Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (4308)

An Atomistic-Scale Study for Thermal Conductivity and Thermochemical Compatibility in (DyY)Zr2O7 Combining an Experimental Approach with Theoretical Calculation (2016)
Journal Article
Qu, L., Choy, K., & Wheatley, R. (2016). An Atomistic-Scale Study for Thermal Conductivity and Thermochemical Compatibility in (DyY)Zr2O7 Combining an Experimental Approach with Theoretical Calculation. Scientific Reports, 6, https://doi.org/10.1038/srep21232

Ceramic oxides that have high-temperature capabilities can be deposited on the superalloy components in aero engines and diesel engines to advance engine efficiency and reduce fuel consumption. This paper aims to study doping effects of Dy3+ and Y3+o... Read More about An Atomistic-Scale Study for Thermal Conductivity and Thermochemical Compatibility in (DyY)Zr2O7 Combining an Experimental Approach with Theoretical Calculation.

Indomethacin-Kollidon VA64 Extrudates: A Mechanistic Study of pH-Dependent Controlled Release (2016)
Journal Article
Wren, S. A. C., Aylott, J. W., Tres, F., Treacher, K., Booth, J., Hughes, L. P., …Burley, J. C. (2016). Indomethacin-Kollidon VA64 Extrudates: A Mechanistic Study of pH-Dependent Controlled Release. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 13(3), 1166-1175. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.5b00979

© 2016 American Chemical Society. Because of its weakly acidic nature (pKa of 4.5), indomethacin presents an aqueous solubility that significantly increases when changing from acidic to neutral/alkaline pH (1.5 μg/mL at pH 1.2 and 105.2 μg/mL at pH 7... Read More about Indomethacin-Kollidon VA64 Extrudates: A Mechanistic Study of pH-Dependent Controlled Release.

Defying gravity: defining the international rule of law (2016)
Journal Article
McCorquodale, R. (2016). Defying gravity: defining the international rule of law. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 65(2), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020589316000026

This article aims to offer a definition of the international rule of law. It does this through clarifying the core objectives of a rule of law and examining whether the international system could include them. It demonstrates that there can be a defi... Read More about Defying gravity: defining the international rule of law.

Loss of control as a discriminating factor between different latent classes of disordered gambling severity (2016)
Journal Article
James, R. J., O'Malley, C., & Tunney, R. J. (2016). Loss of control as a discriminating factor between different latent classes of disordered gambling severity. Journal of Gambling Studies, 32(4), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10899-016-9592-z

Analyses of disordered gambling assessment data have indicated that commonly used screens appear to measure latent categories. This stands in contrast to the oft-held assumption that problem gambling is at the extreme of a continuum. To explore this... Read More about Loss of control as a discriminating factor between different latent classes of disordered gambling severity.

Effect of cementation level on performance of rubberized cement-stabilized aggregate mixtures (2016)
Journal Article
Farhan, A. H., Dawson, A., & Thom, N. H. (2016). Effect of cementation level on performance of rubberized cement-stabilized aggregate mixtures. Materials and Design, 97, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2016.02.059

An investigation and comparison is made of the effect of cement content on the performance of rubberized cement-stabilized aggregate mixtures and on cement-stabilized aggregate mixtures containing no rubber (RCSAMs and CSAMs). These materials are int... Read More about Effect of cementation level on performance of rubberized cement-stabilized aggregate mixtures.

Brown adipose tissue activation as measured by infrared thermography by mild anticipatory psychological stress in lean healthy females (2016)
Journal Article
Robinson, L. J., Law, J., Symonds, M. E., & Budge, H. (2016). Brown adipose tissue activation as measured by infrared thermography by mild anticipatory psychological stress in lean healthy females. Experimental Physiology, 101(4), 549-557. https://doi.org/10.1113/EP085642

Brown adipose tissue (BAT) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of obesity, type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome and is a potential therapeutic target. Brown adipose tissue can have a significant impact on energy balance and glucose homeosta... Read More about Brown adipose tissue activation as measured by infrared thermography by mild anticipatory psychological stress in lean healthy females.

Transport coefficients of He+ ions in helium (2016)
Journal Article
Viehland, L. A., Johnsen, R., Gray, B. R., & Wright, T. G. Transport coefficients of He+ ions in helium. Journal of Chemical Physics, 144, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4941775

Recent theoretical advances have made it possible to calculate ab initio interaction potentials for atomic ionatom collisions that are highly accurate, and to use the potentials to calculate gaseous ion transport coefficients that meet or exceed the... Read More about Transport coefficients of He+ ions in helium.

Stepwise evolution of Elk-1 in early deuterostomes (2016)
Journal Article
Saxton, J., Ferjentsik, Z., Ducker, C., & Shaw, P. E. (in press). Stepwise evolution of Elk-1 in early deuterostomes. FEBS Journal, 283(6), https://doi.org/10.1111/febs.13607

Metazoans have multiple ETS paralogues with overlapping or indiscriminate biological functions. Elk- 1, one of three mammalian Ternary Complex Factors (TCFs), is a well-conserved, ETS domain-containing transcriptional regulator of mitogen-responsive... Read More about Stepwise evolution of Elk-1 in early deuterostomes.

