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ALMA observations of lensed Herschel sources: testing the dark matter halo paradigm (2018)
Journal Article
Amvrosiadis, A., Eales, S., Negrello, M., Marchetti, L., Smith, M., Bourne, N., …Vaccari, M. (2018). ALMA observations of lensed Herschel sources: testing the dark matter halo paradigm. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(4), 4939-4952. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty138

With the advent of wide-area submillimetre surveys, a large number of high-redshift gravitationally lensed dusty star-forming galaxies have been revealed. Because of the simplicity of the selection criteria for candidate lensed sources in such survey... Read More about ALMA observations of lensed Herschel sources: testing the dark matter halo paradigm.

Alcohol content in the 'Hyper-Reality' MTV show 'Geordie Shore' (2018)
Journal Article
Lowe, E., Britton, J., & Cranwell, J. (2018). Alcohol content in the 'Hyper-Reality' MTV show 'Geordie Shore'. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 53(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agx116

Aim: To quantify the occurrence of alcohol content, including alcohol branding, in the popular primetime television UK Reality TV show 'Geordie Shore' Series 11.

Methods: A 1-min interval coding content analysis of alcohol content in the entire D... Read More about Alcohol content in the 'Hyper-Reality' MTV show 'Geordie Shore'.

Understanding social innovation in services industries (2018)
Journal Article
Gallouj, F., Rubalcaba, L., Toivonen, M., & Windrum, P. (2018). Understanding social innovation in services industries. Industry and Innovation, 25(6), https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2017.1419124

This paper puts forward a framework for understanding the relationship between service industries and social innovation. These are two, previously disconnected research areas. The paper explores ways in which innovation in services is increasingly be... Read More about Understanding social innovation in services industries.

How should minimally important change (MIC) scores for the Patient Oriented Eczema Measure (POEM) be interpreted?: a validation using varied methods (2018)
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Howells, L., Ratib, S., Chalmers, J., Bradshaw, L., & Thomas, K. (2018). How should minimally important change (MIC) scores for the Patient Oriented Eczema Measure (POEM) be interpreted?: a validation using varied methods. British Journal of Dermatology, 178(5), https://doi.org/10.1111/bjd.16367

Background

The Patient Oriented Eczema Measure (POEM), scored 0-28, is the core outcome instrument recommended for measuring patient-reported atopic eczema symptoms in clinical trials. To date, two published studies have broadly concurred that the... Read More about How should minimally important change (MIC) scores for the Patient Oriented Eczema Measure (POEM) be interpreted?: a validation using varied methods.

Recruiting ENT and audiology patients into pharmaceutical trials: evaluating the multi-center experience in the UK and USA (2018)
Journal Article
Sanchez, V. A., Hall, D. A., Millar, B., Escabi, C. D., Sharman, A., Watson, J., …Harris, P. (in press). Recruiting ENT and audiology patients into pharmaceutical trials: evaluating the multi-center experience in the UK and USA. International Journal of Audiology, https://doi.org/10.1080/14992027.2018.1425002

Objective: Recruiting into clinical trials on time and on target is a major challenge, and yet often goes unreported. This study evaluated the adjustment to procedures, recruitment, and screening methods in two multi-center pharmaceutical randomized... Read More about Recruiting ENT and audiology patients into pharmaceutical trials: evaluating the multi-center experience in the UK and USA.

Pleiotropic effects of the wheat domestication gene Q on yield and grain morphology (2018)
Journal Article
Xie, Q., Li, N., Yang, Y., Lv, Y., Yao, H., Wei, R., …Ma, Z. (in press). Pleiotropic effects of the wheat domestication gene Q on yield and grain morphology. Planta, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-018-2847-4

Transformation from q to Q during wheat domestication functioned outside the boundary of threshability to increase yield, grains m−2, grain weight and roundness, but to reduce grains per spike/spikelet.
Mutation of the Q gene, well-known affecting w... Read More about Pleiotropic effects of the wheat domestication gene Q on yield and grain morphology.

Genetically fused T4L acts as a shield in covalent enzyme immobilisation enhancing the rescued activity (2018)
Journal Article
Planchestainer, M., Padrosa, D. R., Contente, M. L., & Paradisi, F. (2018). Genetically fused T4L acts as a shield in covalent enzyme immobilisation enhancing the rescued activity. Catalysts, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.3390/catal8010040

Enzyme immobilisation is a common strategy to increase enzymes resistance and reusability in a variety of excellent ‘green’ applications. However, the interaction with the solid support often leads to diminished specific activity, especially when non... Read More about Genetically fused T4L acts as a shield in covalent enzyme immobilisation enhancing the rescued activity.

