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Richard Wagner’s prose sketches for Jesus of Nazareth: historical and theological reflections on an uncompleted opera (2017)
Journal Article
Bell, R. H. (in press). Richard Wagner’s prose sketches for Jesus of Nazareth: historical and theological reflections on an uncompleted opera. Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus, 15(2-3), https://doi.org/10.1163/17455197-01502007

In May 1849 Wagner fled Dresden after the failure of the uprising of which he was a leader. His last creative work in Dresden was prose sketches for an opera Jesus of Nazareth, the result of his study of the Graeco-Roman world and the New Testament t... Read More about Richard Wagner’s prose sketches for Jesus of Nazareth: historical and theological reflections on an uncompleted opera.

Technical challenges of working with extracellular vesicles (2017)
Journal Article
Ramirez, M. I., Amorim, M. G., Gadelha, C., Milic, I., Welsh, J. A., Freitas, V. M., …Dias-Neto, E. (2018). Technical challenges of working with extracellular vesicles. Nanoscale, 10(3), 881-906. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7nr08360b

© 2018 The Royal Society of Chemistry. Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) are gaining interest as central players in liquid biopsies, with potential applications in diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutic guidance in most pathological conditions. These nanosi... Read More about Technical challenges of working with extracellular vesicles.

Predictors of smoking cessation during pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2017)
Journal Article
Riaz, M., Lewis, S., Naughton, F., & Ussher, M. (2018). Predictors of smoking cessation during pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Addiction, 113(4), 610-622. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.14135

AIM: To identify factors found in the research literature to be associated with smoking cessation in pregnancy.

METHODS: Electronic searches of the bibliographic databases of PubMed, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Elsevier, Scopus and ISI Web of Science were... Read More about Predictors of smoking cessation during pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Soil and land use research in Europe: lessons learned from INSPIRATION bottom-up strategic research agenda setting (2017)
Journal Article
Bartke, S., Boekhold, A. E., Brils, J., Grimski, D., Ferber, U., Gorgon, J., …Schröter-Schlaack, C. (2018). Soil and land use research in Europe: lessons learned from INSPIRATION bottom-up strategic research agenda setting. Science of the Total Environment, 622-623, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.11.335

We introduce the INSPIRATION bottom-up approach for the development of a strategic research agenda for spatial planning, land use and soil-sediment-water-system management in Europe. Research and innovation needs were identified by more than 500 Euro... Read More about Soil and land use research in Europe: lessons learned from INSPIRATION bottom-up strategic research agenda setting.

Calculation of guided wave interaction with nonlinearities and generation of harmonics in composite structures through a wave finite element method (2017)
Journal Article
Chronopoulos, D. (2018). Calculation of guided wave interaction with nonlinearities and generation of harmonics in composite structures through a wave finite element method. Composite Structures, 186, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2017.12.034

The extensive usage of composite materials in modern industrial applications implies a great range of possible structural failure modes for which the structure has to be frequently and thoroughly inspected. Nonlinear guided wave inspection techniques... Read More about Calculation of guided wave interaction with nonlinearities and generation of harmonics in composite structures through a wave finite element method.

Role of geometrical cues in bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cell survival, growth and osteogenic differentiation (2017)
Journal Article
Gupta, D., Grant, D. M., Hossain, K. M. Z., Ahmed, I., & Sottile, V. (2018). Role of geometrical cues in bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cell survival, growth and osteogenic differentiation. Journal of Biomaterials Applications, 32(7), https://doi.org/10.1177/0885328217745699

Mesenchymal stem cells play a vital role in bone formation process by differentiating into osteoblasts, in a tissue that offers not a flat but a discontinuous three-dimensional (3D) topography in vivo. In order to understand how geometry may be affec... Read More about Role of geometrical cues in bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cell survival, growth and osteogenic differentiation.

Direct three-dimensional printing of polymeric scaffolds with nanofibrous topography (2017)
Journal Article
Yang, J., Shakesheff, K. M., & Prasopthum, A. (2018). Direct three-dimensional printing of polymeric scaffolds with nanofibrous topography. Biofabrication, 10(2), Article 025002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1758-5090/aaa15b

Three-dimensional (3D) printing is a powerful manufacturing tool for making 3D structures with well-defined architectures for a wide range of applications. The field of tissue engineering has also adopted this technology to fabricate scaffolds for ti... Read More about Direct three-dimensional printing of polymeric scaffolds with nanofibrous topography.