Open-end winding induction machine fed by a dual-output indirect matrix converter (2016)
Journal Article
Riedmann, J., Clare, J. C., Wheeler, P., Blasco Giménez, R., Rivera, M., & Pena, R. (2016). Open-end winding induction machine fed by a dual-output indirect matrix converter. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 63(7), 4118-4128. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2016.2531020

Open-ended winding induction machines fed from standard two-level Voltage Source Inverters (VSI) provide an attractive arrangement for AC drives. An alternative approach is to use a dual output Indirect Matrix Converter (IMC). It is well known that t... Read More about Open-end winding induction machine fed by a dual-output indirect matrix converter.

Glycosylated notch and cancer (2016)
Journal Article
Pakkiriswami, S., Couto, A., Nagarajan, U., & Georgiou, M. (2016). Glycosylated notch and cancer. Frontiers in Oncology, 6(37), https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2016.00037

Glycosylation is one of the key components influencing several signaling pathways implicated in cell survival and growth. The Notch signaling pathway plays a pivotal role in numerous cell fate specifications during metazoan development. Both Notch an... Read More about Glycosylated notch and cancer.

Using built-in functions of Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to help the selection process in systematic review of randomized trials (2016)
Journal Article
Nur, S., Adams, C. E., & Brailsford, D. F. (2016). Using built-in functions of Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to help the selection process in systematic review of randomized trials. Systematic Reviews, 5(33), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-016-0207-7

This letter describes a simple way of using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to help select and auto-extract data from Portable Document Format (PDFs) of randomised trials in order to assist swift early selection of trials for a systematic review

Docking and molecular dynamics simulations of the ternary complex nisin2:lipid II (2016)
Journal Article
Mulholland, S., Turpin, E. R., Bonev, B. B., & Hirst, J. (2016). Docking and molecular dynamics simulations of the ternary complex nisin2:lipid II. Scientific Reports, 6(21185), https://doi.org/10.1038/srep21185

Lanthionine antibiotics are an important class of naturally-occurring antimicrobial peptides. The best-known, nisin, is a commercial food preservative. However, structural and mechanistic details on nisin/lipid II membrane complexes are currently lac... Read More about Docking and molecular dynamics simulations of the ternary complex nisin2:lipid II.

Fiber Segment Interferometry for Dynamic Strain Measurements (2016)
Journal Article
Kissinger, T., Correia, R., Charrett, T. O. H., James, S. W., & Tatam, R. P. (2016). Fiber Segment Interferometry for Dynamic Strain Measurements. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 34(19), 4620-4626. https://doi.org/10.1109/jlt.2016.2530940

Using a novel range-resolved interferometric signal processing technique based on the sinusoidal optical frequency modulation of a cost-effective laser diode, a fiber sensing approach termed fiber segment interferometry (FSI) is described. In FSI, a... Read More about Fiber Segment Interferometry for Dynamic Strain Measurements.

Human polyclonal immunoglobulin G from transchromosomic bovines inhibits MERS-CoV in vivo (2016)
Journal Article
Defang, G., Luke, T., Wu, H., Zhao, J., Channappanavar, R., Coleman, C. M., …Frieman, M. B. (2016). Human polyclonal immunoglobulin G from transchromosomic bovines inhibits MERS-CoV in vivo. Science Translational Medicine, 8(326), 326ra21-326ra21. https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf1061

Copyright 2016 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science; all rights reserved. As of 13 November 2015, 1618 laboratory-confirmed human cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection, including 579 deaths,... Read More about Human polyclonal immunoglobulin G from transchromosomic bovines inhibits MERS-CoV in vivo.

Bilateral representations of touch in the primary somatosensory cortex (2016)
Journal Article
Tamè, L., Braun, C., Holmes, N. P., Farnè, A., & Pavani, F. (2016). Bilateral representations of touch in the primary somatosensory cortex. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 33(1-2), 48-66. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2016.1159547

According to current textbook knowledge, the primary somatosensory cortex (SI) supports unilateral tactile representations, whereas structures beyond SI, in particular the secondary somatosensory cortex (SII), support bilateral tactile representation... Read More about Bilateral representations of touch in the primary somatosensory cortex.

Proposed Mode of Binding and Action of Positive Allosteric Modulators at Opioid Receptors (2016)
Journal Article
Shang, Y., Yeatman, H., Provasi, D., Alt, A., Christopoulos, A., Canals, M., & Filizola, M. (2016). Proposed Mode of Binding and Action of Positive Allosteric Modulators at Opioid Receptors. ACS Chemical Biology, 11(5), 1220-1229. https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.5b00712

Available crystal structures of opioid receptors provide a high-resolution picture of ligand binding at the primary ("orthosteric") site, that is, the site targeted by endogenous ligands. Recently, positive allosteric modulators of opioid receptors h... Read More about Proposed Mode of Binding and Action of Positive Allosteric Modulators at Opioid Receptors.

Behavioural estimates of auditory filter widths in ferrets using notched-noise maskers (2016)
Journal Article
Sumner, C., Alves-Pinto, A., Sollini, J., & Wells, T. (2016). Behavioural estimates of auditory filter widths in ferrets using notched-noise maskers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 139(2), EL19-EL24. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4941772

Frequency selectivity is a fundamental property of hearing which affects almost all aspects of auditory processing. Here auditory filter widths at 1, 3, 7, and 10 kHz were estimated from behavioural thresholds using the notched-noise method [Patterso... Read More about Behavioural estimates of auditory filter widths in ferrets using notched-noise maskers.