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Decisions as Units of Organisational Knowledge to Manage Complexity (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Pasley, R., & macCarthy, B. L. (2016). Decisions as Units of Organisational Knowledge to Manage Complexity. In Information Systems Architecture and Technology: Proceedings of 36th International Conference on Information Systems Architecture and Technology – ISAT 2015 – Part III (153-161). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28564-1_13

Effective decision making can help organizations to manage complexity. Here we argue that considering decisions as units of organizational knowledge and providing a means for decision storage, retrieval and reuse can facilitate effective decision mak... Read More about Decisions as Units of Organisational Knowledge to Manage Complexity.

Caffeine inhibits TGF? activation in epithelial cells, interrupts fibroblast responses to TGF?, and reduces established fibrosis in ex vivo precision-cut lung slices (2016)
Journal Article
Tatler, A. L., Barnes, J., Habgood, A., Goodwin, A., McAnulty, R., & Jenkins, G. (2016). Caffeine inhibits TGF? activation in epithelial cells, interrupts fibroblast responses to TGF?, and reduces established fibrosis in ex vivo precision-cut lung slices. Thorax, 71(6), 565-567. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2015-208215

Caffeine is a commonly used food additive found naturally in many products. In addition to potently stimulating the central nervous system caffeine is able to affect various systems within the body including the cardiovascular and respiratory systems... Read More about Caffeine inhibits TGF? activation in epithelial cells, interrupts fibroblast responses to TGF?, and reduces established fibrosis in ex vivo precision-cut lung slices.

A decision support methodology for embodiment design and process chain selection for hybrid manufacturing platforms (2016)
Journal Article
Gleadal, A., Vladov, N., Segal, J., Ratchev, S., Plasch, M., Kimmig, D., & Dickerhof, M. (2016). A decision support methodology for embodiment design and process chain selection for hybrid manufacturing platforms. International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 87(1-4), 553-569. doi:10.1007/s00170-016-8514-7

This paper presents a methodology for the transformation of a product concept into a detailed design and manufacturing process chain for hybrid manufacturing platforms. Hybrid platforms offer new capabilities and opportunities for product design. How... Read More about A decision support methodology for embodiment design and process chain selection for hybrid manufacturing platforms.

Green and lean sustainable development path in China: Guanxi, practices and performance (2016)
Journal Article
Zhan, Y., Tan, K. H., Ji, G., Chung, L., & Chiu, A. S. (2018). Green and lean sustainable development path in China: Guanxi, practices and performance. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 128, 240-249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2016.02.006

Globalisation has created both drivers and pressure for Chinese organisations to enhance their business performance as well as environmental performance. Green and lean practice is emerging as a critical approach for Chinese organisations to achieve... Read More about Green and lean sustainable development path in China: Guanxi, practices and performance.

Supervised anomaly detection in uncertain pseudoperiodic data streams (2016)
Journal Article
Ma, J., Sun, L., Wang, H., Zhang, Y., & Aickelin, U. (2016). Supervised anomaly detection in uncertain pseudoperiodic data streams. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1145/2806890

Uncertain data streams have been widely generated in many Web applications. The uncertainty in data streams makes anomaly detection from sensor data streams far more challenging. In this paper, we present a novel framework that supports anomaly detec... Read More about Supervised anomaly detection in uncertain pseudoperiodic data streams.

An analytical modeling and estimating losses of power semiconductors in a three-phase dual active bridge converter for MVDC grids (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Lee, Y., Vakil, G., Watson, A. J., & Wheeler, P. (2016). An analytical modeling and estimating losses of power semiconductors in a three-phase dual active bridge converter for MVDC grids.

Due to the increasing installation of renewable and decentralized power sources, Medium-voltage dc (MVDC) grids has been considered for an alternative application to medium-voltage ac (MVAC) application. Three-phase dual active bridge DC-DC (3DAB) co... Read More about An analytical modeling and estimating losses of power semiconductors in a three-phase dual active bridge converter for MVDC grids.

The role of kinetic context in apparent biased agonism at GPCRs (2016)
Journal Article
Javitch, J. A., Klein Herenbrink, C., Sykes, D. A., Donthamsetti, P., Canals, M., Coudrat, T., …Lane, J. R. (2016). The role of kinetic context in apparent biased agonism at GPCRs. Nature Communications, 7, Article 10842. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10842

Biased agonism describes the ability of ligands to stabilize different conformations of a GPCR linked to distinct functional outcomes and offers the prospect of designing pathway-specific drugs that avoid on-target side effects. This mechanism is usu... Read More about The role of kinetic context in apparent biased agonism at GPCRs.

Mutual trust between leader and subordinate and employee outcomes (2016)
Journal Article
Kim, T., Wang, J., & Chen, J. (in press). Mutual trust between leader and subordinate and employee outcomes. Journal of Business Ethics, 149(4), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-016-3093-y

Stable and enduring cooperative relationships among people are primarily based on mutual trust. However, little evidence exists about the effects of mutual trust between supervisor and subordinate on work outcomes. To understand better the dynamics o... Read More about Mutual trust between leader and subordinate and employee outcomes.

Understanding South Asian Immigrant Women's Food Choices in the Perinatal Period (2016)
Journal Article
Higginbottom, G. M., Vallianatos, H., Shankar, J., Davey, C., & Osswald, B. (2016). Understanding South Asian Immigrant Women's Food Choices in the Perinatal Period

Background: Food practices throughout the perinatal period have a profound influence on the health and wellbeing of a mother and her child. Following migration, pregnant immigrant women bring with them culturally-situated beliefs about appropriate ea... Read More about Understanding South Asian Immigrant Women's Food Choices in the Perinatal Period.