Electric superbike racing: the design and construction of a championship winning electric superbike (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wheeler, P., Blissett, J., & Gimeno-Fabra, M. (2017). Electric superbike racing: the design and construction of a championship winning electric superbike.

The electric superbikes recently developed at The University of Nottingham have to be considered as a high performance vehicles, competing with its internal combustion engine driven counterparts. This paper presents the motivations for this work as w... Read More about Electric superbike racing: the design and construction of a championship winning electric superbike.

American scientists and their fictions: professional authorship and intellectual identity, 1870-1900 (2017)
Journal Article
Vandome, R. (2017). American scientists and their fictions: professional authorship and intellectual identity, 1870-1900. Journal of American Studies, 53(2), 478-506. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875817001852

Copyright © Cambridge University Press and British Association for American Studies 2017 Writers and critics in the Gilded Age United States frequently debated the relations between literature and science. A common contemporary interpretation of this... Read More about American scientists and their fictions: professional authorship and intellectual identity, 1870-1900.

Magnetic anisotropy in antiferromagnetic hexagonal MnTe (2017)
Journal Article
Kriegner, D., Reichlova, H., Grenzer, J., Schmidt, W., Ressouche, E., Godinho, J., …Výborný, K. (2017). Magnetic anisotropy in antiferromagnetic hexagonal MnTe. Physical Review B, 96(21), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.214418

Antiferromagnetic hexagonal MnTe is a promising material for spintronic devices relying on the control of antiferromagnetic domain orientations. Here we report on neutron diffraction, magnetotransport, and magnetometry experiments on semiconducting e... Read More about Magnetic anisotropy in antiferromagnetic hexagonal MnTe.

SDSS-IV MaNGA: probing the kinematic morphology–density relation of early-type galaxies with MaNGA (2017)
Journal Article
Greene, J., Leauthaud, A., Emsellem, E., Goddard, D., Ge, J., Andrews, B., …Drory, N. (2017). SDSS-IV MaNGA: probing the kinematic morphology–density relation of early-type galaxies with MaNGA. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 851(2), Article L33. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa8ace

The “kinematic” morphology–density relation for early-type galaxies posits that those galaxies with low angular momentum are preferentially found in the highest-density regions of the universe. We use a large sample of galaxy groups with halo masses... Read More about SDSS-IV MaNGA: probing the kinematic morphology–density relation of early-type galaxies with MaNGA.

Quantum chaos for nonstandard symmetry classes in the Feingold-Peres model of coupled tops (2017)
Journal Article
Fan, Y., Gnutzmann, S., & Liang, Y. (in press). Quantum chaos for nonstandard symmetry classes in the Feingold-Peres model of coupled tops. Physical Review E, 96(6), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.96.062207

We consider two coupled quantum tops with angular momentum vectors L and M. The coupling Hamiltonian defines the Feingold-Peres model, which is a known paradigm of quantum chaos. We show that this model has a nonstandard symmetry with respect to the... Read More about Quantum chaos for nonstandard symmetry classes in the Feingold-Peres model of coupled tops.

4th symposium on primary breast cancer in older women. Theme: putting personalized care into practice (held: 3 March 2017) (2017)
Journal Article
Cheung, K.-L., Morgan, D., Brain, E., Poortmans, P., Parks, R., Korc-Grodzicki, B., …Wijayatunga, R. (in press). 4th symposium on primary breast cancer in older women. Theme: putting personalized care into practice (held: 3 March 2017). Breast Cancer Management, https://doi.org/10.2217/bmt-2017-0016

Following the inception in 2010, the University of Nottingham hosted the 4th Symposium on Primary Breast Cancer in Older Women, under the auspices of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology, in March 2017, at East Midlands Conference Centre.... Read More about 4th symposium on primary breast cancer in older women. Theme: putting personalized care into practice (held: 3 March 2017).

