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Watch your step!: a frustrated total internal reflection approach to forensic footwear imaging (2016)
Journal Article
Needham, J., & Sharp, J. S. (2016). Watch your step!: a frustrated total internal reflection approach to forensic footwear imaging. Scientific Reports, 6, Article 21290. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep21290

Forensic image retrieval and processing are vital tools in the fight against crime e.g. during fingerprint capture. However, despite recent advances in machine vision technology and image processing techniques (and contrary to the claims of popular f... Read More about Watch your step!: a frustrated total internal reflection approach to forensic footwear imaging.

National stories and narrative voice in the fiction of Joshua Ferris (2016)
Journal Article
Maxey, R. (2016). National stories and narrative voice in the fiction of Joshua Ferris. Critique, 57(2), 208-216. https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2015.1019410

In his début novel, Then We Came to the End (2007), Joshua Ferris narrates his story of a pre-9/11 Chicago advertising agency in the first-person plural. Such narrative experimentation recurs across his fiction and is often linked to national concern... Read More about National stories and narrative voice in the fiction of Joshua Ferris.

Slowly rotating black holes in Einstein-æther theory (2016)
Journal Article
Barausse, E., Sotiriou, T. P., & Vega, I. (2016). Slowly rotating black holes in Einstein-æther theory. Physical Review D, 93(4), Article 44044. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.044044

We study slowly rotating, asymptotically flat black holes in Einstein-æther theory and show that solutions that are free from naked finite area singularities form a two-parameter family. These parameters can be thought of as the mass and angular mome... Read More about Slowly rotating black holes in Einstein-æther theory.

Recent developments in using mechanistic cardiac modelling for drug safety evaluation (2016)
Journal Article
Davies, M. R., Wang, K., Mirams, G. R., Caruso, A., Noble, D., Walz, A., …Polonchuk, L. (2016). Recent developments in using mechanistic cardiac modelling for drug safety evaluation. Drug Discovery Today, 21(6), 924-938. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drudis.2016.02.003

Union Decline in Britain: Does Gender Have Anything to Do with It (2016)
Journal Article
Haile, G. (2017). Union Decline in Britain: Does Gender Have Anything to Do with It. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 64(1), 25-49. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12116

The paper examines whether gender dynamics contributed to the decline of unions. To this end, it reviews different strands of the literature and conducts empirical analyses using data from WERS. The results obtained confirm that men have been deserti... Read More about Union Decline in Britain: Does Gender Have Anything to Do with It.

Tariffs, technology licensing and adoption (2016)
Journal Article
Chen, H., Hwang, H., Mukherjee, A., & Shih, P. (2016). Tariffs, technology licensing and adoption. International Review of Economics and Finance, 43, 234-240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2016.02.012

This paper develops a two-country Cournot duopoly model to investigate the implications of international technology licensing. It is shown that if the tariff imposed by the domestic country is high, it is optimal for the foreign firm to adopt an infe... Read More about Tariffs, technology licensing and adoption.

Dead letters and the secret life of the state in nineteenth century America (2016)
Book Chapter
Pethers, M. (2016). Dead letters and the secret life of the state in nineteenth century America. In C. Bernier, . J. Newman, & M. Pethers (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing, 136-151. Edinburgh University Press

Clearing the conceptual haze: restorative justice concepts in transitional settings (2016)
Book Chapter
Clamp, K. (2016). Clearing the conceptual haze: restorative justice concepts in transitional settings. In K. Clamp (Ed.), Restorative Justice in Transitional SettingsTaylor & Francis (Routledge)

Making the practically impossible "Merely difficult": cryogenic FIB lift-out for "Damage Free" soft matter imaging (2016)
Journal Article
Parmenter, C., Fay, M., Hartfield, C., & Eltaher, H. (2016). Making the practically impossible "Merely difficult": cryogenic FIB lift-out for "Damage Free" soft matter imaging. Microscopy Research and Technique, 79(4), 298 - 303. doi:10.1002/jemt.22630

The preparation of thinned lamellae from bulk samples for transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis has been possible in the focussed ion beam scanning electron microscope (FIB?SEM) for over 20 years via the in situ lift?out method. Lift?out of... Read More about Making the practically impossible "Merely difficult": cryogenic FIB lift-out for "Damage Free" soft matter imaging.

Electrophysiological evidence for flexible goal-directed cue processing during episodic retrieval (2016)
Journal Article
Herron, J. E., Evans, L. H., & Wilding, E. L. (2016). Electrophysiological evidence for flexible goal-directed cue processing during episodic retrieval. NeuroImage, 132, 24-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.02.025

A widely held assumption is that memory retrieval is aided by cognitive control processes that are engaged flexibly in service of memory retrieval and memory decisions. While there is some empirical support for this view, a notable exception is the a... Read More about Electrophysiological evidence for flexible goal-directed cue processing during episodic retrieval.

Practical considerations of the use of cross-weld and compact tension specimens’ creep data (2016)
Journal Article
Petkov, M. P., Hyde, C. J., & Hyde, T. H. (2016). Practical considerations of the use of cross-weld and compact tension specimens’ creep data. Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design, 51(3), 179-206. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309324715627575

This article gives an overview of the use of cross-weld and compact tension specimen modelling and analyses data to characterise creep behaviour of the high-temperature components. Cross-weld and compact tension specimens are used to describe creep c... Read More about Practical considerations of the use of cross-weld and compact tension specimens’ creep data.