Increasing follow-up questionnaire response rates in a randomized controlled trial of telehealth for depression: three embedded controlled studies (2016)
Journal Article
Edwards, L., Salisbury, C., Horspool, K., Foster, A., Garner, K., & Montgomery, A. A. (2016). Increasing follow-up questionnaire response rates in a randomized controlled trial of telehealth for depression: three embedded controlled studies. Trials, 17, Article 107. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1234-3

Background: Attrition is problematic in trials, and may be exacerbated in longer studies, telehealth trials and participants with depression – three features of The Healthlines Study. Advance notification, including a photograph and using action-ori... Read More about Increasing follow-up questionnaire response rates in a randomized controlled trial of telehealth for depression: three embedded controlled studies.

The prognostic significance of STAT3 in invasive breast cancer: analysis of protein and mRNA expressions in large cohorts (2016)
Journal Article
Aleskandarany, M. A., Agarwal, D., Negm, O. H., Ball, G., Elmouna, A., Ashankyty, I., …Rakha, E. A. (2016). The prognostic significance of STAT3 in invasive breast cancer: analysis of protein and mRNA expressions in large cohorts. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 156(1), 9-20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-016-3709-z

Signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) transcription factors family are involved in diverse cellular biological functions. Reports regarding the prognostic impact of STAT3 expression in breast cancer (BC) are variable whether being a... Read More about The prognostic significance of STAT3 in invasive breast cancer: analysis of protein and mRNA expressions in large cohorts.

Does oral carbohydrate supplementation improve labour outcome? A systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis. (2016)
Journal Article
Malin, G., Bugg, G., Thornton, J., Taylor, M., Grauwen, N., Devlieger, R., …Jones, N. (2016). Does oral carbohydrate supplementation improve labour outcome? A systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 123(4), 510-517. https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.13728

Background: Labour is a period of significant physical activity. The importance of carbohydrate intake to improve outcome has been recognised in sports medicine and general surgery. Objectives: To assess the effect of oral carbohydratesupplementatio... Read More about Does oral carbohydrate supplementation improve labour outcome? A systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis..

Sensitivity to scale of willingness-to-pay within the context of menorrhagia (2016)
Journal Article
Sanghera, S., Frew, E., Gupta, J. K., Kai, J., & Roberts, T. E. (2017). Sensitivity to scale of willingness-to-pay within the context of menorrhagia. Health Expectations, 20(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12452

Objectives: Willingness-to-pay (WTP) provides a broad assessment of well-being, capturing benefits beyond health. However, the validity of the approach has been questioned and the evidence relating to the sensitivity of WTP to changes in health statu... Read More about Sensitivity to scale of willingness-to-pay within the context of menorrhagia.

Review on the influence of process parameters in incremental sheet forming (2016)
Journal Article
Gatea, S., Ou, H., & McCartney, G. (2016). Review on the influence of process parameters in incremental sheet forming. International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 87(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-016-8426-6

Incremental sheet forming (ISF) is a relatively new flexible forming process. ISF has excellent adaptability to conventional milling machines and requires minimum use of complex tooling, dies and forming press, which makes the process cost-effective... Read More about Review on the influence of process parameters in incremental sheet forming.

Effects of age on motor excitability measures from children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome (2016)
Journal Article
Pépés, S. E., Draper, A., Jackson, G. M., & Jackson, S. R. (2016). Effects of age on motor excitability measures from children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 78-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2016.02.005

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurological disorder characterised by vocal and motor tics. It is associated with cortical–striatal–thalamic–cortical circuit [CSTC] dysfunction and hyper-excitability of cortical motor regions. TS follows a developmental... Read More about Effects of age on motor excitability measures from children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome.

Solid effect DNP polarization dynamics in a system of many spins (2016)
Journal Article
Wiśniewski, D., Karabanov, A., Lesanovsky, I., & Köckenberger, W. (2016). Solid effect DNP polarization dynamics in a system of many spins. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 264, 30-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmr.2016.01.016

We discuss the polarization dynamics during solid effect dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) in a central spin model that consists of an electron surrounded by many nuclei. To this end we use a recently developed formalism and validate first its perfo... Read More about Solid effect DNP polarization dynamics in a system of many spins.

Automated electrophysiological and pharmacological evaluation of human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (2016)
Journal Article
Rajamohan, D., Kalra, S., Hoang, M. D., George, V., Staniforth, A., Russell, H., …Denning, C. (2016). Automated electrophysiological and pharmacological evaluation of human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes. Stem Cells and Development, 25(6), https://doi.org/10.1089/scd.2015.0253

Automated planar patch clamp systems are widely used in drug evaluation studies because of their ability to provide accurate, reliable, and reproducible data in a high-throughput manner. Typically, CHO and HEK tumorigenic cell lines overexpressing si... Read More about Automated electrophysiological and pharmacological evaluation of human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes.

Statistics of eigenvectors in the deformed Gaussian unitary ensemble of random matrices (2016)
Journal Article
Truong, K., & Ossipov, A. (2016). Statistics of eigenvectors in the deformed Gaussian unitary ensemble of random matrices. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 49(14), https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8113/49/14/145005

We study eigenvectors in the deformed Gaussian unitary ensemble of random matrices $H=W\tilde{H}W$, where $\tilde{H}$ is a random matrix from the Gaussian unitary ensemble and W is a deterministic diagonal matrix with positive entries. Using the supe... Read More about Statistics of eigenvectors in the deformed Gaussian unitary ensemble of random matrices.