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Experimental measurements of water molecule binding energies for the second and third solvation shells of [Ca(H₂O)n]2+ complexes (2017)
Journal Article
Bruzzi, E., & Stace, A. J. (in press). Experimental measurements of water molecule binding energies for the second and third solvation shells of [Ca(H₂O)n]2+ complexes. Royal Society Open Science, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160671

Further understanding of the biological role of the Ca2+ ion in an aqueous environment requires quantitative measurements of both the short and long range interactions experienced by the ion in an aqueous medium. Here we present experimental measurem... Read More about Experimental measurements of water molecule binding energies for the second and third solvation shells of [Ca(H₂O)n]2+ complexes.

The virtues of idleness: a decidable fragment of resource agent logic (2017)
Journal Article
Alechina, N., Bulling, N., Logan, B., & Nguyen, H. N. (2017). The virtues of idleness: a decidable fragment of resource agent logic. Artificial Intelligence, 245, 56-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2016.12.005

© 2017 The Authors Alternating Time Temporal Logic (ATL) is widely used for the verification of multi-agent systems. We consider Resource Agent Logic (RAL), which extends ATL to allow the verification of properties of systems where agents act under r... Read More about The virtues of idleness: a decidable fragment of resource agent logic.

Lay causes of binge drinking in the United Kingdom and Australia: a causal network diagram approach (2017)
Journal Article
Keatley, D. A., Ferguson, E., Lonsdale, A., & Hagger, M. S. (2017). Lay causes of binge drinking in the United Kingdom and Australia: a causal network diagram approach. Health Education Research, 32(1), 33-47. https://doi.org/10.1093/her/cyw056

Binge drinking is associated with deleterious health, social and economic outcomes. This study explored the lay understanding of the causes of binge drinking in members of the general public in the United Kingdom and Australia. Participants in the Un... Read More about Lay causes of binge drinking in the United Kingdom and Australia: a causal network diagram approach.

Combatting Cybercrime and Sexual Exploitation of Children: An Open Source Toolkit (2017)
Book Chapter
Papalexandratos, G., Charalambous, E., Koutras, N., Kavallieros, D., Leventakis, G., & Brewster, B. (2017). Combatting Cybercrime and Sexual Exploitation of Children: An Open Source Toolkit. In Open Source Intelligence Investigation: From Strategy to Implementation (233-249). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47671-1_15

This chapter presents the UINFC2 “Engaging Users in preventing and fighting Cybercrime” software platform, showcasing how software tools designed to detect, collect, analyse, categorise and correlate information that is publically available online, c... Read More about Combatting Cybercrime and Sexual Exploitation of Children: An Open Source Toolkit.

One-Health: a Safe, Efficient, Dual-Use Vaccine for Humans and Animals against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus and Rabies Virus (2017)
Journal Article
Wirblich, C., Coleman, C. M., Kurup, D., Abraham, T. S., Bernbaum, J. G., Jahrling, P. B., …Schnell, M. J. (2017). One-Health: a Safe, Efficient, Dual-Use Vaccine for Humans and Animals against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus and Rabies Virus. Journal of Virology, 91(2), Article 02040-16. https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.02040-16

© 2017 American Society for Microbiology. Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) emerged in 2012 and is a highly pathogenic respiratory virus. There are no treatment options against MERS-CoV for humans or animals, and there are no la... Read More about One-Health: a Safe, Efficient, Dual-Use Vaccine for Humans and Animals against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus and Rabies Virus.

Automating drainage direction and physiographic inputs to the CEQUEAU hydrological model: Sensitivity testing on the lower Saint John River watershed, Canada (2017)
Journal Article
Dugdale, S. J., St-Hilaire, A., & Curry, R. A. (2017). Automating drainage direction and physiographic inputs to the CEQUEAU hydrological model: Sensitivity testing on the lower Saint John River watershed, Canada. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 19(3), 469-492. https://doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2017.051

© IWA Publishing 2017. CEQUEAU is a process-based hydrological model capable of simulating river flows and temperatures. Despite an active user base, no facility yet exists for the automatic assembly and input of watershed data required for flow simu... Read More about Automating drainage direction and physiographic inputs to the CEQUEAU hydrological model: Sensitivity testing on the lower Saint John River watershed, Canada.

