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‘I Will Not Be Thrown Out of the Country Because I’m an Immigrant’: Eastern European Migrants’ Responses to Hate Crime in a Semi-Rural Context in the Wake of Brexit (2018)
Journal Article
Lumsden, K., Goode, J., & Black, A. (2019). ‘I Will Not Be Thrown Out of the Country Because I’m an Immigrant’: Eastern European Migrants’ Responses to Hate Crime in a Semi-Rural Context in the Wake of Brexit. Sociological Research Online, 24(2), 167-184. https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780418811967

This article examines Eastern European migrants’ experiences of and responses to hate crime. Following the UK European Union Membership Referendum (‘Brexit’ vote), there was an increase in reported hate crimes against immigrants. The study focuses on... Read More about ‘I Will Not Be Thrown Out of the Country Because I’m an Immigrant’: Eastern European Migrants’ Responses to Hate Crime in a Semi-Rural Context in the Wake of Brexit.

New Approaches to Tay-Sachs Disease Therapy (2018)
Journal Article
Solovyeva, V. V., Shaimardanova, A. A., Chulpanova, D. S., Kitaeva, K. V., Chakrabarti, L., & Rizvanov, A. A. (2018). New Approaches to Tay-Sachs Disease Therapy. Frontiers in Physiology, 9(NOV), Article 1663. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2018.01663

Tay-Sachs disease belongs to the group of autosomal-recessive lysosomal storage metabolic disorders. This disease is caused by β-hexosaminidase A (HexA) enzyme deficiency due to various mutations in α-subunit gene of this enzyme, resulting in GM2 gan... Read More about New Approaches to Tay-Sachs Disease Therapy.

Developing unique geometries of phosphate-based glasses and their prospective biomedical applications (2018)
Journal Article
Ahmed, I., Ren, H., & Booth, J. (2019). Developing unique geometries of phosphate-based glasses and their prospective biomedical applications. Johnson Matthey Technology Review, 63(1), 34-42. https://doi.org/10.1595/205651319x15426460058863

© 2019 Johnson Matthey Phosphate-based glasses are promising materials for a range of applications including biomedical, veterinary and optical. These glasses are distinguished by the presence of at least one terminal oxygen atom, which gives phospha... Read More about Developing unique geometries of phosphate-based glasses and their prospective biomedical applications.

Joining Standards Organizations: the role of R&D expenditures, patents, and the product-market position (2018)
Preprint / Working Paper
Baron, J., Li, C., & Nasirov, S. (2018). Joining Standards Organizations: the role of R&D expenditures, patents, and the product-market position

This paper studies collaborative innovation in the context of developing open technology standards coordinated by standards organizations. Using longitudinal data from the world's largest R&D investors matched with membership information from 180 sta... Read More about Joining Standards Organizations: the role of R&D expenditures, patents, and the product-market position.

Augmenting automated analytics using fluorescent nanosensors (2018)
Journal Article
Chauhan, V. M. (2018). Augmenting automated analytics using fluorescent nanosensors. Cell & Gene Therapy Insights, 4(9), 837-850. https://doi.org/10.18609/cgti.2018.085

Cell and gene therapies (CGTs) are projected to transform healthcare precision in the biotherapeutics sector. However, for their true potential to be realised, advancements must be made to optimising their manufacture , such that CGT production is pr... Read More about Augmenting automated analytics using fluorescent nanosensors.

Characterization of CRISPR mutants targeting genes modulating pectin degradation in ripening tomato (2018)
Journal Article
Wang, D., Samsulrizal, N., Yan, C., Allcock, N. S., Craigon, J., Blanco-Ulate, B., …Seymour, G. B. (2019). Characterization of CRISPR mutants targeting genes modulating pectin degradation in ripening tomato. Plant Physiology, 179(2), 544-557. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.18.01187

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a globally important crop with an economic value in the tens of billions of dollars, and a significant supplier of essential vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals in the human diet. Shelf life is a key quality trait r... Read More about Characterization of CRISPR mutants targeting genes modulating pectin degradation in ripening tomato.

Determinants of motivation to quit in smokers screened for the early detection of lung cancer: a qualitative study (2018)
Journal Article
Young, B., Vedhara, K., Kendrick, D., Littleford, R., Robertson, J. F. R., Sullivan, F. M., …in collaboration with the ECLS study team. (2018). Determinants of motivation to quit in smokers screened for the early detection of lung cancer: a qualitative study. BMC Public Health, 18(1), Article 1276. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-6211-1

Background: The promotion of smoking cessation within lung cancer screening could lead to benefits for smoking-related disease and improve cost-effectiveness of screening. Little is known about how smokers respond to lung cancer screening and how thi... Read More about Determinants of motivation to quit in smokers screened for the early detection of lung cancer: a qualitative study.

BulkVis: a graphical viewer for Oxford nanopore bulk FAST5 files (2018)
Journal Article
Payne, A., Holmes, N., Rakyan, V., & Loose, M. (2018). BulkVis: a graphical viewer for Oxford nanopore bulk FAST5 files. Bioinformatics, 35(13), 2193-2198. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty841

Motivation: The Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) MinION is used for sequencing a wide variety of sample types with diverse methods of sample extraction. Nanopore sequencers output FAST5 files containing signal data subsequently base called to FASTQ... Read More about BulkVis: a graphical viewer for Oxford nanopore bulk FAST5 files.

Identifying Heavy Goods Vehicle Driving Styles in the United Kingdom (2018)
Journal Article
Figueredo, G. P., Agrawal, U., Mase, J., Mesgarpour, M., Wagner, C., Soria, D., …John, R. (2019). Identifying Heavy Goods Vehicle Driving Styles in the United Kingdom. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 20(9), 3324-3336. https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2018.2875343

Although driving behaviour has been largely studied amongst private motor vehicles drivers, the literature addressing heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers is scarce. Identifying the existing groups of driving stereotypes and their proportions enables re... Read More about Identifying Heavy Goods Vehicle Driving Styles in the United Kingdom.