Ultrasonographic-based predictive factors influencing successful return to racing after superficial digital flexor tendon injuries in flat racehorses: a retrospective cohort study in 469 Thoroughbred racehorses in Hong Kong (2018)
Journal Article
Alzola, R., Easter, C., Riggs, C., Gardner, D., & Freeman, S. (2018). Ultrasonographic-based predictive factors influencing successful return to racing after superficial digital flexor tendon injuries in flat racehorses: a retrospective cohort study in 469 Thoroughbred racehorses in Hong Kong. Equine Veterinary Journal, 50(5), 602-608. https://doi.org/10.1111/evj.12810

Background: Superficial digital flexor tendon (SDFT) injury is an important health and welfare concern in racehorses. It is generally diagnosed with ultrasonography, predictive ultrasonographic features have not been reported.
Objectives: To determi... Read More about Ultrasonographic-based predictive factors influencing successful return to racing after superficial digital flexor tendon injuries in flat racehorses: a retrospective cohort study in 469 Thoroughbred racehorses in Hong Kong.

Functional analysis after rapid degradation of condensins and 3D-EM reveals chromatin volume is uncoupled from chromosome architecture in mitosis (2018)
Journal Article
Samejima, K., Booth, D. G., Ogawa, H., Paulson, J. R., Xie, L., Watson, C. A., …Earnshaw, W. C. (2018). Functional analysis after rapid degradation of condensins and 3D-EM reveals chromatin volume is uncoupled from chromosome architecture in mitosis. Journal of Cell Science, 131(4), Article jcs210187. https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.210187

The action of a negative allosteric modulator at the dopamine D2 receptor is dependent upon sodium ions (2018)
Journal Article
Draper-Joyce, C. J., Verma, R. K., Michino, M., Shonberg, J., Kopinathan, A., Herenbrink, C., Scammells, P. J., Capuano, B., Abramyan, A. M., Thal, D. M., Javitch, J. A., Christopoulos, A., Shi, L., & Lane, J. R. (2018). The action of a negative allosteric modulator at the dopamine D2 receptor is dependent upon sodium ions. Scientific Reports, 8(1), Article 1208. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19642-1

© 2018 The Author(s). Sodiumions (Na+) allosterically modulate the binding of orthosteric agonists and antagonists to many class A G protein-coupled receptors, including the dopamine D 2 receptor (D 2 R). Experimental and computational evidences have... Read More about The action of a negative allosteric modulator at the dopamine D2 receptor is dependent upon sodium ions.

Elastic-brittle-plastic behaviour of shale reservoirs and its implications on fracture permeability variation: an analytical approach (2018)
Journal Article
Masoudian, M. S., Hashemi, M. A., Tasalloti, A., & Marshall, A. M. (2018). Elastic-brittle-plastic behaviour of shale reservoirs and its implications on fracture permeability variation: an analytical approach. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 51(5), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-017-1392-y

Shale gas has recently gained significant attention as one of the most important unconventional gas resources. Shales are fine-grained rocks formed from the compaction of silt and clay sized particles and are characterised by their fissured texture a... Read More about Elastic-brittle-plastic behaviour of shale reservoirs and its implications on fracture permeability variation: an analytical approach.

Morphological alterations of cultured human colorectal matched tumour and healthy organoids (2018)
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Mohammad, S., Kashfi, H., Almozyan, S., Jinks, N., Koo, B.-K., & Nateri, A. S. (2018). Morphological alterations of cultured human colorectal matched tumour and healthy organoids. Oncotarget, 9, https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.24279

Organoids have extensive applications in many fields ranging from modelling human development and disease, personalised medicine, drug screening, etc. Moreover, in the last few years, several studies have evaluated the capacity of organoids as transp... Read More about Morphological alterations of cultured human colorectal matched tumour and healthy organoids.

Synthesis and growth-inhibitory activities of imidazo[5,1-d]-1,2,3,5-tetrazine-8-carboxamides related to the anti-tumour drug temozolomide, with appended silicon, benzyl and heteromethyl groups at the 3-position (2018)
Journal Article
Cousin, D., Hummersone, M., Bradshaw, T. D., Zhang, J., Moody, C. J., Foreiter, M., …Stevens, M. F. (in press). Synthesis and growth-inhibitory activities of imidazo[5,1-d]-1,2,3,5-tetrazine-8-carboxamides related to the anti-tumour drug temozolomide, with appended silicon, benzyl and heteromethyl groups at the 3-position. MedChemComm, https://doi.org/10.1039/C7MD00554G

A series of 3-(benzyl-substituted)-imidazo[5,1-d]-1,2,3,5-tetrazines (13) and related derivatives with 3-heteromethyl groups has been synthesised and screened for growth-inhibitory activity in vitro against two pairs of glioma cell lines with temozol... Read More about Synthesis and growth-inhibitory activities of imidazo[5,1-d]-1,2,3,5-tetrazine-8-carboxamides related to the anti-tumour drug temozolomide, with appended silicon, benzyl and heteromethyl groups at the 3-position.

