruiz-Cantu, L., Yang, J., …Notingher, I. (2017). Feasibility of spatially-offset Raman spectroscopy for in-vitro and in-vivo monitoring mineralisation of bone tissue-engineering scaffolds. Analytical Chemistry, 89(1), 847-853. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.6b03785

We investigated the feasibility of using spatially-offset Raman spectroscopy (SORS) for non-destructive characterisation of bone tissue engineering scaffolds. The deep regions of these scaffolds, or scaffolds implanted subcutaneously in live animals,... Read More about Feasibility of spatially-offset Raman spectroscopy for in-vitro and in-vivo monitoring mineralisation of bone tissue-engineering scaffolds.

A concept for actuating and controlling a leg of a novel walking parallel kinematic machine tool (2016)
Journal Article
Rushworth, A., Axinte, D., Raffles, M., & Cobos-Guzman, S. (2016). A concept for actuating and controlling a leg of a novel walking parallel kinematic machine tool. Mechatronics, 40, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2016.10.010

The scope of this paper is to present a novel method of actuating the legs of a walking parallel kinematic machine tool (WalkingHex) such that the upper spherical joint can be actively driven while walking and remain a free, passive joint while perfo... Read More about A concept for actuating and controlling a leg of a novel walking parallel kinematic machine tool.

Geometrical structure of two-dimensional crystals with non-constant dislocation density (2016)
Journal Article
Parry, G. P., & Zyskin, M. (in press). Geometrical structure of two-dimensional crystals with non-constant dislocation density. Journal of Elasticity, 127(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10659-016-9612-3

We outline mathematical methods which seem to be necessary in order to discuss crystal structures with non-constant dislocation density tensor(ddt) in some generality. It is known that, if the ddt is constant (in space), then material points can be i... Read More about Geometrical structure of two-dimensional crystals with non-constant dislocation density.

Phase-dependent interactions in visual cortex to combinations of first- and second-order stimuli (2016)
Journal Article
Hutchinson, C. V., Ledgeway, T., & Baker, C. L. (in press). Phase-dependent interactions in visual cortex to combinations of first- and second-order stimuli. Journal of Neuroscience, 36(49), https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1350-16.2016

A fundamental task of the visual system is to extract figure-ground boundaries between objects, which are often defined not only by differences in luminance but also by "second order" contrast or texture differences. Responses of cortical neurons to... Read More about Phase-dependent interactions in visual cortex to combinations of first- and second-order stimuli.

Comparative evidence on the value relevance of IFRS-based accounting information in Germany and the UK (2016)
Journal Article
Elbakry, A. E., Nwachuksu, J. C., Abdou, H. A., & Elshandidy, T. (in press). Comparative evidence on the value relevance of IFRS-based accounting information in Germany and the UK. Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, 28, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intaccaudtax.2016.12.002

This paper uses panel cointegration with a corresponding vector error correction model (VECM) to investigate the changes in the value relevance of accounting information before and after the mandatory adoption of IFRS in Germany and the UK under thre... Read More about Comparative evidence on the value relevance of IFRS-based accounting information in Germany and the UK.

Synchronization of micromasers (2016)
Journal Article
Davis-Tilley, C., & Armour, A. (2016). Synchronization of micromasers. Physical Review A, 94(6), Article 063819. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.94.063819

We investigate synchronization effects in quantum self-sustained oscillators theoretically using the micromaser as a model system. We use the probability distribution for the relative phase as a tool for quantifying the emergence of preferred phases... Read More about Synchronization of micromasers.