Direct fabrication of unsupported inclined aluminum pillars based on uniform micro droplets deposition (2017)
Journal Article
Zhang, D., Qi, L., Luo, J., Yi, H., & Hou, X. (2017). Direct fabrication of unsupported inclined aluminum pillars based on uniform micro droplets deposition. International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, 116, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmachtools.2017.01.001

In order to investigate forming directly complex parts without support materials or structures by uniform micro droplets deposition technique, the present work focus on fabricating the unsupported inclined aluminum pillars through offset deposition.... Read More about Direct fabrication of unsupported inclined aluminum pillars based on uniform micro droplets deposition.

Electrolytes for electrochemical energy storage (2017)
Journal Article
Xia, L., Yu, L., Hu, D., & Chen, G. Z. (in press). Electrolytes for electrochemical energy storage. Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 1(4), 584-618. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6QM00169F

An electrolyte is a key component of electrochemical energy storage (EES) devices and its properties greatly affect the energy capacity, rate performance, cyclability and safety of all EES devices. This article offers a critical review of the recent... Read More about Electrolytes for electrochemical energy storage.

Effects of a mutual recovery intervention on mental health in depressed elderly community-dwelling adults: a pilot study (2017)
Journal Article
Wang, C., Hua, Y., Fu, H., Cheng, L., Qian, W., Liu, J., …Dai, J. (2017). Effects of a mutual recovery intervention on mental health in depressed elderly community-dwelling adults: a pilot study. BMC Public Health, 17, Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3930-z

Background

The prevalence of depression in the elderly is growing worldwide, and the population aging in China makes depression a major health problem for the elderly adults and a tremendous burden to the society. Effective interventions should be... Read More about Effects of a mutual recovery intervention on mental health in depressed elderly community-dwelling adults: a pilot study.

Development and implementation of rapid metabolic engineering tools for chemical and fuel production in Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius NCIMB 11955 (2017)
Journal Article
Sheng, L., Kovács, K., Winzer, K., Zhang, Y., & Minton, N. P. (2017). Development and implementation of rapid metabolic engineering tools for chemical and fuel production in Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius NCIMB 11955. Biotechnology for Biofuels, 10(1), Article 5. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-016-0692-x

Background

The thermophile Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius has considerable attraction as a chassis for the production of chemicals and fuels. It utilises a wide range of sugars and oligosaccharides typical of those derived from lignocellulose and... Read More about Development and implementation of rapid metabolic engineering tools for chemical and fuel production in Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius NCIMB 11955.

Identification of host proteins interacting with Toxoplasma gondii GRA15 (TgGRA15) by yeast two-hybrid system (2017)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Li, F.-C., Elsheikha, H. M., Sun, M.-M., & Zhu, X.-Q. (2017). Identification of host proteins interacting with Toxoplasma gondii GRA15 (TgGRA15) by yeast two-hybrid system. Parasites and Vectors, 10(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-016-1943-1

Background

Toxoplasma gondii, an obligate intracellular protozoan parasite, possesses the remarkable ability to co-opt host cell machinery in order to maintain its intracellular survival. This parasite can modulate signaling pathways of its host t... Read More about Identification of host proteins interacting with Toxoplasma gondii GRA15 (TgGRA15) by yeast two-hybrid system.

Tracking HCV protease population diversity during transmission and susceptibility of founder populations to antiviral therapy (2017)
Journal Article
Khera, T., Todt, D., Vercauteren, K., McClure, C. P., Verhoye, L., Farhoudi, A., Bhuju, S., Geffers, R., Baumert, T., Steinmann, E., Meuleman, P., Pietschmann, T., & Brown, R. J. (in press). Tracking HCV protease population diversity during transmission and susceptibility of founder populations to antiviral therapy. Antiviral Research, 139, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.antiviral.2017.01.001

Due to the highly restricted species-tropism of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) a limited number of animal models exist for pre-clinical evaluation of vaccines and antiviral compounds. The human-liver chimeric mouse model allows heterologous challenge with c... Read More about Tracking HCV protease population diversity during transmission and susceptibility of founder populations to antiviral therapy.

Recent progress in translational research on neurovascular and neurodegenerative disorders (2017)
Journal Article
Demuth, H.-U., Dijkhuizen, R. M., Farr, T. D., Gelderblom, M., Horsburgh, K., Iadecola, C., …Boltze, J. (2017). Recent progress in translational research on neurovascular and neurodegenerative disorders. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 35(1), https://doi.org/10.3233/RNN-160690

The already established and widely used intravenous application of recombinant tissue plasminogen activator as a re-opening strategy for acute vessel occlusion in ischemic stroke was recently added by mechanical thrombectomy, representing a fundament... Read More about Recent progress in translational research on neurovascular and neurodegenerative disorders.