‘I’ve no fear of dying alone’: exploring perspectives on living and dying alone (2017)
Journal Article
Caswell, G., & O'Connor, M. (2019). ‘I’ve no fear of dying alone’: exploring perspectives on living and dying alone. Mortality, 24(1), 17-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2017.1413542

Dying alone is portrayed as undesirable in terms of policy, health and social care provision, the wishes of family and friends, and in popular culture. Despite this, people do often die alone, both in institutional and domestic settings. This paper r... Read More about ‘I’ve no fear of dying alone’: exploring perspectives on living and dying alone.

Imagine arts: how the arts can transform care homes (2017)
Journal Article
Broome, E., Schneider, J. M., & Dening, T. (in press). Imagine arts: how the arts can transform care homes. Journal of Dementia Care,

There is a growing body of evidence that demonstrates that the arts have an important role in the care of people with dementia. The Baring Foundation, a UK based organisation which aims to improve the quality of life of those who may be disadvantaged... Read More about Imagine arts: how the arts can transform care homes.

Impression creep test of a P91 steel: a round robin programme (2017)
Journal Article
Brett, S., Dyson, C. N., Purdy, D., Shingledecker, J., Rantala, J., Eaton-Mckay, J., & Sun, W. (2018). Impression creep test of a P91 steel: a round robin programme. Materials at High Temperatures, 35(6), 529-534. https://doi.org/10.1080/09603409.2017.1410330

The process of standardisation of small specimen creep testing techniques, specifically the impression creep test requires the repeatability of the test method. In this study it is accomplished through a round robin programme involving four different... Read More about Impression creep test of a P91 steel: a round robin programme.

A non-imaging high throughput approach to chemical library screening at the unmodified adenosine-A3 receptor in living cells (2017)
Journal Article
Arruda, M. A., Stoddart, L. A., Gherbi, K., Briddon, S. J., Kellam, B., & Hill, S. J. (in press). A non-imaging high throughput approach to chemical library screening at the unmodified adenosine-A3 receptor in living cells. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 8(908), https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2017.00908

Recent advances in fluorescent ligand technology have enabled the study of G protein-coupled receptors in their native environment without the need for genetic modification such as addition of N-terminal fluorescent or bioluminescent tags. Here, we h... Read More about A non-imaging high throughput approach to chemical library screening at the unmodified adenosine-A3 receptor in living cells.

Magnetic monopole mass bounds from heavy ion collisions and neutron stars (2017)
Journal Article
Gould, O., & Rajantie, A. (2017). Magnetic monopole mass bounds from heavy ion collisions and neutron stars. Physical Review Letters, 119(24), Article 241601. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.241601

Magnetic monopoles, if they exist, would be produced amply in strong magnetic fields and high temperatures via the thermal Schwinger process. Such circumstances arise in heavy-ion collisions and in neutron stars, both of which imply lower bounds on t... Read More about Magnetic monopole mass bounds from heavy ion collisions and neutron stars.

Macroeconomic and financial stability in a monetary union: the case of Lithuania (2017)
Journal Article
Rubio, M., & Comunale, M. (2018). Macroeconomic and financial stability in a monetary union: the case of Lithuania. Economic Systems, 42(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecosys.2017.04.002

In this paper, we study the implications for macroeconomic and financial stability of macroprudential policies in a monetary union. With this purpose, we develop a two-country monetary union new Keynesian general equilibrium model with housing and co... Read More about Macroeconomic and financial stability in a monetary union: the case of Lithuania.

Efficient bio-production of citramalate using an engineered Escherichia coli strain (2017)
Journal Article
Webb, J. P., Arnold, S. A., Baxter, S., Hall, S. J., Eastham, G., & Stephens, G. (2018). Efficient bio-production of citramalate using an engineered Escherichia coli strain. Microbiology, 164(2), 133-141. https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.000581

Citramalic acid is a central intermediate in a combined biocatalytic and chemocatalytic route to produce bio-based methylmethacrylate, the monomer used to manufacture Perspex and other high performance materials. We developed an engineered E. coli st... Read More about Efficient bio-production of citramalate using an engineered Escherichia coli strain.