Topology optimization of geometrically nonlinear structures using an evolutionary optimization method (2018)
Journal Article
Abdi, M., Ashcroft, I., & Wildman, R. (in press). Topology optimization of geometrically nonlinear structures using an evolutionary optimization method. Engineering Optimization, https://doi.org/10.1080/0305215X.2017.1418864

Iso-XFEM method is an evolutionary optimization method developed in our previous studies to enable the generation of high resolution topology optimised designs suitable for additive manufacture. Conventional approaches for topology optimization requi... Read More about Topology optimization of geometrically nonlinear structures using an evolutionary optimization method.

The USNO-UKIRT K-band Hemisphere Survey (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Scott, D., Justice, B., Jeffrey A., M., Fred J., V., Bryan, D., Simon, D., …Guenther, H. (2018). The USNO-UKIRT K-band Hemisphere Survey. In American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #231

We present initial results from the United States Naval Observatory (USNO) and UKIRT K-band Hemisphere Survey (U2HS), currently underway using the Wide Field Camera (WFCAM) installed on UKIRT on Maunakea. U2HS is a collaborative effort undertaken by... Read More about The USNO-UKIRT K-band Hemisphere Survey.

Prolonging the response movement inhibits the feed-forward motor program in the sustained attention to response task (2018)
Journal Article
Wilson, K. M., de Joux, N. R., Finkbeiner, K. M., Russell, P. N., Retzler, J. R., & Helton, W. S. (2018). Prolonging the response movement inhibits the feed-forward motor program in the sustained attention to response task. Acta Psychologica, 183, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2018.01.001

Despite widespread use in clinical and experimental contexts, debate continues over whether or not the Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) successfully measures sustained attention. Altering physical aspects of the response movement required... Read More about Prolonging the response movement inhibits the feed-forward motor program in the sustained attention to response task.

Encapsulation of cadmium selenide nanocrystals in biocompatible nanotubes: DFT calculations, X-ray diffraction investigations and confocal fluorescence imaging (2018)
Journal Article
Calatayud, D. G., Ge, H., Kuganathan, N., Mirabello, V., Jacobs, R. M., Rees, N. H., …Pascu, S. I. (2018). Encapsulation of cadmium selenide nanocrystals in biocompatible nanotubes: DFT calculations, X-ray diffraction investigations and confocal fluorescence imaging. ChemistryOpen, 7(2), https://doi.org/10.1002/open.201700184

The encapsulation of CdSe nanocrystals within singlewalled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) cavities of varying dimensions at elevated temperatures under strictly air-tight conditions is described for the first time. The structures of CdSe nanocrystals under... Read More about Encapsulation of cadmium selenide nanocrystals in biocompatible nanotubes: DFT calculations, X-ray diffraction investigations and confocal fluorescence imaging.

Analysis of variance in soil research: let the analysis fit the design (2018)
Journal Article
Webster, R., & Lark, R. (2018). Analysis of variance in soil research: let the analysis fit the design. European Journal of Soil Science, 69(1), 126-139. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.12511

Sound design for experiments on soil is based on two fundamental principles: replication and randomization. Replication enables investigators to detect and measure contrasts between treatments against the backdrop of natural variation. Random allocat... Read More about Analysis of variance in soil research: let the analysis fit the design.

Effect of dicationic ionic liquids on lyotropic liquid crystals formed by a binary system composed of Triton-X 100 and water (2018)
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Thieghi, L. T., Longo Jr, L. S., Licence, P., & Alves, S. (in press). Effect of dicationic ionic liquids on lyotropic liquid crystals formed by a binary system composed of Triton-X 100 and water. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 657(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/15421406.2017.1403241

In this work, binary mixtures of a non-ionic surfactant (Triton X-100) and water were studied with concentrations of 30%wt H2O, showing, lamellar mesophase at temperatures below 10oC. Different dicationic ionic liquids were used for doping these meso... Read More about Effect of dicationic ionic liquids on lyotropic liquid crystals formed by a binary system composed of Triton-X 100 and water.