“We are a United Humanity”: Death, Emotion and Digital Media in the Church of Sweden (2017)
Journal Article
Hutchings, T. (2017). “We are a United Humanity”: Death, Emotion and Digital Media in the Church of Sweden. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 61(1), 90-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2016.1273930

© 2017 Broadcast Education Association. This article seeks to bring together the study of death, digital media, emotion and religion, using a Christian organization as a case study. The Swedish national church (Svenska kyrkan) has a large but declini... Read More about “We are a United Humanity”: Death, Emotion and Digital Media in the Church of Sweden.

The impact of community expectations on corporate community involvement disclosures in the UK (2017)
Journal Article
Yekini, K. C., Adelopo, I., & Adegbite, E. (2017). The impact of community expectations on corporate community involvement disclosures in the UK. Accounting Forum, 41(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accfor.2016.12.006

Despite increase mistrust between corporations and societies in the aftermath of the global corporate misbehaviours, the literature examining the impact of community concerns on corporate communications is undeveloped. Our paper is timely; it contrib... Read More about The impact of community expectations on corporate community involvement disclosures in the UK.

National survey of training of psychiatrists on advance directives to refuse treatment in relation to bipolar disorder (2017)
Journal Article
Morriss, R., Mudigonda, M., Bartlett, P., Chopra, A., & Jones, S. (2017). National survey of training of psychiatrists on advance directives to refuse treatment in relation to bipolar disorder. BJPsych Bulletin, 41(6), 320-324. https://doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.116.055343

Aims and Methods: To determine features associated with better perceived quality of training for psychiatrists on advance decision-making in the Mental Capacity Act (MCA), and whether the quality or amount of training were associated with positive at... Read More about National survey of training of psychiatrists on advance directives to refuse treatment in relation to bipolar disorder.

Early recognition and detection of juvenile psoriatic arthritis: a call for a standardized approach to screening (2017)
Journal Article
Burden-Teh, E., Thomas, K., Rangaraj, S., Cranwell, J., & Murphy, R. (2017). Early recognition and detection of juvenile psoriatic arthritis: a call for a standardized approach to screening. Clinical and Experimental Dermatology, 42(2), 153-160. https://doi.org/10.1111/ced.13010

Background: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines recommend annual screening for psoriatic arthritis (PsA) in all patients with psoriasis. Currently, no validated assessment tools have been recommended for screening for... Read More about Early recognition and detection of juvenile psoriatic arthritis: a call for a standardized approach to screening.

Big change, little change?: punctuation increments and multi-layer institutional change for English local authorities under austerity (2017)
Journal Article
Gardner, A. (2017). Big change, little change?: punctuation increments and multi-layer institutional change for English local authorities under austerity. Local Government Studies, 43(2),

This paper draws on new institutionalist theories to consider how we might characterise the process and outcomes of change occurring in English local government as a result of the UK’s austerity policies. It uses national and local empirical data to... Read More about Big change, little change?: punctuation increments and multi-layer institutional change for English local authorities under austerity.

Functional consequences of pre- and postsynaptic expression of synaptic plasticity (2017)
Journal Article
Costa, R. P., Mizusaki, B. E., Sjöström, P. J., & van Rossum, M. C. (2017). Functional consequences of pre- and postsynaptic expression of synaptic plasticity. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 372(1715), https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0153

Growing experimental evidence shows that both homeostatic and Hebbian synaptic plasticity can be expressed presynaptically as well as postsynaptically. In this review, we start by discussing this evidence and methods used to determine expression loci... Read More about Functional consequences of pre- and postsynaptic expression of synaptic plasticity.

Oil film thickness measurements on surfaces close to an aeroengine ball bearing using optical techniques (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hee, J. L., Santhosh, R., Simmons, K., Johnson, G., Hann, D., & Walsh, M. (2017, June). Oil film thickness measurements on surfaces close to an aeroengine ball bearing using optical techniques. Presented at ASME Turbo Expo 2017: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, Charlotte North Carolina, USA

In a civil aero-engine transmission system a number of bearings are used for shaft location and load support. A bespoke experimental test facility in the University of Nottingham's Gas Turbine and Transmissions Research Centre (G2TRC) was created to... Read More about Oil film thickness measurements on surfaces close to an aeroengine ball bearing using optical techniques.