Holocene Vegetation Dynamics and First Land-Cover Estimates in the Auvergne Mountains (Massif Central, France): Key Tools to Landscape Management (2018)
Journal Article
Miras, Y., Mariani, M., Ledger, P. M., Mayoral, A., Chassiot, L., & Lavrieux, M. (2018). Holocene Vegetation Dynamics and First Land-Cover Estimates in the Auvergne Mountains (Massif Central, France): Key Tools to Landscape Management. Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica: Natural Sciences in Archaeology, IX (2018)(2), 179-190. https://doi.org/10.24916/iansa.2018.2.5

A multi-proxy palaeoecological investigation has been undertaken at high spatio-temporal resolution in the Lower Auvergne Mountains (France). It allows us to investigate the Holocene trajectories of landscape evolution arising from the interplay betw... Read More about Holocene Vegetation Dynamics and First Land-Cover Estimates in the Auvergne Mountains (Massif Central, France): Key Tools to Landscape Management.

Seasonality in the cross section of stock returns: Advanced markets versus emerging markets (2018)
Journal Article
Li, F., Zhang, H., & Zheng, D. (2018). Seasonality in the cross section of stock returns: Advanced markets versus emerging markets. Journal of Empirical Finance, 49, 263-281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jempfin.2018.11.001

We extend the studies of stock return seasonality by Heston and Sadka (2008, 2010) to a comprehensive sample of 42 international markets, including 21 advanced markets and 21 emerging markets. The empirical results show a large variation in stock sea... Read More about Seasonality in the cross section of stock returns: Advanced markets versus emerging markets.

Assessing Reliability of Myocardial Blood Flow After Motion Correction With Dynamic PET Using a Bayesian Framework (2018)
Journal Article
Saillant, A., Armstrong, I., Shah, V., Zuehlsdorff, S., Hayden, C., Declerck, J., …Chappell, M. A. (2019). Assessing Reliability of Myocardial Blood Flow After Motion Correction With Dynamic PET Using a Bayesian Framework. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 38(5), 1216-1226. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmi.2018.2881992

The estimation of myocardial blood flow (MBF) in dynamic PET can be biased by many different processes. A major source of error, particularly in clinical applications, is patient motion. Patient motion, or gross motion, creates displacements between... Read More about Assessing Reliability of Myocardial Blood Flow After Motion Correction With Dynamic PET Using a Bayesian Framework.

Hospital admissions and place of death of residents of care homes receiving specialist healthcare services: Protocol for a systematic review (2018)
Journal Article
Tucker, S., Buck, D., Roe, B., Hughes, J., & Challis, D. (2019). Hospital admissions and place of death of residents of care homes receiving specialist healthcare services: Protocol for a systematic review. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 75(2), 443-451. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13866

© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aim: To synthesize the evidence relating to the ability of specialist care home support services to prevent the hospital admission of older care home residents, including hospital admission at the end-of-life. Design: S... Read More about Hospital admissions and place of death of residents of care homes receiving specialist healthcare services: Protocol for a systematic review.

Systematic review of the factors affecting cat and dog owner compliance with pharmaceutical treatment recommendations (2018)
Journal Article
Wareham, K. J., Brennan, M. L., & Dean, R. S. (2019). Systematic review of the factors affecting cat and dog owner compliance with pharmaceutical treatment recommendations. Veterinary Record, 184(5), Article 154. https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.104793

© 2018 British Veterinary Association. The aim of this systematic review is to describe and assess the quality of the existing evidence base concerning factors that influence the compliance of cat and dog owners to pharmaceutical and specifically pol... Read More about Systematic review of the factors affecting cat and dog owner compliance with pharmaceutical treatment recommendations.

IFN-γ and IL-17A differentially influence the response of human macrophages and neutrophils to Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection (2018)
Journal Article
Muntaka, S., Almuhanna, Y., Jackson, D., Singh, S., Afryie-Asante, A., Cámara, M., & Martínez-Pomares, L. (2019). IFN-γ and IL-17A differentially influence the response of human macrophages and neutrophils to Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection. Infection and Immunity, 87(2), https://doi.org/10.1128/iai.00814-18

Macrophages are important orchestrators of inflammation during bacterial infection acting both as effector cells and as regulators of neutrophil recruitment and life span. Differently activated macrophage populations with distinct inflammatory and mi... Read More about IFN-γ and IL-17A differentially influence the response of human macrophages and neutrophils to Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection.

Findings and Ethical Considerations From a Thematic Analysis of Threads Within Tinnitus Online Support Groups (2018)
Journal Article
Ainscough, E., Smith, S. N., Greenwell, K., & Hoare, D. J. (2018). Findings and Ethical Considerations From a Thematic Analysis of Threads Within Tinnitus Online Support Groups. American Journal of Audiology, 27(3), 503-512. https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_aja-imia3-18-0013

Purpose: Tinnitus is the perception of noise without a corresponding external stimulus. Current management typically aims to moderate associated psychosocial stressors and allow sufferers to retain an adequate quality of life. With the increasing rec... Read More about Findings and Ethical Considerations From a Thematic Analysis of Threads Within Tinnitus Online Support Groups.

Support structure for a shelter (2018)
Patent
Beccarelli, P., Reed, V., Callan, D., & Carpenter, R. Support structure for a shelter. Nash Matthews LLP

The present invention relates to a support structure for a shelter and a shelter comprising a support structure in combination with a canopy. It also concerns a method for assembling the support structure.