Party patronage in contemporary democracies: results from an expert survey in 22 countries from five regions (2016)
Journal Article
Kopecky, P., Meyer Sahling, J., Panizza, F., Scherlis, G., Schuster, C., & Spirova, M. (2016). Party patronage in contemporary democracies: results from an expert survey in 22 countries from five regions. European Journal of Political Research, 55(2), 416-431. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12135

This Research Note presents a new dataset of party patronage in 22 countries from five regions. The data was collected based on the same methodology to compare patterns of patronage within countries, across countries and across world regions that are... Read More about Party patronage in contemporary democracies: results from an expert survey in 22 countries from five regions.

Remote effects of acute kidney injury in a porcine model (2016)
Journal Article
Devonald, M. A., O’Sullivan, S. E., Gardner, D. S., De Brot, S., Dunford, L. J., Grau-Roma, L., …Devonald, M. A. J. (2016). Remote effects of acute kidney injury in a porcine model. AJP - Renal Physiology, 310(4), F259-F271. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajprenal.00389.2015

© 2016 the American Physiological Society. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common and serious condition with no specific treatment. An episode of AKI may affect organs distant from the kidney, further increasing the morbidity associated with AKI. The... Read More about Remote effects of acute kidney injury in a porcine model.

Learning about the CS during latent inhibition: preexposure enhances temporal control (2016)
Journal Article
Bonardi, C., Brilot, B., & Jennings, D. J. (2016). Learning about the CS during latent inhibition: preexposure enhances temporal control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 42(2), 187-199. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000096

In three experiments rats were given nonreinforced preexposure to an auditory stimulus, after which this stimulus and a second, novel cue were paired with food. Lower rates of conditioned responding were observed to the preexposed stimulus across the... Read More about Learning about the CS during latent inhibition: preexposure enhances temporal control.

Working out across Canada: Is there a gender gap? (2016)
Journal Article
Coen, S. E., Subedi, R. P., & Rosenberg, M. W. (2016). Working out across Canada: Is there a gender gap?. Canadian Geographer / Géographe canadien, 60(1), 69-81. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12255

Globally, boys and men are more physically active than girls and women. Despite geographical variation in physical activity participation and gender differences across types of physical activities, physical activity is frequently assessed at national... Read More about Working out across Canada: Is there a gender gap?.

Effects of clinical decision topic on patients’ involvement in and satisfaction with decisions and their subsequent implementation (2016)
Journal Article
Freidl, M., Pesola, F., Konrad, J., Puschner, B., Kovacs, A., De Rosa, C., …Slade, M. (2016). Effects of clinical decision topic on patients’ involvement in and satisfaction with decisions and their subsequent implementation. Psychiatric Services, 67(6), 658-663. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201500083

Clinical decision-making is the vehicle for mental health care delivery, and predictors of decision-making experience and adherence are under-researched. The aim was to investigate the relationship between decision topic and kind of involvement in th... Read More about Effects of clinical decision topic on patients’ involvement in and satisfaction with decisions and their subsequent implementation.

Party competition over decentralisation: the influence of ideology and electoral incentives on issue emphasis (2016)
Journal Article
Toubeau, S., & Wagner, M. (in press). Party competition over decentralisation: the influence of ideology and electoral incentives on issue emphasis. European Journal of Political Research, 55(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12133

Under what conditions is decentralisation a salient issue for state-wide political parties? It is argued in this article that the extent to which state-wide parties emphasise decentralisation depends on their strategic considerations: on their overal... Read More about Party competition over decentralisation: the influence of ideology and electoral incentives on issue emphasis.

Designing the vertigo experience: vertigo as a design resource for digital bodily play (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Byrne, R., Marshall, J., & Mueller, F. ‘. (2016). Designing the vertigo experience: vertigo as a design resource for digital bodily play. . https://doi.org/10.1145/2839462.2839465

Vertigo can be described as an attempt to momentarily destroy the stability of perception and inflict a kind of voluptuous panic upon an otherwise lucid mind. Vertigo has, however, not been generally considered as a design resource and we believe it... Read More about Designing the vertigo experience: vertigo as a design resource for digital bodily play.

Misregulation of the proline rich homeodomain (PRH/HHEX) protein in cancer cells and its consequences for tumour growth and invasion (2016)
Journal Article
Gaston, K., Tsitsilianos, M., Wadey, K. S., & Jayaraman, P. (2016). Misregulation of the proline rich homeodomain (PRH/HHEX) protein in cancer cells and its consequences for tumour growth and invasion. Cell and Bioscience, 6, doi:10.1186/s13578-016-0077-7

The Proline Rich Homeodomain protein (PRH), also known as Haematopoietically Expressed homeobox (HHEX), is an essential transcription factor in embryonic development and in the adult. The PRH protein forms oligomeric complexes that bind to tandemly r... Read More about Misregulation of the proline rich homeodomain (PRH/HHEX) protein in cancer cells and its consequences for tumour growth and invasion.

Driving without wings: the effect of different digital mirror locations on the visual behaviour, performance and opinions of drivers (2016)
Journal Article
Large, D. R., Crundall, E., Burnett, G., Harvey, C., & Konstantopoulous, P. (2016). Driving without wings: the effect of different digital mirror locations on the visual behaviour, performance and opinions of drivers. Applied Ergonomics, 55, 138-148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2016.02.003

Drivers' awareness of the rearward road scene is critical when contemplating or executing lane-change manoeuvres, such as overtaking. Preliminary investigations have speculated on the use of rear-facing cameras to relay images to displays mounted ins... Read More about Driving without wings: the effect of different digital mirror locations on the visual behaviour, performance and opinions of drivers.